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Great Expectations (Collins Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Great Expectations Charles Dickens Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens first serialised in All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It is regarded as one of his greatest and most sophisticated novels, and is one of his most enduringly popular, having been adapted for stage an ...Show more
Great Expectations (Collins Classics) by Charles Dickens
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule' Pip is an orphan without any expectations - he has no name, no fortune and no prospects. It is only when he begins to visit Miss Havisham, ...Show more
Grimms' Fairy Tales : Collins Classics by Brothers Grimm
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Two hundred years ago, the Brothers Grimm published their famous collection of folk tales, including these thirty much-loved stories of helpful elves; giants who can see into the next land; foolish but goodhearted lads; princesses with golden hair; faithful servants and wicked queens. This sumptuously i ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels (Collins Classics) by Jonathan Swift
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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is a witty and insightful satirical novel recounts the history of Lemuel Guliver, "First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships." In his travels Gulliver visits the Land of Lilliput, where he towers over the local inhabitants, the land of Brobdingnag where he ...Show more
Heart of Darkness (Collins Classics) by Joseph Conrad
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Heart of DarknessBy Joseph ConradHeart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State in the heart of Africa.[1] Charles Marlow, the narrator, tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. This ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
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"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism as I understand it." Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia (Collins Classics) by George Orwell
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. I sometimes fear we shall never wake till we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs In 1936, George Orwell volunteered as a soldier in the Spanish Civil War. In Homage to Catalonia, first published just before ...Show more
Jane Eyre (Collins Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
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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 as much soul as you, - and full as much heart!' Meek, measured, but determined, Jane Eyre is a child b ...Show more
Jane Eyre (Collins Classics) by Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte Bronte
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is a novel by English writer Charlotte Bront . It was published on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England, under the pen name "Currer Bell." The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. Primarily of ...Show more
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Collins Classics) by Jules Verne
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'From that hour we had no further occasion for the exercise of reason, or judgment, or skill, or contrivance. We were henceforth to be hurled along, the playthings of the fierce elements of the deep.' In Verne's sc ...Show more
Letters From A Stoic by Lucius Seneca
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. No man can live a happy life, or even a supportable life, without the study of wisdom Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-AD 65) is one of the most famous Roman philosophers. Instrumental in guiding the Roman Empire unde ...Show more
Letters From A Stoic by Lucius Seneca
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. No man can live a happy life, or even a supportable life, without the study of wisdom Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-AD 65) is one of the most famous Roman philosophers. Instrumental in guiding the Roman Empire under ...Show more