Aesop's Fables (Collins Classics) Aesop (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2011
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 384pp h178mm x w111mm x s24mm 200g ISBN13: 9780007902125 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790212-5 ISBN10: 0007902123 EAN: 9780007902125 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.' Living in Ancient Greece in the 5th Century BC, Aesop was said to be a slave and story-teller. His much-loved, enduring fables are revered the world over and remain popular as moral tales for children. With infamous vignettes, such as the race between the hare and the tortoise, the vain jackdaw, and the wolf in sheep's clothing, the themes of the fables remain as fresh today as when they were first told and give an insight into the Ancient Greek world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Good Wives (Collins Classics) Louisa May Alcott (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
14 Jan 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 352pp h178mm x w111mm x s22mm 160g ISBN13: 9780008166731 ISBN13: 978-0-00-816673-1 ISBN10: 0008166730 EAN: 9780008166731 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.' In mid-nineteenth-century Massachusetts, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March continue to encounter both joys and sorrows along life's path, as they journey into womanhood both close to home and further away. The highs and lows of the four young women's lives are shared with each other, and supported by the bond of their sisterhood. This second part of 'Little Women' - sometimes published in a single volume - contains all the warmth and charm for which Louisa May Alcott's writing is universally admired. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Inferno (Collins Classics) Dante Alighieri (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 256pp h178mm x w111mm x s16mm 140g ISBN13: 9780007902095 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790209-5 ISBN10: 0007902093 EAN: 9780007902095 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.' Considered one of the greatest medieval poems written in the common vernacular of the time, Dante's Inferno begins on Good Friday in the year 1300. As he wanders through a dark forest, Dante loses his way and stumbles across the ghost of the poet Virgil. Virgil promises to lead him back to the top of the mountain, but to do so, they must pass through Hell, encountering all manner of shocking horrors, sins and evil torments along the way, evoking questions about God's justice, human behaviour and Christianity.
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The Art of Rhetoric (Collins Classics) Aristotle (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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HarperPress
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
13 Sep 2012
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 256pp h178mm x w111mm x s16mm 140g ISBN13: 9780007920693 ISBN13: 978-0-00-792069-3 ISBN10: 0007920695 EAN: 9780007920693 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics... Despite dating from the 4th century BC, The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded by many as the single most important work on the art of persuasion. As democracy began emerging in 5th-century Athens, public speaking and debate became an increasingly important tool to garner influence in the assemblies, councils, and law courts of ancient Greece. In response to this, both politicians and ordinary citizens became desperate to learn greater skills in this area, as well as the philosophy behind it. This treatise was one of the first to provide just that, establishing methods and observations of informal reasoning and style, and has continued to be hugely influential on public speaking and philosophy today. Aristotle, the grandfather of philosophy, student of Plato, and teacher of Alexander the Great, was one of the first people to create a comprehensive system of philosophy, encompassing logic, morality, aesthetics, politics, ethics, and science. Although written over 2,000 years ago, The Art of Rhetoric remains a comprehensive introduction for philosophy students into the subject of rhetoric, as well as a useful manual for anyone today looking to improve their oratory skills of persuasion. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Love and Freindship: Juvenilia and Other Short Stories (Collins Classics) Jane Austen (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
23 Jul 2020
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 288pp h178mm x w111mm x s18mm 160g ISBN13: 9780008403454 ISBN13: 978-0-00-840345-4 ISBN10: 0008403457 EAN: 9780008403454 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Jane Austen is remembered for her six masterpieces of the Regency era: from the heroines of Elizabeth Bennett and Emma Woodhouse, to the villains of Mrs. Norris and John Willoughby. But these characters were not born overnight. They sprung from Austen's experiences as a young girl, and many early iterations can be found in the earliest of her writing: her Juvenilia. Austen was only a teenager when she wrote her Juvenilia. In the 'History of England', Austen champions (and laments) the great kings of England as 'a partial, prejudiced, and ignorant Historian'; in 'Lady Susan', she writes a titular anti-heroine that schemes and cheats her way through high society; and in 'Love and Freindship', Austen paints a picture of a woman looking back on her extremely unfortunate life. Writing on the cusp of literary greatness, Love and Freindship offers a fascinating - and often surprising - insight into a young Jane Austen. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mansfield Park (Collins Classics) Jane Austen (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2011
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 528pp h178mm x w111mm x s33mm 290g ISBN13: 9780007420292 ISBN13: 978-0-00-742029-2 ISBN10: 0007420293 EAN: 9780007420292 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.' Humble and lowly, a young Fanny Price goes to live with her wealthy Aunt and Uncle at their grand house, Mansfield Park. Growing up with her privileged and spoilt cousins, the Bertrams, she lives in the shadows of their glamorous lives, but manages to find an ally in her cousin, Edmund. When Henry and Mary Crawford come to visit, the house is thrown into disarray as romance flourishes between the young people, leading Fanny to finally confront the extent of her true feelings for Edmund. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Northanger Abbey (Collins Classics) Jane Austen (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
08 Jul 2010
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 272pp h178mm x w111mm x s18mm 150g ISBN13: 9780007368600 ISBN13: 978-0-00-736860-0 ISBN10: 0007368607 EAN: 9780007368600 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. `Northanger Abbey! These were thrilling words, and wound up Catherine's feelings to the highest point of ecstasy.' Considered the most light-hearted and satirical of Austen's novels, Northanger Abbey tells the story of an unlikely young heroine Catherine Morland. While staying in Bath, Catherine meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor who invite her to their family estate, Northanger Abbey. A fan of Gothic Romance novels, naive Catherine is soon letting her imagination run wild in the atmospheric abbey, fuelled by her friendship with the vivacious Isabella Thorpe. It is only when the realities of life set in around her that Catherine's fantastical world is shattered. A coming-of-age novel, Austen expertly parodies the Gothic romance novels of her time and reveals much about her unsentimental view of love and marriage in the eighteenth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Persuasion (Collins Classics) Jane Austen (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
08 Jul 2010
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 272pp h178mm x w111mm x s17mm 150g ISBN13: 9780007368617 ISBN13: 978-0-00-736861-7 ISBN10: 0007368615 EAN: 9780007368617 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.' Written at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Persuasion is a tale of love, heartache and the determination of one woman as she strives to reignite a lost love.
Anne Elliot is persuaded by her friends and family to reject a marriage proposal from Captain Wentworth because he lacks in fortune and rank. More than seven years later, when he returns home from the Navy, Anne realises she still has strong feelings for him, but Wentworth only appears to have eyes for a friend of Anne's. Moving, tender, but intrinsically 'Austen' in style, with it's satirical portrayal of the vanity of society in eighteenth-century England, Persuasion celebrates enduring love and hope. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pride and Prejudice (Collins Classics) Jane Austen (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2010
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 416pp h178mm x w111mm x s26mm 230g ISBN13: 9780007350773 ISBN13: 978-0-00-735077-3 ISBN10: 0007350775 EAN: 9780007350773 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.' Austen's best-loved tale of love, marriage and society in class-conscious Georgian England still delights modern readers today with its comedy and characters. It follows the feisty, quick-witted Elizabeth Bennet as her parents seek to ensure good marriages for her and her sisters in order to secure their future. The protagonists Darcy and Elizabeth learn much about themselves and those around them and Austen's expertly crafted comedy characters of Mrs Bennet and Mr Collins demonstrate her great artistry as a writer. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sanditon: & Other Stories (Collins Classics) Jane Austen (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
03 Oct 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 272pp h178mm x w111mm x s18mm 150g ISBN13: 9780008325398 ISBN13: 978-0-00-832539-8 ISBN10: 0008325391 EAN: 9780008325398 x Description: 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 of the town. Just as the town seeks to reinvent itself as a fashionable destination, Charlotte Heywood attempts to begin anew amongst its residents. As she begins to settle into Sanditon society, with the Parkers and the rich widow Lady Denham, a slew of new arrivals stir up emotions. Among them are relatives of Lady Denham, seeking her generous fortune; Miss Lambe, a rich heiress; and Sydney Parker, the handsome young man who catches Charlotte's eye. Charlotte must navigate the complicated web of liaisons, finding herself more involved than she ever intended... Collected here with her unfinished work The Watsons, and the much-loved novella-in-letters, Lady Susan, Austen's final, unfinished novel demonstrates her biting sense of humour and will give readers a thrilling glimpse of a genius at work. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Life of P.T. Barnum (Collins Classics) P. T. Barnum (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
14 Dec 2017
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 400pp h178mm x w111mm x s24mm 220g ISBN13: 9780008277017 ISBN13: 978-0-00-827701-7 ISBN10: 000827701X EAN: 9780008277017 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Meet the greatest entertainer of the 19th Century... In 1834, desperate to create a better life for his family, small-time Connecticut businessman P. T. Barnum moved to New York City. With true entrepreneurial spirit and against all odds, he wowed audiences with his ensemble of musical spectacles, attractions and variety shows - often exploiting the vulnerable for entertainment value. A master showman, his crowning achievement was the world-famous circus, Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth. In this account of his life and work, written by the man himself and first published in 1855, P. T. Barnum creates an aura of excitement about himself and his enduring fame, confirming his reputation as the greatest impresario of all time and revealing the controversial decisions that helped him to his fortune. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Peter Pan (Collins Classics) J.M. Barrie (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
21 May 2015
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 208pp h178mm x w111mm x s13mm 110g ISBN13: 9780007558179 ISBN13: 978-0-00-755817-9 ISBN10: 0007558171 EAN: 9780007558179 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.`Second to the right ... and then straight on till morning!'Desperate to hear bedtime stories, Peter Pan waits outside the nursery window of Wendy, John and Michael Darling. When Peter asks Wendy to fly with him to Neverland, the Darling children are whisked away to a world of adventure - of daring fairies, wondrous mermaids and The Lost Boys.But there is danger in Neverland too: the villainous Captain Hook is out for revenge and will stop at nothing to take it.Poignant and unforgettable, J. M. Barrie's classic tale is one of the greatest works of children's literature of the last century. Its imaginative scope, tender humour and vivid characters will enchant adults and children alike.Published in association with Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Collins Classics) L. Frank Baum (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
08 Jul 2010
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 192pp h178mm x w111mm x s12mm 100g ISBN13: 9780007368556 ISBN13: 978-0-00-736855-6 ISBN10: 0007368550 EAN: 9780007368556 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. '"Come along, Toto," she said. "We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to Kansas again."'
