From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, opera, cartoons, and computer games. The character o ..

Defoes schon damals weltbekannten Roman nannte Goethe „das Entzücken und das Evangelium der Kinder“. Doch der Bericht des erfolgreichen und abenteuerlustigen Bürgers Crusoe, der nach gefahrvollen Reisen allein auf einer einsamen Insel strandet und 28 ..

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 ..

A Room of One's Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and perhaps Virginia Woolf's best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place of women within the power structures of modern soci ..

Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the re ..

This is the „Penguin English Library Edition“ of „A Room with a View“ by E. M. Forster '„But you do,“ he went on, not waiting for contradiction. „You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it…“ L ..

A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman, Lucy, in the repressed culture of Edwardian England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century.

Kim is Rudyard Kipling's finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century. Kim himself is a resourceful lad who befriends a lama, an ageing priest; and both e ..

One of fifty new books at 1.00 pound each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry – all complete, standalone works, some never published in Penguin Modern Classics before.

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 th

  Le chien Capi et le singe Joli-Coeur, la brave mère Barberin et le  signor  Vitalis à la longue barbe blanche, Lise la petite muette, Mattia le jeune musicien, sans oublier bien sûr le courageux Remi, l'enfant ..

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 ..