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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.\\''Humble and lowly, a young Fanny Price goes to live with her wealthy Aunt and Uncle at their grand house, Mansfield Park. Growing up with her privileged and spoilt cousins, the Bertrams, she lives in the shadows of their glamoro...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`...for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart.''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. Although shor...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''Stars, hide your fires!Let not light see my black and deep desires.\\''One of Shakespeare\\''s darkest and most violent tragedies, Macbeth\\''s struggle between his own ambition and his loyalty to the King is dramatically compelling. As those he kills return to haunt him, Macbeth is plagued by the prophecy of three sinister witches and the power hungry desires of his wife.ISBN: 9780007350988Nr pagini: 288 pages...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!\\''Jim is a well-bred young romantic who takes to the seas with hopes of adventure and the aspiration to prove his mettle. When the boat he sails in threatens to sink, Jim abandons ship in fear in order to save himself, leaving the other passengers to their fate. However, the ship does not sink and guilt-rid...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.''Wouldn''t it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?''A heart-warming tale of love, sisterhood and hardship during the New England Civil War, Little Women tells the story of the lovable March family. Meg, Beth, Jo and Amy try to support their mother at home while their father is away at war and enter into various scrapes and adventures as they do so. Alcott be...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.''Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There''s no better rule.''Living with his sister and her husband, Pip is an orphan without any expectations. It is only when he begins to visit a rich old woman, Miss Havisham and her adopted niece that he begins to hope for something better. When it is revealed that Pip has inherited a large sum of money from a mysterious benefactor on the condition that he...

\\''The red and yellow tulips, heavy with flowers, seemed to lean upon the dusk. A grey cat, dragging its belly, crept across the lawn, and a black one, its shadow, trailed after.\\'' Powerful and evocative, each of Katherine Mansfield\\''s short stories is a masterclass in the form that made her name. Cut tragically short at the age of 34, hers was a life of passion that took her from New Zealand to Bohemian London and Paris. These various landscapes are reflected with verve in her writing, and...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart\\''s affections and the truth of the Imagination.\\''One of the most popular of the Romantic poets, Keats\\'' poetry is suffused with adoration for natural beauty, exploration of joy and pain, and ideas on the transience of life. This new collection combines many of Keats\\'' well-loved poems - from `Ode to a Nightingale\\'' to `Bright Star\\'' - with his lette...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`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 audiences with its passionate depiction of the tragic romance between two young lovers. With a bitter feud between their respective families, Romeo and Juliet\\''s love is troubled from the start, and through their ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.''Set just before the Jacobite Rising in 1715, Scott drew upon the political and economic struggles leading up to the rebellion and the tumultuous history of the Highlands in his classic adventure novel Rob Roy. Despite the book''s title, Frank Osbaldistone is the protagonist, travelling through England and the Scottish Highlands to collect a debt owed to hi...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Bear you well in this new spring of time,Lest you be cropp\\''d before you come to prime.\\''King Richard II rules England in a wasteful and short-sighted way, spending money unwisely and selecting his counselors foolishly. His manner ostracises him from his people and his country and it\\''s not long before both commoners and noblemen feel Richard has gone too far.When Richard seizes land that rightfully belongs ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.`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 tales for over a century. However, the original 1883 novel about the adventures of the mischievous marionette on his quest to become a real boy began as a sophisticated story for both adults and children, and includes political satire, slapstick humour and questions about the rol...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.First published in 1898, `Moonfleet\\'' is a riveting adventure story full of drama, mystery, revenge, pursuit, smuggling, pirates and romance, with a place in the literary canon alongside `Treasure Island\\'' and `Kidnapped\\''.The tiny village of Moonfleet nestles on the English coast, and every one of its inhabitants lives off the sea in one way or another. When local young man John Trenchard accidentally...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`My true name is so well known in the Records or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old Bailey, and there are some things of such consequence still depending there, relating to my particular conduct, that it is not to be expected I should set my name or the account of my family to this work.\\''Born into the seedy world of Newgate Prison and abandoned as a baby at six months old, Moll Flanders soon learns that she ca...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.`Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell''s heart I stab at thee; for hate''s sake I spit my last breath at thee...''Few literary masterpieces cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melville''s Moby Dick. Captain Ahab''s quest for the white whale is a timeless epic - a thrilling tale of vengeance and obsession, and a searing parable about ...

HarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.''My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know, what you have read, and seen, and thought, I feel what a nothing I am!''Challenging the hypocrisy and social conventions of the rural Victorian world, Tess of the D''Urbervilles follows the story of Tess Durbeyfield as she attempts to escape the poverty of her background, seeking wealth by claiming connection with the aristocra...

From Collins Classics and the author of `The Great Gatsby'' a marriage unravels in this autobiographical tale.`Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.''Set on the French Riviera in the 1920s, American Dick Diver and his wife Nicole are the epitome of chic, living a glamorous lifestyle and entertaining friends at their villa. Young film star Rosemary Hoyt arrives in France and becomes entranced by the couple. It is not long before she is attracted to the enigmatic ...

From Collins Classics, short stories from the author of `The Great Gatsby'' and including `The Curious Case of Benjamin Button''.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 narratives with his trademark themes of money, class, ambition and love. In `May Day'', Fitzgerald weaves an account of a raucous Yale alumni party, the participants ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which gives direction to the character of Man.''Including Poe''s most terrifying, grotesque and haunting short stories, Tales of Mystery and Imagination is the ultimate collection of the infamous author''s macabre works.Considered to b...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.''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 his quest to find his emotional and independent self, Paul Morel is torn between the strong, Oedipal bond he has with his mother and the relationships he forges as a young adult, with chaste Miriam and the provocati...