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by Stephen Crane
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012

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...
by Oscar Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015

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...
by Jane Austen
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2019

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Charlotte Heywood is smart, beautiful – and in search of a husband. As ever, the road to matrimony is fraught with trouble. This is Jane Austen’s final, unfinished novel.
by Jane Austen
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘The real evils, indeed, of Emma’s situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself…’ Beautiful, rich, self-assured and witty, Emma Woodhouse...
by Louisa May Alcott
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Set ten years after ‘Little Men’, ‘Jo’s Boys’ is the final novel in the unofficial series that follows the ups and downs of the March family. The Plumfield boys – including rebellious Dan, sailor...
by Charles Perrault
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘She promised her godmother that she would not fail to leave the ball before midnight, and away she went, beside herself with delight…’ Charles Perrault’s time-honoured stories have been passed down from...
by Willa Cather
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2019

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...
by Aesop
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012

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...
by Homer
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012

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...
by Mary Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010

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. ‘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...
by J.M. Barrie
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015

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...
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!’ It is the end of the eighteenth century, and the navy recruits the eponymous hero – the ‘Handsome Sailor’ – to its fleet. Accused of mutinous behaviour,...
by Gustave Flaubert
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012

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,...
by Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012

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...
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