World Classics by Peacock Books

• 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): Hermann Hesse • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and Philosophy“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.” Siddhartha is a profou...

• Author(s): Joseph A. Schumpeter • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe task of the economist is not to predict the future but to explain the present. Ten Great Economists, originally published in 191...

• Author(s): Homer • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.”...

• 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): Kalidasa • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“A bee may be born in a hole in a tree, but she likes the honey of the lotus.” Shakuntala, a timeless masterpiece by the ancient Indian poet Kal...

• Author(s): George S. Clason • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Economics“It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.” The Richest Man in Babylon, a timeless classic in personal finance, offers practical wi...

• Author(s): Henrik Ibsen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.” Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House is a groun...

• Author(s): E. Nesbit • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends.” Edith Nesbit's The Railway Childre...

• 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 ...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMansfield Park is a unique novel in its moral design, with a heroine remarkably different from the author’s previous creations. This young la...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureOliver Twist, Dickens's critique of the harsh Poor Law of 1834, and a grim picture of the sordid reality the London underworld of Dickens...

• Author(s): Bram Stoker • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureDracula, published in 1897, is the most famous of all tales of vampirism. Presented in diaries, letters and news items, this story of the blo...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAs You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Fol...

• Author(s): Sir Walter Scott • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureScott’s most beloved and exciting adventure, Ivanhoe is a vivid recreation of Norman-Saxon conflict in 12th century England. Framing a r...

• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureVirginia Woolf’s fourth novel, Mrs Dalloway, marks an important stage in her development as a writer. In this novel she finally departs fr...

• Author(s): Joseph Conrad • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureLord Jim is a work of Joseph Conard’s maturity as a writer, and is one of the book which established him as a master storyteller and a grea...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureSense and Sensibility, the first of Austen’s novels to be published, remains as fresh as ever it was. The basic theme of the novel is concern...

• Author(s): David Ricardo • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: EconomicsThere can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits. Originally published in 1817, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation r...

• Author(s): Charles and Mary Lamb • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAn enthralling retelling of Shakespeare’s twenty masterpieces, Tales from Shakespeare is a real feast of simple words flavoured wit...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureIn Persuasion, Jane Austen’s last completed novel, unpublished until her death, satire and ridicule become milder and the tone is more grave ...

• Author(s): Daniel Defoe • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteraturePublished in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has remained one of the best-known and most read of English novels. It gained popularity among children a...

• Author(s): F. Scott Fitzgerald • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Great Gatsby is generally considered to be the finest novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written in an easy style, without com...

• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureIt is a fantasy novel published in 1928. It traces the career of the androgynous Orlando through four centuries from the late sixteenth ce...

• Author(s): D.H. Lawrence • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureSons and Lovers is considered to be D.H. Lawrence’s first mature novel. What is unique about this novel is its profound psychological insig...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMuch Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599, as Shakespeare was approachi...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tempest, a play in five acts, is believed to have been written in 1610-1611 and thought by many critics to be the last play that ...

• 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): Homer • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureHomer's The Iliad, an ancient epic of unparalleled significance, transports readers to the heart of the Trojan War, an epoch-defining conflict betw...

• Author(s): Jacob Grimm | Wilhelm Grimm • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Children BooksFirst published in 1812 as Kinder- und Hausmärchen, Grimm’s Fairy Tales—inspired by German folklore—remain among the most cherish...

• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureKipling's allegory, The Jungle Books, set in India and filled with high adventure and extraordinary characters that touch both our intell...

• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Mayor of Casterbridge displays the influence of Hardy's upbringing, rural background, and architectural studies. His characters are prim...

• Author(s): D.H. Lawrence • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureWomen in Love, the book Lawrence considered his best, was written during World War I, and while that conflict is never mentioned in the nov...

• Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureTreasure Island, a wonderfully crafted edition of Stevenson’s classic adventure story, is known for its great plot, immortal chara...

• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJames Joyce’s Ulysses, a landmark of modernist literature, takes place over a single day—16 June 1904—in Dublin, as Leopold Bloom journeys th...

• Author(s): Joseph Conrad • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature"The Secret Agent is one of Conrad's two supreme masterpieces, one of the two questionable classics of the first order that he added to the...

• Author(s): Nostradamus • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThe Prophecies of Nostradamus, first published in 1555, is a captivating collection of cryptic predictions that has fascinated readers f...

• Author(s): Antoine De Saint- Exupery • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAntoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, a beloved fable of childhood wonder and wisdom, invites readers on a journey thro...

• Author(s): Irving Fisher • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: EconomicsIn Booms and Depressions, economist Irving Fisher provides a groundbreaking analysis of the cyclical nature of economic activity, focusing on the ca...

• Author(s): Adam Smith • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyPublished in 1759, The Theory of Moral Sentiments provides a philosophical framework for Adam Smith's later works, including The Wealth o...

• Author(s): Sigmund Freud • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Education & PsychologyConsidered one of the most significant works of Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams is a psychoanalytical inquiry that exam...

• Author(s): Ralph Waldo Emerson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyRalph Waldo Emerson’s Essays: First and Second Series presents a collection of his most influential writings, originally publish...

• Author(s): William Strunk Jr. • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Creative Writing, FictionThe Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr., a seminal guide to the art of writing, distils the essential rules of grammar, usa...

• Author(s): H.G. Wells • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureH.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is a groundbreaking science fiction novel that depicts humanity's struggle against a devastating alien invas...