Like most of Shakespeare's history plays, King John presents a struggle for the English crown. The struggle this time, however, is strikingly cold-blooded and brutal... Zobraziť viac
In one of Shakespeare's most perennially popular comedies a young woman, Hermia, flees ancient Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be ... Zobraziť viac
Beatrice and Benedick both claim they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing that each harbours secret feelings for the other, the pair begin to question whether their witty banter and verbal sparring ... Zobraziť viac
Titus Andronicus is the earliest tragedy and the earliest Roman play attributed to Shakespeare. Titus, a model Roman, has led twenty-one of his twenty-five sons to death in Romes wars; he stabs another son to death for what he views ... Zobraziť viac
While the word gentlemen suggests that its heroes are adults, The Two Gentlemen of Verona is more intelligible if we think of them as boys, leaving home for the first time. One has a crush on a girl, Julia, though he hasnt yet told her... Zobraziť viac
A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Published by the acclaimed Coralie... Zobraziť viac
'Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears ... But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being.... Zobraziť viac
This First World War classic novel is written in the first person by a young German soldier, Paul Bauer. Only eighteen when he is pressured by his family, friends and society in general, to enlist and fight at the front, ... Zobraziť viac
The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, blourishing in the turbulent times of the London BLitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off... Zobraziť viac
With an essay by F. R. Leavis.'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else'Coketown is dominated by the figure ... Zobraziť viac
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'"For," said he, "there never was nor is there one chaste woman upon the face of earth."'A collection of Persian, Arabian and Indian tales dating ... Zobraziť viac
A man is discovered adrift in the wreckage of a boat, babbling of horrors scarcely imaginable...this is his story.... Zobraziť viac
Welcome to Hell.One evening, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood. The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan, where Dante witnesses the strange and ... Zobraziť viac
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.' "...Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." 'This selection of Edgar Allan Poe's ... Zobraziť viac
The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, driven ... Zobraziť viac
In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re-created in The House of the Dead, were the most agonizing of his life. In this ... Zobraziť viac
Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he describes his refusal to become ... Zobraziť viac
Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for finding the strangeness lurking within us all has been an influence on everyone ... Zobraziť viac
William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world s pre-eminent dramatist. His plays remain highly popular today and are constantly studied, ... Zobraziť viac
