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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Now seen as one of the great English comic novels, `Tristram Shandy'' caused a stir on publication in polite 18th-century English society. The novel broke with conventions of form and structure, foreshadowing postmodern authors by 200 years, and scandalized with bawdy descriptions and rambling prose. Hugely influenced by Francis Bacon, Rabelais and Jonathan Swift, clergyman Lawrence Sterne manages to both el...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.`There was a contagion in the very air that blew from that haunted region; it breathed forth an atmosphere of dreams and fancies infecting all the land.''Featuring `The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'' and `Rip Van Winkle'', this collection of inspired essays, stories and sketches established Washington Irving''s reputation as one of America''s foremost authors. Irving''s timeless characters, including Ichabod Cran...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.''The lights of Hollywood do little to distract Cecelia as she watches Monroe Stahr, wunderkind studio executive and object of her desire, descend into a reckless and ardent love affair with an auspicious starlet - an affair that threatens to destroy his reign as the Silver Screen''s golden boy. In this tragic tale Fitzgerald exposes the cor...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`Death and honour are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.''Set in frontier America in the midst of the French-Indian war, as the French are attempting to overthrow an English fort, Cooper''s story follows Alice and Cora Munro, pioneer sisters who are trying to find their way back to their father, an English commander. Guided by an army major and Magua, an Indian from the Huron ...

From Collins Classics and the author of `The Great Gatsby'' comes this razor-sharp satire on the excesses of the Jazz Age.From the author of The Great Gatsby, a tale of marriage and disappointment in the Roaring Twenties.Fitzgerald''s rich and detailed novel of the decadent Jazz Era follows the beautiful and vibrant Anthony Patch and his wife Gloria as they navigate the heady lifestyle of the young and wealthy in 1920s New York. Patch is the presumptive heir to his grandfather''s fortune, and ke...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn''t give myself.''Heralded as one of the first instances of feminist literature and rejected at its time of publication by the literary set on grounds of moral distaste, Kate Chopin''s The Awakening caused consternation in 1899.Constrained and confined by the limitations surrounding marriage and motherhood in the ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`Sleep went quite away. I used to rise in the night, look round for her, beseech her earnestly to return. A rattle of the window, a cry of the blast only replied - Sleep never came!''Based on Charlotte Bronte''s own experiences as a governess in Brussels, her last novel tells the story of lonely Lucy Snowe who finds employment at a girls'' boarding school in the town of Villette. Finding the students challenging and ex...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.`The girl he had come across ... that human being so near and still so strange, gave him a greater sense of his own reality than he had ever known in all his life.\\''Damaged by his father\\''s nihilistic philosophy, Axel Heyst has withdrawn from the world to live in near-isolation on the island of Samburan. His solitude ends when he rescues an English girl from her preying patron, but their heady existence ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts...\\''Self-serving social climber and anti-heroine Becky Sharp will do anything to raise her status and attain wealth and standing with smart Society. Clever, lively and resourceful, orphan Becky is the the total opposite of her naive and sentimental schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a pampered, yet good-natured girl fr...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.From the author of `Tess of the D''Urbervilles'', `Under the Greenwood Tree'' is a tale of love, tragedy and the changing charm of traditional village life when it is met with the cold reality of modernity.Centring on the quaint rural village of Mellstock, set deep within Hardy''s imagined and picturesque county of Wessex, the novel revolves around a double plot of the hopeful love story of Dick Dewey and Fa...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`One thing is certain, - that there is a mustering among the masses, the world over; and there is a dis irae coming on, sooner or later.''Viewed by many as fuelling the abolitionist movement of the 1850s and laying the groundwork for the Civil War, Harriet Beecher Stowe''s sentimental and moral tale of slaves attempting to secure their freedom was one of the most popular books of the nineteenth century. Centred round t...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''Fifteen men on the dead man\\''s chest -Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!\\''Upon finding a map in his parents\\'' inn, young Jim Hawkins joins a crew on route to the Caribbean to find buried treasure. One of his crew, the charming, yet devious Long John Silver is determined to snag the booty for himself and Jim\\''s swashbuckling voyage becomes a mutinous and murderous adventure - where his own bravery is put to ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''I am the Ghost of Christmas Present,\\'' said the Spirit. \\''Look upon me!\\''A celebration of Christmas, a tale of redemption and a critique on Victorian society, Dickens\\'' atmospheric novella follows the miserly, penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge who views Christmas as \\''humbug\\''. It is only through a series of eerie, life-changing visits from the ghost of his deceased business partner Marley and the spi...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`\\"For,\\" said he, \\"there never was nor is there one chaste woman upon the face of earth.\\"\\''A collection of Persian, Arabian and Indian tales dating from the 9th century, Sir Richard Burton\\''s most well-known translation of Arabian Nights brings together ancient folklore and stories passed down from generation to generation.Featuring tales about love, history, tragedy and comedy as well as fables and fair...

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.Hugely ambitious in its historical focus and vast geographical scope, Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare''s most astonishing tragedies. The drama centres on the relationships between his main protagonists, Octavius Ceasar, Mark Antony and Cleopatra, and the highly charged affair between Mark Antony and the Egyptian queen that forms the backdrop to the pervading theme of struggle between East and West...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are expecting a young orphan boy to help them with farmwork at Green Gables. But when a skinny, red-haired girl turns up instead, immediately certain she\\''s home, they get much more than they bargained for. Spirited, adventurous and imaginative, Anne Shirley quickly charms her way into the hearts of the Cuthberts, the entire town of Avonlea and, over 100 years later, the hearts...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbours.\\''An epic study of provincial life at a time when England was facing rapid industrialization and increasingly fluid social mobility, Eliot\\''s depiction of the small community of Middlemarch weaves an intricate web of different characters disparate lives as they strive to adapt to the changing world arou...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.`It''s only because of their stupidity that they''re able to be so sure of themselves.''On the morning of his thirtieth birthday Josef K. is arrested for an unspecified crime. One morning Gregor Samsa opens his eyes to discover that he has been transformed into a monstrous bug. Josef K. finds himself drawn into a quasi-legal labyrinth, while Gregor is imprisoned in his own horrific body. Strange and provocat...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`We\\''re their slaves as long as we can work; we pile up their fortunes with the sweat of our brows, and yet we are to live as separate as if we were in two worlds...\\''Based in the industrial unrest of 1840s Manchester, Mary Barton is a factory-worker\\''s daughter living a working-class life in Victorian England. She soon attracts the attentions of the mill-owner\\''s son, Harry Carson, and in the hope that mar...