'When I was about sixteen I suddenly discovered the joy of mere words'

Best known for his remarkable novels Animal Farm and...

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Plato's Republic has influenced...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
Confessions describes Saint...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
George Bernard Shaw's classic play and...

When four young lovers flee from Athens and become lost in an enchanted wood, they stumble into a fairy world where King Oberon,...

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars...
First published in 1855, and edited, revised and...

King Henry IV's son, Prince Harry is quick-witted yet idle and irresponsible and lives a roguish existence keeping dubious...

If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coalminer.
In the mid-1930s, George Orwell was given an...

Three francs will feed you till tomorrow, and you cannot think further than that...
As a young man struggling to find his voice...

John Flory, a white timber merchant in 1920s Burma, has unorthodox views. To him, the Burmese culture and people should be...

Bianca is beautiful and demure, with a plethora of wood-be suitors, but marriage is forbidden until her older sister Katherina...

Orphaned and sent to live with her uncle in his austere manor on the moors, Mary Lennox is a lonely and unhappy child. A meeting...

When their father is mysteriously sent away, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis have to leave London with their mother to live in a...

Attributed to the blind Greek poet, Homer, The Odyssey is an epic tale about cunning and strength of mind. It takes its starting...

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not...

"I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more."

This selection of works showcases...

Welcome to Utopia.
When Mr. Barnstaple, an Earthling, is accidentally transported to Utopia with a group of others, he begins an...

Our life is what our thoughts make it
The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have...

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'Instead of the cross, the...

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Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of...

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'The rain pattered dismally against the...

Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Though this be madness, yet there is method...

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...

To an anonialous species of terror I found h bounden slave.
Including Рое's most terrifying, grotesque and haunting short...

"But I am not like other boys! I always tell the truth."
The story of Pinocchio has remained one of the best-loved children's...

Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.
One of Shakespeare's most witty and enjoyable comedies, Much Ado About Nothing is a...

We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is no England. Our ways are not your ways, and they shall be to you many strange...

The victor belongs to the spoils.
Anthony and Gloria Patch are the bright lights of the 1920s New York smart set and lead a life...

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety
Mark Antony is a man desperately torn between his duty to the...