′My Oberon! what visions have I seen!Methought I was enamoured of an ass.′When four young lovers flee from Athens and become lost in an enchanted wood, they stumble into a fairy world where King Obero
Half St. Bernard, half sheepdog, Buck is stolen away from his comfortable life as a pet in California and sold to dog traders. He soon finds himself aboard a ship, on its way to Northern Canada. Surro
'We have declared before that it is not only expedient but necessary for a prince to take care his foundations be good, otherwise his fabric will be sure to fail.' Considered one of the first works of
Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of high-society - vivacious, hospitable and sociable on the surface, yet underneath troubled and dissatisfied with her life in post-war Britain. This disillusionment is an
Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf's own joyful holidays of her y
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…'Set before and during the French Revolution in the cities of Par
′Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!For I ne′er saw true beauty till this night.′Arguably the greatest love story ever told, Shakespeare′s Romeo and Juliet continues to touch modern audien
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.‘In black ink my love may still shine bright…’Universally admired and quoted, Shakespeare’s Sonnets have love,
‘“Come along, Toto,” she said. “We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to Kansas again.”’Swept away from her home in Kansas by a tornado, Dorothy and her dog Toto find the
′Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.′Autobiographical in tone, Joyce′s tale o
‘He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that it smelt of the woods; but he had never learned to say such things…’ One harsh winter in 1900s New England, Ethan Frome toils
′There was one place in the world that stood solid and did not melt into unreality: the place where his mother was. Everybody else could grow shadowy, almost non-existent to him, but she could not.′In
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS, John Bunyan’s masterful religious allegory, narrates the journey of an everyman hero, C
LADY CHATTERLEY′S LOVER was banned on its publication in 1928, creating a storm of controversy. Lawrence tells the story of Constance Chatterley′s marriage to Sir Clifford, an aristocratic intellectua
′Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.′Set in medieval Paris, against the backdrop of the brooding Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Hugo′s take on the
′The movements of his mind seemed to tend to the thought that some power was working against him.′When Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser gets drunk and sells his wife at a country fair, his life wi
′Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.′Written at the end of the fourteenth century, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer′s The Canterbury Tales are a collection of stories told in Middle-English. Thirty pil
