WBF- Peacock and Routledge Classics

• 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): Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: History“Nothing once begun should be abandoned unless it is proved to be morally wrong.” The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the intimate ...

• Author(s): Lewis Carroll • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureLewis Carroll's masterpieces, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass, mark an epoch in the history of dr...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureKing Lear is one of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies and was believed to have been written be-tween 1605-1606, and was based on a ...

• 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): 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): 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 19...

• 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): 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): 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): Paramahansa Yogananda • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe goal of yoga science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may hear the infallible counsel of the Inner Voice. First...

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