HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.' After taking an elixir created in his laboratory, mild mannered Dr Jekyll is transformed into the cruel and despicable Mr Hyde. Although ...
Mrs Dalloway is a novel that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I. It is one of Woolf’s best-known novels. In this Reader you will find: Information about Virginia Woolf life | Sections focusing on background and context | Glossary | Comprehension activities Tags Love | ...
The story of a boy who never grew up, with his friends Wendy and the jealous fairy Tinker Bell. Why are there no Lost Girls in Neverland? What did the crocodile want to eat? Find out in this new edition of the classic story, Peter Pan. Stage 2 - Young ELI Readers - below A1.1 New edition with Multi-ROM ...
Charlotte Brontë leghíresebb regénye, a Jane Eyre rengeteget elárul szerzőjéről: életrajzi elemekből építi fel Jane gyermekkorának keserves éveit, és lelke legmélyéből veszi hősnőjének törhetetlen, makacs jellemét is. A regény romantikus cselekménye és érzelmessége révén már első megjelenésekor nagy ...
A beautiful new edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald''''s classic novel The Great Gatsby to coincide with the release of Baz Luhrmann''''s film. ''''There was music from my neighbour''''s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the ...
"Oliver Twist" (1838) is one of the best loved and darkest of Dickens'' novels and presents some of the most memorable of Dickens'' great characters, from the rascal antics of street urchin the Artful Dodger, the manipulative seediness of Fagin and the threatening brutality of Bill Sykes, to the kindness ...
Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, ''A Room of One''s Own'' interweaves Woolf''s personal experience as a female writer with themes ranging from Austen and Bronte to Shakespeare''s gifted (and imaginary) sister. ''Three Guineas'', Woolf''s most impassioned polemic, came ...
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 ...
John Bunyan’s much-loved allegory, telling the story of Christian and his journey to the Celestial City. The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan’s masterful religious allegory, narrates the journey of an everyman hero, Christian, as he attempts to navigate the trials and tribulations of this world, the City ...
In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written, and he can be seen to take advantage of new, more open conventions in fiction. Suicide as a murder weapon ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 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 youth. But as ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ''If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.'' A comedic romance of mistaken identity, Twelfth Night begins with a shipwreck, splitting up Viola ...
An ancient Greek epic which underpins the whole of western literature, Homer''s "The Iliad" is a timeless evocation of the struggle to retain a sense of honour and virtue amidst the horrors of war. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated with an introduction by Martin Hammond. "The Iliad" is the ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ''''Alas that mortals Should blame the gods! From us, they say, All evils come. Yet they themselves It is who through defiant deeds Bring sorrow on them-far more sorrow Than fate would have them bear.'''' Attributed to ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including ...
''The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick,'' said the Witch; ''so you cannot miss it. When you get to Oz do not be afraid of him, but tell your story and ask him to help you.'' A cyclone hits Kansas and whirls away Dorothy and her little dog Toto to the magical Land of Oz, where wild ...
The definitive text of Jane Austen''s penetrating and sparkling satire, "Emma", this "Penguin Classics Edition" includes an introduction by Fiona Stafford. Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, rich - and fiercely independent - is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ''Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire ...
''''there were only seven out of the twenty-six on whom we knew we could rely; and out of those seven one was a boy.'''' When a mysterious seafarer puts up at the Admiral Benbow, young Jim Hawkins is haunted by his frightening tales; the sailor''''s sudden death is the beginning of one of the most exciting ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ''He felt that in this crisis his laws of life were useless. Whatever he had learned of himself was here of no avail. He was an unknown quantity.'' Following one soldier''s journey from naive recruit to hardened survivor, ...
