In three beautifully crafted, dramatic acts, James's little-known novel unravels the painfully complicated emotional bonds which exist within a group of friends and lovers connected by two neighboring homes as they fight publicl...

Another thrilling mystery story in which the famous French investigative journalist Joseph Rouletabille, who was first introduced in Gaston Leroux's masterpiece The Mystery of the Yellow Room, makes his appearance before the public ag...

The passionate Andre-Louis Moreau makes an unexpected entrance into the French Revolution when he vows to avenge his best friend's death. His target: Monsieur de La Tour d'Azyr, the aristocratic villain who killed his friend. Andre-Lo...

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of h...

H. G. Wells sets forth an intriguing first-hand observation of Italy, France and Britain under severe duress during the 'War to End All Wars,' World War I. He insightfully examines the technological effects of modern warfare, particul...

1984 Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world in which privacy does not exist, news is manufactured according to the authorities' will, and those with unorthodox ideas are brainwashed or put to death. Orwell's 1949 nightmare visio...

* Mp3 CD Format *. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein, whose obsession with discovering 't...

Like her sisters Emily and Charlotte, Anne Brontë published under a male pseudonym, yet still this novel was scorned by many for its exposure of the abusive male chauvinism that was concealed, like all things sexual, during the Victo...

Jane Eyre was sent to work as a governess to the ward of Mr. Rochester. Thornfield Hall is a spooky and mysterious place with many secrets. Jane and Mr. Rochester became fond of each other and grow very fond of each other after Jane ...

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 ...

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.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the o...

Encamped in the Holy Land, the Crusaders are torn by the dissensions and jealousies of their leaders. The armys impotence is accentuated by the illness of their chief, Richard I of England. Meanwhile, a poor but doughty Scottish crusa...

Full of suspense, humor, and tenderness, Hard Times is a brilliant defense of art in an age of mechanism and a blistering portrait of Victorian England as it struggles with the massive economic turmoil brought on by the Industrial Rev...

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...

Generations of readers have enjoyed the ingenuous triumphs and feckless mishaps of boyhood days on the Mississippi. This classic of American wit and storytelling introduced Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, Aunt Polly, the Widow Douglas, an...

Deep inside the dreaded Bastille, a twenty-three-year-old prisoner called merely 'Philippe' has languished for eight long, dark years. He does not know his real name or what crime he is supposed to have committed. But Aramis, one of t...

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...

On the Road epitomized to the world the generation that Kerouac himself named as 'beat.' It created a sensation by chronicling a spontaneous and wandering way of life in a style that seemed founded both on jazz and on drug-induced vis...

In this, the fifth book in the Zion Covenant series, two families face the grim reality of life in the New Germany. Anna Lindheim's sister Helen and her pastor husband Karl Ibsen are arrested for helping the Jews, and the Ibsen childr...

This classic story encompasses the life of John Clayton, the son of English aristocrats, who was abandoned in the jungle as an infant after the untimely death of his parents. He is adopted by the caring ape Kala and is raised in her...

What seems to start out as a Christmas Eve ghost story quickly becomes a tale of psychological horror as a young governess struggles---and ultimately fails---to protect her charges from the 'corruption' that only she can conceive of.

Twists of plot, the outlaw-hero Rob Roy's cunning escapes, uprisings against English oppressors, and a young Englishman's forbidden love for a Catholic girl combine with superb period detail to make Rob Roy an absorbing tale and an in...

Dr. Frankenstein learns the secret of imparting life to inanimate matter. To test his theories, he collects bones from the charnel-houses to construct a 'human' being, and then gives it life. The creature, endowed with supernatural si...

Unlike the movie, the Cain novel features no murder. Spanning the Depression era, it is the story of a suburban California wife and mother. At the beginning of the book, Mildred turns out her husband Bert, who is jobless and philander...

David Timson received considerable praise for his vivid characters in the unabridged recording of Dickens's Our Mutual Friend. This is now presented in a more accessible format offering particularly good value. A mysterious boatman on...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Margaret Mitchell's great novel of the South is one of the most popular books ever written. Within six months of its publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind had sold a million copies. To da...

In this important American author's first novel, set in rural Maine, Nan struggles to choose between marriage and a career as a doctor, between the confining life of a small town and a self-directed one as a professional.

A dramatic anthology features five of the renowned Russian playwright's most influential and important plays, including Ivanov, The Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard, accompanied by an updated bibliograp...

‘Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.’ A successful professional man wakes up one morning to find himself under arrest for an offence which is ...