Classic Fiction

Anthony C. Yu's translation of The Journey to the West, initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese n...

The first of Roussels two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventur...

Anthony C. Yu's translation of The Journey to the West, initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese n...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it pu...

In The Death of a Civil Servant, an administrative clerk accidentally sneezes on a hierarchical superior at the opera, which results in great embar...

First published in 1939, a few years before his most influential works in theatre and philosophy, The Wall was Sartre''s first and only collection ...

A glorious exercise in cheeky punmanship, The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders sees Jonathan Swift in fine scatological form. Flying by the seat of his ...

The civil servant Ivan Matveich and his wife Yelena Ivanovna are spectators of an exhibition in a shopping arcade of a crocodile owned by a Germa...

During a stifling St Petersburg summer, the rich landowner Velchaninov is haunted by the figure of a man he keeps glimpsing in the street. When he ...

Alexander Pope was, at one time, the worlds most celebrated poet. His trenchant satirical works in which the foibles of all the critics, hacks and...

After being saved from a suicide attempt by the appearance of a literary editor, the journalist and failed novelist Sergei Maxudov has a book sudde...

Never published in its authors lifetime and intended solely for his own children, to whom he read it every Christmas, The Life of Our Lord is an ac...

What could be better during the golden age of boating on the Thames than a relaxing row up the river? So think J., George and Harris - not forgetti...