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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods.''Still considered one of the most important and groundbreaking works of science ever written, Darwin''s eminently readable exploration of the evolutionary process challenged most of the strong beliefs of the Western world. Forced ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Alas that mortalsShould blame the gods! From us, they say,All evils come. Yet they themselvesIt is who through defiant deedsBring sorrow on them-far more sorrowThan fate would have them bear.''Attributed to the blind Greek poet, Homer, The Odyssey is an epic tale about cunning and strength of mind. It takes its starting point ten years after the fall of the city of Troy and follows its Greek warrior hero Odysseus ...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2).Each reader includes:* A CD with a reading of the adapted story* Helpful notes on characters* Cultural and historical notes relevant ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`My Oberon! what visions have I seen!Methought I was enamoured of an ass.''When four young lovers flee from Athens and become lost in an enchanted wood, they stumble into a fairy world where King Oberon, and Queen Titania, are feuding over ownership of a young Indian prince. Seeking his revenge on Titania, Oberon and his servant Puck begin a magical, yet farcical chain of events where all become interwoven in a com...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2).Each reader includes:* A CD with a reading of the adapted story* Helpful notes on characters* Cultural and historical notes relevant ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.\\''One of the earliest works of `detective\\'' fiction with a narrative woven together from multiple characters, Wilkie Collins partly based his infamous novel on a real-life eighteenth century case of abduction and wrongful imprisonment. In 1859,...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Considered one of Shakespeare''s most haunting tragic-comedies, The Winter''s Tale is an in-depth analysis of the psychology of family and friendship, jealousy and love, art and nature, all illustrated in rich poetry.Based on Robert Greene''s story Pandosto, the play tells the story of Leontes, king of Sicilia, and his childhood friend, Polixenes, king of Bohemia. In a jealous rage, Leontes mistakenly accuse...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Kate Croy is a beautiful but impoverished young woman forced to live with her successful but astringent Aunt, Maude Lower. Lower intends Kate to marry the aristocratic Lord Mark, but she is already in love with a journalist, Merton Densher. Though their lack of money prevents the two from marrying, the destitute couple soon become friends with Milly Theale, an American heiress with an ambiguous ailment and a...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.''A timeless and celebrated children''s classic, Grahame''s The Wind in the Willows has delighted for nearly 100 years. In the idyllic English countryside, Mole, Badger, Rat and Toad encounter adventure at every turn - whether it''s gipsy caravans, Rat''s love for the river, or Toads passion for motorcars, the loveable...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`In fact, the fairies had turned him into a water-baby. A water-baby? You never heard of a water-baby. Perhaps not. That is the very reason why this story was written.\\''Poor Tom is an orphan, employed by the underhand Grimes as a chimney sweep. While cleaning a chimney one day, Tom becomes lost and appears in Ellie\\''s bedroom. She mistakes him for a thief and he flees in fright, down to the edge of a stream whe...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`The place, with its grey sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theatre after the performance-all strewn with crumpled playbills.''Revered as one of the greatest ghost stories ever told, James''s The Turn of the Screw is an eerie Victorian masterpiece.When an inexperienced governess goes to work at Bly, a country house in Essex to look after a young boy Miles and his sist...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.\\''Adventurous and spirited in tone, The Three Musketeers is considered one of the greatest historical French novels. When Athos, Porthos and Aramis befriend a young and determined country boy d\\''Artagnan, together they confront the scheming King\\''s Minister, Cardinal Richelieu and the female spy Milady who threaten to undermine the King. Swashbuckling, romant...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`I snapped the switch, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the far corner which made me drop my cigar and fall into a cold sweat.\\''When Richard Hannay is warned of an assassination plot that has the potential to take Britain into a war, and then a few days later discovers the murdered body of the American that warned him in his flat, he becomes a prime suspect. He flees to the moors of Scotland and a ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.\\''When Helen flees from her alcoholic husband in order to protect her son she defies societal convention. Earning a living as an artist, she becomes the mysterious tenant of Wildfell Hall as she hides herself away and uses her art to support her child. However, the beautiful and reclusive young woman soon ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`We are such stuffAs dreams are made on; and our little lifeIs rounded with a sleep.\\''Magical and dreamlike in its tone, Shakespeare\\''s The Tempest begins with a storm of epic proportions and a shipwreck. Banished from Italy, Prospero lives on a remote island with his daughter. Using his magic, he vows to seek revenge on the injustice dealt to him by his brother, but in doing so, Shakespeare questions the diffi...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Bianca is beautiful and demure, with a plethora of wood-be suitors, but marriage is forbidden until her older sister Katherina finds a suitable match. The hitch? Fiery Katherina has sworn to deny the hand or demands of any would-be suitor. That is, until she meets her match in the wily Petrucio. As Katherina\\''s own sharp tongue is met by Petrucio\\''s feigned cruelty, the `shrew\\'' apparently capitulates....

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Don\\''t you sometimes feel that this is the kind of life we were meant to live on this earth? Everything we need, everything, right here, right at our fingertips.\\''Said to be inspired by Daniel Defoe\\''s Robinson Crusoe, Wyss\\'' tale of a family stranded at sea and washed up on a tropical island has become a much-loved classic. As the Swiss pastor, his wife and four sons struggle to create a life for themselv...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.\\''After taking an elixir created in his laboratory, mild mannered Dr Jekyll is transformed into the cruel and despicable Mr Hyde. Although seemingly harmless at first, things soon descend into chaos and Jekyll quickly realises there is only one way to stop Hyde. Stevenson\\''s quintessential novella of the Victorian era epitomizes the conf...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!''It is the end of the eighteenth century, and the navy recruits the eponymous hero - the `Handsome Sailor'' - to its fleet. Accused of mutinous behaviour, Billy Budd is forced to defend himself, but his fearful, silent response soon gives way to a terrible act of violence. The consequences are disastrous, and nothing can prevent the force of judgment and eve...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`All the world''s a stage,And all the men and women merely players.''Featuring Rosalind, one of Shakespeare''s most likeable and strong female protagonists, As You Like It is a comedic play centred around concealed identity, love, exile and artifice. Banished from the court by her uncle, Rosalind flees to the forest with her cousin Celia and her jester, joining her already exiled father, and disguising herself as a...