Swept away from her home in Kansas by a tornado, Dorothy and her dog Toto find themselves stranded in the fantastical Land of Oz. As instructed by the Good Witch of the North and the Munchkins, Dorothy sets off on the yellow brick road to try and find her way to the Emerald City and the Wizard of Oz, who can help her get home. With her companions the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion, Dorothy experiences an adventure full of friendship, magic and danger. A much-loved children's classic, The Wizard of Oz continues to delight readers young and old with its enchanting tale of witches, flying monkeys and silver shoes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic Stories (Collins Classics) Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
09 Mar 2017
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 128pp h178mm x w111mm x s12mm 110g ISBN13: 9780008238605 ISBN13: 978-0-00-823860-5 ISBN10: 000823860X EAN: 9780008238605 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. "My heart is good, but still I am a monster." A poor merchant, lost deep in the woods during a storm, seeks refuge in a forbidding castle. Thinking it is deserted, he takes advantage of the food and shelter he finds there. But when he plucks a rose from the garden as a gift for his daughter, he is attacked by a hideous beast who demands the merchant's daughter, Beauty, in repayment for his hospitality. Banished to the castle and fearful for her life, Beauty surrenders herself to the mercy of the Beast... This edition includes Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont's version of the classic story, and brings together many other best-loved fairy tales from Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault, many of which have been the subject of film adaptations. Other classic stories included in this edition: Beauty and the BeastThe Ugly DucklingThe Emperor's New SuitThe Little MermaidLittle Tiny, or ThumbelinaThe Princess and the PeaThe Red ShoesRapunzelHansel and GretelLittle Red-Cap, or Little Red Riding HoodThe Elves and the ShoemakerSnow-White and Rose-RedBlue BeardCinderella, or the Little Glass SlipperThe Sleeping Beauty in the WoodPuss in BootsLittle Tom Thumb _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Collins Classics) Harriet Beecher Stowe (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2011
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 608pp h178mm x w111mm x s36mm 320g ISBN13: 9780007902262 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790226-2 ISBN10: 0007902263 EAN: 9780007902262 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`One thing is certain, - that there is a mustering among the masses, the world over; and there is a dis irae coming on, sooner or later.'Viewed by many as fuelling the abolitionist movement of the 1850s and laying the groundwork for the Civil War, Harriet Beecher Stowe's sentimental and moral tale of slaves attempting to secure their freedom was one of the most popular books of the nineteenth century. Centred round the long-suffering Uncle Tom, a devout Christian slave who endures cruelty and abuse from his owners, Tom is often celebrated as the first black hero in American fiction who refuses to obey his white masters. With other strong protagonists such as Eliza, a courageous slave who flees to the North with her son when she learns that he is to be sold, Beecher Stowe highlighted the plight of southern slaves and the breaking up of black families. Not without its controversy, more recent criticism has suggested that the novel contributed negatively to the stereotyping of the black community. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome (Collins Classics) E. M. Berens (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
19 Sep 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 304pp h178mm x w111mm x s23mm 200g ISBN13: 9780008180553 ISBN13: 978-0-00-818055-3 ISBN10: 0008180555 EAN: 9780008180553 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'This was the slaying of the Minotaur, which put an end forever to the shameful tribute of seven youths and seven maidens which was exacted from the Athenians every nine years.' The gods, heroes and legends of Greek mythology and their Roman interpretations are as fascinating as they are instructive. They include the almighty Zeus and his many wives; heroic Perseus, slayer of the snake-headed Medusa; Helen of Troy, whose beauty caused a great war; Medea, driven mad by jealousy; and tragic Persephone, doomed to live half of each year in the Underworld, condemning the world above to winter. First published in 1880, this comprehensive collection is an early modern retelling of the characters and tales of ancient Greece and Rome; a popular account which offers an important insight into the ancient civilisations that it evokes, and forms a basis for our understanding of the classical world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Jane Eyre (Collins Classics) Charlotte Bronte (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2010
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 512pp h178mm x w111mm x s32mm 240g ISBN13: 9780007350803 ISBN13: 978-0-00-735080-3 ISBN10: 0007350805 EAN: 9780007350803 x Description: 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.' Bronte's infamous Gothic novel tells the story of orphan Jane, a child of unfortunate circumstances. Raised and treated badly by her aunt and cousins and eventually sent away to a cruel boarding school, it is not until Jane becomes a governess at Thornfield that she finds happiness. Meek, measured, but determined, Jane soon falls in love with her brooding and stormy master, Mr Rochester, but it is not long before strange and unnerving events occur in the house and Jane is forced to leave Thornfield to pursue her future. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Thirty-Nine Steps (Collins Classics) John Buchan (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
03 May 2012
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 160pp h178mm x w111mm x s10mm 90g ISBN13: 9780007449934 ISBN13: 978-0-00-744993-4 ISBN10: 0007449933 EAN: 9780007449934 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I snapped the switch, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the far corner which made me drop my cigar and fall into a cold
sweat.' When Richard Hannay is warned of an assassination plot that has the potential to take Britain into a war, and then a few days later discovers the murdered body of the American that warned him in his flat, he becomes a prime suspect. He flees to the moors of Scotland and a spirited chase begins as he is pursued by the police and the German spies involved with stealing British plans. Buchan's tale unfolds into one of the seminal and most influential 'chase' books, mimicked by many, yet unrivalled in the tension and mystery created by his writing. Buchan reveres Hannay as an ordinary man who puts his country's good before his own and the classic themes of the novel influenced many films and subsequent 'man-on-the-run' novels. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Master and Margarita Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Jan 1950
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 432pp h178mm x w111mm 270g ISBN13: 9780007558216 ISBN13: 978-0-00-755821-6 ISBN10: 000755821X x Description: Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. Full of pungency and wit, this luminous work is Bulgakov's crowning achievement, skilfully blending magical and realistic elements, grotesque situations and major ethical concerns. Written during the darkest period of Stalin's repressive reign and a devastating satire of Soviet life, it combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem, each brimming with incident and with historical, imaginary, frightful and wonderful characters. Although completed in 1940, The Master and Margarita was not published until 1966 when the first section appeared in the monthly magazine Moskva. Russians everywhere responded enthusiastically to the novel's artistic and spiritual freedom and it was an immediate and enduring success. This new translation has been made from the complete and unabridged Russian text. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Pilgrim's Progress (Collins Classics) John Bunyan (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
03 Jan 2013
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 368pp h178mm x w111mm x s23mm 200g ISBN13: 9780007925322 ISBN13: 978-0-00-792532-2 ISBN10: 0007925328 EAN: 9780007925322 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, John Bunyan's masterful religious allegory, narrates the journey of an everyman hero, Christian, as he attempts to navigate the trials and tribulations of this world, the City of Destruction, on the path towards paradise, the Celestial City. Though weighed down by the burden of original sin, Christian overcomes the distractions of the world, moving past the Slough of Despond, the Hill of Difficulty and the Valley of the Shadow of Death, while simultaneously resisting the temptations of the Worldy Wise, the Vain and the Ignorant. The product of a lifetime of religious work and thought, Bunyan's virtuosic narrative fundamentally altered Protestant belief, and remains one of the most important and influential works in the English language. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Collins Classics) Lewis Carroll (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 176pp h178mm x w111mm x s11mm 100g ISBN13: 9780007350827 ISBN13: 978-0-00-735082-7 ISBN10: 0007350821 EAN: 9780007350827 x Description: 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 to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"' So begins the tale of Alice, who follows a curious White Rabbit down a hole and falls into Wonderland, a fantastical place where nothing is quite as it seems: animals talk, nonsensical characters confuse, Mad Hatters throw tea parties and the Queen plays croquet. Alice's attempts to find her way home become increasingly bizarre, infuriating and amazing in turn. A beloved classic, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has continued to delight readers, young and old, for over 150 years. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Through The Looking Glass (Collins Classics) Lewis Carroll (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2010
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 192pp h178mm x w111mm x s12mm 80g ISBN13: 9780007350933 ISBN13: 978-0-00-735093-3 ISBN10: 0007350937 EAN: 9780007350933 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.' In Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice once again finds herself in a bizarre and nonsensical place when she passes through a mirror and enters a looking-glass world where nothing is quite as it seems. From her guest appearance as a pawn in a chess match to her meeting with Humpty Dumpty, Through the Looking Glass follows Alice on her curious adventure and shows Carroll's great skill at creating an imaginary world full of the fantastical and extraordinary. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
My Antonia (Collins Classics) Willa Cather (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
19 Sep 2019
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 320pp h178mm x w111mm x s20mm 180g ISBN13: 9780008322809 ISBN13: 978-0-00-832280-9 ISBN10: 0008322805 EAN: 9780008322809 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. My Antonia is Willa Cather's masterpiece about 19th-century Nebraskan pioneers. My Antonia depicts the pioneering period of European settlement on the tall-grass prairie of the American midwest, with its beautiful yet terrifying landscape, rich ethnic mix of immigrants and native-born Americans, and communities who share life's joys and sorrows. Jim Burden recounts his memories of Antonia Shimerda, whose family settle in Nebraska from Bohemia. Together they share childhoods spent in a new world. Jim leaves the prairie for college and a career in the east, while Antonia devotes herself to her large family and productive farm. Her
story is that of the land itself, a moving portrait of endurance and strength. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Canterbury Tales (Collins Classics) Geoffrey Chaucer (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
02 Jan 2012
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 624pp h178mm x w111mm x s39mm 340g ISBN13: 9780007449446 ISBN13: 978-0-00-744944-6 ISBN10: 0007449445 EAN: 9780007449446 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.' Written at the end of the fourteenth century, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales are a collection of stories told in Middle-English. Thirty pilgrims leave Southwark to travel to a shrine in Canterbury and become the narrators, telling each other stories of chivalrous romance, fable, parable, debate and comedy as they journey. Their accounts of the human condition remain as resonant today as when they were first written. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Awakening (Collins Classics) Kate Chopin (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 224pp h178mm x w111mm x s14mm 130g ISBN13: 9780007420056 ISBN13: 978-0-00-742005-6 ISBN10: 0007420056 EAN: 9780007420056 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. `I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.' Heralded as one of the first instances of feminist literature and rejected at its time of publication by the literary set on grounds of moral distaste, Kate Chopin's The Awakening caused consternation in 1899. Constrained and confined by the limitations surrounding marriage and motherhood in the late 1800s, Edna Pontellier begins to challenge the notion of femininity through her thoughts and actions. Questioning her love for her husband, and opening herself up to the possibilities of other men and a life outside of societal convention leads to a gradual awakening of her desires. Chopin's fascinating exploration of one woman challenging the expectation that surrounds her is powerful, daring and ultimately tragic in its conclusions. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Selected Fairy Tales (Collins Classics) Hans Christian Andersen (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
28 Aug 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 320pp h178mm x w111mm x s20mm 180g ISBN13: 9780007558155 ISBN13: 978-0-00-755815-5 ISBN10: 0007558155 EAN: 9780007558155 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!' (from 'The Ugly Duckling')
This collection brings together some of Hans Christian Andersen's most popular fairy tales - including 'The Little Mermaid', 'The Ugly Duckling' and 'Thumbelina' - in a celebration of one of the world's most widely recognised children's authors. With universal themes and dark humour at their heart, these moralistic tales have delighted readers since first publication in the nineteenth century and continued to be well loved today. The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, a storyteller of great importance to Western literature, have inspired many films, ballets and plays, and entertained generations of children and adults alike. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems (Collins Classics) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
22 Sep 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 304pp h178mm x w111mm x s11mm 100g ISBN13: 9780008167561 ISBN13: 978-0-00-816756-1 ISBN10: 0008167567 EAN: 9780008167561 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Instead of the cross, the AlbatrossAbout my neck was hung' When an albatross leads a stricken ship out of treacherous ice, a hapless mariner shoots the bird, arousing the wrath of spirits who pursue the ship. Haunted by Death, the crew begin to perish one by one, until only the cursed mariner remains to confront his guilt. As penance for his actions he is condemned to wander the earth, telling his tale to those he meets as a warning. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is Samuel Taylor Coleridge's longest major poem and marks the beginning of the romantic movement in British literature. This edition also includes many of Coleridge's other works, including Kubla Khan, Christabel and a selection of the 'conversation' poems. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Moonstone (Collins Classics) Wilkie Collins (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 640pp h178mm x w111mm x s40mm 330g ISBN13: 9780007420254 ISBN13: 978-0-00-742025-4 ISBN10: 0007420250 EAN: 9780007420254 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.'Centred around a glorious yellow diamond that carries with it a menacing history, The Moonstone tells the story of Rachel Verinder, who inherits the stone on her eighteenth birthday. That very evening, the diamond is stolen and there begins an epic enquiry into hunting down the thief. At the same time, three Indian men, Brahmin guardians of the diamond are attempting to reclaim the stone in order to return it to their sacred Hindu Idol.Told from the perspective of 11different characters, Wilkie Collins' tale of mystery and suspicion was considered the first modern English detective novel at its time of publication. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Woman in White (Collins Classics) Wilkie Collins (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 768pp h178mm x w111mm x s48mm 450g ISBN13: 9780007902217 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790221-7 ISBN10: 0007902212 EAN: 9780007902217 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.' One of the earliest works of 'detective' fiction with a narrative woven together from multiple characters, Wilkie Collins partly based his infamous novel on a real-life eighteenth century case of abduction and wrongful imprisonment. In 1859, the story caused a sensation with its readers, hooking their attention with the ghostly first scene where the mysterious 'Woman in White' Anne Catherick comes across Walter Hartright. Chilling, suspenseful and tense in mood, the novel remains as emotive for its readers today as when it was first published. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pinocchio (Collins Classics) Carlo Collodi (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
13 Sep 2012
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 192pp h178mm x w111mm x s13mm 120g ISBN13: 9780007920716 ISBN13: 978-0-00-792071-6 ISBN10: 0007920717 EAN: 9780007920716 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. `But I am not like other boys! I always tell the truth.' The story of Pinocchio has remained one of the best-loved children's tales for over a century. However, the original 1883 novel about the adventures of the mischievous marionette on his quest to become a real boy began as a sophisticated story for both adults and children, and includes political satire, slapstick humour and questions about the role of tradition and society. From the moment Geppetto decides to carve himself a son from a magical piece of wood, the tale lurches from one fantastical episode to another, in one of the most enchanting fables of all time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Study in Scarlet: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure (Collins Classics) Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
30 Jan 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 192pp h178mm x w111mm x s13mm 100g ISBN13: 9780007558049 ISBN13: 978-0-00-755804-9 ISBN10: 000755804X EAN: 9780007558049 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it. After a harrowing tour in Afghanistan, Dr Watson returns to London to convalesce at 221B Baker Street, home to the enigmatic Sherlock Holmes. Their lives are irrevocably thrown together by news that a man has been found dead in a grimy 'ill-omened' house, with the word 'rache' - German for
revenge - written in blood on the wall. This grisly discovery is complicated further by the look of utter horror on the victim's face, and the complete absence of any wounds on the body or sign of a struggle. First published in 1887, 'A Study in Scarlet' is the remarkable first-outing of one of literature's most famous partnerships. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Collins Classics) Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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Imprint:
William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 336pp h178mm x w111mm x s21mm 190g ISBN13: 9780007350834 ISBN13: 978-0-00-735083-4 ISBN10: 000735083X EAN: 9780007350834 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of Baker Street would have failed to recognize him. His face flushed and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter.' Set against the foggy, mysterious backdrops of London and the English countryside, these are the first twelve stories ever published to feature the infamous Detective Sherlock Holmes and his side kick Doctor Watson. They first appeared as stories in the Strand Magazine and feature some of his most famous and enjoyable cases, including 'A Scandal in Bohemia', 'The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle' and 'The Red-headed League'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Collins Classics) Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
19 May 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 304pp h178mm x w111mm x s20mm 180g ISBN13: 9780008167523 ISBN13: 978-0-00-816752-3 ISBN10: 0008167524 EAN: 9780008167523 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished.' This collection of eleven stories depict Holmes and Watson at their very best and solving some of their most notorious cases, culminating in 'The Final Problem'. In this infamous tale, Holmes comes face-to-face with his greatest opponent, the criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty, at the Reichenbach Falls. Each of the stories was previously published in The Strand magazine before being released together in a single volume in 1894. This is a quintessential collection, and a must-have for collectors and fans of one of the finest sleuths in English literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Collins Classics) Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
12 Sep 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 384pp h178mm x w111mm x s24mm 210g ISBN13: 9780007934423 ISBN13: 978-0-00-793442-3 ISBN10: 0007934424 EAN: 9780007934423 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Originally published in 1903-1904, The Return of Sherlock Holmes is the thirteen-story collection of one of the greatest-ever fictional detectives. Three years after the supposed death of Sherlock Holmes and his archenemy Professor Moriarty in the torrent of Reichenbach Falls, Holmes makes a disguised reappearance to Baker Street and his good friend Dr Watson. Featuring one of Holmes' greatest adversaries, Charles Augustus Milverton, as well as trademark astute logic, forensic science, murder, crytograms and magic, this collection retains all the hallmark brilliance of Arthur Conan Doyle's best work. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Sign of the Four (Collins Classics) Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
15 Jan 2015
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 176pp h178mm x w111mm x s11mm 100g ISBN13: 9780008110468 ISBN13: 978-0-00-811046-8 ISBN10: 0008110468 EAN: 9780008110468 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world...' In London, 1888, the razor-sharp detective skills of Sherlock Holmes are to be put to the test. Mary Morstan reports two seemingly unconnected and inexplicable events: the disappearance of her father, a British Indian Army Captain, and the arrival of pearls by post from an unknown sender. Driven on by its complexity, Holmes and Watson slowly begin to unravel an intricate web of exotic treasure, secret pacts and mysterious deaths. One of only four novels featuring Sherlock Holmes and his trusty sidekick Watson, 'The Sign of the Four' will delight those who have been captivated by Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Valley of Fear (Collins Classics) Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
14 Jan 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 240pp h178mm x w111mm x s15mm 100g ISBN13: 9780008166755 ISBN13: 978-0-00-816675-5 ISBN10: 0008166757 EAN: 9780008166755 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The greatest schemer of all time, the organizer of every deviltry, the controlling brain of the underworld, a brain which might have made or marred the destiny of nations - that's the man!'
