1929. Sherriff's play about life in the trenches in the First World War. This powerful play endures in the tradition of great drama because until wars are at an end, the h...
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply te...
Hairdresser Rita feels that life is passing her by. She wants an education, but does Frank have anything to teach her?
Antonio, the merchant of Venice, and Shylock the money-lender have struck a bargain whereby Shylock will lend Antonio some money provided that if Antonio cannot repay him,...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this n...
If anything, Othello has increased its stature as one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies ever since it was first written, between 1603 and 1604, due to the victimisation ...
Much Ado About Nothing has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies. The central relationship, between Benedick and Beatrice, is wittily combativ...
One of Shakespeare's darkest and most violent tragedies, Macbeth's struggle between his own ambition and his loyalty to the King is dramatically compelling. As those he ki...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Though this be madness, yet there is method in it'. Considered one of Shakespeare's mos...
Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human his...
George Eliot`s own favourite novel centres on Silas Marner, the linen weaver of Raveloe, a village on the brink of industrialization. Once he was a respected member of a n...
Although Doyle’s novel is often funny, the overall effect is anything but. Life in Barrytown in 1968 is both hard and confining, as Doyle knows so well from the fourteen y...
In 1985, two mountain climbers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, go to climb Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. They reach the summit successfully, but on the way down, Joe h...
One of the most passionate and heartfelt novels ever written, "Wuthering Heights" tells of the relationship between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, the orphan boy her f...
When the animals take over the farm, they think it is the start of a better life. Their dream is of a world where all animals are equal and all property is shared. But so...
Harper Lee's classic novel of a lawyer in the Deep South defending a black man charged with the rape of a white girl.
One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill...
"Pride and Prejudice", which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs. Bo...
Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many w...