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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'Phileas Fogg was one of those mathematically
exact people, who, never hurried and always ready, are economical
of their steps and their motions. He never made one stride too
many, always going by the shortest route. He did not give an idle
look. He did not allow himself a superfluous gesture.' When Phileas
Fogg wagers a bet that he can travel across the globe in just 80
days, little does he know about the epic journey that he is about
to undertake. With his faithful French servant, Passepartout,
Phileas Fogg embarks on the adventure of a lifetime, travelling
across four continents by whatever means he can - train, elephant,
steam ship - and experiencing endless surprises and mishaps along
the way.
'Intensely moving . . . feminist . . . a riveting tale of love' -
Observer Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her fate is merely hinted
at in a brief and violent detour within the verses of the Book of
Genesis that recount the life of Jacob and his infamous dozen sons.
Anita Diamant's The Red Tent is an extraordinary and engrossing
tale of ancient womanhood and family honour. Told in Dinah's voice,
it opens with the story of her mothers - the four wives of Jacob -
each of whom embodies unique feminine traits, and concludes with
Dinah's own startling and unforgettable story of betrayal, grief
and love. Deeply affecting and intimate, The Red Tent is a feminist
classic which combines outstandingly rich storytelling with an
original insight into women's society in a fascinating period of
early history. Such is its warmth and candour, it is guaranteed to
win the hearts and minds of women across the world.
The eccentric Mortmain family have been rattling around in a vast,
decrepit castle for years, gradually slipping into financial ruin.
Mortmain is crippled by writer's block, while his beautiful second
wife Topaz struggles to be a dutiful stepmother to Rose, Cassandra
and Thomas. Rose needs a husband, Thomas an education but Cassandra
lives for her writing. Through her gloriously witty and shrewd
diaries, she chronicles the trials of family life, the impact on
their prospects of the arrival of a glamorous American family, and
the agonies of falling in love for the first time. A wonderfully
quirky coming-of-age story, I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith,
author of The Hundred and One Dalmatians is an affectionately drawn
portrait of one of the funniest families in literature. This
beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of I Capture the
Castle is illustrated by Ruth Steed, and features an afterword by
publisher Anna South. Designed to appeal to the booklover, 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 treasure.
"Everyone has a story, and maybe everyone needs a little help
toward healing." Popular podcaster and ex-reporter Faith Byrne made
a name for herself telling stories of greatness after tragedy--but
her real life does not mirror the stories she tells. While her
daughters spend the summer in Hawaii with her ex-husband and his
new wife, she must manage life on her own. All of that changes when
she's asked to spotlight her childhood best friend's missing person
case on her podcast. Dora Crane has never accepted that her younger
daughter could be dead, keeping her home looking the same as when
her daughter disappeared. But when her husband leaves her and her
older daughter intervenes, she agrees to counseling and to pack up
her missing daughter's belongings under one condition: Faith Byrne
comes to Deep Valley and sheds light on the cold case. As the
long-abandoned investigation moves forward, old wounds and
long-buried secrets are exposed. Will these two women, whose lives
have never been the same, finally get the answers they need to
reconcile the past and the future? "This heartbreaking story will
keep you guessing--and hoping--with the turn of every redemptive
page."--ERIN BARTELS, award-winning author of The Girl Who Could
Breathe Under Water
Exam board: Edexcel, OCR, Cambridge Assessment International
Education Level & Subject: AS and A Level English Literature
First teaching: September 2015 First examination: June 2017, 2020
This edition of Mrs Dalloway provides depth and context for A Level
students, with the complete novel in an easy to read format, and a
detailed introduction and bespoke glossary written by an
experienced A Level teacher with academic expertise in the area. *
Affordable high quality complete text of Mrs Dalloway, ideal for AS
and A Level Literature * Perfectly pitched introductions provide
the depth and demand required by AS and A Level * Explore the
contemporary context, Virginia Woolf's writing, the novel's
critical reception and subsequent interpretations for a deeper
reading of the text * Expand your further reading with a list of
key articles and critical and theoretical texts * Improve your
understanding of the novel with unfamiliar concepts and
culturally-specific terms defined in the glossary
First published in 1878, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is the tragic
story of aristocrat Anna Karenina and her ill-fated affair with the
cavalry officer Count Vronsky. Although passionately in love, the
couple finds their romance doomed by the sexual mores of their time
and place, and the double standards that apply to men and women.
The tale's panoramic sweep and Tolstoy's colorful depiction of
Russia and the European continent are virtually unparalleled in
world literature. This novel, in the estimation of William
Faulkner, is 'the best ever written.' Anna Karenina is one of
Barnes & Noble's leatherbound classics. Each volume features
authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an
exquisitely designed bonded leather binding, with distinctive gilt
edging and an attractive ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable, and
collectible, these books offers hours of pleasure to readers young
and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for any home library.