Summoned to a mysterious manor house by one of the henchmen of his arch nemesis, Professor Moriarty, Holmes and Watson find themselves confronted by the scene of a brutal murder. But the brilliant Holmes soon reveals that there is much more to this case than first meets the eye... First published as a serialisation in The Strand Magazine between 1914 and 1915, this fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel will delight fans of Conan Doyle's legendary detective and his faithful sidekick Watson. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Collins Classics) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 336pp h178mm x w111mm x s21mm 190g ISBN13: 9780007420247 ISBN13: 978-0-00-742024-7 ISBN10: 0007420242 EAN: 9780007420247 x Description: 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 of Conan Doyle's most villainous and unusual characters. The 1920s was a disenchanting era, and the darker mood of many of these stories reflects the environment at the time. Some even felt that the stories showed Conan Doyle exploring Spiritualism as it was an area he was interested in at the time and the mental derangement and physical disfigurements that crop up in many of the stories allude to the horrors of the First World War. The collection includes `The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire', `The Adventure of the Creeping Man' and `The Adventure of the Lion's Mane'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure (Collins Classics) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
08 Jul 2010
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 192pp h178mm x w111mm x s12mm 110g ISBN13: 9780007368570 ISBN13: 978-0-00-736857-0 ISBN10: 0007368577 EAN: 9780007368570 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly and spectral.' Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine, Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles follows the infamous Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson as they investigate the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville, whose dead body is found on the misty and desolate Devon moors. The locals blame his death on the legend of the fearsome phantom hound that they claim has haunted the Baskerville family for generations. When the heir to the Baskerville fortune, Sir Henry, also comes under threat Holmes' detective skills are put to the test as he battles to discover the truth behind the legend and to solve one of the most macabre mysteries of his career. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Heart of Darkness (Collins Classics) Joseph Conrad (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
08 Jul 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 144pp h178mm x w111mm x s9mm 90g ISBN13: 9780007368624 ISBN13: 978-0-00-736862-4 ISBN10: 0007368623 EAN: 9780007368624 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.' At the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into the African Congo on his way to relieve the elusive Mr Kurtz, an ivory trader renowned for his fearsome reputation. On his journey into the unknown Marlow takes a terrifying trip into his own subconscious, overwhelmed by his menacing, perilous and horrifying surroundings. The landscape and the people he meets force him to reflect on human nature and society, and in turn Conrad writes revealingly about the dangers of imperialism. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Last of the Mohicans (Collins Classics) James Fenimore Cooper (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
08 Jul 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 432pp h178mm x w111mm x s27mm 240g ISBN13: 9780007368662 ISBN13: 978-0-00-736866-2 ISBN10: 0007368666 EAN: 9780007368662 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Death and honour are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.' Set in frontier America in the midst of the French-Indian war, as the French are attempting to overthrow an English fort, Cooper's story follows Alice and Cora Munro, pioneer sisters who are trying to find their way back to their father, an English commander. Guided by an army major and Magua, an Indian from the Huron tribe, they soon meet Hawk-eye, a frontier scout and his Mohican Indian companions Chingachgook and Uncas. Magua is not all that he seems and the sisters are kidnapped. In The Last of the Mohicans, Cooper sets Indian tribe against Indian tribe and lays bare the brutality of the white man against the Mohicans. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Red Badge of Courage (Collins Classics) Stephen Crane (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2011
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 208pp h178mm x w111mm x s13mm 120g ISBN13: 9780007902200 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790220-0 ISBN10: 0007902204 EAN: 9780007902200 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'He felt that in this crisis his laws of life were useless. Whatever he had learned of himself was here of no avail. He was an unknown quantity.'
Following one soldier's journey from naive recruit to hardened survivor, The Red Badge of Courage is a vivid and powerfully psychological take on the American Civil War. Fighting for the Union army, Henry Fleming is thrown into a bloody war where the harsh realities and horrors of battle quickly become evident. Fearful, occasionally vain, but always viewing the war with honest eyes, Henry eventually comes to thrive as a soldier in combat, and it is with a a new conscience and outlook that he matures into manhood. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Origin of Species (Collins Classics) Charles Darwin (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 624pp h178mm x w111mm x s39mm 350g ISBN13: 9780007902231 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790223-1 ISBN10: 0007902239 EAN: 9780007902231 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods.' Still considered one of the most important and groundbreaking works of science ever written, Darwin's eminently readable exploration of the evolutionary process challenged most of the strong beliefs of the Western world. Forced to question the idea of the Creator, mid-nineteenth century readers were faced with Darwin's theories on the laws of natural selection and the randomness of evolution, causing massive controversy at the time. However, Darwin's theories remain instrumental in providing the backbone to modern biology today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Christmas Carol (Collins Classics) Charles Dickens (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2010
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 144pp h178mm x w111mm x s9mm 90g ISBN13: 9780007350865 ISBN13: 978-0-00-735086-5 ISBN10: 0007350864 EAN: 9780007350865 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I am the Ghost of Christmas Present,' said the Spirit. 'Look upon me!' A celebration of Christmas, a tale of redemption and a critique on Victorian society, Dickens' atmospheric novella follows the miserly, pennypinching Ebenezer Scrooge who views Christmas as 'humbug'. It is only through a series of eerie, life-changing visits from the ghost of his deceased business partner Marley and the spirits of Christmas past, present and future that he begins to see the error of his ways. With heart-rending characters, rich imagery and evocative language, the message of A Christmas Carol remains as significant today as when it was first published. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Tale of Two Cities (Collins Classics) Charles Dickens (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 464pp h178mm x w111mm x s29mm 250g ISBN13: 9780007350896 ISBN13: 978-0-00-735089-6 ISBN10: 0007350899 EAN: 9780007350896
x Description: 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 Revolution in the cities of Paris and London, A Tale of Two Cities tells the story of Dr Manette's release from imprisonment in the Bastille and his reunion with daughter, Lucie. A French aristocrat Darnay and English lawyer Carton compete in their love for Lucie and the ensuing tale plays out against the menacing backdrop of the French Revolution and the shadow of the guillotine. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Christmas Stories (Collins Classics) Charles Dickens (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
27 Aug 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 304pp h178mm x w111mm x s19mm 170g ISBN13: 9780008110628 ISBN13: 978-0-00-811062-8 ISBN10: 000811062X EAN: 9780008110628 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories... This heart-warming collection of festive short stories and novellas perfectly captures the spirit of Christmas. Focused on the journeys taken through life and the inherent goodness of mankind, these tales explore the true meaning of Christmas and revel in the joyful season of goodwill. Imbued with a moral message, Dickens's writing gives a voice to the plight of working-class families during a period of social and political change in Victorian England. With such tales as 'The Chimes', 'The Cricket on the Hearth' and 'What Christmas Is, As We Grow Older', this is a beautiful collection for Dickens fans, and a wonderful companion for all those who cherish 'A Christmas Carol'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Great Expectations (Collins Classics) Charles Dickens (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2010
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 480pp h178mm x w111mm x s30mm 260g ISBN13: 9780007350872 ISBN13: 978-0-00-735087-2 ISBN10: 0007350872 EAN: 9780007350872 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.' Living with his sister and her husband, Pip is an orphan without any expectations. It is only when he begins to visit a rich old woman, Miss Havisham and her adopted niece that he begins to hope for something better. When it is revealed that Pip has inherited a large sum of money from a mysterious benefactor on the condition that he moves to London to become a gentleman, Pip's adventure really begins. Epic, illuminating and memorable, Dickens mysterious tale of Pip's quest to find the truth about himself is one of his most enduring and popular novels to date. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hard Times (Collins Classics) Charles Dickens (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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Imprint:
William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
02 May 2012
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 384pp h178mm x w111mm x s24mm 210g ISBN13: 9780007449941 ISBN13: 978-0-00-744994-1 ISBN10: 0007449941 EAN: 9780007449941 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage.' Set in fictitious Coketown, England during the Industrial Revolution of the 1850s, Dickens wished to expose the enormous gulf between the rich and poor through his writing. In Hard Times, the social and moral purpose of his work is at its most evident. Openly ironic and satirical in its tone, Dickens suggests a mechanization of society, where the wealthy are ruthless and uncharitable towards those less fortunate than themselves. Siblings Louisa and Tom Gradgrind are raised by their father, a harsh and pragmatic educator and his influence means that they go on to lead lives that are lacking in all areas. Louisa marries the arrogant and greedy Josiah Bounderby, ending in an unhappy pairing and the unfeeling and villainous Tom robs his own brother-in-law's bank. As their father watches their plight, he realises that his own principles may have led to their downfall. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Oliver Twist (Collins Classics) Charles Dickens (Author) Lesley Gray (Introduction and notes by) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 528pp h178mm x w111mm x s33mm 280g ISBN13: 9780007350889 ISBN13: 978-0-00-735088-9 ISBN10: 0007350880 EAN: 9780007350889 x Description: 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 Artful Dodger and caught up with a group of pickpockets in London. As he tries to free himself from their clutches he becomes immersed in the seedy underbelly of the Capital, amongst criminals, prostitutes and the homeless. Dickens scathing attack on the cruelness of Victorian Society features some of his most memorable and enduring characters, including innocent Oliver himself, the Artful Dodger, Fagin, Bill Sikes and Nancy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Collins Classics) Frederick Douglass (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
17 Sep 2020
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 256pp h178mm x w111mm x s11mm 100g Contains 1 Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9780008403492 ISBN13: 978-0-00-840349-2 ISBN10: 000840349X EAN: 9780008403492
x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. Born into slavery during the early nineteenth century, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom before he was twenty-one years old. From the moment he arrived in New York City, he felt a need to tell his story, one that mirrored so many people still enslaved in the South with no hope of escape. As an orator and preacher, Douglass was an abolitionist, supporter of women's suffrage and staunch defender of equality for all. In his first autobiographical work, published in 1845, The Narrative of Frederick Douglass describes how he went from slave to a free man. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Man in the Iron Mask (Collins Classics) Alexandre Dumas (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
03 May 2012
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 656pp h178mm x w111mm x s41mm 360g ISBN13: 9780007449880 ISBN13: 978-0-00-744988-0 ISBN10: 0007449887 EAN: 9780007449880 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I've worn that mask so long I don't feel safe without it.' The Man in the Iron Mask sees D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis return to meet their destinies in their final adventure. D'Artagnan still remains in the service of King Louis XIV while Aramis is a priest at the Bastille prison. Upon listening to a confession from an iron-masked prisoner who tells him that he is the twin brother of the King of France, Aramis is convinced that he will be rewarded if he can help him become king and he devises a plan for his escape, pitching himself against his old comrade D'Artagnan. Far darker than Dumas' previous novels, The Man in the Iron Mask is a fast-paced and compelling historical romance of honour and loyalty. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Three Musketeers (Collins Classics) Alexandre Dumas (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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Imprint:
William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 848pp h178mm x w111mm x s53mm 450g ISBN13: 9780007902156 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790215-6 ISBN10: 0007902158 EAN: 9780007902156 x Description: 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 is considered one of the greatest historical French novels. When Athos, Porthos and Aramis befriend a young and determined country boy d'Artagnan, together they confront the scheming King's Minister, Cardinal Richelieu and the female spy Milady who threaten to undermine the King. Swashbuckling, romantic and often humourous, Dumas' novel is a timeless tale of friendship and intrigue. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Silas Marner (Collins Classics) George Eliot (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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Imprint:
William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2011
Publishing Status:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 256pp h178mm x w111mm x s17mm 130g ISBN13: 9780007420148 ISBN13: 978-0-00-742014-8 ISBN10: 0007420145 EAN: 9780007420148 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.' Set in the agricultural town of Raveloe in the English countryside, Silas Marner is a tragic figure. Exiled from a religious community because of a wrongful accusation of theft, he works from day to day as a weaver, saving his money and living a lonely life as a recluse. It is only when his money is stolen and a small orphan girl, Eppie appears in his life that Silas's fortunes begin to change and he truly begins to learn what it means to regain his faith in life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Moonfleet (Collins Classics) John Meade Falkner (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
13 Sep 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 272pp h178mm x w111mm x s17mm 160g ISBN13: 9780007920709 ISBN13: 978-0-00-792070-9 ISBN10: 0007920709 EAN: 9780007920709 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. First published in 1898, 'Moonfleet' is a riveting adventure story full of drama, mystery, revenge, pursuit, smuggling, pirates and romance, with a place in the literary canon alongside 'Treasure Island' and 'Kidnapped'. The tiny village of Moonfleet nestles on the English coast, and every one of its inhabitants lives off the sea in one way or another. When local young man John Trenchard accidentally stumbles upon treasure stashed in the local crypt, he unknowingly enters the murky world of the smuggling trade and the local secret of Colonel John Mohune's treasure. Trenchard is soon forced to flee England with a price on his head, leaving behind his beloved Grace and the life he hoped for. But the adventures, trials and tribulations that befall him on his personal journey back to Moonfleet and ultimately redemption are written with such intensity and hope, as well as love for the history and landscape of Dorset, that the story never loses pace or power on its epic journey. 'Moonfleet' is a classic adventure story to be read again and again. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tales of the Jazz Age (Collins Classics) F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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Imprint:
William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
09 May 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 352pp h178mm x w111mm x s22mm 200g ISBN13: 9780007925506 ISBN13: 978-0-00-792550-6 ISBN10: 0007925506 EAN: 9780007925506 x Description: From Collins Classics, short stories from the author of `The Great Gatsby' and including `The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'.In these eleven stories, Fitzgerald depicts the Roaring Twenties as he lived them. He masterfully blends accounts of flappers and the smart set with more
