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Published for the very first time in its own volume, Tolkien's remarkable tale about a painter whose obsession with detail prevents him from finishing his great work.

A stunning new edition of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories including Rip Van Winkle, with deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian a

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ‚There was a contagion in the very air that blew from that haunted region; it breathed forth an atmosphere of dreams and fancies infecting all the land.‘ Fe ..

In Irving's great work, The Sketch Book, fictional historian Diedrich Knickerbocker introduces us to Rip van Winkle, the Dutch colonist who slept through the Revolutionary War; Ichabod Crane, the superstitious, social-climbing schoolmaster; and the p ..

Die ergreifende Lebensgeschichte der Ausnahmepädagogin als packender historischer Roman Sie widmete ihr Leben den Kindern und veränderte die Welt für immer: Die spannende Geschichte der Maria Montessori ist ein Lehrst ..

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Prague, 1914 : le vendeur de chiens Josef vejk part en guerre la fleur au fusil. Mais l'administration de la Monarchie austro-hongroise ne sait que faire de cet encombrant soldat, a la fois roublard et naif, intarissable raconteur d'histoires. Commen ..

"L'amour véritable résiste toujours à l'épreuve du temps ".Les Hauts de Hurlevent sont des terres situées au sommet d'une colline et balayées par les vents du nord. La famille Earnshaw y vivait heureuse, jusqu'à ce qu'en 1771, M. Earnshaw adopte un j ..

Météore dans la carrière de leur auteur, Les Liaisons dangereuses fascinent par leur virtuosité, le roman par lettres autorisant un jeu permanent de miroir et de présence-absence, de l’auteur comme des personnages. La marquise de Merteuil et le ..

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of „Les Miserables“ cannot fail to be of use, says Victor Hugo in the preface of his famous novel. Certainly, „Les Miserables“ is French history recounted through the personal stori ..

NOW A SIX-PART MINISERIES ON MASTERPIECE ON PBS The only completely unabridged paperback edition of Victor Hugo's masterpiece–a sweeping tale of love, loss, valor, and passion. Introducing one of the most famous characters in literature, Je

This is a brilliant new translation by Christine Donougher of Victor Hugo's thrilling masterpiece, with an introduction by Robert Tombs. Les Miserables (literally, ‚The Wretched‘) is the basis for both the longest running musical on the West End and ..

Now a major musical film from Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper („The King's Speech“), starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway, and also featuring Amanda Seyfreid, Helena Bonham-Carter and Sacha Baron-Cohen, Victor Hugo's "Les Miserabl ..

Les Misérables is a magnificent, sweeping story of revolution, love and the will to survive set amidst the poverty stricken streets of nineteeth-century Paris.Escaped convict Jean Valjean turns his back on his criminal past to build his fortunes ..

Published to celebrate the first ever ‚letter from Father Christmas‘ in 1920, this beautiful oversized edition of Tolkien's famous illustrated letters from ‚Father Christmas‘, includes a wealth of charming letters, pictures and decorated envelopes, a ..

Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin …The explosion that detonates the narrative of Paul Auster's remarkable novel also ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents to the home of o ..

Texto inagotable hacia el que no cabe la indiferencia, el Libro del desasosiego responde a la inquisición ferozmente subjetiva e individualista que Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) ejerció sobre su propia persona. El tanteo, el titubeo, la propia extrañez ..

Schnitzlers Meisterwerk von 1900 führt – erstmals in der deutschsprachigen Literatur – die konsequente Anwendung des Inneren Monologs vor. Der Leser erhält unvermittelten Einblick in das Bewusstsein des (Anti-)helden, der von Standesdünkel und Vorurt ..

At once endlessly facetious and highly serious, Sterne

Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate ‚hero‘ Tristram Shandy, the ec ..

Old rabbanic tradition teaches that Eve was not Adam's first wife, rather a mysterious woman named Lilith who was thrown out of Eden before Adam and Eve were. This is a lyrical telling of that legend and what happens to Lilith as she encounters various dem

Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens' working title for the novel, Nobody's Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private and public life. Dickens' childhood experiences ..

The two American classics here together in one volume, Little Men and Jo's Boys, are worthy sequels to Little Women, one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, and its continuation, Good Wives. In Little Men, Louisa May Alcott takes up the ..

The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman's discovery, in the desert, of a small boy from another planet – the Little Prince of the title – and his stories of intergalactic travel,