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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 ..

Peopled by an unforgettable cast of aristocrats and high-fliers, „Tender is the Night“ is at once a scathing critique of the materialism and hypocrisy of the Roaring Twenties and a poignant and sensitive account of personal tragedy and disillusionment.

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputa ..

This is the „Penguin English Library Edition“ of „Oliver Twist“ by Charles Dickens. ‚A parish child – the orphan of a workhouse – the humble, half-starved drudge – to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none‘. Dar ..

Bathsheba Everdene, independent and uncompromising, comes to a small rural community to take up a position as a farmer, where her confident presence draws three different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, the seducer Sergeant Troy and devoted s ..

The heir to his grandfather's considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations and distractions of the 1920s Jazz Age. His descent into dissolution and profligacy is accelerated by his marriage ..

In rural Illinois two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, until jealously leads to murder and suicide. A tenuous friendship between lonely teenagers – the narrator, whose mother has died young, and Cletus Smith, the troubled witness to his p ..

Collected here are Gogol's finest tales – from the demon-haunted ‚St John's Eve‘ to the strange surrealism of ‚The Nose‘, from the heart-rending trials of the copyist in ‚The Overcoat‘ to those of the delusional clerk in ‚The Diary of a Madman‘ – all ..

This is the „Penguin English Library Edition“ of „Dracula“ by Bram Stoker. ‚Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window‘. A chilling masterpiece of the horror genre, „Dracula“ also ill ..

Für Kinder zum Staunen, Entdecken und Träumen! §Für Eltern – zum Vorlesen und Wiederentdecken!§Für Großeltern zum Erinnern und Verschenken§Von „Hänsel und Gretel“ über „Rapunzel“ bis „Schneewittchen“ die bekanntesten Grimmschen Märchen zum Vor- und Selbstlesen

Auf der Grundlage des Faust-Stoffes hat Thomas Mann in seinem 1947 erschienenen Musiker-Roman eine Parabel für die Verstrickung des Künstlertums in die politische Katastrophe des Nationalsozialismus geschaffen.§Textgrundlage für diesen Band ist die s ..

‚And low, stole o'er the stillness the heartbeats of sleep‘ In Chapelizod, a suburb of Dublin, an innkeeper and his family are sleeping. Around them and their dreams there swirls a vortex of world history, of ambition and failure, desire and transg ..