Including Poe′s most terrifying, grotesque and haunting short stories, TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION is the ultimate collection of the infamous author′s macabre works.Considered to be one of the ea
′That′s Harris all over - so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.′Three late-Victorian gentlemen, George, Harris and the writer himself as well as t
′Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.′An idyllic snapshot of a boy′s childhood alon
′They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly and spectral.′Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine, Conan Doyle′s ′The Hound of the Baskervilles′ follows the infamous Sherlock
′My true name is so well known in the Records or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old Bailey, and there are some things of such consequence still depending there, relating to my particular conduct, th
′Northanger Abbey! These were thrilling words, and wound up Catherine′s feelings to the highest point of ecstasy.′Considered the most light-hearted and satirical of Austen′s novels, Northanger Abbey t
'The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.'Sc
'There is no harm in a man's cub.'Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book expertly interweaves myth, morals, adventure and powerful story-telling. Set in Central India,
′The quality of mercy is not strain′d,It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven′Bassiano, a noble Venetian, hopes to woo the beautiful heiress Portia. However, he requires financial assistance from h
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW is a gothic short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, England, and
′If music be the food of love, play on;Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.′A comedic romance of mistaken identity, Twelfth Night begins with a shipwreck, splitt
′Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.′One of Shakespeare′s most witty and enjoyable comedies, Much Ado About Nothing is a play that explores courtship, romance and marriage through a number of re
′But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.′When Margaret Hale is uprooted from Hampshire and moves to the industrial town of Milton in the North of England,
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foo
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars… First published in 1855, and edited,
The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her cl
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
