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'The creatures I had seen were not men, had never been men. They were animals, humanised animals...'A shipwrecked Edward Prendick finds himself stranded on a remote Noble island, the guest...

Behind the high, closed walls of a convent in the Irish countryside, the lives of its inhabitants are gently marked by the daily rituals of spiritual life. Watching overAnna, her...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksLay down all hope, you that go in by me . . .Through the gates of Hell, past whirling hurricanes, leering devils...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksDuring his reign, Lord Cobham was burnt alive, but I forget what for. In Jane Austen's breezy and entirely biased telling of...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksFabien tonight was wandering over the vast splendour of a sea of clouds, but below him lay eternity.Inspired by his career as...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'Waking, I cry "Oh, is this your - buried treasure? The light in the heart."'In these exquisite stories from the genius of...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksOn the fields of Troy, war is raging. At its centre is Achilles: godlike, swift-footed, the greatest champion of the Greeks. But...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'He stretched out his two long, lank arms, that looked like spider's claws, and seemed to embrace with them the expanse before...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksTrotty Veck, an elderly porter, has read so many newspaper reports about crime and immorality that he believes the working classes are...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksThe Time Machine is the great, gleeful anarchist novel of the 1890s. It is both a thrilling adventure story and a satire...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksKikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father, only to find that the mistress' rival...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksOf course, very few people go through the gate and abandon the beautiful phenomenon of the outside world for the interior reality...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksNo author perfected the twist in the tale better than Roald Dahl. His stories - many of which were filmed as Tales...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksKnown as Ireland's Chekhov, Frank O'Connor was a master of the modern short story, with an eye for capturing the spaces between...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I'm not the sort of husband you dream of when you're walking alone along the avenue in the evening, am I? And...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksBeware the self-righteous man of faith, the wicked-eyed child, the jealous lover. For this is Salem, in 1691, where rumours fly on...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I must die. But must I die bawling?'What does it mean to live a virtuous life? How can we rise above pain...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don't look.'From Warhol's romantic relationships to his thoughts on...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'All art,' Oscar Wilde once announced, 'is quite useless.' Selected here are some of his finest prose works on the subject of...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'The body was cold as ice; the heart had long ceased to beat: yet there were no other signs of death.'The phantoms...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security'In 1666, Margaret Cavendish had a...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.' Adventurous and spirited in tone, The Three Musketeers...

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Poe's most macabre and irresistible stories with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Edgar Allan Poe's...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Opportunities multiply as they are seized.' Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu's The Art of War...

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped. Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of...

Somehow, somewhere, Sammy Mountjoy lost his freedom, the faculty of freewill 'that cannot be debated but only experienced, like a colour or the taste of potatoes'. As he retraces his...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Young Charlotte Heywood arrives in Sanditon, a newly established seaside resort, with the Parkers: patrons and enthusiastic promoters...

Major Ernest Pettigrew is perfectly content to lead a quiet life in the sleepy village of Edgecombe St Mary, away from the meddling of the locals and his overbearing son....

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.' After taking an elixir...

Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds. But it was in...

A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley. He succeeds, but not quite in the way...

Born in Bombay, India, but raised in England from the age of five, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is today best known as the author of such classics of literature as The...

'There is only one book to a man' Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden. Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows...

"There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon." A Penguin Classic One of Steinbeck's most taught works, The Pearl is the story of the Mexican diver Kino, whose...

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs...

Booker Prize-winner Julian Barnes introduces Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece Parade's End - now a major new BBC/HBO TV adaptation - in the reissued Penguin Modern Classics edition.Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as...

'It is singular, that my having spent a winter with one of the most dissipated women in England should have sobered my mind so completely.'Maria Edgeworth's 1801 novel, Belinda, is...

Discover the joy and wonder of Mary Poppins in the classic adventures! This fantastic omnibus edition contains all six original Mary Poppins stories: Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Comes Back, Mary...