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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): George Eliot • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureSpecial Features: enotes.com Middlemarch (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters); Middlemarch (Magill Book Reviews); Middlemarch (Masterplots, R...

• 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): 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): 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): 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...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureGreat Expectations is a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mystery and is full of comic and tragic twists. It is generally consid...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureEmma was the last novel which Jane Austen lived to see through the press and is perhaps her most accomplished and representative work, happil...

• Author(s): Dale Carnegie • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyDale Carnegie's enduring masterpiece, How to Win Friends and Influence People, is a key to personal and professional triumphs. First p...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“Let us strike the keynote, Coketown, before pursuing our tune... It was a town of machines and tall chimneys, out of which interminable ...

• Author(s): D.H. Lawrence • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRegarded notoriously pornographic when published in 1928, the novel is a triumph of passion, an erotic celebration of life, exploring the e...

• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJude the Obscure is a haunting love story and a raging indictment of Victorian society. In addition to its literary qualities, the novel is ...

• Author(s): Jacob Abbott • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: HistoryAlexander the Great unveils the life of one of history's most enigmatic figures, a warrior and a ruler of passionate ambition, Alexander III of Macedon...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureHenry IV, Part One is a history play, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second play in Shakespeare's tetral...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureWhether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. In ...

• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureKim, a picaresque novel by Rudyard Kipling, was published serially in McClure’s Magazine, before being published in book form in 1901. Th...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureWhen the starving French masses rise in hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent government, both the guilty and innocent become victims ...

• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe story revolves around young and amorous but capricious Bathsheba Everdene and her enviable problem of coping with her three suitors simu...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tragedy of Julius Caesar, or Julius Caesar, is believed to have been written in 1599 and is one of Shakespeare's works based on t...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureScrooge, an old miser, hates Christmas, calling it "humbug". On a Christmas eve, he refuses his nephew Fred's dinner invitation, and rude...

• Author(s): Joseph A. Schumpeter • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Economics“All knowledge, however, is the work of centuries and missing links in the chain of development are irreplaceable.” Originally published in ...

• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJames Joyce was and remains unique among novelists for whatever he published was a masterpiece. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a ...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMeasure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. Originally published in the Firs...

• Author(s): Gustave Flaubert • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureOnce considered scandalizingly immoral, Flaubert’s exquisite debut novel unsparingly depicts a woman’s gradual corruption and the human ...