World Classics by Peacock Books

• Author(s): Ernest Hemingway • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureHemingway's words strike you, each one, as if they were pebbles fetched fresh from a book.' In A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway's mo...

• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAnimal Farm is a dystopian allegorical novella. It reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. Orwell, bei...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAntony and Cleopatra is a well-known tragedy by William Shakespeare. Its first known appearance in print came in the First Folio of 1...

• Author(s): Translated by Benjamin Jowett • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteraturePolitics is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle. The title of the book literally means “the things concerning the p...

• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureArms and the Man, one of Shaw’s most glittering comedies, was first produced on 21st April, 1894 at the Avenue Theatre and published ...

• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCandida, a classic comedy, was written in 1894. Set in London’s East End during the Victorian era, the play is about the domestic tur...

• Author(s): Voltaire • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCandide, a privileged and sheltered young man, is under the folly of optimism and believes he lives in the ‘best of all possible worlds’ as his ...

• Author(s): Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureOne of the most acclaimed Russian works of literature, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev is a philosophical fiction cutting acr...

• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJacob Flanders is flawed, but also quite a brilliant man. An embodiment of solitude, Jacob is unable to concoct his affinity in life for t...

• Author(s): Henry Fielding • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJoseph Andrews is Fielding's first novel, and although directed against Samuel Richardson's Pamela which was a great success, it is far fr...

• Author(s): Louisa May Alcott • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureLouisa M. Alcoa, (29th November, 1832, Germantown, 6th March, 1888, Pennsylvania Boston, Massachusetts), Was an American novelist, shor...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureLove’s Labour’s Lost, in five-acts, was written sometime between 1588 and 1597, and published in a quarto edition in 1598, with a tit...

• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMan and Superman, a four-Act drama, was written in 1903 as a response to those who had questioned Shaw as to why he had never written...

• Author(s): Franz Kafka • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.” The life of Greg...

• Author(s): Daniel Defoe • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMoll Flanders was one of the first social novels to be published in English and draws heavily on Defoe's experience of the topography and so...

• Author(s): Rabindranath Tagore • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation-worship, is the goal of human history.” ...

• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureNineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian fiction portraying a society ruled by an oligarchical dictatorship. The Oceanian province of Airstrip O...

• Author(s): Carl Von Clausewitz • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureOn War is the English translation of the book Vom Kriege, originally written in German. Written at the time of Napoleon’s greatest ca...

• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureA great dramatist, literary critic, an eminent showman, intellectual and a satirist, George Bernard Shaw was a leading theatre person...

• Author(s): Rabindranath Tagore • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRed Oleanders/Raktakarabī is one of the best plays of Tagore, the myriadminded and multifaceted genius; understandably ‘meanings’ hav...

• Author(s): Albert Einstein • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” Relativity as a concept was not new to physi...

• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureA great dramatist, a literary critic, an eminent showman, an intellectual and a satirist, George Bernard Shaw was a leading theatre p...

• Author(s): Oliver Goldsmith • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureShe Stoops to Conquer is based on the two incidents of being the target of practical jokes, and being out on blind dates, creating a com...

• Author(s): Ben Jonson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Alchemist is considered Jonson’s best and most characteristic comedy. It was first performed in 1610 by King’s Men. Samuel Taylor Coleridg...

• Author(s): Frank Woodworth Pine • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a captivating literary work that offers readers a unique glimpse into the life and mind of...

• Author(s): Jack London • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureBuck, a St Bernard-Scotch Shepherd mix, is kidnapped, stolen from his home in Santa Clara, California, and sold to serve as a sled dog. Set i...

• Author(s): Francis Bacon • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Essays, first published in 1597, contains essays written in a wide range of styles—from the plain and unadorned—to the epigrammatic and...

• Author(s): Ernest Hemingway • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” This tremendously famous novella, written in 1952...

• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Picture of Dorian Gray is a gothic and moral fantasy novel by Oscar Wilde. This is the only novel he wrote and published in 1891 after he...

• Author(s): John Bunyan • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Pilgrim’s Progress, a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan, is widely regarded as one of the most significant works of religious Eng...

• Author(s): Nicolo Machiavelli • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Prince contains a number of maxims concerning politics. It states that in order to retain power, the hereditary prince must carefu...

• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureWhat is the fate of two unknowingly identical boys who exchange their lives? The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain is a historical satire s...

• Author(s): Charlotte Bronte • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureBefore Jane Eyre, The Professor was the first novel written by Charlotte Bronte. It was published posthumously in 1857 and remains a cla...

• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Return of the Native, both powerful and sombre, is considered to be the most representative of Hardy’s novels. It is set in Egdon Heath ...

• Author(s): Omar Khayyam • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title given by Edward FitzGerald to his translation of a selection of quatrains, originally written in Persi...

• Author(s): Richard Brinsley Sheridan • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe School for Scandal is a comedy of manners, a play satirizing the behavior and customs of upper classes through witty dialog...

• Author(s): Frances Hodgson Burnett • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Secret Garden is one of the most delightful and enduring classics of children’s literature, which has remained a firm favorit...

• Author(s): Ernest Hemingway • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway chronicles the temperaments and lifestyles of young, hard-drinking English and American expatriat...

• Author(s): Marco Polo • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMarco Polo is one of the most adventurous travellers in human history. His travels are recorded in Livres des Merveilles du Monde, a book whic...

• Author(s): Henry James • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureIn January 1895, when Henry James was in the depths of depression due to the failure of his play Guy Domville, the Archbishop of Canterbury t...

• Author(s): William Congreve • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Way of the World is based around two lovers Mirabell and Millamant. In order for the two to get married and receive Millamant’s full...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureTwelfth Night is a tale of unrequited love, hilarious and heartbreaking, written around 1601-02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment fo...

• Author(s): Ben Jonson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureVolpone (or The Fox) is a comedy in five acts, performed about 1605–1606 and published in 1607, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast f...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureLucentio loves Bianca but cannot court her until her formidable elder sister Katherine is wedded off. The wily Petruchio plans a cour...

• Author(s): Joseph A. Schumpeter | Joseph A. Schumpeter • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Economics“As a matter of practical necessity, socialist democracy may eventually turn out to be more of a sham than capitalist ...

• Author(s): Friedrich Max Muller • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyIndia: What can it Teach Us? is a captivating compilation of lectures delivered by Friedrich Max Müller, a distinguished schola...

• Author(s): Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels | Friedrich Engels • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology“Consciousness does not determine life, but life determines consciousness.” The German Ideology by ...