World Classics by Peacock Books

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, usually shortened to just Hamlet, was written by Shakespeare sometime between 1599–1602. It...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Merchant of Venice is a 16th century play written by Shakespeare between 1596-1598 in which a merchant in Venice must default on ...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureIn the delightful social comedy of Pride and Prejudice (1813) Jane Austen delicately handles the problem of love and money in marriage where,...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tragedy of Macbeth, or Macbeth, is one of his Shakespeare's shorter tragedies, and was probably written between 1599–1606, and is...

• Author(s): Charlotte Bronte • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJane Eyre remains one of the most widely read of English Classics. In this novel, Charlotte Bronte invented a romantic tale of passion a...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, or simply Othello, is a tragedy written in approximately 1603. One of Shakespeare's most ...

• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Waves by Virginia Woolf The Waves is Virginia Woolf’s most audacious exploration of the possibilities of the novel form. Instead of na...

• Author(s): Paramahansa Yogananda • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe goal of yoga science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may hear the infallible counsel of the Inner Voice. First...

• Author(s): Lewis Carroll • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureLewis Carroll's masterpieces, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass, mark an epoch in the history of dr...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureA Midsummer Night's Dream, comedy in five acts by Shakespeare, written about 1595-96 and published in 1600 in a quarto edition from t...

• Author(s): Frances Hodgson Burnett • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics.” A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett follows the...

• Author(s): Charles Darwin • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureA classic that took the world by storm, raising havoc among scientists and religious people as its exposition apparently contradicted the ...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureInterest in supernatural phenomena was high during the time of Charles Dickens. He was open-minded, willing to accept, and put to test th...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRomeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by Shakespeare early in his career between 1591-1595 about two young star-crossed lovers whose ...

• Author(s): Rabindranath Tagore • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe initial fame of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 was due to Gitanjali which wa...

• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureVirginia Woolf’s fifth novel, To the Lighthouse, was widely praised and has remained the most popular of all her novels. It is considered ...

• Author(s): Kenneth Grahame • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Wind in the Willows is a book of linked animal tales that began as a series of bedtime stories and was published in 1908. It is beaut...

• Author(s): Oliver Goldsmith • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Vicar of Wakefield (1766), is an exquisite portrait of village life whose idealization of the countryside, where sentimental morali...

• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCollection of (1) The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Mayor of Casterbridge displays the influence of Hardy's upbringing, rural background, and a...

• Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCollection of (1) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by...

• Author(s): Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: History“Nothing once begun should be abandoned unless it is proved to be morally wrong.” The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the intimate ...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCollection of (1) Macbeth; The Tragedy of Macbeth, or Macbeth, is one of his Shakespeare's shorter tragedies, and was probably writte...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCollection of (1) Macbeth; The Tragedy of Macbeth, or Macbeth, is one of his Shakespeare's shorter tragedies, and was probably writte...

• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature(1) The Jungle Books: - Kipling's allegory, The Jungle Books, set in India and filled with high adventure and extraordinary characters th...

• Author(s): Plato • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteraturePLATO, born around 428 BC in Athens, was a philosopher and mathematician in Classical Greece. He was the founder of the Academy in Athens, the firs...

• Author(s): Daniel G. Brinton • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Education & Psychology“Half of happiness is the recognition that we are happy; and half of misery is the forgetting how many causes of happiness we h...

• Author(s): Karl Marx • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and Philosophy“…they see in poverty nothing but poverty, without seeing in it the revolutionary, subversive side, which will overthrow the old society.”...

• Author(s): Nathaniel Hawthorne • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureA universal classic and a masterful exploration of humanity’s unending struggle with sin, guilt and pride, The Scarlet Letter is a fo...

• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe George Bernard Shaw Collection (Peacock Classics) is a remarkable compilation of seven of Shaw’s most influential plays. Known fo...

• Author(s): John Maynard Keynes • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: EconomicsThe General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money is a quintessential guide to understanding modern economics, exerting a profound influenc...

• Author(s): Multiple Authors • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCollection of (1) Pride and Prejudice: "In the delightful social comedy of Pride and Prejudice (1813) Jane Austen delicately handles the...

