Classics

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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...