Literary studies: general books

Four hundred lusty squires were there to be clad In knight's full garb with Siegfried. Full many a beauteous maid...  Read More >>

Maurice-Marie-Emile Leblanc (1864-1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the...  Read More >>

Beautiful and secretive, Helen Graham has recently moved into Wildfell Hall. Her reclusive behaviour quickly makes...  Read More >>

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1750 Edition.  Read More >>

One of the group of prose romances which Morris wrote towards the end of his life and which Yeats tells us that...  Read More >>

Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as ""one of the summits of human achievement,"" this 1903 novel satirizes the hypocrisy...  Read More >>

Kate Croy and Merton Densher, poor and secretly engaged, try to encourage the interest of Milly Theale, a fatally...  Read More >>

In this classic Swedish folk tale, Nils is shrunk to a tiny size by a dwarf, and carried across Sweden by a flock...  Read More >>

After a ferry accident on San Francisco Bay, literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden is swept out to sea only to be...  Read More >>

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.  Read More >>

Sent out to Russia by the Foreign Office in 1916, Jerry Lawrence and Henry Bohun find themselves unlikely travelling...  Read More >>

This is the book that shaped the landscape of contemporary science fiction. J. R. R. Tolkien acclaimed its author...  Read More >>

""Huxley has never written a richer book."" The Nation  Read More >>

Yama Aleksandr Kuprin Yama (The Pit) recounts the lives of a group of prostitutes living and working in Anna...  Read More >>

This underground sensation, with heretofore unpublished material by the author, will be released as a movie in 2013....  Read More >>

Thus Spake Zarathustra was Friedrich Nietzsche's favorite of the books he wrote, and has been his most popular amongst...  Read More >>

A new translation by Scot James Hogarth for the first unabridged English edition of the novel, which tells the story...  Read More >>

Tono-Bungay is a realist semi-autobiographical novel written by H. G. Wells and published in 1909. It has been called...  Read More >>

Major work from the American social worker, sociologist, philosopher and reformer, known in America as the mother...  Read More >>

If an advanced civilization were to visit our planet today, would they be impressed or dismayed?  Read More >>

Les Liaisons dangereuses better known as Dangerous Liaisons is a French epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de...  Read More >>

Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, about a mysterious con man and his victims, is reissued here.  Read More >>

John Dewey’s Democracy and Education (1916) transformed how people around the world view the purposes of schooling....  Read More >>

Downstream Sigfrid Siwertz The five Selambs siblings have suffered the death of their mother and the incapacitation...  Read More >>

An impossible but entertaining tale of love and adventure during the French Revolution. The Scarlet Pimpernel gay...  Read More >>