With a beautiful cover and chapter-heading illustrations throughout from queen of colouring Johanna Basford. The Jungle Book tells the story of the irrepressible Mowgli, who...
For once there had been false idols and asses' heads drawn on the walls...' Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient...
The Misanthrope, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, The Miser, The Would-Be Gentleman, The Mischievous Machinations of Scapin, The Learned Women, The Imaginary Invalid. 'The...
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In December 1827, a French newspaper ran a story about a young man charged with the attempted murder of a married woman. The article fired...
A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children. To begin with Flora and Miles seem to be...
'What did she expect of him? What was her quest? Did she have an unfulfilled desire?' Transgressive desires and sexual encounters are...
'Everything was dead, everything unreal, the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures' One of America's greatest writers explores mob violence,...
'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the...
'One of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time' Margaret DrabbleTo the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction...
'It was what we call in the trade a potato...' Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in...
Christopher Newman is an American expatriate in Paris, his fortune made, he has moved to the Old World to enjoy his wealth and find a...
‘I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life . . . ‘ The Confessions of...
‘“I'll not listen to reason,” she said, now in full possession of her voice, which had been rather choked with sobbing. ",Reason always means what...
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'At first you saw only a mass of coarse, matted black hair, presently...
‘Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more...’ Henry V is the final and most celebrated play of Shakespeare’s ‘history plays’. Prince...
‘“I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim?” His soul repeated it again and again.’ Set against the backdrop of Britain...
‘Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!’ Jim is a...
‘We're their slaves as long as we can work, we pile up their fortunes with the sweat of our brows, and yet we are to...
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