′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
′I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.′Orphaned as a young teenager, Lowlander David Balfour′s only relative is his
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW is a gothic short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, England, and
′Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.′One of Shakespeare′s most witty and enjoyable comedies, Much Ado About Nothing is a play that explores courtship, romance and marriage through a number of re
′The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.′One of the earliest works
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,
Almost a century before A GAME OF THRONES, two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros… A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R.R. Martin’s ongoing mast
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.My Antonia is Willa Cather’s masterpiece about 19th-century Nebraskan pioneers.My Antonia depicts the pioneerin
′One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.′Revealing the truths and realities about
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.“In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!' (from 'The Ugly Duckl
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Second to the right … and then straight on till morning!’ Desperate to hear bedtime stories, Peter Pan waits
′Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.′Set before the Jacobite Rising in 1715, Scott drew upon the political and economic struggles leading up to the rising in his fictional work t
′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
′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
′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 conve
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 spirits of Christmas past, present and future that he begins to see the error of his ways. With heart-rending characters, rich imagery and evocative language, the message of A Christmas Carol remains as significant today as when it was first published.
The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her cl
′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 lif
