Albert CamusA gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel,...

Dava SobelWith her bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel introduced readers to her rare gift for weaving complex scientific concepts into a compelling narrative. Now Sobel brings her full...

Cardinal EditionA collection of 22 short stories by 22 masters of the short story: Ernest Hemingway; Stephen Vincent Benét; Dorothy Parker; Willa Cather; Sherwood Anderson; Katherine Mansfield; Thomas Mann; W....

WB YeatsPart of the Everyman series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, chronology of the life and times of the author,...

William BlakeSongs of Innocence, and of Experience, and The Book of ThelA DIVINE IMAGECruelty has a human heart,And Jealousy a human face;Terror the human form divine,And Secresy the human dress.The...

Edward Snow For the past twenty-five years, North Point Press has been working with Edward Snow, "Rilke's best contemporary translator" (Brian Phillips, The New Republic ), to bring into English...

Edited and Translated by Ernest Barker Aristotle's Politics is a key document in Western political thought. In these first two books Aristotle shows his complete mastery of political theory and...

Niccolò Machiavelli, Peter Bondanella(Editor, Translator), Mark Musa(Editor, Translator)Edited and translated by Peter Bondanella and Mark Musa, "The Portable Machiavelli" not only gives the casual reader a chance to read different...

Muriel SparkAt the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books; for...

Mark Twain Treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socio-economic worlds of 16th-century England, focuses on two young look-alikes Edward, the Prince of Wales, and Tom Canty, a...

Pat ConroyPAT CONROY has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo,...