Little Black Classics "No, no, I"ve got your word for it, I"ve got to die ... you promised me ... you told me ..." Turgenev"s accounts of hunting in rural Russia, and the extraordinary characters he meets there. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin"s 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries.