Mark Twain Here is one of the greatest epic journeys of all time. Funny, satiric, and human, it follows Huck from a boy's innocence to a man's wisdom. January 1,...

Thomas Tryon A poor country girl joins a washed-up circus elephant on a journey through the small towns of the South to Broadway's Great White Way, with much mischief and...

Howard Pyle Introducing young readers to literary classics will be easy with each of the twelve titles in the Treasury of Illustrated Classics series. Each title contains short, concise chapters...

Arthur Conan Doyle   For more than a century, Sherlock Holmes’s adventures have thrilled readers. This volume collects seven of his most challenging cases, including "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The...

Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won...

George Szirtes“What you have loved remains yours.” Thus speaks the irresistible rogue Sindbad, ironic hero of these fantastic tales, who has seduced and abandoned countless women over the course of...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the...

Mark TwainIntroducing young readers to literary classics will be easy with each of the twelve titles in the Treasury of Illustrated Classics series. Each title contains short, concise chapters for...

VirgilThe Aeneid of Virgil (70-19 B.C.) describes the legendary origin of the Roman nation. It tells of the Trojan prince Aeneas, who escaped with some followers after Troy fell, and...

VirgilThe Aeneid: A New Prose TranslationVirgil took as his hero Aeneas, legendary survivor of the fall of Troy and father of the Roman race, and in telling a story of...

Plutarch “Plutarch regularly shows that great leaders transcend their own purely material interests and petty, personal vanities. Noble ideals actually do matter, in government as in life.” ―Michael Dirda, Washington...

Edith WhartonWinner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is an elegant, masterful portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York—now with a new introduction from acclaimed...