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The richness of Oscar Wilde's way with words and ideas are given full range in this sparkling collection of short stories written between 1887 and 1891. Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, with an Afterword by David Stuart Davies.

For avid readers and the uninitiated alike, this is a chance to reengage with classic literature and to stay inspired and entertained.

A bookish quarterly for avid readers and the uninitiated alike.

Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict uti ..

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red an ..

Charles Dickens' shortest novel, addressing themes of family, education and industrialisation in Victorian England

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) By 1854, when Hard Times was published, Charles Dickens' magisterial progress as a writer had come to incorporate a many-sided, coherent vision of English society, both as it was and as he wished it to be. Hard Times. ..

They were removing the stones quietly, one by one, from the centuried wall. And then, as the breach became large enough, they came out into the laboratory in single file; led by a stalking thing with a beautiful head made of wax.' From the dark, mind ..

Kniha Haunting in Venice autora Agatha Christie vydaná v nakladatelství HarperCollins Publishers v roce 2023, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, ISBN-13: 9780008619381, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyage ..

The classic Russian parable of human/dog pituitary transplantations gone awry. With a new introduction by Andrey Kurkov.

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper int ..