Fate favours the infant son of John and Alice Clayton when he is found and adopted by a female ape after the death of his parents. Growing up in th...

H.P. Lovecraft was a pioneer of modern horror fiction, his uncanny tales melding haunting gothic prose with colossal fantasy. This collection bring...

Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles, heralds the return of Sherlock Holmes after his apparent death in The Final ...

When shy Fanny Price arrives at Mansfield Park to live with her cousins, she is overwhelmed and only put at ease by her cousin, Edmund Bertram, who...

In my job, when I come up against a man like this one, I have another motto. It's 'live and let die'.British Secret Service agent Bond is sent to N...

This is gold, Mr. Bond. All my life I've been in love its colour, its brilliance, its divine heaviness. But, above all I love the power that gold a...

As a young, independent woman taking over the running of a rural estate, Bathsheba Everdene attracts the attentions of three very different men: a ...

'The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher...

An erotic masterpiece of twentieth century fiction - a tale of sensual obsession and bloodlust in eighteenth century Paris 'An astonishing tour ...

Set in 1790, 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' tells the tale of superstitious schoolmaster Ichabod Crane who seeks the hand of Katrina, but finds he h...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's great novel explores Puritan conscience and the mystery of sin through the story of Hester Prynne, a woman shamed as an adult...

A young governess is employed to look after two enchantingly beautiful orphans. Striving to protect the children, she becomes obsessed with the ide...

Inferno is the first part of the epic poem: The Divine Comedy, one of the greatest works of western literature. In inferno, Dante imagines the afte...

Northanger Abbey is the light-hearted account of a young girl's first excursion into fashionable society. While in Bath, Catherine Morland is invit...

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner is a powerful modernist classic that follows the Bundren family’s arduous journey across rural Mississippi to fu...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. George Bernard Shaw's classic play and satire o...

Brilliantly imaginative fiction or the shape of things to come? H.G. Wells's masterpiece still retains its power to provoke and enthral. In the ...

Read F Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel of love, money, revenge and betrayal set in Jazz Age America. Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his ...

It's never safe to go back in the water. Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary with 20 million copies sold, Peter Benchley's Jaws is the gripping pu...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist' IndependentWith its 'light and bright and spark...

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 d...

'The very best story of diablerie which I have read for many years' Arthur Conan Doyle A masterpiece of the horror genre, Dracula also probes id...