′My Oberon! what visions have I seen!Methought I was enamoured of an ass.′When four young lovers flee from Athens and become lost in an enchanted wood, they stumble into a fairy world where King Obero
Half St. Bernard, half sheepdog, Buck is stolen away from his comfortable life as a pet in California and sold to dog traders. He soon finds himself aboard a ship, on its way to Northern Canada. Surro
′How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods.′Still co
'We have declared before that it is not only expedient but necessary for a prince to take care his foundations be good, otherwise his fabric will be sure to fail.' Considered one of the first works of
′Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.′Written at the end of the fourteenth century, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer′s The Canterbury Tales are a collection of stories told in Middle-English. Thirty pil
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-war Britain. This disillusionment is an
Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf's own joyful holidays of her y
‘“Come along, Toto,” she said. “We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to Kansas again.”’Swept away from her home in Kansas by a tornado, Dorothy and her dog Toto find the
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…'Set before and during the French Revolution in the cities of Par
One of the classics of English children′s literature, and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys, this novel′s steady popularity has given it an influence well beyond the upper middle
′Bear you well in this new spring of time,Lest you be cropp′d before you come to prime.′King Richard II rules England in a wasteful and short-sighted way, spending money unwisely and selecting his cou
′Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!′Jim is a well-bred young romantic who takes to the seas with hopes of adventure and the asp
′You can′t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.′Knocked unconscious, it is only when mechanic Hank Morgan comes to that he finds himself in 6th-century England rather than ninete
′"I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim?" His soul repeated it again and again.′Set against the backdrop of Britain and Russia′s political struggle in central Asia, Kim, the son of a drunken Irish soldi
Hugely ambitious in its historical focus and vast geographical scope, Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare′s most astonishing tragedies. The drama centres on the relationships between his main p
Set amid the splendor of London drawing rooms and gilded Venetian palazzos, The Wings of the Dove is the story of Milly Theale, a naïve, doomed American heiress, and a pair of lovers, Kate Croy and Me
′People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbours.′An epic study of provincial life at a time when England was facing rapid industrializatio
′Don′t you sometimes feel that this is the kind of life we were meant to live on this earth? Everything we need, everything, right here, right at our fingertips.′Said to be inspired by Daniel Defoe′s
