The complete novel in an easy to read format, with detailed introduction and bespoke glossary for A Level students.

Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a expose of the "Jazz Age". Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him.

Mary Shelley's seminal tale of Victor Frankenstein and his tragic creation.

Classroom edition with supporting introduction and glossary for GCSE and A-Level students.

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The classic horror story about a scientist who creates his own human being using cadavers dug up from graveyards.

Annotated edition of the Shakespeare play, for schools use.

The classic story of a young governess, her love for her employer and the discovery of his terrible secret.

Classroom edition with supporting introduction and glossary for GCSE students.

Follows the tragic love story of Heathcliffe and Catherine Earnshaw, as discovered by a later tenant of Thrushcross Grange.

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'My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know, what you have read, and seen, and thought, I feel what a nothing I am!'

Follows the fortunes of Fanny Price when she goes to live with richer relations at Mansfield Park, and the eventual love she finds there

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Modernized and annotated edition of the play by Oliver Goldsmith.

With an Introduction and Notes by John M.L. Drew, University of Buckingham.

The classic romantic story about of a young governess, her love for her employer and the discovery of his terrible secret.

A story that begins with three young people in the garden of a country house on the hottest day of 1935, and ends with three profoundly changed lives. A depiction of love and war, class, childhood and England, that explores shame and forgiveness, atonement and the possibility of absolution.

In her first novel, award-winning Indian screenwriter Arundhati Roy conjures a whoosh of wordplay that rises from the pages like a brilliant jazz improvisation. The God of Small Things is nominally the story of young twins Rahel and Estha and the rest of their family, but the book feels like a million stories spinning out indefinitely; it is the product of a genius child-mind that takes everything in and transforms it in an alchemy of poetry. The God of Small Things is at once exotic and familiar to the Western reader, written in an English that's completely new and invigorated by the Asian Indian influences of culture and language.

Set in the deep south of America in 1962 the friendship of black maids raising the children of middle class white people

Mary Shelley's seminal tale of Victor Frankenstein and his tragic creation.

Classroom edition with supporting introduction and glossary for GCSE and A-Level students.

The classic horror story about a scientist who creates his own human being using cadavers dug up from graveyards.

Follows the tragic love story of Heathcliffe and Catherine Earnshaw, as discovered by a later tenant of Thrushcross Grange.

'My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know, what you have read, and seen, and thought, I feel what a nothing I am!'

A tale of horror, set in the Congo during the period of rapid colonial expansion in the 19th century. The story deals with the highly disturbing effects of economic, social and political exploitation of European and African societies and the cataclysmic behaviour this induced in some individuals.

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.

With an Introduction and Notes by John M.L. Drew, University of Buckingham.

Classroom edition including introduction and glossary for students.

H.G. Wells' invasion narrative, now considered a classic of science fiction.

Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster.

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Imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. This novel dramatises the author's attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world.

A story that begins with three young people in the garden of a country house on the hottest day of 1935, and ends with three profoundly changed lives. A depiction of love and war, class, childhood and England, that explores shame and forgiveness, atonement and the possibility of absolution.

The classic Victorian gothic novel about a man who exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty

No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence - that which makes its truth, its meaning - its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream - alone.

Set in a near-future New England, in a totalitarian theocracy where women are subjugated, one woman attempts to gain individualism and independence.

Controversial and compelling, "In Cold Blood" reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children.

The classic story about a strict father whose children become tangled up in a bank robbery and failed marriage ruining the family's reputation

The classic, Pulitzer-Prize winning novel that made Alice Walker a household name

The complete novel in an easy to read format, with detailed introduction and bespoke glossary for A Level students.

Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a expose of the "Jazz Age". Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him.

Mary Shelley's seminal tale of Victor Frankenstein and his tragic creation.

Classroom edition with supporting introduction and glossary for GCSE and A-Level students.

Follows the fortunes in love and society of Marianne and Elinor Dashwood.

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

Annotated edition of the Shakespeare play, for schools use.

The classic horror story about a scientist who creates his own human being using cadavers dug up from graveyards.

The classic story of a young governess, her love for her employer and the discovery of his terrible secret.

Classroom edition with supporting introduction and glossary for GCSE students.

'My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know, what you have read, and seen, and thought, I feel what a nothing I am!'

Richard III is one of the finest of Shakespeare's historical dramas. Although it has a huge cast, Richard himself, gleefully wicked, charismatically Machiavellian, always dominates the play: a role to gratify such leading actors as David Garrick, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Sher, Ian McKellen and Al Pacino. Since, in real life, political Machiavellianism is never out of date, Richard III remains perennially topical. Numerous revivals on stage and screen have demonstrated the enduring cogency of this drama about the lethally corrupting quest for power.

The science fiction classic in which a scientist builds his own time machine

Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the 'eternal triangle' of love.

With an Introduction and Notes by John M.L. Drew, University of Buckingham.

Classroom edition including introduction and glossary for students.

The classic romantic story about of a young governess, her love for her employer and the discovery of his terrible secret.

