CLASSICS

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. '...we call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but...

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

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' Set before and during the French...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Oliver Twist has asked for more!' Fleeing the workhouse, Oliver finds himself taken under the wing of the...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There is no harm in a man's cub.' Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle...

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 range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.'...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and...

In Praise of Disobedience draw on works from a single miraculous year in which Oscar Wilde published the larger part of his greatest prose - the year he came into...

Originally published in 1914, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a timeless story of socialism, political awakenings and class struggle, told with a volatile mix of heartfelt rage and sly humour....

'He writes with gusto... the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ... this book sizzles.' The Times'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man...

Poverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Petersburg. Having abandoned all hopes of sustaining...

Walking through the wilderness of this world I came upon a place where there was a hollow. There I lay down to sleep: and as I slept I dreamed a...

Men Without Women was a milestone in Hemingway's career. Fiesta had already established him as a novelist of exceptional power, but with these short stories, his second collection, he showed...

Grown-up Meg, tomboyish Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. The four March sisters couldn't be more different. But with their father away at war, and their mother working to support...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our...

The stories in this volume demonstrate Dostoyevsky's genius for fusing caricature, irony and the grotesque to create a powerful dark humour. "The Gambler" is a breathtaking portrayal of an intense...

Collecting three lesser-known works by one of the nineteenth century's greatest authors, Jane Austen's Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon is edited with an introduction by Margaret Drabble in Penguin...

Zelda Fitzgerald's only novel, Save Me The Waltz (1932) was written in six weeks after her admission to a sanatorium, as part of her therapy. It covers the period of...

To know Shakespeare is to know his plays, not just one by one but all together-or what T. S. Eliot calls ""the pattern in his carpet".

The eminent Shakespeare scholar Peter Milward, S.J. here presents an analysis of Shakespeare's late plays that is both accessible to beginners and beneficial to seasoned scholars.

Elizabeth von Arnim's eighth novel is a sharp contrast to the sunny optimism of her first best-seller Elizabeth and her German Garden (1898) and her later hit The Enchanted April...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.Sherlock Holmes made his debut in 1887 but it was this collection of 12 stories, first published in The Strand magazine, that established him as...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.Ambitious student Victor Frankenstein lights upon the secret of creating life. However, having succeeded in his aim, Frankenstein recoils in horror from the 'demoniacal corpse'...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.When young Jim Hawkins finds a pirate's map, the race is on to be first to reach Treasure Island and discover the buried gold. With...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.When a pilot is forced to land in the Sahara Desert he meets the little prince, whose stories about his tiny home planet and his...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.With their father away at the Civil War,times are hard for the March sisters - Meg, Jo,Beth and Amy - and their mother, Marmee. Louisa...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.Shy young Fanny Price is sent to live with wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park, where of her four cousins only Edmund shows her any real...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.When young Catherine Morland is invited to Northanger Abbey, a house which seems to come straight from the pages of a Gothic novel, a world...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse has many advantages - but Emma's supreme confidence in her own abilities is sometimes misplaced. When her scheme to...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.In Emily Bronte's only novel, the passion of Catherine and Heathcliff is as wild as the moors surrounding their childhood home, Wuthering Heights. This dark...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.Nick Carraway rents a property on Long Island, where the new moneyed class are given to ostentatious displays of wealth. None more so than the...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.Believed to have been first published more than two thousand years ago, The Art of War is the classic Chinese book of military strategy. It...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.Elinor Dashwood's cool reason and her sister Marianne's more demonstrative nature are revealed when their father Henry dies and they are uprooted from the family...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.The arrival of two rich bachelors stirs Mrs Bennet to hope that wedding bells will soon be in the air. Jane, the eldest of Mrs...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.In her last completed novel, Jane Austen revisits the theme of mischance and misunderstanding along the road to happiness. Seven years after she was persuaded...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.Orphaned Jane Eyre has endured a life of austerity and hardship until she is appointed governess at Thornfield Hall by its remote and brooding master,...

Great Expectations, tells the story of Pip who narrates the tale from an unspecified time in the future. He grows up in the marshlands of Kent, where he lives with...

When the Americans Mr and Mrs Otis and their four children move into Canterville Chase, its previous occupant Lord Canterville warns them that the ghost of his ancestor still haunts...