Classics

• 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): 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): 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...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): George Eliot • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe novel is set in the period of George Eliot’s own childhood, in the pre-railway, pre-industrial age, with its settled and secure order, a...

• 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): 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): 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): Edith Wharton • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureEdith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, The Age of Innocence is a social satire, a bitter-sweet romance, bringing to life the g...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureWilliam Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writ...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCollection of (1) Oliver Twist : The only token of identity left by Dicken's dying mother to Oliver Twist – born in the workhouse, and or...

• Author(s): George Eliot • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureSilas Marner is an impressive narrative, spiced with rustic humour and replete with forceful village characters. Accused of a false charge o...

• 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): Kenneth Grahame • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Wind in the Willows is a book of linked animal tales that began as a series of bedtime stories and was published in 1908. It is beaut...

• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCollection of (1) The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Mayor of Casterbridge displays the influence of Hardy's upbringing, rural background, and a...

• Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCollection of (1) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by...

• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureTess of the D’Urbervilles, a brilliant tale of seduction, love, betrayal, and murder, is generally regarded as Thomas Hardy’s finest novel. ...

• 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): Friedrich Engels• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd• Publisher Imprint: Peacock Books• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology• BISAC: political science "It is the Darwinian struggle of the individual for existence...

• Author(s): Dale Carnegie • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and Philosophy"Draw yourself up to your full height and look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as confidently as if every one of...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): D.H. Lawrence • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCollection of (1) Lady Chatterley's Lover : "Regarded notoriously pornographic when published in 1928, the novel is a triumph of passion, a...

• Author(s): Multiple Authors • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCollection of (1) Robinson Crusoe: "Published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has remained one of the best-known and most read of English novel...

• 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): 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): 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): Henry James • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Portrait of a Lady (1881) is Henry James's early novel of psychological realism, in which various types of American character are transpl...

• 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): Henry James • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Ambassadors, published in 1903, is considered by theauthor himself to be his most 'perfect' work of art. In this novel, with much humour ...

• 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): Fyodor Dostoevsky• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd• Publisher Imprint: Peacock Books• Subject: English Literature• BISAC: fiction "I am oppressed by such strange thoughts, such gloomy sensations; questions st...

• Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and Philosophy"He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and he is richer who is generous with what he has." In The Path to Prosperity, J...

• 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): 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): 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): 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...