Literature

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Tamburlaine the Great, Part One and Part Two are the first plays that Christopher Marlowe wrote for Londons then new freestanding, open-air public ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Confessions describes Saint Augustines conversi...

Discover GROWING BRAVE, Donna Ashworth's new book, coming September 2024THE NO 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Beautiful and uplifting' Davina McCall'So ...

In this collection of plays from one of our finest dramatists, Caryl Churchill demonstrates her remarkable ability to find new forms to express pro...

An extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our ageTracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood a ...

Advice for graduates and reflections on staying true to yourself from the beloved Gilmore Girls actress and New York Times bestselling author of th...

The Music Documentary offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate thi...

'The finest, most representative instance of what Shakespeare can do' Harold BloomPrince Hal, the son of King Henry IV, spends his time in idle ple...

Dazzling stories of love, magic and betrayal . . .A sensational collection from internationally bestselling author Olivie Blake.Once upon a time, i...

The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the worlds greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded t...

Tolstoy as Man and Artist with an Essay on Dostoevsky (1901) is a work of literary criticism by Dmitriy Merezhkovsky. Having turned from his work i...

Farnsworth beautifully integrates his own observations with scores of quotations from Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne and others. Thi...

This is poetry for our times. The Forward Book of Poetry is the indispensable annual guide to contemporary poetry. In bringing together the best ne...

C.S. Lewiss dazzling allegory about heaven and hell and the chasm fixed between them is one of his most brilliantly imaginative tales, as he take...

As a schoolboy, Charles Dickens took a copy of The Terrific Register every week, and he later recalled how it 'frightened my very wits out of my he...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The young Rachel Vinrance leaves England on her...

No fictional character is more renowned for his extraordinary powers of mind than Sherlock Holmes. But what exactly is it that sets him apart as a ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Written in 1876, this is a novel about a young ...

'A terrific nuts and bolts account of the real business of cooking as told from the trenches. No nonsense. This is what it takes' ANTHONY BOURDAIN'...

In a collection of essays published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others along with original, previously unreleased essays Han...

Part of the bestselling Capstone Classics Series edited by Tom Butler-Bowdon, this collectible, hard-back edition of The Prophet provides an access...

Chie and her good for nothing brother were not that close until a intimate night together drew them closer together. Now that theyre dating, they g...

The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into six...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, design...

An exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerers Braiding S...

Anne Carson writes, Euripides was a playwright of the fifth century BC who reinvented Greek tragedy, setting it on a path that leads straight to re...

'This is the story of how your life shapes your brain, and how your brain shapes your life.' Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman on a whist...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. It was a town of red brick, or of brick that wo...