World Classics by Peacock Books

• 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): Rabindranath Tagore • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“For we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.” The Home and the World (originally G...

• Author(s): Harriet Beecher Stowe • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“In the love of truth, and in the love of freedom, we shall yet be able to abolish slavery.” Set against the backdrop of slavery in...

• Author(s): Alexandre Dumas • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed.” In The Man in the Iron ...

• Author(s): Johann David Wyss • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“A noble mind finds its purest joy in the accomplishment of its duty, and to that willingly sacrifices its inclination.” Johann David W...

• Author(s): Premchand • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Hindi Literatureप्रेमचंद द्वारा रचित निर्मला उपन्यास एक पंद्रह वर्षीय लड़की जो बनारस के एक मध्यमवर्गीय परिवार से है, इस पर आधारित है। इस उपन्यास के जरिए प्रेमचंद ...

• Author(s): Dale Carnegie • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Communication, Mass Media and Journalism"The successful speaker, in a sense, is like an actor-he must get inside the character, know what he wants to say, an...

• 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 PhilosophyFriedrich Max Müller's Sri Ramakrishna: His Life and Sayings is an intimate portrayal of the life and teachings of Sri Ramakris...

• 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): David Hume • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology"Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man." An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume is a sem...

• Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sad...

• Author(s): Swami Vivekananda • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Health, Physical Fitness and Yoga"The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body i...

• Author(s): Friedrich Nietzsche • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and Philosophy"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion." The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche explores the origi...

• Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature"The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the hear...

• Author(s): Swami Vivekananda • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and Philosophy"Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.” 25 Greatest Speeches of Vivek...

• Author(s): James Allen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and Philosophy"As he thinks, so he is, as he continues to think, so he remains." In As a Man Thinketh, James Allen explores the profound connection ...

• Author(s): Friedrich Nietzsche • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and Philosophy"That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good-the atavism of an old ide...

• Author(s): Marcus Aurelius • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and Philosophy"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, first published in 1558, is...

• Author(s): Premchand • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Hindi Literatureप्रेमचंद का उपन्यास प्रतिज्ञा भारतीय समाज की गहराई में छिपे नैतिकता, सुधारवाद और स्त्री-उत्थान जैसे विषयों पर आधारित है। इस कहानी के मुख्य पात्र ...

• Author(s): Lao Tzu • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and Philosophy“He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.” Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu is one of the most influential texts in Easte...

• 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 ...

• Author(s): Victor Hugo • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“To be hated! to love with all the fury of one's soul; to feel that one would give for the least of her smiles, one's blood, one's vitals, on...

• Author(s): Franz Kafka • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.” The Trial by Franz Kafka, first published posthumously ...

• Author(s): Jack london • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature"The Wild still lingered in him, and the wolf in him merely slept." White Fang, published in 1906 by Jack London, is an enthralling adventur...

• Author(s): Swami Vivekananda • Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Health, Physical Fitness and Yoga • BISAC: philosophy Swami Vivekananda's The Complete Book of Yoga is an essen...