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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Collins Classics) by Jules Verne
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Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the monster turns out to be the Nautilus, a giant submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by whom ...Show more
Collins Classics: Emma by Jane Austen
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Emma vit avec son père, un vieil homme veuf et malade. Elle est belle intelligente et riche. Avec le mariage de sa gouvernante qui la quitte, Emma décide de s'occuper du mariage de nombre de ses relations. Sûre d'elle, elle est persuadée d'avoir les talents pour cette activité. Mais son inexpérience de ...Show more
Collins Classics - Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'Stars, hide your fires;Let not light see my black and deep desires.'Fresh from victory on the battlefield, the celebrated general and nobleman Macbeth receives a prophecy from three witches that he will one day become kin ...Show more
Collins Classics - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.' Huck Finn escapes from his drunken father by ...Show more
Collins Classics: The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Category: Philosophy | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
‘Opportunities multiply as they are seized.’ Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that is still revered today as the ultimate commentary on war and military strategy. Focusing on the principle that one can outsmart your foe mentally by thinking very care ...Show more
Collins Classics - The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl, and then the sad moan in which it died away. Again and again it sounded, the whole air throbbing with it, strident, wild, and ...Show more
Collins Classics - The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Meet little Mole, willful Ratty, Badger the perennial bachelor, and petulant Toad. Since their first appearance they've become emblematic archetypes of eccentricity, folly, and friendship. And their misadventures-in gypsy caravans, stolen sports cars, and their Wild Wood-continue to capture readers' ima ...Show more
Collins Classics - the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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A Collection of 12 Short Stories. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892; the individual stories had been serialised in The Strand Magazine between July ...Show more
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Category: Biography | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. As a young man struggling to find his voice as a writer, George Orwell left the comfort of home to live in the impoverished working districts of Paris and London. He would document both the chaos and boredom of de ...Show more
Dubliners: Collins Classics by James Joyce
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.' From a child coming to terms with the death of a priest to a young woman torn between leading an uneventful life in ...Show more
Emma (Collins Classics) by Jane Austen
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself...' Beautiful, rich, self-assured and witty, Emma Woodhouse delights ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
In the most famous gothic horror story ever told, Shelley confronts the limitations of science, the nature of human cruelty and the pathway to forgiveness. "The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the d ...Show more