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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.`And now, Katy, it\\''s your turn. Tell us what you\\''re going to be when you grow up.\\''`I\\''m not sure about what I\\''ll be,\\'' replied Katy; `beautiful, of course, and good if I can. That\\''s what I\\''d like to be. But now I\\''ll tell you what I mean to do...\\''Tomboyish Katy Carr is tall, gangling and full of mischief. Constantly scheming and playing with her brothers and sisters, 12-year-old Ka...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.`The Professor'' is Charlotte Bronte''s first novel, reflecting her own experience of life in Brussels and published after her untimely death. Viewed as a precursor to the narrative style and characterisation she perfected in her later works, such as `Jane Eyre'', the novel is Bronte''s portrayal of a love story from a male perspective.Writing from the point of view of orphaned young teacher, William Crimswo...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`In fact, the fairies had turned him into a water-baby. A water-baby? You never heard of a water-baby. Perhaps not. That is the very reason why this story was written.\\''Poor Tom is an orphan, employed by the underhand Grimes as a chimney sweep. While cleaning a chimney one day, Tom becomes lost and appears in Ellie\\''s bedroom. She mistakes him for a thief and he flees in fright, down to the edge of a stream whe...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.\\''When Helen flees from her alcoholic husband in order to protect her son she defies societal convention. Earning a living as an artist, she becomes the mysterious tenant of Wildfell Hall as she hides herself away and uses her art to support her child. However, the beautiful and reclusive young woman soon ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.''Anne Bronte''s debut novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, a young woman who is determined to seek work as a governess after her family becomes impoverished. Drawing upon her own experiences as a governes...

The shocking first-hand account of one man\\''s remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion picture.`Why had I not died in my young years - before God had given me children to love and live for? What unhappiness and suffering and sorrow it would have prevented. I sighed for liberty; but the bondsman\\''s chain was round me, and could not be shaken off.\\''1841: Solomon Northup is a successful violinist when he is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Taken from his family in New York St...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within as on the state of things without and around us.\\''Considered one of her less well-known novels, Shirley is Charlotte Bronte\\''s only historical work, set during the Napoleonic Wars. Wealthy and independent, Shirley is very different from her friend Caroline, who has few prospects and is dependent on her uncle. Strug...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.Featuring the last 12 stories ever written about the infamous detective, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes contains some of Conan Doyle''s most villainous and unusual characters.The 1920s was a disenchanting era, and the darker mood of many of these stories reflects the environment at the time. Some even felt that the stories showed Conan Doyle exploring Spiritualism as it was an area he was interested in at the tim...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.`But it was not only the heart-rending sound that almost paralysed poor Mimi with terror. What she saw was sufficient to fill her with evil dreams for the remainder of her life...''At the estate of Castra Regis in Derbyshire, mystery lurks in the woods, a place where snakes dwell and murderous deeds take place in the darkness. The behaviour of local residents Arabella March and Edgar Caswall further arouse t...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`"I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim?" His soul repeated it again and again.''Set against the backdrop of Britain and Russia''s political struggle in central Asia, Kim, the son of a drunken Irish soldier grows up as a street-wise orphan in the city of Lahore. Upon befriending an aged Tibetan Lama, the playful and spirited Kim journeys with him across India, experiencing the exotic culture, religion and people of t...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`All the world''s a stage,And all the men and women merely players.''Featuring Rosalind, one of Shakespeare''s most likeable and strong female protagonists, As You Like It is a comedic play centred around concealed identity, love, exile and artifice. Banished from the court by her uncle, Rosalind flees to the forest with her cousin Celia and her jester, joining her already exiled father, and disguising herself as a...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`One thing is certain, - that there is a mustering among the masses, the world over; and there is a dis irae coming on, sooner or later.''Viewed by many as fuelling the abolitionist movement of the 1850s and laying the groundwork for the Civil War, Harriet Beecher Stowe''s sentimental and moral tale of slaves attempting to secure their freedom was one of the most popular books of the nineteenth century. Centred round t...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`If music be the food of love, play on;Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.\\''A comedic romance of mistaken identity, Twelfth Night begins with a shipwreck, splitting up Viola and her twin brother, Sebastian. Alone in a strange land, Viola disguises herself as a male servant, Cesario, in order to work for the Duke Orsino. Orsino is in love with Lady Olivia, but it is Cesario ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbours.\\''An epic study of provincial life at a time when England was facing rapid industrialization and increasingly fluid social mobility, Eliot\\''s depiction of the small community of Middlemarch weaves an intricate web of different characters disparate lives as they strive to adapt to the changing world arou...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.\\''Set in the agricultural town of Raveloe in the English countryside, Silas Marner is a tragic figure. Exiled from a religious community because of a wrongful accusation of theft, he works from day to day as a weaver, saving hi...

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 Napoleonic Wars, Persuasion is a tale of love, heartache and the determination of one woman as she strives to reignite a lost love.Anne Elliot is persuaded by her friends and family to reject a marriage proposal from Captain Wentworth because he lacks in fort...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere; for a moment our wings are seen in the light of the fire, and, lo! we are gone again into the Nowhere.\\''An amazing adventure set in Africa, against the backdrop of endless deserts and snowy mountains, Kings Solomon\\''s Mines follows Allan Quartermain, in his quest to find his missing brother and unearth...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on...`Set in the frozen forests of the Yukon Territory, Canada, during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s, `White Fang\\'' tells the story of a young wolf-dog\\''s journey from the wild into human territory. As White Fang learns that civilisation is every bit as vicious and violent as nature - and that survival is only awarded to the fittest - we too see how instinc...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf\\''s own joyful holidays of her youth. But as time passes, and in its wake the First World War, the transience of life becomes ever more apparent through the vignette of the thoughts and observations of the novel\\''s disparate cast.A landma...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics."Thats Harris all over - so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people."Three late-Victorian gentlemen, George, Harris and the writer himself as well as their fox terrier Montmorency take a trip in a boat along the River Thames to Oxford. What ensues is a hilarious journey through the English waterways full of anecdotes, and farcical incidents with Montmorency wreaking h...