The classic Victorian gothic novel about a man who exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty

A comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities. Elinor's character is one of Augustan detachment, while Marianne, a fervent disciple of the Romantic Age, learns to curb her passionate nature in the interests of survival.

As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence. This story shows the ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age.

SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY PATTI SMITH

Collection of poems by the poet W.B. Yeats

Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance.

One of the greatest English poets, John Donne (1572-1631) was also among the most intriguing figures of his era. A sensualist who composed erotic and playful love poetry, he was raised a Catholic but later became one of the most admired Protestant preachers of his time.

Study guide for John Milton's poem Paradise Lost, suitable for all exam boards.

Collection of some of the major poetic works of the English Romantic poet

The poems selected in this volume display the extraordinary talenof Christina Rossetti, showing her to be one of the ninteenth century's most important English poets. Here, ordinary and magical worlds collide as human speak to God, poets speak to their muses and hope battles against despair. This volume also includes the bewitching fantasy 'Goblin Market', in which the mundane act of shopping becomes rife with fairy-tale enchantment and menace.

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their introductions, the selectors offer a passionate and accessible introduction to some of the greatest poets in history.

Collection of poems selected by the poet himself

A selection of poems by DH Lawrence, selected by James Fenton.

The title sequence of Making the Beds for the Dead charts the journey of the Foot and Mouth virus in 'the plague year' of 2001. It travels in silence - on a fox's paw, the beak of a kite, the wheels of a truck, 'faster than breathing' - bringing its dreadful consequences.

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in our literature.

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in our literature.

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England's best-loved poet - a writer matchlessly capable of evoking his native land and of touching all readers from the most sophisticated intellectual to the proverbial common reader. The late John Betjeman observed that 'this tenderly observant poet writes clearly, rhythmically, and thoughtfully about what all of us can understand'. Behind this modest description lies a poet who made greatness look, in Milton's prescription, 'simple, sensuous and passionate'. This collection, first published in 1967, contains many of his best-loved poems, including The Whitsun Weddings, An Arundel Tomb, Days, Mr Bleaney and MCMXIV.

Reprint of the fourth collection of works by award-winning contemporary poet Carol Ann Duffy

Seamus Heaney was 'the greatest poet of our age' (Guardian). From his remarkable debut in 1966, he pioneered the poetry of our times across five decades of cultural and political change, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995.

Ideas of separation and divorce--the geographical divides of borders, the separation of the dead and the living, the movement from childhood to adulthood, and the end of relationships--drive this poetry collection from one of Great Britain's rising young talents. The collection revolves around the poems "Y Gaer" and "The Hillfort," the titles themselves suggesting the linguistic divide in Wales, from poems concerned with childhood, a Welsh landscape, and family to an outward-looking vision that is both geographic and historic.

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps the reader to understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays.

Annotated study edition of this Shakespeare play in which an elderly king divides up his wealth between his three daughters

When Winston begins a secret relationship with his colleague Julia, he soon realises it's virtually impossible to escape the watchful eye of Big Brother

#Based on J.G Ballard's own childhood, Empire of the Sun is the extraordinary account of a boy's life in a Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai - a mesmerising and hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches, which blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint.

First published in 1953, this is Bradbury's prophetic dystopian vision of a weird but too distant future where happiness is allocated on a four-walled TV screen, where individuals, eccentrics and scholars are outcasts of society and where books are burnt by a special task-force.

Alex brings up her younger cousin Beatrice, awakening her awareness of independence, feminism and identity, as she navigates Bea's urge to "dragon".

A Jewish man survives the horrors of Auschwitz as the camp tattooist and falls in love with one of the women he meets there.

Follows the tragic love story of Heathcliffe and Catherine Earnshaw, as discovered by a later tenant of Thrushcross Grange.

I read somewhere that the decision to emigrate comes from a need to breathe.

An account of the ascent of the 21,000ft Siula Grande peak in the Peruvian Andes. Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had achieved the summit before the first disaster struck. What happened and how they dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted is the subject of this book.

Text of this classic Williams play

When a boy at school goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from episodes of Police Patrol to find him

Set in a near-future New England, in a totalitarian theocracy where women are subjugated, one woman attempts to gain individualism and independence.

Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a disillusioned teenager growing up in a small Yorkshire mining town. Violence is commonplace and he is frequently cold and hungry.

When a cosmic event renders most of the Earth's population blind, Bill Masen is one of the lucky few to retain his sight. But another menace stalks blind and sighted alike. With nobody to stop their spread the Triffids, mobile plants with stingers and carnivorous appetites, seem set to take control.

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.

Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the great twentieth-century London novels.

Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives.

From the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature - that asks, what does it mean to love?

Between life and death there is a library.

From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was white, to his first encounters with racist teachers - race and class have shaped Akala's life and outlook. In this unique book he takes his own experiences and widens them out to look at the social, historical and political factors that have left us where we are today.

The classic, Pulitzer-Prize winning novel that made Alice Walker a household name