A Nervous Breakdown

The Little Black Classics range was launched in 2015, to celebrate Penguin’s 80th birthday. They are beautifully designed, complete little books to be collected, shared and given as gifts. The Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics from around the world and over the centuries. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

Anton Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, and one of the seminal figures in the birth of theatre's early modernism. His best short stories are crtically acclaimed, and to this day his plays are still adapted and performed around the world.