Edice Collins Classics

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Our life is what our thoughts make it. The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have also been a stoic philosopher...

Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu′s THE ART OF WAR is a Chinese military treatise that is still revered today as the ultimate commentary on war and military strategy...

Bronte′s infamous Gothic novel tells the story of orphan Jane, a child of unfortunate circumstances. Raised and treated badly by her aunt and cousins and eventually sent away to a cruel boarding school, it is not until Jane becomes...

When Phileas Fogg wagers a bet that he can travel across the globe in just 80 days, little does he know about the epic journey that he is about to undertake. With his faithful French servant, Passepartout, ...

Including some of Oscar Wilde’s most well-known and infamous plays, Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest, this collection ...

Říkejte mi Izmael… V internetových kvízech, kde se má poznat dílo podle první věty, většinou bezpečně najdeme Bílou velrybu. Dvaatřicetiletý Melville ji poprvé vydal roku 1851 a dodnes patří k tomu nejrespektovanějšímu, co ve ...

Klasické dílo americké literatury je sice vyprávěním o dětech, ale teprve dospělí ocení autorovu charakteristiku chlapeckých hrdinů. K romantiku Sawyerovi, vychovávanému laskavou, ale bigotní tetou, a vykutálenému Finnovi se druží...

Román vyšel poprvé r. 1927 a brzy se zařadil se mezi nejlepší anglicky psané romány 20. století. Jedná se o dílo obsahující nejvíc autobiografických prvků, Woolfová se v něm pokusila vyrovnat se vztahem k rodičům a nastínit i jejich..

VELKÝ GATSBY - jedno z nejznámějších děl moderní americké literatury - má roku 2013 hned dve premiéry: dílo vychází v novém, moderním překladu Martina Pokorného a do kin přichází hvězdná filmová adaptace. Zámožného, ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man...

Satiricko-humoristický román (1884) ztvárňující důležité společenské problémy novodobé Ameriky, základní dílo americké literatury. Příběh se odehrává v polovině 19. století, ještě před americkou občanskou válkou...

Komedie o proradném lidském citu, který člověku bere svobodu a žene ho do houfu, ale jemuž nakonec i ti nejchytřejší podlehnou, protože "svět se musí rozmnožovat"...

Considered one of the all-time great American works of fiction, Fitzgerald’s glorious yet ultimately tragic social satire on the Jazz Age encapsulates the exuberance, energy and decadence of an era...

′Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it...

Austen′s best-loved tale of love, marriage and society in class-conscious Georgian England still delights modern readers today with its comedy and characters. It follows the feisty, quick-witted Elizabeth Bennet as her parents seek...

rom the author of The Great Gatsby, a tale of marriage and disappointment in the Roaring Twenties. Fitzgerald’s rich and detailed novel of the decadent Jazz Era follows the beautiful and vibrant Anthony Patch and his wife ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Second to the right ...and then straight on till morning!' Desperate to hear bedtime stories, Peter Pan waits outside the nursery window of Wendy, ...

Considered one of Shakespeare′s most rich and enduring plays, the depiction of its hero Hamlet as he vows to avenge the murder of his father by his brother Claudius is both powerful and complex. As Hamlet tries to find out the truth of the situation

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.' Beautiful, impulsive and spirited, Bathsheba Everdene's fortunes are changed forever ...