World Classics by Peacock Books

• Author(s): Kahlil Gibran • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThe Prophet (1923) is a book of 26 prose poems by the Lebanese American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. A collection of ...

• Author(s): Swami Paramananda • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophySwami Paramananda's The Upanishads explores ancient Indian spiritual texts, revealing wisdom that has influenced philosophical tho...

• Author(s): J.M. Barrie • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Children BooksPeter Pan, a timeless work of fantasy, unfolds in the magical world of Neverland, where Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn't grow up, leads a group of...

• Author(s): Aristotle • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyPolitics by Aristotle is a cornerstone of political philosophy, unfolding in dialogues and reflections on the nature of the state, citizen...

• Author(s): Leo Tolstoy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: HistorySet against the backdrop of Napoleon's conquest and the French invasion of Russia, War and Peace is one of the best-known historical works, written over...

• Author(s): B.R. Ambedkar • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyAnnihilation of Caste is a powerful and uncompromising critique of India's caste system, written by one of the most influential soc...

• Author(s): Dante Alighieri • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureDante Alighieri's The Inferno is the first part of his epic Divine Comedy, which takes readers on a journey through Hell. Guided by the R...

• Author(s): Alexandre Dumas • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Children BooksIn the bustling streets of seventeenth-century Paris, a young and ambitious swordsman from Gascony, D'Artagnan, arrives seeking to join the i...

• Author(s): Johanna Spyri • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Children BooksJohanna Spyri's Heidi, a beloved classic of children's literature, unfolds in the breathtaking Swiss Alps, where a young orphan named Heidi is ...

• Author(s): Eleanor H. Porter • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Children BooksEleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna narrates the story of eternally optimistic Pollyanna who goes to live with her strict aunt Polly after being ...

• Author(s): Jonathan Swift • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureA Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift’s first major and his most masterly work. It presents a satire of religious excess. When it was written, p...

• Author(s): Translated by V.S. Vernon Jones • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAesop’s Fables is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece betwee...

• 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): Thomas De Quincey • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureConfessions of an English Opium-Eater is Thomas De Quincey’s autographical account. In it, he describes his opium and alcohol addiction...

• Author(s): Flora Annie Steel • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe book contains 41 stories written by Flora Annie Steel and illustrated by Arthur Rackham. The stories are very interesting to read a...

• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJust So Stories is a collection of 12 interesting stories with eccentric myths created by Rudyard Kipling. Most of the stories are fancif...

• Author(s): H. Rider Haggard • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureKing Solomon’s Mines, the first English adventure novel set in Africa describes a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of...

• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMajor Barbara, a social satire in three acts, written in 1905 and published in 1907, is the most controversial of Shaw’s works which ...

• Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his most famous fiction...

• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza, a wry political satire, was completed in December 1928 and first performed in Warsaw (in Po...

• Author(s): Saki (H.H. Munro) • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe book contains the best short stories written by Hector Hugh Munro under his pen name, Saki. "Reginald" was written after he had giv...

• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRudyard Kipling’s works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep”;...

• Author(s): Karl Marx Friedrick Engels • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels pub-lished in 1848. When...

• Author(s): A. Conan Doyle • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Hound of the Baskervilles is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s third crime novel featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. It was originally ser...

• Author(s): Translated by Sir Richard Burton • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Kama Sutra, an ancient Indian Hindu text written by Vātsyāyana, is widely considered to be the standard work on huma...

• Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894 by Arthur Conan Doyle. In ...

• Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of thirteen very interesting Sherlock Holmes stories that were published in 1903-04 ...

• Author(s): R. L. Stevenson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMr. Utterson goes for a walk with his friend and relative Mr. Enfield, who tells a sad story in which a brute of a man knocks down a litt...

• Author(s): Charles Darwin • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Voyage of the Beagle is the title given to the book written by Charles Darwin and published in 1839 as Journal and Remarks. It covers ...

• Author(s): L. Frank Baum • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a famous children’s novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow, was originally published in...

• Author(s): Jules Verne • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureDuring the year 1866, some ships spot a mysterious sea monster. The US government assembles an expedition in New York City to find and destro...

• Author(s): John Locke • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureTwo Treatises of Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise is a scathing cr...

• Author(s): Sir Philip Sidney • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAlso known as An Apology for Poetry, The Defence of Poesy is a work of literary criticism by Elizabethan poet Philip Sidney. It was wri...

• Author(s): Anna Sewell • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureBlack Beauty translated from the original Equine, the fictional ‘autobiography’ of a talking horse, first published on 24th November 1877, is...

• Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureSet in Scotland just after the Jacobite rebellions and narrated by the teenager David Balfour, Kidnapped is an adventure book that...

• Author(s): John Milton • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMilton’s magnum opus, Paradise Lost, an epic poem in blank verse, was composed during the period 1658 to 1664. The first version, published i...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Comedy of Errors, in five-acts, is one of the shortest and most lively of Shakespeare’s comedies. It was written during 1589—94 a...

• Author(s): R.M. Ballantyne • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, published in 1858 in is R.M. Ballantyne’s most famous novel. It is one of the pioneer work...

• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Importance of Being Earnest is a farcical comedy in three Acts. The protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social...

• Author(s): Stephen Crane • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureStephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel, first published in 1895. Taking place during the American Civil War, it is the sto...

• 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...