Power, corruption and betrayal are at the heart of Shakespeare′s most well-known historical and political drama. As Julius Caesar moves closer to securing power for himself and is perceived by some as
′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 w
′Up on the Alp with grandfather is the loveliest spot in all the world.′Little orphan Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in his remote house in the Swiss Alps. She soon begins to love her life
‘“Come along, Toto,” she said. “We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to Kansas again.”’Swept away from her home in Kansas by a tornado, Dorothy and her dog Toto find the
′I snapped the switch, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the far corner which made me drop my cigar and fall into a cold sweat.′When Richard Hannay is warned of an assassination plot
′London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.′Including some of Oscar Wilde′s most well-known and infamous plays, Lady
′Look! You want to see! See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik′s face! Now you know the face of the voice!′Living secretly beneath the Paris Opera House, ′The Phantom
′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
‘I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world…’ In London, 188
'Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of Baker Street would have failed to recognize him. His face flushed a
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it. Aft
Originally published in 1903-1904, THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES is the thirteen-story collection of one of the greatest-ever fictional detectives. Three years after the supposed death of Sherlock Hol
′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 th
