CLASSICS

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and in the passage, paused immediately...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. "That these man-like creatures were in truth only bestial monsters, mere grotesque travesties of men, filled me with...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Where, you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.' After the sudden death of her wealthy parents,...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do...

Neglected vampire classics - including tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Louisa May Alcott and others. Selected by Richard Dalby and introduced by Brian J. Frost. In 1897, Bram Stoker's...

Louisa May Alcott's Little Women is now available in a fine exclusive collector's edition featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler and distinctive interior treatments, making it ideal for...

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is now available in a fine exclusive collector's edition featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler and distinctive interior treatments, making it ideal for fiction...

Dorothy and her little dog Toto are swept away from their home in Kansas by a powerful tornado and dropped into an enchanting new land called Oz. To get home,...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Melanctha Herbert was always seeking rest and quiet, and always she could only find new ways to be...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The classic French novel inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century, and inspiration...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Written in 1876, this is a novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Phileas Fogg was one of those mathematically exact people, who, never hurried and always ready, are economical of...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'From that hour we had no further occasion for the exercise of reason, or judgment, or skill, or...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in...

The classic crime novel featuring blind detective Max Carrados, whose popularity rivalled that of Sherlock Holmes, complete with a new introduction and an extra short story. In his dark little...

A masterpiece of social satire, featuring one of literature's best-loved characters, Becky Sharp. Ruthless social climber and irrepressible anti-hero Becky Sharp will do anything to raise her position in Society,...

Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR, Eduqas; SQALevel & Subject: GCSE English Literature; Nationals and HighersFirst teaching: September 2015First examination: June 2017 This edition of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll...

Exam board: AQALevel & Subject: GCSE English LiteratureFirst teaching: September 2015First examination: June 2017 This edition of The Sign of Four is perfect for GCSE-level students: it comes complete with...

The first modern spy novel and a must-read for espionage junkies and fans of James Bond and John Le Carre. When Carruthers receives a letter from his friend Davies suggesting...

Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit,...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Featuring the last 12 stories ever written about the infamous detective, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes contains some...

Count Dracula as you've never seen him before! The novel that made vampire a household word, Bram Stoker's "Dracula" has been delighting - and chilling - readers for well over...

Marking the centenary of Ireland's - and possibly the world's - most famous novel, this joyful introductory guide opens up Ulysses to a whole new readership, offering insight into the...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true, and we...

One of the most beloved classics of English literature, Emily Bronte's only novel, Wuthering Heights, tells the unforgettable story of Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and their ill-fated love for each...

Jane Austen's enduring masterpiece, Pride and Prejudice, is the epic love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy and their spirited courtship, set against the backdrop of the English countryside....

Oscar Wilde's celebrated, scandalous, and only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, tells the story of the wealthy and handsome Londoner Dorian, whose obsession with his portrait leads him down...

One of the most cherished books in American literature, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women is the coming-of-age story of the beloved March sisters-Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy-and the trials and...

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickCharlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre follows the story of its heroine's fearless quest to find her place in the world. An epic and intimate...

By "the finest satirist in the English language" (New York Times), Jonathan Swift's satirical masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels, is the extraordinary tale of Lemuel Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four...

Great Expectations is the beloved coming-of-age classic by Charles Dickens that follows the life of an orphan named Pip and his quest to discover the truth about himself. With its...

The chilling and tragic tale of Victor Frankenstein and the tortured creature he brings to life, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, remains one of the most widely read Gothic novels of...

Read Elizabeth Bowen's accessible feminist take on the Irish aristocracyWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY VICTORIA GLENDINNINGThe Irish troubles rage, but up at the 'Big House', tennis parties, dances and flirtations with...

If you loved BBC4's Hemingway , read the book that won Ernest Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent...

Discover Richard Wright's brutal and gripping masterpiece. 'The most important and celebrated novel of Negro life to have appeared in America' James BaldwinGripping and furious, Native Son follows Bigger Thomas,...

A masterpiece of modern literature that mirrors Maugham's own career.Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's novels. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan...

During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being...

'Graham Greene has wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the top ranks of world literature' John le...

Bowen's Court describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959, when Elizabeth Bowen was forced to sell the family house she loved....

The definitive translation of one of the greatest French novels of the twentieth centuryIn the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to...

THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATIONWithin a Budding Grove describes the first shoots of an astonishing love affair. When Proust's adolescent narrator travels from...

THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATIONIn The Guermantes Way Proust's narrator recalls his initiation into the dazzling world of Parisian high society. Looking back...