J.R.R. Tolkien's writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth,
collected for the first time in one volume. J.R.R. Tolkien famously
described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a 'dark age, and not
very much of its history is (or need be) told'. And for many years
readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of
it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its
appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the
building of the Barad-dur and the rise of Sauron. It was not until
Christopher Tolkien published The Silmarillion after his father's
death that a fuller story could be told. Although much of the
book's content concerned the First Age of Middle-earth, there were
at its close two key works that revealed the tumultuous events
concerning the rise and fall of the island of Numenor. Raised out
of the Great Sea and gifted to the Men of Middle-earth as a reward
for aiding the angelic Valar and the Elves in the defeat and
capture of the Dark Lord Morgoth, the kingdom became a seat of
influence and wealth; but as the Numenoreans' power increased, the
seed of their downfall would inevitably be sown, culminating in the
Last Alliance of Elves and Men. Even greater insight into the
Second Age would be revealed in subsequent publications, first in
Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth, then expanded upon in
Christopher Tolkien's magisterial twelve-volume The History of
Middle-earth, in which he presented and discussed a wealth of
further tales written by his father, many in draft form. Now,
adhering to the timeline of 'The Tale of Years' in the appendices
to The Lord of the Rings, editor Brian Sibley has assembled into
one comprehensive volume a new chronicle of the Second Age of
Middle-earth, told substantially in the words of J.R.R. Tolkien
from the various published texts, with new illustrations in
watercolour and pencil by the doyen of Tolkien art, Alan Lee.
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Hold Up the Sky
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Cixin Liu; Narrated by Bruno Roubicek
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A Financial Times Book of the Year From the author of The
Three-Body Problem, a collection of award-winning short stories - a
breath-taking selection of diamond-hard science fiction. In Hold Up
the Sky, Cixin Liu takes us across time and space, from a rural
mountain community where elementary students must use physics to
prevent an alien invasion; to coal mines in northern China where
new technology will either save lives of unleash a fire that will
burn for centuries; to a time very much like our own, when
superstring computers predict our every move; to 10,000 years in
the future, when humanity is finally able to begin anew; to the
very collapse of the universe itself. Written between 1999 and 2017
and never before published in English, these stories came into
being during decades of major change in China and will take you
across time and space through the eyes of one of science fiction's
most visionary writers. Experience the limitless and pure joy of
Cixin Liu's writing and imagination in this stunning collection.
Praise for Cixin Liu: 'Cixin's trilogy is SF in the grand style, a
galaxy-spanning, ideas-rich narrative of invasion and war' GUARDIAN
'Wildly imaginative, really interesting ... The scope of it was
immense' BARACK OBAMA, 44th President of the United States 'A
unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics
and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology' GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke' NEW YORKER
In 1892 a furious Charlotte Perkins Gilman put pen to paper and
created the avant-garde feminist work The Yellow Wallpaper as a
warning - in this haunting Gothic tale, a woman is confined to a
room and forbidden to do anything interesting - and she loses her
mind. In 1887, following a severe nervous breakdown, Gilman had
been sent to a leading neurologist, she explains in 'Why I Wrote
The Yellow Wallpaper', also included in this volume. He was a 'wise
man' who 'put me to bed and applied the rest cure... and sent me
home with solemn advice to "live as domestic a life as far as
possible"... and "never to touch pen, brush or pencil again" as
long as I lived. I went home and obeyed those directions for some
three months, and came so near the borderline of utter mental ruin
that I could see over.' The Yellow Wallpaper is both a haunting
illustration of the treatment of mental health and a chilling
Gothic tale, and this new edition makes it ready to enchant another
generation of readers.
HarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'My life looks as if it had been wasted for
want of chances! When I see what you know, what you have read, and
seen, and thought, I feel what a nothing I am!' Challenging the
hypocrisy and social conventions of the rural Victorian world, Tess
of the D'Urbervilles follows the story of Tess Durbeyfield as she
attempts to escape the poverty of her background, seeking wealth by
claiming connection with the aristocratic D'Urberville family. It
is through Tess's relationships with two very different men that
Hardy tells the story of his tragic heroine, and exposes the double
standards of the world that she inhabits with searing pathos and
heart-rending sentiment.
The Burglar's Christmas was originally published near the beginning
of Willa Cather's writing career in 1896 under the pseudonym of
Elizabeth L. Seymour. The story follows William Crawford on the
cold streets of Chicago as he contemplates the multiple failures
plaguing his life, including his time at college and careers in
journalism, real estate, and performing. Distraught, he tries one
more role: thief. Attempting to burgle a residence and caught in
the act by the lady of the house, William must come to terms with
the choices that led him to that moment. Cather provides a
heartwarming short story of redemption and love at Christmas, a
timely reminder that kindness is in everyone, just waiting to be
uncovered.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. "I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a
magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man -
the mystery, the power, the freedom." Griffin, a stranger, arrives
at the local inn of an English village, entirely shrouded in
bandages. Forbidding and unfriendly, he confines himself to his
room. Driven away by the villagers and turning to an old friend for
help, Griffin reveals that he has discovered how to make himself
invisible, and plans to use his condition for treacherous ends. But
when his friend refuses to join his quest, Griffin turns murderous,
threatening to seek revenge on all who have betrayed him. H. G.