fantastical visions of America, always imbuing his narratives with his trademark themes of money, class, ambition and love. In `May Day', Fitzgerald weaves an account of a raucous Yale alumni party, the participants of which are oblivious to the violent socialist demonstration being acted out around them. `The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' is an unorthodox account of a man who ages backwards, and `The Diamond as Big as the Ritz' tells the story of a young man who discovers that his friend's family possesses a diamond that is literally larger than the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. This 1922 collection confirmed Fitzgerald as the voice of his generation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Beautiful and Damned (Collins Classics) F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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Imprint:
William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
03 Jan 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 464pp h178mm x w111mm x s29mm 250g ISBN13: 9780007925353 ISBN13: 978-0-00-792535-3 ISBN10: 0007925352 EAN: 9780007925353 x Description: From Collins Classics and the author of `The Great Gatsby' comes this razor-sharp satire on the excesses of the Jazz Age. From the author of The Great Gatsby, a tale of marriage and disappointment in the Roaring Twenties. Fitzgerald's rich and detailed novel of the decadent Jazz Era follows the beautiful and vibrant Anthony Patch and his wife Gloria as they navigate the heady lifestyle of the young and wealthy in 1920s New York. Patch is the presumptive heir to his grandfather's fortune, and keeps his equally spoiled wife in comfort while biding time until his grandfather's death. Patch is unable to hold down any kind of job and spends his days in luxury, indulging in whatever pleasures are available. But as the money begins to fail, so does their marriage. Patch's gradual descent into alcoholism, depression and alienation from his marriage ultimately lead to his ruin. Fitzgerald's novel is a remorseless exploration of the horrors of an age of excess and lost innocence. F. Scott Fitzgerald is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Despite his present popularity, Fitzgerald was often in financial trouble, due to the fact that only one of his novels sold well enough to support the extravagant lifestyle that he and his wife Zelda adopted, and later Zelda's medical bills. His novel The Great Gatsby has sold millions of copies and remains a continual best-seller. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Great Gatsby (Collins Classics) F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
08 Jul 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 192pp h178mm x w111mm x s12mm 150g ISBN13: 9780007368655 ISBN13: 978-0-00-736865-5 ISBN10: 0007368658 EAN: 9780007368655 x Description: The Great American Novel of love and betrayal in the Jazz Age is now a major film.Considered one of the all-time great American works of fiction, Fitzgerald's glorious yet ultimately tragic social satire on the Jazz Age encapsulates the exuberance, energy and decadence of an era.After the war, the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire pursues wealth, riches and the lady he lost to another man with stoic determination. He buys a mansion across from her house and throws lavish parties to try and entice her. When Gatsby finally does reunite with Daisy Buchanan, tragic events are set in motion.Told through the eyes of his detached and omnipresent neighbour and friend, Nick Carraway, Fitzgerald's succinct and powerful prose hints at the destruction and tragedy that awaits. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Madame Bovary (Collins Classics) Gustave Flaubert (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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Imprint:
William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 432pp h178mm x w111mm x s27mm 240g ISBN13: 9780007420308 ISBN13: 978-0-00-742030-8 ISBN10: 0007420307 EAN: 9780007420308 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. '...for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart.' Married to Charles, a provincial doctor, Emma Bovary yearns for a more glamorous life. Disenchanted with her husband and seeking an escape from their dull marriage she is soon tempted into a brief romantic liaison with another man. Although short-lived, she remains desirous of passion and the finer things in life and embarks on another affair, destroying her reputation. Considered scandalous at the time, Emma Bovary's superficial and immoral behaviour shocked readers and caused moral outcry. Flaubert holds up to ridicule not only Madame Bovary herself, but the society that dares to judge her. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
New Hampshire (Collins Classics) Robert Frost (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
02 Dec 2020
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 256pp h178mm x w111mm 270g ISBN13: 9780008403478 ISBN13: 978-0-00-840347-8 ISBN10: 0008403473 EAN: 9780008403478 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.Robert Frost won the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes with New Hampshire, first published in 1923. It includes many of his most enduring and bestknown poems, including 'Nothing Gold Can Stay', 'Fire and Ice', 'The Need of Being Versed in Country Things' and 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'.Praised for its realistic depiction of rural life in New England during the early twentieth century, Robert Frost's poetry has endured with modern readers for its examination of social and philosophical issues. Still considered one of America's greatest ever poets, New Hampshire will move new and old readers alike with Frost's profound grasp of the human condition. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
North and South (Collins Classics) Elizabeth Gaskell (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 608pp h178mm x w111mm x s38mm 330g ISBN13: 9780007902255 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790225-5 ISBN10: 0007902255 EAN: 9780007902255 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.' When Margaret Hale is uprooted from Hampshire and moves to the industrial town of Milton in the North of England, her whole world changes. As her sympathy for the town's mill workers grows, her sense of social injustice piques and she passionately fights their corner. However, just as she disputes the mill owner, John Thornton's treatment of his workers, she cannot deny her growing attraction to him. Highlighting the changing landscape
of nineteenth-century Britain and championing the role of women in Victorian society, Gaskell brilliantly captures the lives of ordinary people through one of her strongest female characters in literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Prophet (Collins Classics) Kahlil Gibran (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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Imprint:
William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
02 Apr 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 256pp h178mm x w111mm x s9mm 80g ISBN13: 9780008399948 ISBN13: 978-0-00-839994-8 ISBN10: 0008399948 EAN: 9780008399948 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Let there be spaces in your togetherness,And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.' A prophet waits to board a ship after 12 years away from his homeland. His journey is interrupted by a group of people who ask him to impart his wisdom before he leaves forever. What follows are 26 short chapters on everything from love, marriage and children, to freedom, reason, talking, time and death. A guide to life and the human condition, this lyrical work of prose poetry has entranced readers for nearly 100 years. Described by many as the first self-help book, The Prophet was an instant bestseller when it was published in 1923, and is one of the most translated works in history. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Grimms' Fairy Tales (Collins Classics) Brothers Grimm (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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Imprint:
William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 352pp h178mm x w111mm x s22mm 190g ISBN13: 9780007902248 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790224-8 ISBN10: 0007902247 EAN: 9780007902248 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The wolf thought to himself, "What a tender young creature! what a nice plump mouthful - she will be better to eat than the old woman. I must act craftily, so as to catch both."' Collected by the German Grimm brothers, these folk tales have captured the imaginations of children and adults alike since they were first published in 1812. The best-known stories such as The Golden Goose, Hansel and Gretel, The Frog Prince, and Snow-White and Rose-Red remain as popular today as when first told, although there is an underlying darkness and violence to the original stories that has softened over time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Collins Classics) Thomas Hardy (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 528pp h178mm x w111mm x s33mm 290g ISBN13: 9780007350919 ISBN13: 978-0-00-735091-9 ISBN10: 0007350910 EAN: 9780007350919 x Description: HarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know, what you have read, and seen, and thought, I feel what a
nothing I am!' Challenging the hypocrisy and social conventions of the rural Victorian world, Tess of the D'Urbervilles follows the story of Tess Durbeyfield as she attempts to escape the poverty of her background, seeking wealth by claiming connection with the aristocratic D'Urberville family. It is through Tess's relationships with two very different men that Hardy tells the story of his tragic heroine, and exposes the double standards of the world that she inhabits with searing pathos and heart-rending sentiment. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Collins Classics) Thomas Hardy (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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Imprint:
William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 432pp h178mm x w111mm x s27mm 230g ISBN13: 9780007902118 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790211-8 ISBN10: 0007902115 EAN: 9780007902118 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`The movements of his mind seemed to tend to the thought that some power was working against him.'When Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser gets drunk and sells his wife at a country fair, his life will never be the same. Eighteen years later, his wife and daughter return to Casterbridge to find that Henchard has become Mayor. Although he's spent most of his life attempting to repent for his actions, he remains a rash and impetuous man. Hardy portrays Henchard as a tragic hero, searching for love and acceptance from the community around him, posing the overarching question of whether we shape our own fate, or whether life deals us an inevitable hand. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Little Princess (Collins Classics) Frances Hodgson Burnett (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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Imprint:
William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
30 Jan 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 256pp h178mm x w111mm x s17mm 140g ISBN13: 9780007557950 ISBN13: 978-0-00-755795-0 ISBN10: 0007557957 EAN: 9780007557950 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Whatever comes,' she said, `cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside.'`A Little Princess' tells the story of Sara Crewe, beloved daughter of the revered Captain Crewe. Sent to board at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, Sara is devastated when her adored father dies. Suddenly penniless, Sara is banished to an attic room where she is starved, abused, and forced to work as a servant. How this exceptionally intelligent girl uses the only resources available to her, imagination and friendship, to overcome her situation and change her fortunes is at the centre of this enduring classic.First published in 1905, `A Little Princess' is a heart-warming tale of hope, hardship and love set against a backdrop of Victorian England, and is one of the best-loved stories in all of children's literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Little Lord Fauntleroy (Collins Classics) Frances Hodgson Burnett (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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Imprint:
William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
03 May 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 224pp h178mm x w111mm x s14mm 120g ISBN13: 9780007449927 ISBN13: 978-0-00-744992-7 ISBN10: 0007449925 EAN: 9780007449927
x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Lord Dorincourt had occasion to wear his grim smile many a time as the days passed by. Indeed, as his acquaintance with his grandson progressed, he wore the smile so often that there were moments when it almost lost its grimness.' When young Cedric Errol's father dies, he becomes heir to the fortune of his English grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, and must move from working-class New York to England. Bad-tempered, cantankerous and bitter, the old man is slowly won over by the kind, generous and cheerful spirit of Cedric. When a plot arises to deprive Cedric of his inheritance and another pretender steps forward as heir, Cedric's friends in America become involved in order to thwart the challenger. Through Cedric's unconditional love and trust he teaches his grandfather to show compassion to those who are less fortunate than himself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Secret Garden (Collins Classics) Frances Hodgson Burnett (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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Imprint:
William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 288pp h178mm x w111mm x s18mm 160g ISBN13: 9780007351060 ISBN13: 978-0-00-735106-0 ISBN10: 0007351062 EAN: 9780007351060 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Where, you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.' Orphaned and sent to live with her uncle in his austere manor on the moors, Mary Lennox is a lonely and unhappy child. A meeting with Dickon, her servant's brother begins her adventure and it is through their friendship and her relationship with her troubled hypochondriac cousin Colin that she begins to learn about herself. Their lives all begin to change when a Robin shows Mary the door to a mysterious secret garden. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Iliad (Collins Classics) Homer (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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Imprint:
William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 720pp h178mm x w111mm x s45mm 390g ISBN13: 9780007902149 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790214-9 ISBN10: 000790214X EAN: 9780007902149 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.' The epic poem The Iliad begins nine years after the beginning of the Trojan War and describes the great warrior Achilles and the battles and events that take place as he quarrels with the King Agamemnon. Attributed to Homer, The Iliad, along with The Odyssey, is still revered today as the oldest and finest example of Western Literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Odyssey (Collins Classics) Homer (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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Imprint:
William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 416pp h178mm x w111mm x s26mm 230g ISBN13: 9780007420094 ISBN13: 978-0-00-742009-4 ISBN10: 0007420099 EAN: 9780007420094 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `Alas that mortalsShould blame the gods! From us, they say,All evils come. Yet they themselvesIt is who through defiant deedsBring sorrow on them-far more sorrowThan fate would have them bear.' Attributed to the blind Greek poet, Homer, The Odyssey is an epic tale about cunning and strength of mind. It takes its starting point ten years after the fall of the city of Troy and follows its Greek warrior hero Odysseus as he tries to journey to his home of Ithaca in northwest Greece after the Greek victory over the Trojans. On his travels, Odysseus comes across surreal islands and foreign lands where he is in turn challenged and supported by those that he meets on his travels as he attempts to find his way back home in order to vanquish those who threaten his estate. In turn, his son Telemachus has to grow up quickly as he attempts to find his father and protect his mother from her suitors. Dealing with the universal themes of temptation and courage, the epic journey that Odysseus undertakes is as meaningful today as it was almost 3,000 years ago when the story was composed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Troy: The epic battle as told in Homer's Iliad (Collins Classics) Homer (Author) Samuel Butler (Translated by) Series:
Collins Classics
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Imprint:
William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
19 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 384pp h178mm x w111mm x s24mm 210g ISBN13: 9780008299392 ISBN13: 978-0-00-829939-2 ISBN10: 0008299390 EAN: 9780008299392 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. When Paris falls in love with legendary beauty Helen of Troy, the devastating effects of their affair on their families and fellow citizens are unimaginable. Battle lines are drawn, alliances are forged, and as the Greeks and Trojans march into battle, the resilience and humanity of all will be tested. In his epic story of divine ego, human frailty, and the ravages of war, Homer created an unforgettable cast of characters, whose moral dilemmas and heroic deeds will stay with readers long past the final pages of this book. Samuel Butler's famous prose translation of Homer's original brings the epic to an entirely new generation of readers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Collins Classics) Victor Hugo (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 688pp h178mm x w111mm x s43mm 360g ISBN13: 9780007902132 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790213-2 ISBN10: 0007902131 EAN: 9780007902132
