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

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The tale of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, and his struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed.

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Before he has even arrived home he becomes involved with Rogozhin, a rich merchants son whose obsession with the fascinating Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement.

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Contains an introduction by Joseph Frank. This book also includes a reading group guide.

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Prince Myshkin, the idiot, is an almost comically innocent Christ figure in aland of sinners, one whose faith in beauty contrasts sharply with that of hissociety's. Revised reissue.

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Typical - just when Bertie thinks that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world, things start to go wrong again... Only one man can save the day - the inimitable Jeeves.

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Based on letters Twain wrote from Europe to newspapers in San Francisco and New York as a roving correspondent, this book is a burlesque of the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-19th century.

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A poignant tale of thwarted love, 'The Intimate Strangers' explores many of Fitzgerald's favourite themes, such as the constraints of social pressure on romance and the American fascination for Old Europe. This volume also includes other lesser-known stories, revealing new facets to the author of The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night.

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With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest at The Coach and Horses - is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim. He has developed a process that has made him invisible, and is locked in a struggle to discover the antidote.

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The stranger arrives early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow. He is wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his hat hides every inch of his face. Rude and rough, the stranger works with strange apparatus locked in his room all day and walks along lonely lanes at night. Is he a criminal on the run

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Reprint. Originally published: 2002. With new afterword.

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Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo - a menagerie of savage animals.

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Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life.Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved in the old, awful problems together with some new ones. He also rediscovers the eternal family servant, the ever-changing Italian girl, who has always 'a second mother' This particular return to mother holds some surprises for Edmund.

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First published in 1797, The Italian, with its archetypal villain Schedoni, its intense romance and its sublime depiction of landscape, is the masterpiece of Gothic fiction.

A beautiful box set of the works of Jane Austen, containing some of literature's greatest love stories

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A prototype of the murder mystery and a thoughtful examination of village society, this intriguing novella contains hints of the Gothic and the uncanny, including ominous thunderstorms, mysterious disappearances, eerie doppelgangers and grizzly discoveries, as well as a famously ambiguous climax.

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Exiled from Paris, Maigret discovers some disturbing secrets in a sleepy coastal town in this new translation, book twenty-two in the new Penguin Maigret series. He went out, lit his pipe and walked slowly to the harbour. He could hear scurrying footsteps behind him. The sea was becoming swollen. The beams of the lighthouses joined in the sky.

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"All fifteen stories in The jungle books had their original publication in magazines. Macmillan and Company, London and New York, published the first edition of The jungle book in 1894; the first edition of The second jungle book followed in 1895. This Signet Classic is reprinted from these first editions"--P. 362.

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Superb historical novel set in the Jacobean court, in which Princess Elizabeth strives to avoid becoming her fathers pawn in the royal marriage market.

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One of Chekhovs most admired stories, The Kiss is joined in this volume by six other celebrated tales in a new translation by Hugh Aplin.

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Recently adapted for BBC Television, The Ladies' Paradise evokes the giddy pace of Paris's transition into a modern city and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century.

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Enormously enjoyable Evening Standard

Charming The Times