Classic Booklovers

Bath Classics: Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales   The Tales of Hans Christian Andersen have been part of our cultural heritage for over one hundred and fifty years. From the poignant beauty of 'The Little Mermaid' to the wry humour of 'The Emperor's New Clothes', Andersen's...

Bath Classics: The Jungle Book   Mowgli, the wolf-child, is famous around the world, read Kipling's original story and meet beloved characters such as Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther and Shere Khan the tiger. Follow Mowgli as he tries to discover where he belongs. Plus, become...

Bath Classics: Arabian Nights   Treacherous enchanters, exquisite maidens, intrepid adventurers and exotic lands-the tales of the Arabian Nights have them all. A collection of Middle Eastern folk tales which probably date back to between the tenth and fourteenth centuries, the stories...

Bath Classics: Black Beauty   Black Beauty is a handsome, sweet-tempered colt with a strong spirit. As a young colt he is free to gallop in the fresh green meadows with his beloved mother, Duchess, and their kind master. But when his owners are forced to sell him, Black Beauty goes...

Bath Classics: Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped is at once a rollicking adventure story and an earnest political allegory.  Orphaned and penniless, David Balfour sets out to find his last living relative, miserly and reclusive Uncle Ebenezer....

Bath Classics: The Swiss Family Robinson   The Swiss Family Robinson  is a story of the happy discovery of the wonders of natural history by a family shipwrecked on a desert island, who remain united through all the adversities they encounter.   Inspired by  Robinson Crusoe,...

Collins Classics: Persuasion HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.’ Written at the end of the...

The Hound Of The Baskervilles (Collins Classics) HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly and spectral.' Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine, Conan Doyle's...

Journey To The Centre Of The Earth (Collins Classics) HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `From that hour we had no further occasion for the exercise of reason, or judgment, or skill, or contrivance. We were henceforth to be hurled...

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Collins Classics) HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never...

The Art Of War (Collins Classics) HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `Opportunities multiply as they are seized.' Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that is still revered...

Gulliver’s Travels (Collins Classics) HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of...

Around The World In Eighty Days (Collins Classics) 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 ready, are economical of their steps and their motions....

The Call Of The Wild (Collins Classics) HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and . . . he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire, and to plunge into the forest.’ Half St. Bernard,...

Midsummer Night's Dream HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.   ‘My Oberon! what visions have I seen! Methought I was enamoured of an ass.’   When four young lovers flee from Athens and become lost in an enchanted wood,...

Hamlet Presents a new mass-market edition of the classic drama where Hamlet vows to avenge the murder of his father by his brother Claudius. Reissue. 15,000 first printing.

  HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee…' Few...

Word Cloud Classics: The Secret Garden The classic children's story, now available in a new package! A classic piece of children's literature first published as a novel in 1911, Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden is a story of transformation and renewal. Unwanted by...