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Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved,
essential classics.
Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a
devil?
Set on the bleak moors of Yorkshire, Lockwood is forced to seek
shelter at Wuthering Heights, the home of his new landlord,
Heathcliff. The intense and wildly passionate Heathcliff tells the
story of his life, his all-consuming love for Catherine Earnshaw
and the doomed outcome of that relationship, leading to his
revenge.
Poetic, complex and grand in its scope, Emily Bronte's
masterpiece is considered one of the most unique gothic novels of
its time."
East Berlin 1968: a city recovering from the horrors of WWII and where
the state police, the Stasi, cultivate a climate of paranoia and fear.
In a place where your closest friend or family member could be a state
informer, the threat of violence is ever present and no one knows this
more than damaged school teacher Sebastian Metzger. But something evil
and ancient is stalking Metzger from the shadows of war–torn
buildings–something which threatens the city and perhaps even the
future of humanity itself. Tiny Acts of Violence is a stunning horror
graphic novel from Martin Stiff, writer and illustrator of the
critically acclaimed and award-nominated The Absence. “It’s an erudite
indictment of social conditioning - - it goes beyond The Lives of
Others in its critique of the Stasi.” Pat Mills (Charley’s War,
Spacewarp) “Has the feel of a long-unearthed Hitchcock… A highly
effective thriller” Rob Williams (Old Haunts, Judge Dredd) “The
atmosphere of menace and state control-induced paranoia drops from it’s
pages.” Simon Furman (Transformers, To The Death) “Gorgeously moody,
graphically striking and brilliantly cinematic” Andrew Cartmel (The
Vinyl Detective, Doctor Who)
Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the ‘Jazz Age’.
Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him.
The Great Gatsby is an undisputed classic of American literature from the period following the First World War and is one of the great novels of the twentieth century.
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Basil
(Paperback)
William Wilkie Collins
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Discovery Miles 5 330
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Sybil
(Paperback)
Benjamin Disraeli
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R883
Discovery Miles 8 830
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is
not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you
many strange things.' Earnest and naive solicitor Jonathan Harker
travels to Transylvania to organise the estate of the infamous
Count Dracula at his crumbling castle in the ominous Carpathian
Mountains. Through notes and diary entries, Harker keeps track of
the horrors and terrors that beset him at the castle, telling his
fiance Mina of the Count's supernatural powers and his own
imprisonment. Although Harker eventually manages to escape and
reunite with Mina, his experiences have led to a mental breakdown
of sorts. Meanwhile in England, Mina's friend Lucy has been bitten
and begins to turn into a vampire. With the help of Professor Van
Helsing, a previous suitor of Lucy's, Seward, and Lucy's fiance
Holmwood attempt to thwart Count Dracula and his attempts on Lucy
and consequently Mina's life. Arguably the most enduring Gothic
novel of the 19th Century, Bram Stoker's Dracula is as chilling
today in its depiction of the vampire world and its exploration of
Victorian values as it was at its time of publication.
Who is trying to destroy Barclay Clements' fragile wife Nicky? The
mysterious figure from her past? Or someone closer to home? Someone
they look upon as a friend? This is Michael Limmer's fourth
full-length thriller, his previous being A Heart to Betray (2015).
All profi ts from his writings are shared between three Christian
charities: Support for Romania, assisting poor and homeless
families in that country; Starfi sh Asia, helping educate children
from the poorest families in Pakistan; and Barnabas Fund, aiding
persecuted Christian minorities world-wide.
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