x Description: 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 whole being.' Set in medieval Paris, against the backdrop of the brooding Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Hugo's take on the classic story of Beauty and the Beast tells of the hunchbacked, grotesque bellringer, Quasimodo. Rejected by Parisian society because of his appearance, Quasimodo resides in NotreDame, harbouring a love for the only woman that pities him, a gypsy named Esmerelda. However, a sinister archdeacon also covets Esmerelda, and when his advances are spurned, he seeks to destroy her. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories (Collins Classics) Washington Irving (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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Imprint:
William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
13 Sep 2012
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 464pp h178mm x w111mm x s29mm 260g ISBN13: 9780007920662 ISBN13: 978-0-00-792066-2 ISBN10: 0007920660 EAN: 9780007920662 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There was a contagion in the very air that blew from that haunted region; it breathed forth an atmosphere of dreams and fancies infecting all the land.' Featuring 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle', this collection of inspired essays, stories and sketches established Washington Irving's reputation as one of America's foremost authors. Irving's timeless characters, including Ichabod Crane, Rip Van Winkle and the headless Hessian trooper, jostle for space alongside 31 equally atmospheric and lyrical works in this haunting anthology from one of America's most distinctive literary voices. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Portrait of a Lady (Collins Classics) Henry James (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 768pp h178mm x w111mm x s45mm 400g ISBN13: 9780007902286 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790228-6 ISBN10: 000790228X EAN: 9780007902286 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.' Isabel Archer is a beautiful, intelligent and independent young woman. Brought from America to England by her wealthy Aunt who seeks to further her education and find her niece a husband, Isabel is determined to shape her own future - one that does not necessarily entail becoming a wife. Isabel inherits a fortune when her rich uncle dies and feels even more inclined to turn down two eligible suitors on the basis that she is a woman of her own means. However, a trip to Italy heralds her downfall when she meets the charming Gilbert Osmond, a worthless, yet ambitious and scheming dilettante. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Turn of the Screw (Collins Classics) Henry James (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 192pp h178mm x w111mm x s12mm 100g ISBN13: 9780007420285 ISBN13: 978-0-00-742028-5 ISBN10: 0007420285 EAN: 9780007420285 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The place, with its grey sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theatre after the performance-all strewn with crumpled playbills.' Revered as one of the greatest ghost stories ever told, James's The Turn of the Screw is an eerie Victorian masterpiece. When an inexperienced governess goes to work at Bly, a country house in Essex to look after a young boy Miles and his sister Flora, all manner of strange events begin to occur. The governess spots a ghostly man and woman around the grounds and is told by the housekeeper that the valet and previous governess haunt the house. It soon becomes clear that the children are inexplicably connected to these ghosts in some way and the young governess struggles to protect the children, although from exactly what, she is not sure. Exploring the psychological and sexual fears of an era, this ambiguous, suspenseful and anxiety-inspiring novella remains one of Henry James's most well-known tales. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Three Men in a Boat (Collins Classics) Jerome K. Jerome (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
02 Jan 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 256pp h178mm x w111mm x s16mm 150g ISBN13: 9780007449439 ISBN13: 978-0-00-744943-9 ISBN10: 0007449437 EAN: 9780007449439 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `That's Harris all over - so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.' Three late-Victorian gentlemen, George, Harris and the writer himself as well as their fox terrier Montmorency take a trip in a boat along the River Thames to Oxford. What ensues is a hilarious journey through the English waterways full of anecdotes, and farcical incidents with Montmorency wreaking havoc along the way. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Collins Classics) James Joyce (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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02 Jan 2012
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 304pp h178mm x w111mm x s19mm 170g ISBN13: 9780007449392 ISBN13: 978-0-00-744939-2 ISBN10: 0007449399 EAN: 9780007449392 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience
of my race.' Autobiographical in tone, Joyce's tale of Stephen Dedalus' journey into adulthood explores the intellectual and moral development of an artist as he struggles to overcome the ingrained Catholic consciousness of his childhood - a family life governed by Irish history, religion and politics. Realistic and innovative in its approach, the style of writing proved controversial upon publication in 1916 and the character of Stephen on a quest for his identity did not appeal to readers.However, Joyce expertly encapsulates the development of individual consciousness and the role of the artist in society in what is considered one of his greatest works. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dubliners (Collins Classics) James Joyce (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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02 Jan 2012
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 256pp h178mm x w111mm x s16mm 150g ISBN13: 9780007449408 ISBN13: 978-0-00-744940-8 ISBN10: 0007449402 EAN: 9780007449408 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.' Revealing the truths and realities about Irish society in the early 20th century, Joyce's Dubliners challenged the prevailing image of Dublin at the time. A group portrait made up of 15 short stories about the inhabitants of Joyce's native city, he offers a subtle critique of his own town, imbuing the text with an underlying tone of tragedy. Through his various characters he displays the complicated relationships, hardships and mundane details of everyday life and the desire for escape - a yearning that so closely mirrored his own experiences. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Water Babies (Collins Classics) Charles Kingsley (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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02 Jan 2012
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 272pp h178mm x w111mm x s18mm 150g ISBN13: 9780007449460 ISBN13: 978-0-00-744946-0 ISBN10: 0007449461 EAN: 9780007449460 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'In fact, the fairies had turned him into a water-baby. A water-baby? You never heard of a water-baby. Perhaps not. That is the very reason why this story was written.' Poor Tom is an orphan, employed by the underhand Grimes as a chimney sweep. While cleaning a chimney one day, Tom becomes lost and appears in Ellie's bedroom. She mistakes him for a thief and he flees in fright, down to the edge of a stream where he falls asleep. In his dreamlike world, he becomes a water baby, swimming with the other water babies and discovering an aquatic playground full of strange and wonderful characters. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Just So Stories (Collins Classics) Rudyard Kipling (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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13 Sep 2012
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 176pp h178mm x w111mm x s12mm 100g ISBN13: 9780007920730 ISBN13: 978-0-00-792073-0 ISBN10: 0007920733 EAN: 9780007920730 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. How did the leopard get its spots? Why do the tides ebb and flow? How did the elephant get its trunk? And how was the alphabet made? Rudyard Kipling's classic collection of fables answers the great questions of animal- and humankind in a fun, eloquent and magical way - for children and adults alike. Kipling's beautifully imaginative answers echo the animal fables he heard during his childhood in India, paired with the folk tales he collected throughout his life. Kipling's enjoyment in playing with language, as well as his own delight in fatherhood, makes these stories a joy to read aloud, and children will request these tales as bedtime stories again and again. However, adults will also revel in Kipling's fanciful storytelling and gift for language, as every reading uncovers a new joke, subtext or fascinating embellishment. From the author of 'The Jungle Book' and 'Kim', 'Just So Stories' is the newest addition to the available canon of Kipling's work available in the handy format of Collins Classics! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Jungle Book (Collins Classics) Rudyard Kipling (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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01 Apr 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 224pp h178mm x w111mm x s14mm 130g ISBN13: 9780007350858 ISBN13: 978-0-00-735085-8 ISBN10: 0007350856 EAN: 9780007350858 x Description: 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 Book expertly interweaves myth, morals, adventure and powerful story-telling. Set in Central India, Mowgli is raised by a pack of wolves. Along the way he encounters memorable characters such as the foreboding tiger Shere Kahn, Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear. Including other stories such as that of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a heroic mongoose and Toomai, a young elephant handler, Kipling's fables remain as popular today as they ever were. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lady Chatterley's Lover (Collins Classics) D. H. Lawrence (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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09 May 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 416pp h178mm x w111mm x s26mm 230g ISBN13: 9780007925551 ISBN13: 978-0-00-792555-1 ISBN10: 0007925557 EAN: 9780007925551 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER was banned on its publication in 1928, creating a storm of controversy. Lawrence tells the story of Constance Chatterley's marriage to Sir Clifford, an aristocratic and an intellectual who is paralyzed from the waist down after the First World War. Desperate for an heir and embarrassed by his inability to satisfy his wife, Clifford suggests that she have an affair. Constance, troubled by her husband's words, finds
herself involved in a passionate relationship with their gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. Lawrence's vitriolic denunciations of industrialism and class division come together in his vivid depiction of the profound emotional and physical connection between a couple otherwise divided by station and society. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Phantom of the Opera (Collins Classics) Gaston Leroux (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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01 Jan 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 320pp h178mm x w111mm x s20mm 180g ISBN13: 9780007420278 ISBN13: 978-0-00-742027-8 ISBN10: 0007420277 EAN: 9780007420278 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Look! You want to see! See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's face! Now you know the face of the voice!' Living secretly beneath the Paris Opera House, 'The Phantom of the Opera', Erik has haunted those who work there with his demands and shrouded the opera house in fear with the legend of his disfigured face. When Christine joins the company, a young woman with a beautiful voice, Erik is instantly smitten and secretly teaches her to become a great singer. He soon develops an obsessive love for his beautiful protege, even though she has fallen for her childhood friend, resulting in her disappearance during a performance and sparking a tragic and terrifying chain of events. One of the most well-known and well-loved gothic horror stories, Leroux's suspenseful tale of unrequited love, passion and tragedy is both dark and moving in its portrayal of Erik, the anti-hero in his yearning for Christine. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Call of the Wild (Collins Classics) Jack London (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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01 Jan 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 144pp h178mm x w111mm x s9mm 90g ISBN13: 9780007420230 ISBN13: 978-0-00-742023-0 ISBN10: 0007420234 EAN: 9780007420230 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and . . . he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire, and to plunge into the forest.' Half St. Bernard, half sheepdog, Buck is stolen away from his comfortable life as a pet in California and sold to dog traders. He soon finds himself aboard a ship, on its way to Northern Canada. Surrounded by cruelty, Buck's natural instincts and behaviour begin to emerge as he works as a mail carrying sled dog, scavenging for food, protecting himself against other dogs and sleeping out in the cold snow. Sold to a group of American gold hunters who are inexperienced living in the wilderness, the dogs are treated badly and as misfortune besets them, Buck is saved by John Thornton. Indebted to his new master, Buck remains by Thornton's side, saving him from drowning and protecting him with fierce loyalty throughout their time together. However, Buck can not deny the strong lure of the wilderness around him. Exciting and action-packed, Call of the Wild explores the timeless relationship between man and dog, and the inevitable draw of primitive instincts that pull Buck away from civilization and humanity towards the lawless and harsh wilderness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
White Fang (Collins Classics) Jack London (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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25 Aug 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 272pp h178mm x w111mm x s17mm 160g ISBN13: 9780007558124 ISBN13: 978-0-00-755812-4 ISBN10: 0007558120 EAN: 9780007558124 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on...' Set in the frozen forests of the Yukon Territory, Canada, during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s, 'White Fang' tells the story of a young wolfdog's journey from the wild into human territory. As White Fang learns that civilisation is every bit as vicious and violent as nature - and that survival is only awarded to the fittest - we too see how instinct, sensation and emotion drive every one of us. Published in 1906 to wide and instant acclaim, this is a remarkable and moving look at the timeless relationship between man and dog. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Selected Stories (Collins Classics) H. P. Lovecraft (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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22 Jan 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 256pp h178mm x w111mm x s19mm 170g ISBN13: 9780008284954 ISBN13: 978-0-00-828495-4 ISBN10: 0008284954 EAN: 9780008284954 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. "I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more." This selection of works showcases the best-known, most chilling stories of H. P. Lovecraft, including Dagon, The Call of Cthulhu, The Thing on the Doorstep and Herbert West - Reanimator. They feature such deadly horrors as terrifying sea-creatures, menaces from outer space, evilworshipping cults and unexpected murder by familiar hands. There is no place so frightful that Lovecraft did not venture there, and these tales will leave the imagination reeling, yet dare you to turn the page... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Prince (Collins Classics) Niccolo Machiavelli (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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01 Jan 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 160pp h178mm x w111mm x s10mm 90g ISBN13: 9780007420070 ISBN13: 978-0-00-742007-0 ISBN10: 0007420072 EAN: 9780007420070 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `We have declared before that it is not only expedient but necessary for a prince to take care his foundations be good, otherwise his fabric will be sure to fail.' Considered one of the first works of modern philosophy, Machiavelli's The Prince is an intense study on the nature of power and the course it should take when ruling a country and expresses the author's strong and unyielding ideals and beliefs on using force rather than law to achieve your aims. Responsible for the widely-used phrase `Machiavellian', with all of its negative connotations, his extreme treatise remains a classic text to this
day. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Moby Dick (Collins Classics) Herman Melville (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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09 May 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 640pp h178mm x w111mm x s39mm 340g ISBN13: 9780007925568 ISBN13: 978-0-00-792556-8 ISBN10: 0007925565 EAN: 9780007925568 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. `Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee...' Few literary masterpieces cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Captain Ahab's quest for the white whale is a timeless epic - a thrilling tale of vengeance and obsession, and a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. Inspired by true events, Moby Dick is a work of astonishing psychological depth. It is perhaps the greatest sea story ever told and one of the great classics of literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (Collins Classics) John Milton (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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01 Oct 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 416pp h178mm x w111mm x s26mm 230g ISBN13: 9780007902101 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790210-1 ISBN10: 0007902107 EAN: 9780007902101 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Greedily she engorged without restraint,And knew not eating death;' Milton's Paradise Lost is a poem of epic proportions that tells of Satan's attempts to mislead Eve into disobeying God in the Garden of Eden, by eating from the tree of knowledge. His interpretation of the biblical story of Genesis is vivid and intense in its language, justifying the actions of God to men. In his sequel poem, Paradise Regained, Milton shows Satan trying to seduce Jesus in a similar way to Eve, but ultimately failing as Jesus remains steadfast. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Anne of Green Gables (Collins Classics) Lucy Maud Montgomery (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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12 Sep 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 368pp h178mm x w111mm x s23mm 200g ISBN13: 9780007925391 ISBN13: 978-0-00-792539-1 ISBN10: 0007925395 EAN: 9780007925391 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are expecting a young orphan boy to help them with farmwork at Green Gables. But when a skinny, red-haired girl
