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Tells of the adventures of the naive Candide, who doggedly believes that all is for the best even when faced with injustice, suffering, and despair.

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This edition of Candide is here presented in a brand-new translation which contains extra material with pictures and a section on Voltaire's life and work.

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The classic tale of suspense set in Provence, where an English tourist investigates a series of mysterious deaths, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.

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The moving romance of dancer Jenny Pearl: a story which helped establish Mackenzie among the foremost novelists of his generation

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A deliriously delightful novel of George Bernard Shaw's, full of miscommunication, drawing-room comedy and love.

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This volume brings together twenty of the best stories written by Dino Buzzati, author of the celebrated novel The Tartar Steppe and one of the most original voices in twentieth-century literature.

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In the dreary suburbs of Paris, the merciless greed of a seemingly respectable woman is unearthed by her long suffering niece, and Maigret discovers the far-reaching consequences of their actions.

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Celebrations, Alan Burnss third novel, brings the inherent violence and oppression so apparent in Europe after the Rain into the setting of a family-owned factory, where social hierarchies, legal structures and humiliation keep the workers in line.

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Don Celestino is old and bitter and afraid. In exile from his native Spain for more than twenty years, he lives with his daughter in Paris, but in his mind he is still fighting the Spanish Civil War.

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War arrives in rural Barsetshire.

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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

From the atmospheric recollections of the Palazzo Lampedusa in Palermo at the turn of the twentieth century in 'Childhood Memories' to the delightful fantasy 'The Professor and the Siren', from the gently humorous, bittersweet tones of 'Joy and the Law' to 'The Blind Kittens', this volume showcases Lampedusa's unparalleled narrative skills.

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Tolstoys lightly fictionalized account of his own early experience ranks with Turgenevs Sportsmans Notebook as a masterpiece of nineteenth-century Russian pastoral life.

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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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From the author of the hit The Evenings - two classic novellas that are considered among Gerard Reve's best work.

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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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Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his protection. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage are accompanied by unwelcome sexual advances.

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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.