• Author(s): Alfred Marshall • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Economics“The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings” Principles of Economicsby Alfred Marshal is a foundational text that continue...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureKing Lear is one of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies and was believed to have been written be-tween 1605-1606, and was based on a ...

• Author(s): Emily Bronte • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureWuthering Heights is a classic tale of possessive and thwarted passion, one of the forerunners of today's soap operas and romance novels. Th...

• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRated among the most excellent works of American fiction, Mark Twain’s classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer paints an unforgettable picture of...

• Author(s): Mary Shelley • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureWhen Frankenstein, a young idealist Genevan student of natural philosophy at the University of Ingolstadt, stumbled into the secret of infus...

• Author(s): Jerome K. Jerome • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThree Men in a Boat, published in 1889, is a humorous account of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to O...

• Author(s): H.G. Wells • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Time Machine is a social allegory set in the year 802701 A.D., describing a society divided into two classes, the subterranean workers, ca...

• Author(s): Henry James • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Portrait of a Lady (1881) is Henry James's early novel of psychological realism, in which various types of American character are transpl...

• Author(s): Joseph Conrad • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Nigger of the 'Narcissus', published in 1897, is widely regarded as the finest and the strongest picture of the sea and sea life that t...

• Author(s): Henry James • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Ambassadors, published in 1903, is considered by theauthor himself to be his most 'perfect' work of art. In this novel, with much humour ...

• Author(s): Edith Wharton • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureEdith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, The Age of Innocence is a social satire, a bitter-sweet romance, bringing to life the g...

• Author(s): George Eliot • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureSilas Marner is an impressive narrative, spiced with rustic humour and replete with forceful village characters. Accused of a false charge o...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureNorthanger Abbey, written during the same period as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, represents Jane Austen's genius at its fre...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureWilliam Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writ...

• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureDubliners is one of the most magnificent short story collections in the English language. The manuscript was sent to the English publisher, G...

• Author(s): Jules Verne • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAround the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by Jules Verne. It is the story of a rich English gentleman living a life of mod...

• Author(s): George Eliot • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe novel is based on a story told to George Eliot by her aunt Elizabeth Evans, a Methodist preacher, of a confession made to her by a girl ...

• Author(s): D.H. Lawrence • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureSet in the rural midlands of England, The Rainbow chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family, conveying how their rur...

• Author(s): George Eliot • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe novel is set in the period of George Eliot’s own childhood, in the pre-railway, pre-industrial age, with its settled and secure order, a...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCollection of (1) Pride And Prejudice; In the delightful social comedy of Pride and Prejudice (1813) Jane Austen delicately handles the probl...

• Author(s): H.G. Wells • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThis nightmarish tale by H.G. Wells contains all the suspense and adventure of science fiction at its best. It begins with a quiet country inn...

• Author(s): D.H. Lawrence • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCollection of (1) Lady Chatterley's Lover : "Regarded notoriously pornographic when published in 1928, the novel is a triumph of passion, a...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCollection of (1) Oliver Twist : The only token of identity left by Dicken's dying mother to Oliver Twist – born in the workhouse, and or...

• Author(s): Multiple Authors • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCollection of (1) Robinson Crusoe: "Published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has remained one of the best-known and most read of English novel...

• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRated among the most excellent works of American fiction, Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn paints an unforgettable pict...

• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureTess of the D’Urbervilles, a brilliant tale of seduction, love, betrayal, and murder, is generally regarded as Thomas Hardy’s finest novel. ...

• Author(s): Jules Verne • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJourney to the Centre of the Earth published in 1864 in French as Voyage au centre de la Terre is the second book in Verne's popular science-...

• Author(s): Joseph Conrad • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureHeart of Darkness is the finest of all Conrad's tales, showing him at the height of his powers as a writer of great vividness, intensity, a...

• Author(s): Jonathan Swift • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureGulliver's Travels, first published in 1726, was an immediate success and was read 'from the Cabinet - council to the Nursery' (Gay). It c...