In late 1927, at the age of twenty-four, George Orwell relocated to a tiny flat on London’s Portobello Road, and from there embarked on a series of...

Having crash-landed in the Sahara desert, a pilot comes across a young boy who introduces himself as the Little Prince and tells him the story of h...

On his thirtieth birthday, the bank clerk Josef K. is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents for an unspecified crime. He is told that he will be s...

When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the p...

Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published.Billy Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant, succes...

First published in 1897, Bram Stoker’s classic tale of a group of English friends tormented by a ruthless vampire returns in this eerie edition wit...

Young Pip seems destined to follow in his family's humble footsteps. Then one day, an anonymous gift suddenly transforms him into a rich young man ...

The young puppet Pinocchio dreams of becoming a real boy. But whenever he tries to prove himself worthy of the transformation, he falls into mischi...

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of f...

Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature. First performed ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a friend's copy of Tender Is the Night, "If you liked The Great Gatsby, for God's sake read this. Gatsby was a tour de...

Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesA stolen weapon. A troubled young man. A race against time...Inspector Maigret receives a call f...

The greatest ever war novel in the history of literature- Thomas MannThis handsome 2-book boxed set brings together Tolstoy's epic novel War and Pe...

Mr Bliss, a man notable for his immensely tall hats and for the girabbit in his garden, takes the whimsical decision to buy a motor car. But his fi...

With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novel...

Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and she became 'show pupil' - a little p...

Hans Christian Andersen is the best-loved of all tellers of fairy tales. This collection of over forty of Andersen's most popular stories includes ...

When fifteen-year-old orphan John Trenchard is banished by his Aunt Jane, he goes to live at the local inn with the mysterious Elzevir Block, whose...

Sensual, dark and thrilling, Bram Stoker’s Dracula remains the seminal work of Gothic fiction.When Jonathan Harker is summoned to Transylvania to f...

Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him int...

Step inside the worlds of classic children's books, look through the contents of Sherlock’s deducting bag and pore over the map of Neverland.Illust...

Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley's seminal novel has generated countless print, stage and screen adaptations, but none has ever m...

Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this charming edition of The Three Musk...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Charles Dickens’s classic tale of miserly Ebenezer Scroog...