Classics of Literature

For more than two centuries, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice has charmed readers with its wit, unforgettable characters, and keen social commentary on love, marriage, and class. Now, this beloved...

The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens others had bills of exchange in their pockets, or in belts. Some of these documents, carefully unwrinkled and dried, were little less fresh in appearance...

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the...

The book titled Tolstoy: The Making of a Novelist by the author Edward Crankshaw. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Terrifying tales and frightening fables at their finest! We all know the stories-or do we? We know who Snow White is, but what about Rose Red? And what happens to...

The final, unfinished novel of Charles Dickens that is in many ways his most intriguing-a gripping, haunting masterpiece that foreshadows the detective stories of Conan Doyle and the nightmarish novels...

An historical novel set in the late seventeenth century in Glasgow and London. This portrait of Rob Roy MacGregor shows the feudal world of the Highlands withering away under the...

Winner of the 2016 David Unaipon Award. 'When he was in gaol, he'd begun to prepare himself for the fight of his life, a showdown with the policeman, McWilliams ......

'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat,' 'Calico Pie' and 'The Pobble Who Has No Toes', together with Edward Lear's crazy limericks, have entertained adults and children alike for over 100 years....

Only edition in print First published in 1921, this volume collects some of the most comical stories Kipling published throughout his writing career. These tales derive their humour from absurd...

The book titled The New Gilded Age: The "New Yorker" Looks at the Culture of Affluence by the author David Remnick. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

Trilling described THE LONGEST JOURNEY as "perhaps the most brilliant, the most dramatic, and the most passionate" of E.M. Forster's works. Certainly it's the most autobiographical -- but its form...

Having fled Rome and a stultifying marriage, Isabel Osmond is in London, brooding on the recent disclosure of her husband's shocking , years-long betrayal of her. What should she do...

In this moving novel, Richard Yates once again proves his skill as the chronicler of the 'American Dream' and all its casualties Young, newly married and intensely ambitious, Michael Davenport...

Somewhere in Germany was hidden a manuscript that would rock Western Europe to its foundations: the testament of Martin Bormann. Special Agent Paul Chavasse is about to start a much-deserved...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Written in 1876, this is a novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River.

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. Everybody likes to go their own way - to choose their own time and manner of devotion. At the...

Set in 1900s, this is a lushly descriptive and highly autobiographical portrayal of a young man growing up in class-divided Nottingham 'A work whose power stands the test of time'...

Max Reddick, a novelist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter, has spent his career struggling against the riptide of race in America. Now terminally ill, he has nothing left to lose. An...

An easily understood reference guide to the deities of Greek and Roman mythology. Stories of Gods and Heroes , originally published in 1855, is the first of three works that...

From one of England's literary masters, a monumental biography of Dickens worthy of standing beside Painter's Marcel Proust and Ellman's James Joyce. Ackroyd constructs a stunning life and times work...

Dr Aziz is a young Muslim physician in the British Indian town of Chandrapore. One evening he comes across an English woman, Mrs Moore, in the courtyard of a local...

The book titled The Widows' Adventures by the author Charles Dickinson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

When Joseph Weissmann divorced his wife, he was seventy eight years old and she was seventy-five... He said the words "Irreconcilable differences," and saw real confusion in his wife's eyes....

Alton Locke becomes deeply involved in the fierce struggle to improve the harsh conditions of life of the English working class

This edition is based on the first one-volume publication of Barnaby Rudge, reproducing all the original illustrations. Appendices include a map of London at the time of the Gordon Riots...

The classic adventures of one of American literature's most beloved characters. The classic adventures of one of American literature's most beloved characters from Mark Twain, one of America's best-loved writers....

'A book that shifted my life... Epic, game-changing, moving and brilliant' VIOLA DAVIS on Wild Seed 'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time......

We kept our heads above the morass, stifled screaming despairs only by the exercise of Good Behaviour. Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic St Charles family is sinking...

'One of the greatest writers of the first half of the tormented 20th century' - Simon Schama 'An almost perfect book' Rolling Stone At the close of the Great War,...

With an introduction by Thomas HardingDuring the winter of 1945, the last dark days of World War II stretch out in occupied Holland as the populace wait for the Allies...

'The stories are rich in dialogue - indeed on many pages there is only dialogue - while the quick exchange of words beats out the rhythm of history on the...

A new edition of Orwell's elegiac fourth novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. Taylor First published in 1939 and dominated by the shadow of the Second World War,...

The second of the three greatest novels by the era-defining Nobel laureate , reissued for a new generation. Nothing is more real than nothing. Malone, a decrepit old man, lies...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, an intrepid and eccentric adventurer, transferred his passion for flying to the written word by writing several classics of aviation literature, including Southern Mail and Night Flight....

In its marvelously perceptive portrayal of two young women in love, Sense and Sensibility is the answer to those who believe that Jane Austen's novels, despite their perfection of form...

Beautifully illustrated by Alice Tye, this is a cornerstone of modernist fiction and an incisive critique of wealth, class and the inescapable heartache of lost love. In his blue gardens...

The Yellow Poppy (1920), is a novel by D.K. Broster that details the adventures of an aristocratic couple during the French Revolution and was later adapted by Broster and W....

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Charles Dickens's classic tale of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge's encounters with the ghosts of Christmas past, present and yet...

The young women studying at the Grimaldi yearn for new kinds of life. Monitored by the nuns who run the college, eight of them form a close group, sharing confidences...

The Obscene Madame D is the electrifying masterpiece by one of modern Brazilian literature's most significant and controversial writers. At sixty years old, Hille decides to abandon conventional life and...

When Wim and Marie, a young Dutch couple, agree to hide a Jewish man in their home during the Nazi occupation, they think they are fulfilling their patriotic duty. Tension...

A first-generation Cuban son comes of age in 1940s New York in the debut--and most autobiographical--novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love ....

Featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler, this fine collector's edition of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations is a must-have for book lovers and literature fans. One of English literature's...

Looking back over her life, Alessandra Corteggiani recalls her youth during the rise of fascism in 1930s Rome. A sensitive child, she was always alert to the loneliness and dissatisfaction...

A scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, Hard Times is a daring novel of ideas--and ultimately a celebration of love, hope, and limitless possibilities of...