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 ..

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 E ..

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Alas that mortals Should blame the gods! From us, they say, All evils come. Yet they themselves It is who through defiant deeds Bring sorrow on them-far more sorrow T ..

Each of these short stories was written specifically for Christmas. They combine concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional Christmas spirit-lore. The stories include A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Battle of Life and The Cricket on the Hearth.

Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a ‚heroine whom no one but myself will much like‘, but Emma is irresistible. ‚Handsome, clever, and rich‘, Emma is also an ‚imaginist‘, ‚on fire with speculation and foresight‘. She sees the signs of ro ..

George Orwell is a difficult author to summarize. He was a would-be revolutionary who went to Eton, a political writer who abhorred dogma, a socialist who thrived on his image as a loner, and a member of the Imperial Indian Police who chronicled the ..

Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, estab ..

Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unco ..

The Aeneid is Virgil's Masterpiece. His epic poem recounts the story of Rome's legendary origins from the ashes of Troy and proclaims her destiny of world dominion. This optimistic vision is accompanied by an undertow of sadness at the price that mus ..

A wildly ambitious story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film, and the humble comic book that inspired it all. Spanning 80 years of a changing America and culminating in the opening of the film, we mee ..

William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. His writing attracted the astonished admiration of authors as diverse as Wordsworth, Ruskin, W.B.Yeats, and more recently be ..

Sigmund Freud's controversial ideas have penetrated Western culture more deeply than those of any other psychologist. The ‚Freudian slip‘, the ‚Oedipus complex‘, ‚childhood sexuality‘, ‚libido‘, ‚narcissism‘ ‚penis envy‘, the ‚castration complex‘, th ..