With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with...View more

With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading This Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine, the only child of wealthy...View more

With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. ‘Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes’ – The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in...View more

James Joyce’s astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom’s voluptuous...View more

With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University,Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf’s singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break...View more

Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is...View more

Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English...View more

With an Introduction by Henry and Olga Claridge, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translated by Louise & Aylmer Maude. War and Peace is a vast epic centred on...View more

'My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know'. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes first introduced Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant...View more

With an Introduction and Notes by Joe Andrew, Professor of Russian Literature, Keele University. Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of...View more

With a new Introduction by Dr Cedric Watts, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Sussex. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham A Christmas Carol has become a...View more

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Phileas Fogg was one of those mathematically exact people, who, never hurried and always...View more