turns up instead, immediately certain she's home, they get much more than they bargained for. Spirited, adventurous and imaginative, Anne Shirley quickly charms her way into the hearts of the Cuthberts, the entire town of Avonlea and, over 100 years later, the hearts of generations of readers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story (Collins Classics) Solomon Northup (Author) Series:
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06 Feb 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 304pp h178mm x w111mm x s19mm 140g ISBN13: 9780007580422 ISBN13: 978-0-00-758042-2 ISBN10: 0007580428 EAN: 9780007580422 x Description: The shocking first-hand account of one man's remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion picture. `Why had I not died in my young years - before God had given me children to love and live for? What unhappiness and suffering and sorrow it would have prevented. I sighed for liberty; but the bondsman's chain was round me, and could not be shaken off.' 1841: Solomon Northup is a successful violinist when he is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Taken from his family in New York State - with no hope of ever seeing them again - and forced to work on the cotton plantations in the Deep South, he spends the next twelve years in captivity until his eventual escape in 1853. First published in 1853, this extraordinary true story proved to be a powerful voice in the debate over slavery in the years leading up to the Civil War. It is a true-life testament of one man's courage and conviction in the face of unfathomable injustice and brutality: its influence on the course of American history cannot be overstated. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Collins Classics) Baroness Orczy (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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Pub Date:
08 Mar 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 336pp h178mm x w111mm x s21mm 180g ISBN13: 9780008278762 ISBN13: 978-0-00-827876-2 ISBN10: 0008278768 EAN: 9780008278762 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. "Vaguely she began to wonder ... which of these worldly men round her was the mysterious 'Scarlet Pimpernel,' who held the threads of such daring plots, and the fate of valuable lives in his hands." In the early days of the bloody French Revolution, fleeing aristocrats are being captured and sent to the guillotine. But the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel - along with his band of English gentlemen - is outwitting the revolutionaries. Known only by his calling card, he arrives in disguise and smuggles the nobles out of danger to the safety of England. But can he guard his true identity forever, or will he give his life for his cause? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Collins Classics) Edgar Allan Poe (Author) Series:
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01 Jan 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 512pp h178mm x w111mm x s32mm 280g ISBN13: 9780007420223 ISBN13: 978-0-00-742022-3 ISBN10: 0007420226 EAN: 9780007420223 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which gives direction to the character of Man.' Including Poe's most terrifying, grotesque and haunting short stories, Tales of Mystery and Imagination is the ultimate collection of the infamous author's macabre works. Considered to be one of the earliest American writers to encapsulate the genre of detective-fiction, the collection features some of his most popular tales.`The Gold-Bug' is the only tale that was popular in his lifetime, whereas `The Black Cat', `The Pit and the Pendulum' and `The Murders in the Rue Morgue' became more widely read after his death. Focussing on the internal conflict of individuals, the power of the dead over the living, and psychological explorations of darker human emotion that appear to anticipate Sigmund Freud's later theories on the psyche, Poe's Gothic terror stories are considered masterpieces the world over. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pollyanna (Collins Classics) Eleanor H. Porter (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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Pub Date:
15 Jun 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 304pp h178mm x w111mm x s14mm 120g ISBN13: 9780008242138 ISBN13: 978-0-00-824213-8 ISBN10: 0008242135 EAN: 9780008242138 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'When you look for the bad, expecting it, you will get it. When you know you will find the good-you will get that' When life feels difficult, Pollyanna has learned to play "The Glad Game". In any situation, no matter how dire it may seem, she challenges herself to find the silver-lining. However, orphaned at a young age and forced to live with her hard-hearted Aunt Polly, Pollyanna has had a lot of opportunities to practice. With her infectious cheer, she is soon convincing some of the town's most troubled residents to rediscover the things they're glad about, until even her sunny disposition is tested. A classic of the Golden Age of Children's Literature, Pollyanna has become a synonym for optimism, and inspired countless readers to find hope in the hardest of situations. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
King Solomon's Mines (Collins Classics) Henry Rider Haggard (Author) Series:
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01 Apr 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 288pp h178mm x w111mm x s19mm 150g ISBN13: 9780007350902 ISBN13: 978-0-00-735090-2 ISBN10: 0007350902 EAN: 9780007350902
x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere; for a moment our wings are seen in the light of the fire, and, lo! we are gone again into the Nowhere.'An amazing adventure set in Africa, against the backdrop of endless deserts and snowy mountains, Kings Solomon's Mines follows Allan Quartermain, in his quest to find his missing brother and unearth the fabled treasure of the biblical King's mines. Along the way, Allan and his companions are caught up in a tribal war and face fearful hardships, culminating in a final confrontation with the evil witch Gagool. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Last Tycoon (Collins Classics) F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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08 May 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 192pp h178mm x w111mm x s12mm 110g ISBN13: 9780007574902 ISBN13: 978-0-00-757490-2 ISBN10: 0007574908 EAN: 9780007574902 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.' The lights of Hollywood do little to distract Cecelia as she watches Monroe Stahr, wunderkind studio executive and object of her desire, descend into a reckless and ardent love affair with an auspicious starlet - an affair that threatens to destroy his reign as the Silver Screen's golden boy. In this tragic tale Fitzgerald exposes the corruption, sex and towering ambition at the dark heart of 1930s Hollywood. Unfinished at the time of his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald bids his own poignant farewell to the themes that inspired `The Great Gatsby', `Tender is the Night' and `The Beautiful and Damned'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Black Beauty (Collins Classics) Anna Sewell (Author) Series:
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01 Apr 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 272pp h178mm x w111mm x s17mm 150g ISBN13: 9780007350971 ISBN13: 978-0-00-735097-1 ISBN10: 000735097X EAN: 9780007350971 x Description: 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 they do not suffer less because they have no words.' When his beloved owners are forced to sell him, Black Beauty leaves his life as a young, care-free colt behind him and embarks on a working life of misery. Cruelly treated by his new masters, Anna Sewell rails against animal mistreatment in this poignant tale of a horse whose spirit can not be broken. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Collins Classics) William Shakespeare (Author) Series:
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15 Sep 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 256pp h178mm x w111mm x s16mm 130g ISBN13: 9780007902378 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790237-8 ISBN10: 0007902379 EAN: 9780007902378 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'My Oberon! what visions have I seen!Methought I was enamoured of an ass.' When four young lovers flee from Athens and become lost in an enchanted wood, they stumble into a fairy world where King Oberon, and Queen Titania, are feuding over ownership of a young Indian prince. Seeking his revenge on Titania, Oberon and his servant Puck begin a magical, yet farcical chain of events where all become interwoven in a comedic and mischievous play about the difficulties of love. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
As You Like It (Collins Classics) William Shakespeare (Author) Series:
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15 Sep 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 160pp h178mm x w111mm x s10mm 90g ISBN13: 9780007902392 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790239-2 ISBN10: 0007902395 EAN: 9780007902392 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players.' Featuring Rosalind, one of Shakespeare's most likeable and strong female protagonists, As You Like It is a comedic play centred around concealed identity, love, exile and artifice. Banished from the court by her uncle, Rosalind flees to the forest with her cousin Celia and her jester, joining her already exiled father, and disguising herself as a boy. In the guise of a young man, she instructs her would-be lover Orlando in the ways of love and in doing so allows Shakespeare to explore the dynamics of the city and the country as well as the sexual politics of the time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Henry IV, Part I & Part II (Collins Classics) William Shakespeare (Author) Series:
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15 Sep 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 304pp h178mm x w111mm x s19mm 170g ISBN13: 9780007902309 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790230-9 ISBN10: 0007902301 EAN: 9780007902309 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`The better part of valour is discretion.'King Henry IV's son, Prince Harry is quick-witted yet idle and irresponsible and lives a roguish existence keeping dubious company. However, when the kingdom is threatened, Prince Harry shows his true worth and heroism and begins a journey of transformation from layabout to noble leader. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Julius Caesar (Collins Classics) William Shakespeare (Author) Series:
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12 Sep 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 160pp h178mm x w111mm x s10mm 90g ISBN13: 9780007925469 ISBN13: 978-0-00-792546-9 ISBN10: 0007925468 EAN: 9780007925469 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Power, corruption and betrayal are at the heart of Shakespeare's most well-known historical and political drama. As Julius Caesar moves closer to securing power for himself and is perceived by some as a threat to Roman citizens, his senators plot to bring about his downfall. Caesar's assassination leads to civil war rather than peace and the play explores the subsequent deaths of the conspirators Brutus and Cassius. Shakespeare's contemporaries would have spotted the playwright's attempts to use the shift from republican to imperial Rome to highlight the political situation of the Elizabethans at the time. Featuring some of the most powerfully resonant and rousing speeches of any of Shakespeare's plays, Julius Caesar remains one of his most well-loved historical tragedies. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Macbeth (Collins Classics) William Shakespeare (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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01 Apr 2010
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Much Ado About Nothing (Collins Classics) William Shakespeare (Author) Series:
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15 Sep 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 288pp h178mm x w111mm x s18mm 120g ISBN13: 9780007902415 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790241-5 ISBN10: 0007902417 EAN: 9780007902415 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.'One of Shakespeare's most witty and enjoyable comedies, Much Ado About Nothing is a play that explores courtship, romance and marriage through a number of relationships. Most famously, that of the irrepressible Beatrice and Benedick as they trade their wits against one another, criticising the notion of marriage, yet slowly falling in love with one another as they do so. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Romeo and Juliet (Collins Classics) William Shakespeare (Author) Series:
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15 Sep 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 320pp h178mm x w111mm x s20mm 170g ISBN13: 9780007902361 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790236-1 ISBN10: 0007902360 EAN: 9780007902361 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.' Arguably the greatest love story ever told, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet continues to touch modern audiences with its passionate depiction of the tragic romance between two young lovers. With a bitter feud between their respective families, Romeo and Juliet's love is troubled from the start, and through their relationship, Shakespeare shows the fine line between love, hatred, comedy and tragedy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Merchant of Venice (Collins Classics) William Shakespeare (Author) Series:
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12 Sep 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 160pp h178mm x w111mm x s12mm 90g ISBN13: 9780007925476 ISBN13: 978-0-00-792547-6 ISBN10: 0007925476 EAN: 9780007925476 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The quality of mercy is not strain'd,It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven' Bassiano, a noble Venetian, hopes to woo the beautiful heiress Portia. However, he requires financial assistance from his friend Antonio. Antonio agrees, but he, in turn, must borrow from the Jewish moneylender Shylock. As recourse for past ills, Shylock stipulates that the forfeit on the loan must be a pound of Antonio's flesh. In the most renowned onstage law scene of all time, Portia proves herself one of Shakespeare's most cunning heroines, disguising herself as a lawyer and vanquishing Shylock's claims; meanwhile, Shylock triumphs on a humanitarian level with his plea for tolerance: `Hath not a Jew eyes?' Viewed paradoxically as anti-Semitic, while at the same time powerfully liberal for its time, The Merchant of Venice is at its core a bittersweet drama, exploring the noble themes of prejudice, justice and honour. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Taming of the Shrew (Collins Classics) William Shakespeare (Author) Series:
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12 Sep 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 160pp h178mm x w111mm x s10mm 100g ISBN13: 9780007934430 ISBN13: 978-0-00-793443-0 ISBN10: 0007934432 EAN: 9780007934430 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Bianca is beautiful and demure, with a plethora of wood-be suitors, but marriage is forbidden until her older sister Katherina finds a suitable match. The hitch? Fiery Katherina has sworn to deny the hand or demands of any would-be suitor. That is, until she meets her match in the wily Petrucio. As Katherina's own sharp tongue is met by Petrucio's feigned cruelty, the `shrew' apparently capitulates. Or does she? This controversial comic tale, famously adapted into Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate and 10 Things I Hate About You, has divided and amused
audiences for over 400 years in an unforgettable battle of wits. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Tempest (Collins Classics) William Shakespeare (Author) Series:
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15 Sep 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 240pp h178mm x w111mm x s15mm 130g ISBN13: 9780007902354 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790235-4 ISBN10: 0007902352 EAN: 9780007902354 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We are such stuffAs dreams are made on; and our little lifeIs rounded with a sleep.' Magical and dreamlike in its tone, Shakespeare's The Tempest begins with a storm of epic proportions and a shipwreck. Banished from Italy, Prospero lives on a remote island with his daughter. Using his magic, he vows to seek revenge on the injustice dealt to him by his brother, but in doing so, Shakespeare questions the difficulty of distinguishing 'men' from 'monsters', and the realities of justice. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Winter's Tale (Collins Classics) William Shakespeare (Author) Series:
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12 Sep 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 176pp h178mm x w111mm x s11mm 100g ISBN13: 9780007925483 ISBN13: 978-0-00-792548-3 ISBN10: 0007925484 EAN: 9780007925483 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Considered one of Shakespeare's most haunting tragic-comedies, The Winter's Tale is an in-depth analysis of the psychology of family and friendship, jealousy and love, art and nature, all illustrated in rich poetry.Based on Robert Greene's story Pandosto, the play tells the story of Leontes, king of Sicilia, and his childhood friend, Polixenes, king of Bohemia. In a jealous rage, Leontes mistakenly accuses Polixenes and his own his wife, Hermione, of adultery and her newborn daughter as illegitimate, casting her into the wilderness, causing their son to die of grief and Hermione to seemingly follow suit. With his family dead or believed dead, Leontes must face the tragic consequences of his actions. With unbridled honesty and the pain of love, the final act is one of Shakespeare's most moving reconciliation scenes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Twelfth Night (Collins Classics) William Shakespeare (Author) Series:
