While on a sailing holiday in the North Sea, two young Englishmen encounter suspicious German naval activity off the coast of the Frisian Islands--a discovery that leads them into a world of suspense and intrigue. Initially published ...

Former slaves describe their experiences in captivity and portray the harsh conditions faced by the slaves in everyday life in a volume that includes Frederick Douglass's remarkable autobiography, as well as The Life of Olaudah Equian...

'When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewe...

Jane Eyre (1847) has enjoyed huge popularity since first publication, and its success owes much to its exceptional emotional power. Jane Eyre, a penniless orphan, is engaged as governess at Thornfield Hall by the mysterious Mr Ro...

Randle Patrick McMurphy is a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the ward of a mental hospital and takes over. He's a life-loving fighter who rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship ...

Life in the March household is full of adventures and accidents as the four very different March sisters follow their varying paths to adulthood, always maintaining the special bond between them. Sensible Meg, impetuous Jo, shy Beth, ...

The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are gene...

Readable Classics gently edits great works of literature, retaining the original voices of the authors, making them more enjoyable and less frustrating for modern readers. Jane Austen's 1813 masterpiece humorously relates the compl...

In a case of mistaken identity, Barnaby Rudge, an eccentric half-wit, is arrested as the leader of a mob of anti-Catholic rioters during the Gordon Riots, in this grand novel of private lives and public events.

A simplified edition of the autobiographical novel whose hero, an orphan boy in nineteenth-century England, successfully overcomes an unhappy childhood.

Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the br...

Talk about respect for the feminine! Which, it turns out, is simply respect for the soul. That this author was sent by Providence...to show me the difference between convention and morality, I count as one of the great blessings of a ...

The complete text of Woolf's masterpiece Mrs. Dalloway, a poignant portrait of the thoughts and events that comprise one day in a woman's life, is accompanied by Mrs. Dalloway's Party, journal entries and letters related to the book, ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never l...

A satirical novel depicting a scientific and industrialized utopia in which Ford and Freud are worshipped, eugenics policies have eliminated class conflicts (while strengthening the division of the classes), and personal unhappiness i...

A satirical novel depicting a scientific and industrialized utopia in which Ford and Freud are worshipped, eugenics policies have eliminated class conflicts (while strengthening the division of the classes), and personal unhappiness i...

These deluxe editions are packaged with French flaps, acid-free paper, and rough front. 'This brilliant work is a frightening parody on man's return. . . to that state of darkness from which it took him thousands of years to emerge. ....

John Steinbeck’s last significant work of fiction (1952), a huge family saga based on the book of Genesis, is set in the Salinas Valley of the author’s youth. Beginning with the purchase of a parcel of rich California farm...

One of the greatest works of fiction ever written, Crime and Punishment is an intense psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, and a fascinating detective thriller instilled with philosophical, religious, and social commentar...

Mansfield Park is the longest of Jane Austen's six major novels. Fanny Price moves from poverty to the opulence of Mansfield Park at the age of ten when she is adopted by rich relations. But as she grows up she finds she is constantly...

The Time Machine, Wells' first novel (published in 1895) and The War Of The Worlds (1898), comprise two great firsts in the history of science fiction. Respectively, they were the first novels to center around time travel and the firs...

IIt's hard to talk about The Origin of Species without making statements that seem overwrought and fulsome. But it's true: this is indeed one of the most important and influential books ever written, and it is one of the very few grou...

A humorous portrait of middle-aged despair, by the celebrated Canadian novelist. It concerns the confusion into which David Staunton, a successful middle-aged writer, is thrown as a result of his father's sudden death under mysteriou...

[Henry Miller] asked me if I'd ever read Hermann Hesse. I hadn't, but I'd heard about him. Henry told me to read 'Siddhartha'. He had found a translation of it in England, and sent it to me. I read it, and thought, well, this is prett...

Classic works of humor and criticism by a revered American masterBeloved by millions, Mark Twain is the quintessential American writer. More than anyone else, his blend of skepticism, caustic wit, and sharp prose defines a certain Ame...

A Breathtaking adventure of the high seas—and a true story In 1834, Richard Henry Dana went from Harvard student to common seaman, sailing from California to Cape Horn. This journal survives as one of the most vivid accounts of the ...

Melville's 'Bartleby' is a classic American short story, a strange tale of an assiduous copyist whose catch-phrase is 'I would prefer not to.' It is joined here by two other stores from 'The Piazza Tales', Melville's idiosyncratic col...

Vladimir Nabokov’s notorious, hilarious erotic murder mystery takes the form of a monologue by his hero, Humbert Humbert, as he attempts to justify his love for and obsession with the barely adolescent Dolores Haze, known as Lol...

One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. T...

In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from 'the good fight,' For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story o...