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...
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...
",The best of American short fiction", Spanning over 100 years of literary history, here are 33 of the finest short stories by Washington Irving...
In the Time Traveller's miraculous new machine, we will be carried from a Victorian dinner table to 802,701 AD, when the Earth is divided between...
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...
They are the fearful images that have stalked humanity's nightmares for centuries, supernatural creatures that feast on flesh and haunt the soul, macabre and uncanny...
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Winston Smith rewrites history. It's his job.Hidden away in the Record Department of...
‘It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be...
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...
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