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15 Sep 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 288pp h178mm x w111mm x s19mm 160g ISBN13: 9780007902385 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790238-5 ISBN10: 0007902387 EAN: 9780007902385 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `If music be the food of love, play on;Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.' A comedic romance of mistaken identity, Twelfth Night begins with a shipwreck, splitting up Viola and her twin brother, Sebastian. Alone in a strange land, Viola disguises herself as a male servant, Cesario, in order to work for the Duke Orsino. Orsino is in love with Lady Olivia, but it is
Cesario that Olivia falls for. A farcical tale of misplaced love, confusion, gender-swapping and aspiration, Twelfth Night remains one of Shakespeare's best-loved and inventive comedies. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
King Lear (Collins Classics) William Shakespeare (Author) Peter Alexander (Edited by) Maria Cairney (Edited by) Series:
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15 Sep 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 208pp h178mm x w111mm x s13mm 110g ISBN13: 9780007902330 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790233-0 ISBN10: 0007902336 EAN: 9780007902330 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!' Epic and tragic in its scope, King Lear explores a king's demise into madness and insanity when he is betrayed by two of his manipulative and scheming daughters. It is Cordelia, the third and only daughter who refuses to flatter her father to deceive, who is banished from the kingdom, leading to dramatic and tumultuous events. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hamlet (Collins Classics) William Shakespeare (Author) Peter Alexander (Edited by) Lucy Toop (Introduction and notes by) Series:
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15 Sep 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 208pp h178mm x w111mm x s13mm 90g ISBN13: 9780007902347 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790234-7 ISBN10: 0007902344 EAN: 9780007902347 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.' Considered one of Shakespeare's most rich and enduring plays, the depiction of its hero Hamlet as he vows to avenge the murder of his father by his brother Claudius is both powerful and complex. As Hamlet tries to find out the truth of the situation, his troubled relationship with his mother comes to the fore, as do the paradoxes in his personality. A play of carefully crafted conflict and tragedy, Shakespeare's intricate dialogue continues to fascinate audiences to this day. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Othello (Collins Classics) William Shakespeare (Author) Gareth Calway (Introduction and notes by) Peter Alexander (Edited by) Series:
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15 Sep 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 192pp h178mm x w111mm x s13mm 110g ISBN13: 9780007902408 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790240-8 ISBN10: 0007902409 EAN: 9780007902408
x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!It is the green-eyed monster which doth mockThe meat it feeds on.' Dramatic and powerful in its scope, Othello explores the perils of suspicion and jealousy and the ensuing breakdown of relationships and disaster that can arise from such emotions. Othello, a revered soldier, secretly marries Desdemona, the daughter of a Venetian senator, but is led to believe that she has been unfaithful to him by his ensign, Iago, leading to tragic events. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Frankenstein (Collins Classics) Mary Shelley (Author) Series:
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01 Apr 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 240pp h178mm x w111mm x s15mm 130g ISBN13: 9780007350964 ISBN13: 978-0-00-735096-4 ISBN10: 0007350961 EAN: 9780007350964 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open...' Victor Frankenstein's monster is stitched together from the limbs of the dead, taken from 'the dissecting room and the slaughter-house'. The result is a grotesque being who, rejected by his maker and starved of human companionship, sets out on a journey to seek his revenge. In the most famous gothic horror story ever told, Shelley confronts the limitations of science, the nature of human cruelty and the pathway to forgiveness. Begun when Mary Shelley was only eighteen years old and published two years later, this chilling tale of a young scientist's desire to create life and the consequences of that creation - still resonate today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Three Lives (Collins Classics) Gertrude Stein (Author) Series:
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15 Jun 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 304pp h178mm x w111mm x s25mm 160g ISBN13: 9780008242114 ISBN13: 978-0-00-824211-4 ISBN10: 0008242119 EAN: 9780008242114 x Description: 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 in trouble.' In Bridgepoint, USA, people get trapped into lives they didn't choose, without means of escape: Anna, a sweet but intimidating German housemaid; Melanctha, a troubled young woman whose passion threatens to tear her apart; and Lena, a timid girl bullied into work and marriage. In this ground-breaking collection, Stein depicts the interior lives of these women, struggling to find happiness in an unkind world. Gertrude Stein was a pioneering figurehead of Modernism, and a mentor to writers like Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written in 1909, Three Lives captures the artistic styles of Picasso, Cezanne and Matisse, and uses them to create heart-breaking portraits of working-class women. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Kidnapped (Collins Classics) Robert Louis Stevenson (Author) Series:
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01 Jan 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 288pp h178mm x w111mm x s18mm 160g ISBN13: 9780007420131 ISBN13: 978-0-00-742013-1 ISBN10: 0007420137 EAN: 9780007420131 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.'Orphaned as a young teenager, Lowlander David Balfour's only relative is his guardian and uncle, Ebenezer. Ill-thought of and disliked by many, it's not long before Ebenezer betrays his nephew and David finds himself trapped aboard a ship.He soon strikes up a friendship with fugitive stranger and Scottish Highlander Alan Breck and becomes embroiled in the fierce Jacobite struggle against English rule. A tale of high-seas adventure, loyalty and fighting, the complex relationship between Alan and David stops Stevenson's novel from becoming `just' a boys adventure novel. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Collins Classics) Robert Louis Stevenson (Author) Series:
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01 Apr 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 128pp h178mm x w111mm x s8mm 80g ISBN13: 9780007351008 ISBN13: 978-0-00-735100-8 ISBN10: 0007351003 EAN: 9780007351008 x Description: 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 created in his laboratory, mild mannered Dr Jekyll is transformed into the cruel and despicable Mr Hyde. Although seemingly harmless at first, things soon descend into chaos and Jekyll quickly realises there is only one way to stop Hyde. Stevenson's quintessential novella of the Victorian era epitomizes the conflict between psychology, science and religious morality, but is fundamentally a triumphant study of the duality of human nature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Treasure Island (Collins Classics) Robert Louis Stevenson (Author) Series:
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01 Apr 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 272pp h178mm x w111mm x s17mm 150g ISBN13: 9780007351015 ISBN13: 978-0-00-735101-5 ISBN10: 0007351011 EAN: 9780007351015 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest -Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!' Upon finding a map in his parents' inn, young Jim Hawkins joins a crew on route to the Caribbean to find buried treasure. One of his crew, the charming, yet devious Long John Silver is determined to snag the booty for himself and Jim's swashbuckling voyage becomes a mutinous and murderous adventure - where his own bravery is put to the test and he discovers much about friendship, loyalty and betrayal.
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Dracula (Collins Classics) Bram Stoker (Author) Series:
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01 Jan 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 496pp h178mm x w111mm x s31mm 270g ISBN13: 9780007420087 ISBN13: 978-0-00-742008-7 ISBN10: 0007420080 EAN: 9780007420087 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.' Earnest and naive solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to organise the estate of the infamous Count Dracula at his crumbling castle in the ominous Carpathian Mountains. Through notes and diary entries, Harker keeps track of the horrors and terrors that beset him at the castle, telling his fiance Mina of the Count's supernatural powers and his own imprisonment. Although Harker eventually manages to escape and reunite with Mina, his experiences have led to a mental breakdown of sorts. Meanwhile in England, Mina's friend Lucy has been bitten and begins to turn into a vampire. With the help of Professor Van Helsing, a previous suitor of Lucy's, Seward, and Lucy's fiance Holmwood attempt to thwart Count Dracula and his attempts on Lucy and consequently Mina's life. Arguably the most enduring Gothic novel of the 19th Century, Bram Stoker's Dracula is as chilling today in its depiction of the vampire world and its exploration of Victorian values as it was at its time of publication. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lair of the White Worm (Collins Classics) Bram Stoker (Author) Series:
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15 Jan 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 224pp h178mm x w111mm x s14mm 130g ISBN13: 9780008110505 ISBN13: 978-0-00-811050-5 ISBN10: 0008110506 EAN: 9780008110505 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.`But it was not only the heart-rending sound that almost paralysed poor Mimi with terror. What she saw was sufficient to fill her with evil dreams for the remainder of her life...'At the estate of Castra Regis in Derbyshire, mystery lurks in the woods, a place where snakes dwell and murderous deeds take place in the darkness. The behaviour of local residents Arabella March and Edgar Caswall further arouse the suspicions of Adam Salton, recently arrived at the invite of his great-uncle. Determined to quell the supernatural malevolence in his midst, Adam embarks on a quest to uncover evil and restore harmony.The final novel from the author of `Dracula', `The Lair of the White Worm' is a lesser-known but well-loved classic from the master of gothic horror. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gulliver's Travels (Collins Classics) Jonathan Swift (Author) Series:
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01 Apr 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 336pp h178mm x w111mm x s21mm 190g ISBN13: 9780007351022 ISBN13: 978-0-00-735102-2 ISBN10: 000735102X EAN: 9780007351022 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the
surface of the earth.' Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver finds himself washed up on the strange island of Lilliput, a land inhabited by quarrelsome miniature people. On his travels he continues to meet others who force him to reflect on human behaviour - the giants of Brobdingnag, the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos. In this scathing satire on the politics and morals of the 18th Century, Swift's condemnation of society and its institutions still resonates today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Selected Short Stories (Collins Classics) Rabindranath Tagore (Author) Series:
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09 May 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 176pp h178mm x w111mm x s11mm 90g ISBN13: 9780007925582 ISBN13: 978-0-00-792558-2 ISBN10: 0007925581 EAN: 9780007925582 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he remains one of the most important voices of Bengali culture to this day. These short stories, written mostly in the 1890s, vividly portray Bengali life and culture. Tagore's treatment of caste culture, bureaucracy and poverty paint a vivid portrait of nineteenth-century India, and all are interwoven with Tagore's perceptive eye for detail, strong sense of humanity and deep affinity for the natural world. Tagore's stories continue to rise above geographic and cultural boundaries to capture the imaginations of readers around the world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Vanity Fair (Collins Classics) William Makepeace Thackeray (Author) Series:
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01 Oct 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 960pp h178mm x w111mm x s61mm 500g ISBN13: 9780007902170 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790217-0 ISBN10: 0007902174 EAN: 9780007902170 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts...' Self-serving social climber and anti-heroine Becky Sharp will do anything to raise her status and attain wealth and standing with smart Society. Clever, lively and resourceful, orphan Becky is the the total opposite of her naive and sentimental schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a pampered, yet goodnatured girl from a wealthy family. As both women build lives for themselves in London, Thackeray decadently satirises the corruption and flaws of 19th-Century English Society. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Walden and Civil Disobedience (Collins Classics) Henry David Thoreau (Author) Series:
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26 Jul 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 432pp h178mm x w111mm x s24mm 210g ISBN13: 9780007925292 ISBN13: 978-0-00-792529-2 ISBN10: 0007925298 EAN: 9780007925292
x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. "- Henry David Thoreau, Walden _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Art of War (Collins Classics) Sun Tzu (Author) Series:
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01 Jan 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 112pp h178mm x w111mm x s7mm 70g ISBN13: 9780007420124 ISBN13: 978-0-00-742012-4 ISBN10: 0007420129 EAN: 9780007420124 x Description: 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 is a Chinese military treatise that is still revered today as the ultimate commentary on war and military strategy. Focussing on the principle that one can outsmart your foe mentally by thinking very carefully about strategy before resorting to physical battle, this philosophy continues to be applied to the corporate and business world. Sun Tzu's timeless appraisal of the different aspects of warfare are laid out in 13 chapters, including sections on `Laying Plans', `Waging War' and `Terrain'. Words that are as resonant today in every aspect of our lives as they were when he wrote them. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (Collins Classics) Mark Twain (Author) Series:
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01 Apr 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 320pp h178mm x w111mm x s20mm 180g ISBN13: 9780007351039 ISBN13: 978-0-00-735103-9 ISBN10: 0007351038 EAN: 9780007351039 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.' Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking independence and freedom. On his travels, Huck meets an escaped slave, Jim, who is a wanted man, and together they journey down the Mississippi River. Raising the timeless and universal l issues of prejudice, bravery and hope, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was and still is considered the great American novel. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Collins Classics) Mark Twain (Author) Series:
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01 Jan 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 288pp h178mm x w111mm x s18mm 160g ISBN13: 9780007420117 ISBN13: 978-0-00-742011-7 ISBN10: 0007420110 EAN: 9780007420117 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.' An idyllic snapshot of a boy's childhood along the banks of the Mississippi River, Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the author's work that comes closest to his boyhood experiences of growing up in Hannibal in the 1840s. Mischievous and full of energy, Tom enjoys childish pranks and pastimes with his friends, Huck Finn, the town outcast and Joe Harper, his best friend. However, at the town graveyard, Huck and Tom witness a murder, carried out by local vagabond Injun Joe. They vow never to tell a soul about what they have seen and so begins their journey into adulthood as Tom wrestles with his own morality, guilt and anxiety. A 'coming of age' tale, it is through Tom's adventures and relationships with others that he becomes more responsible and more aware of his own inner conflict. Through the central characters of Tom and Huck, Twain satirises the moral rigidity of society and adult hypocrisy, whilst at the same time giving a nostalgic portrayal of a young boy's journey into adulthood. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Prince and the Pauper (Collins Classics) Mark Twain (Author) Series:
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01 Jan 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 272pp h178mm x w111mm x s17mm 150g ISBN13: 9780007420063 ISBN13: 978-0-00-742006-3 ISBN10: 0007420064 EAN: 9780007420063 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart.' Set in 16th-Century England and following the lives of two young boys, The Prince and the Pauper is a classic and timeless tale. Tom Canty, the lowly pauper is almost identical in appearance to Edward Tudor, a prince. Unbeknownst to those around them, the boys strike up an unlikely friendship and soon realise that with their similar looks they could easily pass for one another. When the Prince's father dies, some of the more underhand court officials persuade the pauper to act as the Prince in order to reap the benefits of the `mistake' and there follows a tale of friendship and growing up in one of Mark Twain's most infamous works. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Men Like Gods (Collins Classics) H. G. Wells (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
