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The Teachings of a Stoic: Selected Discourses and the Encheiridion (Collins Classics) by Epictetus
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.The discourses of the great Stoic philosopher Epictetus are regarded as some of the most influential teachings of the ancient world. Born into slavery and sent into exile before setting up a school of philosophy, Ep ...Show more
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
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 generations to come. That girl didn't want to die. She just wanted out of that house. She wanted out of that dec ...Show more
The Voyages of Dr Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. After rescuing an injured squirrel, Tommy Stubbins is directed to the offices of Doctor John Dolittle and is amazed to discover a house full of exotic creatures. Under the tutelage of Polynesia the parrot, Tommy be ...Show more
The War of The Worlds by H. G. Wells
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
When a strange, meteor-like object lands in the heart of England, the inhabitants of Earth find themselves victims of a terrible attack. A ruthless race of Martians, armed with heat rays and poisonous smoke, is intent on destroying everything that stands in its way. As the unnamed hero struggles to find ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
The Waves is an experimental novel by using English writer Virginia Woolf, first posted in 1931. The book has seven characters: Bernard (a story-teller), Louis (an outsider), Neville (who may also were partially based totally on Lytton Strachey), Jinny (a socialite), Susan (a mom), Rhoda (a solitary fem ...Show more
The Waves (Collins Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, 'Consume me'Six friends traverse the uneven road of life together in Virginia Woolf's most unconventional classic. Bernard, Jinny, Louis, Nev ...Show more
The Woman In White (Collins Classics) by Wilkie Collins
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.One woman ...Show more
The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (Collins Classics) by Mary Seacole
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Unless I am allowed to tell the story of my life in my own way, I cannot tell it at all Mary Seacole - traveller, nurse, businesswoman and radical for her time - defied a prejudiced British government to care for ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
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 generations to come. A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty John Gregory Dunne and Joan ...Show more
The Yellow Wallpaper & Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will' Hailed as one of the most distinctive and compelling literary voices of her era, Charlotte Perkins Gilman is praised today for her ...Show more
The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.'There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will'Hailed as one of the most distinctive and compelling literary voices of her era, Charlotte Perkins Gilman is praised today for her gro ...Show more
Through the Looking Glass (Collins Classics) by Lewis Carroll
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Through the Looking-Glass is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Through The Looking-Glass is notable for being tonally and thematically opposite to the first novel, with settings and motifs being direct contrasts to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Despite not being as popular as Al ...Show more