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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.\\''Set in the agricultural town of Raveloe in the English countryside, Silas Marner is a tragic figure. Exiled from a religious community because of a wrongful accusation of theft, he works from day to day as a weaver, saving hi...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within as on the state of things without and around us.\\''Considered one of her less well-known novels, Shirley is Charlotte Bronte\\''s only historical work, set during the Napoleonic Wars. Wealthy and independent, Shirley is very different from her friend Caroline, who has few prospects and is dependent on her uncle. Strug...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.\\''The epic poem The Iliad begins nine years after the beginning of the Trojan War and describes the great warrior Achilles and the battles and events that take place as he quarrels with the King Agamemnon. Attributed to Homer, The Iliad, along with The Odyssey, is still revered today as the oldest and finest example of W...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`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 classic story of Beauty and the Beast tells of the hunchbacked, grotesque bellringer, Quasimodo. Rejected by Parisian society because of his appearance, Quasimodo resides in Notre-Dame, harbouring a love for the ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.`Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.\\''Lily Bart, an attractive young woman living in New York City, relies on beauty and charm to ensure economic survival. Determined to marry into wealth to support her expensive lifestyle, Lily denies her feelings for Lawrence Stern due to his mode...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly and spectral.''Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine, Conan Doyle''s The Hound of the Baskervilles follows the infamous Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson as they investigate the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville, whose dead body is found on the misty and desolate Devon moors.The locals blame his death on the legend of the fearsome phantom ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.Featuring the last 12 stories ever written about the infamous detective, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes contains some of Conan Doyle''s most villainous and unusual characters.The 1920s was a disenchanting era, and the darker mood of many of these stories reflects the environment at the time. Some even felt that the stories showed Conan Doyle exploring Spiritualism as it was an area he was interested in at the tim...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and . . . he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire, and to plunge into the forest.''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. Surrounded by cruelty, Buck''s natural instincts and behaviour begin to emerge as he works...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2).Each reader includes:* A CD with a reading of the adapted story* Helpful notes on characters* Cultural and historical notes relevant ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`\\"I\\''ll not listen to reason,\\" she said, now in full possession of her voice, which had been rather choked with sobbing. \\"Reason always means what someone else has got to say.\\"\\''First published in serial format in a magazine, Gaskell\\''s Cranford is a delightfully light-hearted series of stories about early Victorian life in a country village.Following the lives of two spinster sisters, Miss Matty and ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.\\''Written at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Persuasion is a tale of love, heartache and the determination of one woman as she strives to reignite a lost love.Anne Elliot is persuaded by her friends and family to reject a marriage proposal from Captain Wentworth because he lacks in fort...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2).Each reader includes:* A CD with a reading of the adapted story.* Helpful notes on characters* Cultural and historical notes relevant...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Greedily she engorged without restraint,And knew not eating death;''Milton''s Paradise Lost is a poem of epic proportions that tells of Satan''s attempts to mislead Eve into disobeying God in the Garden of Eden, by eating from the tree of knowledge. His interpretation of the biblical story of Genesis is vivid and intense in its language, justifying the actions of God to men. In his sequel poem, Paradise Regained, ...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2).Each reader includes:* A CD with a reading of the adapted story* Helpful notes on characters* Cultural and historical notes relevant ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.''Considered one of the greatest medieval poems written in the common vernacular of the time, Dante''s Inferno begins on Good Friday in the year 1300. As he wanders through a dark forest, Dante loses his way and stumbles across the ghost of the poet Virgil. Virgil promises to lead him back to the top of the mountain, but to do so, they must...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2).Each reader includes:* A CD with a reading of the adapted story* Helpful notes on characters* Cultural and historical notes relevant ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars...First published in 1855, and edited, revised and expanded over thirty years, `Leaves of Grass\\'' has become one of the most celebrated poetry collections in the history of American literature. A master of free verse, Walt Whitman captures the true spirit of his homeland and its people through his poetry. He explores a wide range of th...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.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 and an intellectual who is paralyzed from the waist down after the First World War. Desperate for an heir and embarrassed by his inability to satisfy his wife, Clifford suggests that she have an affair. Constance, tr...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere; for a moment our wings are seen in the light of the fire, and, lo! we are gone again into the Nowhere.\\''An amazing adventure set in Africa, against the backdrop of endless deserts and snowy mountains, Kings Solomon\\''s Mines follows Allan Quartermain, in his quest to find his missing brother and unearth...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere; for a moment our wings are seen in the light of the fire, and, lo! we are gone again into the Nowhere.\\''An amazing adventure set in Africa, against the backdrop of endless deserts and snowy mountains, Kings Solomon\\''s Mines follows Allan Quartermain, in his quest to find his missing brother and unearth...