17 Sep 2020
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 256pp h178mm x w111mm x s19mm 170g Contains 1 Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9780008403485 ISBN13: 978-0-00-840348-5 ISBN10: 0008403481 EAN: 9780008403485 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Welcome to Utopia. When Mr. Barnstaple, an Earthling, is accidentally transported to Utopia with a group of others, he begins an adventure that will change how he views the world forever. Utopia has no government. Utopia has no religion. People are governed only by their own conscience and desires, and Barnstaple is drawn into what he sees as a perfect society. But when a disease brought by the Earthlings threatens the existence of the Utopians, Barnstaple must make a choice: take over Utopia, or betray his own people to save a world he has grown to admire... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Invisible Man (Collins Classics) H. G. Wells (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
26 Jan 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 208pp h178mm x w111mm x s13mm 120g ISBN13: 9780008190071 ISBN13: 978-0-00-819007-1 ISBN10: 0008190070 EAN: 9780008190071 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. "I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man - the mystery, the power, the freedom." Griffin, a stranger, arrives at the local inn of an English village, entirely shrouded in bandages. Forbidding and unfriendly, he confines himself to his room. Driven away by the villagers and turning to an old friend for help, Griffin reveals that he has discovered how to make himself invisible, and plans to use his condition for treacherous ends. But when his friend refuses to join his quest, Griffin turns murderous, threatening to seek revenge on all who have betrayed him. H. G. Wells' controversial works are considered modern classics of the science fiction genre. Originally serialised in 1897, The Invisible Man is a fascinating exploration of power, corruption and science. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Island of Doctor Moreau (Collins Classics) H. G. Wells (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
26 Jan 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 192pp h178mm x w111mm x s12mm 110g ISBN13: 9780008190057 ISBN13: 978-0-00-819005-7 ISBN10: 0008190054 EAN: 9780008190057 x Description: 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 a vague uncertainty of their
possibilities far worse than any definite fear." Edward Prendick, the sole survivor of a shipwreck in the South Pacific, is set ashore on an island where he meets the mysterious Doctor Moreau. Horrified by the discovery that Moreau is performing vivisection on animals to form monstrous human hybrids, Prendick flees into the jungle. But he soon realises that the island is populated with Moreau's terrible creations, and not all are divested of their savage habits . . . H. G. Wells pioneered ideas of society, science and progress in his works, which are now considered modern classics. Written in 1896, The Island of Doctor Moreau is an imaginative exploration of the nature of cruelty and what it means to be human. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Time Machine (Collins Classics) H. G. Wells (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
26 Jan 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 144pp h178mm x w111mm x s9mm 80g ISBN13: 9780008190033 ISBN13: 978-0-00-819003-3 ISBN10: 0008190038 EAN: 9780008190033 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. "In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back . . . You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked - those pale chinless faces and great, lidless, pinkish-grey eyes!" An English scientist regales his dinner guests with the tale of his travels to the year 802,701, where he discovers that the human race has evolved into two distinct societies. The Eloi, elegant and peaceful, yet lacking spirit, are terrorised by the sinister, light-fearing Morlocks, who live underground, surrounded by industry. And when his time machine mysteriously vanishes, the scientist must descend to the realm of the Morlocks in order to find his only hope of escape . . . H. G. Wells is considered a founding father of modern science fiction, coining the term 'time machine' and popularising the idea of time travel in literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The War of the Worlds (Collins Classics) H. G. Wells (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
26 Jan 2017
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 240pp h178mm x w111mm x s15mm 130g ISBN13: 9780008190019 ISBN13: 978-0-00-819001-9 ISBN10: 0008190011 EAN: 9780008190019 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. "For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive." When a strange, meteor-like object lands in the heart of England, the inhabitants of Earth find themselves victims of a terrible attack. A ruthless race of Martians, armed with heat rays and poisonous smoke, is intent on destroying everything that stands in its way. As the unnamed hero struggles to find his way across decimated wastelands, the fate of the planet hangs in the balance . . . H. G. Wells was a pioneer of modern science fiction. First serialised in the UK in 1897, The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories to depict conflict with an extraterrestrial race, and has influenced countless adaptations and sequels. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Collins Classics) Jules Verne (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2010
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 384pp h178mm x w111mm x s24mm 210g ISBN13: 9780007351046 ISBN13: 978-0-00-735104-6 ISBN10: 0007351046 EAN: 9780007351046 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.' Scientist Pierre Aronnax and his colleagues set out on an expedition to find a strange sea monster and are captured by the infamous and charismatic Captain Nemo and taken abroad the Nautilus submarine as his prisoners. As they travel the world's oceans, they become embroiled in adventures and events beyond their wildest dreams. Visionary in its outlook, Vern's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a legendary science fiction masterpiece. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Around the World in Eighty Days (Collins Classics) Jules Verne (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 320pp h178mm x w111mm x s20mm 180g ISBN13: 9780007350940 ISBN13: 978-0-00-735094-0 ISBN10: 0007350945 EAN: 9780007350940 x Description: 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 their steps and their motions. He never made one stride too many, always going by the shortest route. He did not give an idle look. He did not allow himself a superfluous gesture.' When Phileas Fogg wagers a bet that he can travel across the globe in just 80 days, little does he know about the epic journey that he is about to undertake. With his faithful French servant, Passepartout, Phileas Fogg embarks on the adventure of a lifetime, travelling across four continents by whatever means he can - train, elephant, steam ship - and experiencing endless surprises and mishaps along the way. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Collins Classics) Jules Verne (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
08 Jul 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 288pp h178mm x w111mm x s20mm 170g ISBN13: 9780007372379 ISBN13: 978-0-00-737237-9 ISBN10: 000737237X EAN: 9780007372379 x
Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'From that hour we had no further occasion for the exercise of reason, or judgment, or skill, or contrivance. We were henceforth to be hurled along, the playthings of the fierce elements of the deep.' In Verne's science-fiction classic, Professor Lidenbrock chances upon an ancient manuscript and pledges to solve the mysterious coded message that lies within it. Eventually he deciphers the story - that of an Icelandic explorer who travels to the centre of the earth, finding his way there via a volcano. Inspired by the manuscript, The Professor is determined to follow in the explorer's footsteps and builds a crew of men which includes his nervous nephew Axel. Together they begin their journey to the centre of the earth, facing fearsome danger and adventure at every turn. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ethan Frome (Collins Classics) Edith Wharton (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
15 Jan 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 160pp h178mm x w111mm x s10mm 90g ISBN13: 9780008110543 ISBN13: 978-0-00-811054-3 ISBN10: 0008110549 EAN: 9780008110543 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.`He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that it smelt of the woods; but he had never learned to say such things...'One harsh winter in 1900s New England, Ethan Frome toils at his farm while struggling to maintain a bearable existence with his forbidding wife, Zeena. When Ethan takes Zeena's cousin, Mattie, home from a dance he is entranced: Mattie brings with her the possibility for happiness, and with that she quickly becomes a symbol of hope for Ethan.First published in 1911, Ethan Frome is an intimate look at choices not made and lives not yet lived. Told through the eyes of a city outsider, this heartbreaking portrait of three lives haunted by thwarted dreams remains for many the most subtle and moving of Wharton's works. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Age of Innocence (Collins Classics) Edith Wharton (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
08 Jul 2010
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 336pp h178mm x w111mm x s21mm 190g ISBN13: 9780007368648 ISBN13: 978-0-00-736864-8 ISBN10: 000736864X EAN: 9780007368648 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I want - I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that - categories like that - won't exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on earth will matter.' Newland Archer, a successful and charming young lawyer conducts himself by the rules and standards of the polite, upper class New York society that he resides in. Happily engaged to the pretty and conventional May Welland, his attachment guarantees his place in this rigid world of the elite. However, the arrival of May's cousin, the exotic and beautiful European Countess Olenska throws Newland's life upside down. A divorcee, Olenska is ostracised by those around her, yet Newland is fiercely drawn to her wit, determination and willingness to flout convention. With the Countess, Newland is freed from the limitations that surround him and truly begins to 'feel' for the first time. Wharton's subtle expose of the manners and etiquette of 1870s New York society is both comedic, subtle, satirical and cynical in style and paints an evocative picture of a man torn between his passion and his obligation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Leaves of Grass (Collins Classics) Walt Whitman (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
27 Aug 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 176pp h178mm x w111mm x s11mm 100g ISBN13: 9780008110604 ISBN13: 978-0-00-811060-4 ISBN10: 0008110603 EAN: 9780008110604 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars... First published in 1855, and edited, revised and expanded over thirty years, 'Leaves of Grass' has become one of the most celebrated poetry collections in the history of American literature. A master of free verse, Walt Whitman captures the true spirit of his homeland and its people through his poetry. He explores a wide range of themes, encompassing American identity and cultural values, democracy, nature and the mysteries of the human spirit. Featuring the poems of the original 1855 edition, 'Leaves of Grass' remains an influential work within the American literary tradition, studied and treasured around the world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Happy Prince and Other Stories (Collins Classics) Oscar Wilde (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
21 May 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 192pp h178mm x w111mm x s12mm 120g ISBN13: 9780008110642 ISBN13: 978-0-00-811064-2 ISBN10: 0008110646 EAN: 9780008110642 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.' In 'The Happy Prince' a statue - jewelled and opulent - keeps careful watch over the city and its inhabitants. Enlisting the help of a swallow, his selfless acts bring comfort to those most in need. 'The Nightingale and the Rose' is a tragic tale of personal sacrifice in the name of love, while in 'The Selfish Giant' the end of an eternal winter finally brings springtime and happiness. In this collection of enchanting tales from a master storyteller, Oscar Wilde has entranced readers both young and old since publication in the late nineteenth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Collins Classics) Oscar Wilde (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 272pp h178mm x w111mm x s17mm 150g ISBN13: 9780007351053 ISBN13: 978-0-00-735105-3 ISBN10: 0007351054 EAN: 9780007351053 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young... If it was only the other way!' Wilde's first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray who upon having his portrait painted desires that it will age
and grow ugly while he may remain eternally beautiful. The painting, which reflects each of Gray's sins and transgressions in its hideousness, haunts him until it finally becomes unbearable. In this dark tale of duplicity and mortality, Wilde creates a world where art and reality collide. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Plays of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics) Oscar Wilde (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 384pp h178mm x w111mm x s24mm 210g ISBN13: 9780007902224 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790222-4 ISBN10: 0007902220 EAN: 9780007902224 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.' Including some of Oscar Wilde's most well-known and infamous plays, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest, this collection of the infamous writer's works displays his brilliant, quick wit to its full glory. Wilde's pithy social comedies dissect the morals and idiosyncrasies of society in the 1890s and offer a view of the sexual politics of the time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Collins Classics) Virginia Woolf (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
08 May 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 320pp h178mm x w111mm x s21mm 170g ISBN13: 9780007558063 ISBN13: 978-0-00-755806-3 ISBN10: 0007558066 EAN: 9780007558063 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind...' Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, `A Room of One's Own' interweaves Woolf's personal experience as a female writer with themes ranging from Austen and Bronte to Shakespeare's gifted (and imaginary) sister. `Three Guineas', Woolf's most impassioned polemic, came almost a decade later and broke new ground by challenging the very notions of war and masculinity. This volume combines two inspirational, witty and urbane essays from one of literature's pre-eminent voices; collectively they constitute a brilliant and lucid attack on sexual inequality. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mrs Dalloway (Collins Classics) Virginia Woolf (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
12 Sep 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 224pp h178mm x w111mm x s14mm 130g ISBN13: 9780007934409 ISBN13: 978-0-00-793440-9 ISBN10: 0007934408 EAN: 9780007934409 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of high-society - vivacious, hospitable and sociable on the surface, yet underneath troubled and dissatisfied with
her life in post-war Britain. This disillusionment is an emotion that bubbles under the surface of all of Woolf's characters in Mrs Dalloway. Centred around one day in June where Clarissa is preparing for and holding a party, her interior monologue mingles with those of the other central characters in a stream of consciousness, entwining, yet never actually overriding the pervading sense of isolation that haunts each person. One of Virginia Woolf's most accomplished novels, Mrs Dalloway is widely regarded as one of the most revolutionary works of the 20th century in its style and the themes that it tackles. The sense that Clarissa has married the wrong person, her past love for another female friend and the death of an intended party guest all serve to amplify this stultifying existence. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Orlando (Collins Classics) Virginia Woolf (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
08 May 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 272pp h178mm x w111mm x s17mm 150g ISBN13: 9780007558087 ISBN13: 978-0-00-755808-7 ISBN10: 0007558082 EAN: 9780007558087 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.' Written for her lover Vita Sackville-West, 'Orlando' is Woolf's playfully subversive take on a biography, here tracing the fantastical life of Orlando. As the novel spans centuries and continents, gender and identity, we follow Orlando's adventures in love - from being a lord in the Elizabethan court to a lady in 1920s London. First published in 1928, this tale of unrivalled imagination and wit quickly became the most famous work of women's fiction. Sexuality, destiny, independence and desire - all come to the fore in this highly influential novel that heralded a new era in women's writing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
To the Lighthouse (Collins Classics) Virginia Woolf (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
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William Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
12 Sep 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 240pp h178mm x w111mm x s18mm 130g ISBN13: 9780007934416 ISBN13: 978-0-00-793441-6 ISBN10: 0007934416 EAN: 9780007934416 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf's own joyful holidays of her youth. But as time passes, and in its wake the First World War, the transience of life becomes ever more apparent through the vignette of the thoughts and observations of the novel's disparate cast. A landmark of high modernism and the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels, To the Lighthouse explores themes of loss, class structure and the question of perception, in a hauntingly beautiful memorial to the lost but not forgotten. Chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________