Wells' controversial works are considered modern classics of the
science fiction genre. Originally serialised in 1897, The Invisible
Man is a fascinating exploration of power, corruption and science.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. 'Let there be spaces in your
togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.'
A prophet waits to board a ship after 12 years away from his
homeland. His journey is interrupted by a group of people who ask
him to impart his wisdom before he leaves forever. What follows are
26 short chapters on everything from love, marriage and children,
to freedom, reason, talking, time and death. A guide to life and
the human condition, this lyrical work of prose poetry has
entranced readers for nearly 100 years. Described by many as the
first self-help book, The Prophet was an instant bestseller when it
was published in 1923, and is one of the most translated works in
history.
Written at the height of his powers immediately after "Brave New
World," Aldous Huxley's highly acclaimed "Eyeless in Gaza" is his
most personal novel. Huxley's bold, nontraditional narrative tells
the loosely autobiographical story of Anthony Beavis, a cynical
libertine Oxford graduate who comes of age in the vacuum left by
World War I. Unfulfilled by his life, loves, and adventures,
Anthony is persuaded by a charismatic friend to become a Marxist
and take up arms with Mexican revolutionaries. But when their
disastrous embrace of violence nearly kills them, Anthony is left
shattered--and is forced to find an alternative to the moral
disillusionment of the modern world.
When sparks begin to fly, can a friendship cast in iron be shaped
into something more? Mariah Stover is left for dead and with no
memory when the Deadeye Gang robs the stagecoach she's riding in,
killing both her father and brother. As she takes over her father's
blacksmith shop and tries to move forward, she soon finds herself
in jeopardy and wondering--does someone know she witnessed the
robbery and is still alive? Handsome and polished Clint Roberts
escaped to western Wyoming, leaving his painful memories behind.
Hoping for a fresh start, he opens a diner where he creates fine
dishes, but is met with harsh resistance from the townsfolk, who
prefer to stick to their old ways. Clint and Mariah are drawn
together by the trials they face in town, and Clint is determined
to protect Mariah at all costs when danger descends upon her home.
As threats pursue them from every side, will they survive to build
a life forged in love?
A powerful and thrilling account of man's dual nature. "Edward
Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil." The mysterious
association between respectable Dr Henry Jekyll and despicable
lowlife Edward Hyde is a puzzle to Dr Jekyll's friends, including
his lawyer Gabriel Utterson. Where Jekyll is sociable, hardworking
and pious, Hyde is a violent criminal, a wild hedonist. When Hyde
beats a member of Parliament to death, Utterson is determined to
discover the ties that bind the two men together. . . Robert Louis
Stevenson's account of man's capacity for evil is as powerful today
as it was on first publication in 1886. The classic tale has
inspired film and television adaptations as well as numerous
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Collect them all! A Christmas Carol Black Beauty Five Children and
It Frankenstein Jane Eyre Macbeth Oliver Twist Romeo and Juliet
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Treasure Island What Katy Did
Northanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland
who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy,
sophisticated world of Bath in the late 1790s. Austen observes with
insight and humour the interaction between Catherine and the
various characters whom she meets there, and tracks her growing
understanding of the world about her.
'You said I killed you - haunt me, then!' Wuthering Heights is one
of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also
one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and
unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the
foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its
first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity,
Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child when Catherine's
father finds him wandering alone through the slave-trading port of
Liverpool. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff and Catherine find
refuge in each other when the household falls into the hands of
Catherine's dissolute older brother. Their bond deepens as they
escape together from the violence and stern religion of their home
to the Yorkshire moors. But the story of Catherine and Heathcliff's
attachment transforms from intimacy to strife when Catherine
marries the refined Edgar Linton. The ensuing story of violence and
thwarted passion is one of the most powerful tales of the gothic
tradition, a literary mode from which Emily Bronte wrings all of
its terrifying potential. A regional novel with a global reach, a
work of sensational effects with a startling ethical core,
Wuthering Heights is both a romantic melodrama and wrenching study
of the difficulty of escaping from the legacies of violence. This
edition reproduces the authoritative Clarendon text, with revised
and expanded notes and a selection from the poems of Emily Bronte.
Occult or psychic detective tales have been chilling readers for
almost as long as there have been ghost stories. This beguiling
subgenre follows specialists in occult lore - often with years of
arcane training - investigating strange supernatural occurrences
and pitting their wits against the bizarre and inexplicable. With
tales featuring the most prominent psychic detectives such as
William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki, the Ghost Finder and Algernon
Blackwood's Dr. Silence, this new collection also includes rare and
never-before-reprinted cases investigated by the likes of Flaxman
Low, Cosmo Thor, Aylmer Vance and Mesmer Milann.
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