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Lord Jim: Large Print (Collins Classics)
by Joseph ConradHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
Mary Barton: And Other Tales... (Collins Classics)
by Elizabeth GaskellHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
North and South: The Wild And Wanton Edition, Volume 3 (Collins Classics)
by Elizabeth GaskellHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
The Odyssey: 1 (Collins Classics)
by HomerHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
The Origin of Species: V11 Harvard Classics (Collins Classics)
by Charles DarwinHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Collins Classics)
by Oscar WildeHarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.
Rob Roy: Large Print (Collins Classics)
by Sir Walter ScottHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
Robinson Crusoe (Collins Classics)
by Daniel DefoeHarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.
The Secret Garden (Collins Classics)
by Frances Hodgson BurnettHarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.
Shirley (Collins Classics)
by Charlotte BrontëHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
Sons and Lovers (Collins Classics)
by D. H. LawrenceHarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Collins Classics)
by Anne BrontëHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Collins Classics)
by Thomas HardyHarperCollins is pround to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.
The Three Musketeers: Classics Illustrated (Collins Classics)
by Alexandre DumasHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Or Life Among The Lowly (1899) (Collins Classics)
by Harriet Beecher StoweHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
The Vampyre: A Tale (Magical Creatures Ser.)
by John William PolidoriThe Vampyre: A Tale is based on a fragment written by Lord Byron in 1816 during a gathering of author friends who, trapped inside due to bad weather, decided to write ghost stories. It was the first vampire story in English prose, and as such had a wide-ranging influence, almost single-handedly creating the now-popular image of the vampire as an aristocratic seducer.
Wuthering Heights (Collins Classics)
by Emily BrontëHarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.
Black Beauty: The Autobiography Of A Horse (Classic Adventures Ser.)
by Anna Sewell"You saved your mistress's life, Beauty! yes, you saved her life" Black Beauty is the prettiest young horse in the meadows, and spends many happy days under the apple trees with his friends Ginger and Merrylegs. But this easy life comes to an end when Beauty is sold and goes from farm to inn to cabhorse in London, enduring rough treatment from foolish and careless masters. Beauty remains faithful, hardworking and full of spirit despite his trials, and through him we learn that all horses and humans alike deserve to be treated with kindness.BACKSTORY: Find out about the unusual author and learn some horsey vocabulary.
Egmont: Trauerspiel (Classics To Go)
by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIn "Egmont", Goethe relates the fight of Count Egmont (1522-1568) against the despotic Duke of Alba. Egmont is a famous Dutch warrior and the Duke of Alba represents the Spanish invader. Though under threat of arrest, Egmont refuses to run away and give up his ideal of liberty. Imprisoned and abandoned because of the cowardice of his people, and despite the desperate efforts of his mistress Klaerchen, he is sentenced to death. Thus, faced with her failure and despair, Klaerchen puts an end to her life. The play ends on the hero's last call to fight for independence. His death as a martyr appears as a victory against oppression. Egmont is a political manifesto in which Egmont's craving for justice and national liberty is opposed to the despotic authority of the Duke of Alba. It is also a drama of destiny in which the Flemish nobleman, with fatalism, accepts the dire consequences of his straightforwardness and honesty. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
Madame Bovary: Student Edition
by Gustave Flaubert Adam ThorpeA NEW TRANSLATION BY ADAM THORPE‘A great novel that is also an inexhaustible pleasure to read' GuardianEmma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels; brought up on a Normandy farm and convent-educated, she longs for romance. At first, Emma pins her hopes on marriage, but life with her well-meaning husband in the provinces leaves her bored and dissatisfied. She seeks escape through extravagant spending sprees and, eventually, adultery. As Emma pursues her impossible reverie she seals her own ruin. Madame Bovary is one of the greatest, most beguiling novels ever written.‘Thorpe's new translation is stunning and heartily recommendedScotsman‘Thorpe's new translation is to die for’Independent‘[Thorpe’s] hard work has yielded beauty. The rhythms are perfectly judged, unexpected enough to make the reader attend to every word’Robert Chandler, TLS
Cranford: Large Print (Collins Classics)
by Elizabeth GaskellHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
The Moonstone: A Romance (Collins Classics #Vol. 6)
by Wilkie CollinsHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
Penguin Readers Level 7: The Woman in White (ELT Graded Reader)
by Wilkie CollinsPenguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. Each title includes carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises. The eBook edition does not include access to additional online resources.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.Visit the Penguin Readers websiteExclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys.One night when Walter Hartwright is walking home, he meets and helps the mysterious 'woman in white'. Soon after this meeting, Walter starts a job as a drawing teacher in the north of England and falls in love with his student, Laura Fairlie. But Laura is engaged to Sir Percival Glyde. Then Laura receives a letter warning her not to marry Glyde. Walter is sure that the letter comes from the woman in white...
The Woman in White: A Novel (part Two) And Short Stories: The Dead Alive; The Fatal Cradle; Fatal Fortune; Blow Up With The Brig (Collins Classics #Vol. 1)
by Wilkie CollinsHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
The Mummy!: A Victorian Tale of the 22nd Century
by Jane Webb LoudonWithin a decade of the 1818 publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, another Englishwoman invented a foundational work of science fiction. Seventeen-year-old Jane Webb Loudon took up the theme of reanimation, moved it three hundred years into the future, and applied it to Cheops, an ancient Egyptian mummy. Unlike Shelley's horrifying, death-dealing monster, this revivified creature bears the wisdom of the ages and is eager to share his insights with humanity. Cheops boards a hot-air balloon and travels to 22nd-century England, where he sets about remedying the ills of a corrupt government.In recounting Cheops' attempts to put the futuristic society to rights, the young author offers a fascinating portrait of the preoccupations of her own era as well as some remarkably prescient predictions of technological advances. The Mummy! envisions a world in which automatons perform surgery, undersea tunnels connect England and Ireland, weather-control devices provide crop irrigation, and messages are transmitted with the speed of cannonball fire. The first novel to feature the concept of a living mummy, this pioneering tale offers an engaging mix of comedy, politics, and science fiction.