What does persuasion mean – a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napole ..

Der Junge Mowgli wächst unter Wölfen im indischen Dschungel auf. Seine Freunde, Baloo der Bär und Bagheera der Panther, erleben viele Abenteuer mit ihm. Als Mowgli vom Volk der Affen in die verlorene Stadt entführt wird, bitten sie die Schlange Kaa um Hilfe…

The fate of the world as we know it depends on a group of teenagers who have never met… They're all members of Drone Academy, a team of anonymous, virtual-reality wearing teenagers who communicate exclusively in cyberspace and interact only through their high-tech UAVs.

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 femin ..

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 ..

Compiled by an expert on Civil War literature, this anthology offers an outstanding selection of short works. Includes stories and poems by Whitman, Melville, Longfellow, Bierce, Alcott, Twain, Whittier, and many others.

Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its provocative Preface, challenging ..

Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable diversi ..

This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. However, it is not so much her harsh sentenc ..

The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which Henry James is best remembered. Set in an English country house, it is a chilling tale of the supernatural told by a master of the genre. The Aspern Papers is a tale of Americans in Europe, a ..

This work of fiction is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck. When young Jim Hawkins finds a package in Captain Flint's sea chest, he could not know that the map inside it would lead him to unimaginable treasure. Mutiny and mayhem ensue.

Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!' Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck. When young Jim Hawkins finds a packet in Captain Flint's sea chest, he could not know that the map ins ..