The Classics
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generatio..
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VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of Calvino's genre-switching masterwork. A book of surprise and adventure but you, the reader, are the hero. ..
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The Iliad and The Odyssey are two of the oldest works of Western literature--yet these ancient myths still offer powerful lessons for our times. From the fascinating fall of Troy to Odysseus's perilou..
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In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for Od..
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The bestselling classic about three generations of a deaf family in modern America, by the author of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Two young deaf people, Abel and Janice, leave their punitiv..
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Dante's epic is presented in this new, sumptuous and delightful clothbound edition. Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, "Inferno" depicts a cruel under..
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H. G. Wells skilfully combines tension, wit and terror in The Invisible Man, a masterpiece of science fiction. Complete & Unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunn..
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In this highly giftable volume, the best-loved legends of the Emerald Isle come to life. Discover the magic of Ireland's most treasured stories withIrish Folk and Fairy Tales. William Butler Yea..
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For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation. Its inhabitants live in a society where western science has been brought together with ea..
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From his childhood on the wild, windswept shores of Cornwall and his college days at Cambridge to his life as a lawyer in London and a fateful journey to the Mediterranean, Jacob Flanders's story is t..
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A novel of high romance and great intensity, Jane Eyre has enjoyed popular success and critical acclaim ever since its publication in 1847. Jane's journey from a troubled childhood to independence - ..
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A guaranteed best-seller - a brilliant new edition of one of Penguin's top-ten classics - more than 35k of the Black Classic edition sold every year. Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of he..
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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as..
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have a..
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Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is now available in an affordable softcover edition, featuring striking hand-painted cover art from Laci Fowler and distinctive interior design elements, making it ideal f..
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Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is now available in a fine exclusive collector's edition featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler and distinctive interior treatments, making it ideal for fic..
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Peter Benchley's Jaws first appeared in 1974. Alongside Steven Spielberg's film adaptation, the novel has sold over 20 million copies around the world, becoming a cult classic. It's never safe to..
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Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times. Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his ei..
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A collection of two remarkable short novels that epitomize the project of the nouveau roman, Jealousy and In the Labyrinth brings the reader into a world where physical space and time bend and change,..
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With new introduction by Cynthia Wall, chronology further reading, glossary, and explanatory notes. In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just fiv..
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Winner of the Smarties Gold Medal. Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. A joyous Amazon adventure set in the lush nature of Brazil, Eva Ibbotson's Journey to the River Se..
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A special hardback edition of Murakami's mesmerising and strange surreal classic, Kafka on the Shore. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author, to celebrate the forthco..
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A classics coming-of-age adventure that distils Scottishness This is the story of sixteen-year-old David Balfour, an orphan, who after being kidnapped by his villainous uncle manages to escape an..
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Richard, Duke of Gloucester - the bitter, deformed brother of the King - is secretly plotting to seize the throne of England. Charming and duplicitous, powerfully eloquent and viciously cruel, he is p..
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In this melancholy and delicately written Japanese classic, a student befriends a reclusive elder at a beach resort, who he calls Sensei. As the two grow closer, Sensei remains unwilling to shar..
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La Vita Nuova (The New Life) is Dante's first major work. Set in thirteenth century Florence, Dante describes his love for Beatrice through poems, sonnets and prose. Part of the Macmillan Collec..
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Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including..
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Famously the subject of a court case, Lawrence's final novel is one of the most notorious and passionate love stories in literature. In the bleak aftermath of World War I, Constance, Lady Chatter..
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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. ..
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Designed to appeal to book lovers everywhere, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and..
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"Les Miserables is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. First published in France in 1862, it is Victor Hugo's greatest achievement--the ultimate tale of redemption. Forme..
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In the depths of space, a group of students is pitted against each other in a brutal battle for survival-a gripping sci-fi survival horror from rising star manga artist Shiro Kuroi perfect for fans of..
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THE ORIGINAL TRANSLATION BY ROBERT CHANDLER, UPDATED AND REVISEDThe twentieth century War and Peace, a broad portrait of an age and a searing vision of Stalinist Russia, Life and Fate is also the stor..
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Considered the second book in the Little Women trilogy, Little Men is Louisa May Alcott's classic coming-of-age novel set in the Plumfield Estate School 'The small hopes and plans and pleasures o..
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A stunning reissue in Puffin Clothbound Classics of one of the world's most beloved stories A stunning hardback gift edition of one of the world's most beloved stories. The timeless, enchant..
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First published in 1943 and written by now-famous French writer Antoine de Saint Exupery, The Little Prince has grown to be a world-wide classic, loved by many. When a pilot finds himself alone ..
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic tale - beloved by children and adults alike - now in a beautiful clothbound edition Antoine de Saint-Exupery first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a y..
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A gorgeous edition of a classic tale to share with the next generation, Little Women is a coming-of-age story of virtue and true love in nineteenth-century America. A true classic, Little Women f..
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?' A..
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Louisa May Alcott's Little Women is now available in a fine exclusive collector's edition featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler and distinctive interior treatments, making it ideal for..
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Louisa May Alcott's Little Women is now available in an affordable softcover edition, featuring striking hand-painted cover art from Laci Fowler and distinctive interior design elements, making it ide..
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When Little Women was first published in 1868, it became an instant bestseller. The book's gentle lessons and charming story of four adventurous sisters coming of age in Civil War-era New England was ..
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Vladimir Nabakov's shocking masterpiece, now in a beautifully designed clothbound edition Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, fi..
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Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the best-known novels of the 20th century: the controversial story of Humbert Humbert who falls in love with twelve year old Lolita, beautifully repackaged as part ..
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Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent stepdaughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in ..
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A plane crashes on an uninhabited island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue..
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The iconic classic in a luxurious anniversary edition, with a foreword by Stephen King. 'There aren't any grown-ups anywhere.' A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a gr..
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ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD' 'The first book with hands - strong ones that reached out of the pages and seized me by the throat. It said to me, 'This is not just entertainm..
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Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, all three parts of the epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, in one paperback. Features the definitive edition of the text, fold-out flaps with the origina..
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