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Hans Castrop geplanter Kurzbesuch in Davos wird zum siebenjährigen Aufenthalt, und Thomas Manns Novellenplan wächst zu einem der gewaltigen Werke der Weltliteratur: Ein eindringliches Porträt der europäischen Gesellschaft vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg.§De ..

Als Findelkind im Armenhaus einer englischen Kleinstadt aufgewachsen, flüchtet sich der junge Oliver Twist aus den Fängen seines brutalen Lehrherrn nach London. Doch im Moloch der Großstadt gerät er bald an den skrupellosen Hehler Fagin, der ein selt ..

This Revised and Expanded Edition contains hundreds of new notes and illustrations.The first-ever fully annotated edition of one of the most beloved novels in the world is a sheer delight for Jane Austen fans. Here is the complete text of

Yasha the magician – sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape – is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a free thinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant wife, a loyal assis ..

This is the „Penguin English Library Edition“ of „Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde“ by Robert Louis Stevenson. ‚All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil‘. Published ..

During Christine's childhood, which is described retrospectively in the early chapters of the book, her father tells her many stories featuring an ‚Angel of Music‘, who, like a muse, is the personification of musical inspiration. On his deathbed, Chr ..

Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family – their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well as all our books. Joyce's last great work, it is not comprised of many borrowed styles, like ..

This is the most cherished novel from each of England's talented sisters, in one gorgeously packaged volume. The Bronte family was a literary phenomenon unequalled before or since. Both Charlotte's „Jane Eyre“ and Emily's „Wuthering Heights“ have won ..

‚Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another‘ Christmas won't be the same this year for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as their father is away fighting in the Civil War, and the family has fallen on hard times. But though they may be poor ..

Der exzentrische Mr Samuel Pickwick schart in einem Klub drei nicht weniger skurrile Gestalten um sich: „Die Pickwickier“. Gemeinsam begeben sie sich im Jahr 1827 auf eine absurde Forschungsreise durch England, in deren Verlauf sie zahlreiche Turbule ..

The crew of the whaling ship the Pequod is bound by its Captain Ahab to a single, bloody goal: the killing of the whale Moby-Dick, the giant albino that has taken his leg and on which he has sworn vengeance. Driven, perhaps doomed, by his dangerous monomania, they sail in pursuit of the monster.

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.‘ Reveal ..