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HA! Penguin really tried to jazz this one up with their incredibly misleading blurb:

“Demonic horrors and spirits dreamt up by the most exuberant, inventive prose writer of Elizabethan England��

Sounds quite cool doesn’t it? It’s a shame it’s so falsifying to the actual work. Despite the fact that this has nothing to do with horror or spirits, I find it slightly biased when a book publisher says something as strong as this. How could anyone actually make such a claim? Has the publisher read every single last prose writer of Elizabethan England? I doubt it. It’s nothing but marketing. A few of the blurbs in this lot have been dramatized, but none more so than this one.

So I was rather disappointed when I read an overly worded piece of prose that tried to teach me how the devil can sneak into everyman’s life. Yawn. Penguin you can do much better- I could name so many more important works of literature you could have put in this edition's place! (waves fist in the air)


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The Little Black Classic Collection by penguin looks like it contains lots of hidden gems. I couldn’t help it; they looked so good that I went and bought them all. I shall post a short review after reading each one. No doubt it will take me several months to get through all of them! Hopefully I will find some classic authors, from across the ages, that I may not have come across had I not bought this collection.