Following one soldier’s journey from naive recruit to hardened survivor, The Red Badge of Courage is a vivid and powerfully psychological take on the American Civil War... Zobraziť viac
Jacob’s Room, Virginia Woolf’s third novel, marks her first foray into Modernist experimentation. The narrative traces... Zobraziť viac
I snapped the switch, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the far corner which made me drop my cigar and... Zobraziť viac
Revealing the truths and realities about Irish society in the early 20th century, Joyce’s Dubliners challenged the prevailing image of Dublin at the time. A group portrait made up of 15 short stories about the ... Zobraziť viac
Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking independence and freedom. On his travels, Huck meets an escaped slave, Jim, who is a wanted man, and together they journey... Zobraziť viac
The better part of valour is discretion. King Henry IV?s son, Prince Harry is quick-witted yet idle and irresponsible and... Zobraziť viac
In these eleven stories, Fitzgerald depicts the Roaring Twenties as he lived them. He masterfully blends accounts of flappers and the smart set with more fantastical visions of America, always imbuing his ... Zobraziť viac
When four young lovers flee from Athens and become lost in an enchanted wood, they stumble into a fairy world where King Oberon, and Queen Titania, are feuding over ownership of a young Indian prince... Zobraziť viac
Written when Mary Shelley was only nineteen-years old, this chilling tale of a young scientist′s desire to create life still resonates today. Victor Frankenstein′s monster is stitched together from the stolen limbs of the dead... Zobraziť viac
Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves.... Zobraziť viac
Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking independence and freedom. On his travels, Huck meets an escaped slave, Jim, who is a wanted man, and together they journey... Zobraziť viac
Set in frontier America in the midst of the French-Indian war, as the French are attempting to overthrow an English fort, Cooper′s story follows Alice and Cora Munro, pioneer sisters who are trying to find their way back to their father... Zobraziť viac
Married to Charles, a provincial doctor, Emma Bovary yearns for a more glamorous life. Disenchanted with her husband and seeking an escape from their dull marriage she is soon tempted into a brief romantic liaison with another man... Zobraziť viac
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.' In Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice once again finds herself in ... Zobraziť viac
But is not the slave trade entirely a war with the heart of man? ... Zobraziť viac
In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he remains one of the... Zobraziť viac
Now seen as one of the great English comic novels, Tristram Shandy caused a stir on publication in polite 18th-century English society. The novel broke with conventions of form and structure, ... Zobraziť viac
A timeless and celebrated children’s classic, Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows has delighted for nearly 100 years. In the idyllic English countryside, Mole, Badger, Rat and Toad ... Zobraziť viac
An epic study of provincial life at a time when England was facing rapid industrialization and increasingly fluid social mobility, Eliot’s depiction of the small community of Middlemarch weaves an intricate web of different ... Zobraziť viac
Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts... Self-serving... Zobraziť viac
