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A celebrated masterpiece available in its full version in English for the first time.

A Soviet Don Quixote from one of the greatest 20th-century prose writers, author of The Foundation Pit and Soul.

Translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler

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A brand new series from the bestselling author of A Christmas Promise. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn.

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Tolstoy's first published work, which launched him on a successful writing career, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth - besides offering an early display of his storytelling and stylistic abilities - provides the reader with invaluable insight into the personal and literary development of one of the greatest writers of all time.

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"Cheri is a novel by Colette published in France in 1920. The title character's true name is Fred Peloux, but he is known as Cheri to almost everyone, except, usually, to his wife. This novel was followed by a sequel, La Fin de Cheri, published in 1926"--

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An exclusive, never-before-collected selection of sparkling stories by Angela Thirkell that will charm, delight and entertain.

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.

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The classic tale of espionage set in Cold War Europe, where the worlds greatest circus acrobat must break into an impenetrable fortress, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.

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No longer a boy, not quite a man, Edwin Clayhanger stands on a canal bridge on his last day of school, and surveys the valley of Bursley and the Five Towns.

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"Clochemerle" satirizes the titanic confrontation of secular and religious forces in a small wine-growing village in Beaujolais which begins when the mayor, wishing to leave behind a monument to his administration's achievements, proposes to build a public urinal in the town centre - right next to

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Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, remains young at heart. So it is for him the act of a moment to lean out of the Drones Club window with a catapult and ping the silk top-hat off his grumpy in-law, the distinguished barrister Sir Raymond Bastable. Unfortunately, things don't end there.

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Volume 1 of the Everyman Collected Shorter Fiction is dominated by the characteristic experiences of his early life as soldier, land-owner, husband and father, the life which shaped Anna Karenina and War and Peace.

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Kafka was an obsessive writer who produced a huge volume of stories, novels, diaries and letters in his brief lifetime.

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This selection covers the full range of Kipling's extraordinary short stories throughout his career. Above all, they convey a wonderful sense of life and energy and reveal Kipling as a far greater and more diverse writer than most people suspect.

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Part of Balzacs La Comdie humaine cycle, Colonel Chabert is a poignant tale about the pursuit of justice, as well as a portrait of Frances transition from the Napoleonic Empire to the Restoration.

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Wendell wishes he could be rid of his embarrassing aunt Kelly, while Kelly wants to escape her financial dependence on Wendell. Henry's niece, Jane, needs to part from her glamorous but ghastly fianc, Lionel, while Bill Hardy, who falls for Jane, needs no convincing to abandon the bachelor state.

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PUBLISHED TO COINCIDE WITH THE BECENTENARY OF HORACE WALPOLE'S DEATH Horace Walpole was letter writer so energetic and fertile that his collected correspondence occupies forty volumes.

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An account of a man haunted by the Devil in the form of his own evil double. Hogg's 1824 novel, set in 17th century Scotland, anticipates Dostoevsky's great dramas of sin, self-accusation and damnation by half a century.

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Published anonymously in The London Magazine, the Confessions were an immediate success, and soon speculation was rife as to the identity of the mysterious Opium-Eater. The work, which introduced the literary world to De Quincey's unique "impassioned prose", is now widely deemed to be De Quincey's masterpiece.

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At the age of eighty-three and nearing death, Carlo Altoviti has decided to write down the confessions of his long life. He remembers everything: his unhappy childhood in the kitchens of the Castle of Fratta; romantic entanglements during the siege of Genoa; revolutionary fighting in Naples; and so much more.

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Discover Thomas Mann's comic novel of deception and misplaced confidence - back in print for the first time in over twenty years.

Waiter by day, man about Paris by night;

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A playful account of one man's life in early twentieth century Trieste

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Abacus is reissuing all of Patrick Hamilton's novels, to bring them to a new audience. Craven House is a light-hearted satire on the English boarding house.

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Dostoesky's drama of sin, guilt and redemption transmutes the sordid story of an old woman's murder by a desperate student into the nineteenth century's profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel. Grim in theme and setting, the book nevertheless seduces by its combination of superbly drawn characters, narrative brilliance and manic comedy.