Are any of these black classics worth a read? If so, which

>>7418265
>black classics
Du Bois, Morrison, Hughes, Douglass, the list goes on...

>>7418265
>The Nose

They're like 80p and like 80 pages long whats the problem

>>7418312
ayy lmao

LITTLE

BLACK

BOOKS

>>7418265
That's one sexy shelf. When did Penguin do these?

>>7418771
For for awhile in the UK

But they put this out in the US a week or two back

>Anon
Are they gonna publish legacy too?

>>7420309
Yeah in a nice hardcover

>>7420342
Will there be a foreword? Annotations from scholars?

>>7418265
I only saw that La Commedia is separated from the other 2/3 of itself
what the fuck
why would you read only one third of a book?
Do really anglos butcher Dantes work so much? And why?

>>7420973
>>7418265
The 'Black Classics' are just cheap translations of short stories, and exerpts from larger works, sold to chumps who think they're getting a bargain.

>>7421043
I really can't think of a sane reason to buy that

>>7421057
It's useful to try the translations.

Not much point with the English-language ones though.

sinbad the sailor is pretty good

>>7420973
My guess is that these are marketed towards A) people who want short little reads that they can bring around town & finish in a couple of days and
B) people who want to broaden their taste in literature with a set of various classics.

Not really a bad thing. It all does smack of "read the canon without really reading it", but hey, it's penguin we're talking about here-- not surprising to see editions for suburbanite tastes. These nifty little black books probably look a bit more appetizing at Barnes & Noble than massive bricks of text. You have to put yourself in the shoes of somebody who's "trying to get more into reading".

Akutagawa.
>>7421043
This though.