Peter Harness Books

A collection of thirty-one traditional tales including the well-known "Hansel and Gretel" and "Rumpelstilskin" and the lesser-known "The Dog and the Sparrow" and "The Three Children of Fortune."

A beautiful collector's edition of Oscar Wilde's truly brilliant Gothic novel.

Originally published in 1789 and 1794, this is a collection of some of Blake's best-loved poems. Intended for children, the poems were a popular success with adults of the time too.

"We will die in the fire instead of living in chains." For years, 20 million shape-changing Zygons have lived among us in secret. They wear human form, hiding in plain sight. Now a fanatical Zygon splinter group seek to expose their own kind and provoke a conflict that will force both sides to the brink of Armageddon to ensure their own survival. It took three Doctors to broker a fragile peace between Zygons and Humans. Now the 12th must face the fallout alone. With his allies compromised and his companion believed dead, can he stop the world from plunging into war?

“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” is a novel by American author Mark Twain, published by the publisher Collins. The character in this novel is a teenage boy named Tom Sawyer who and what the author wants to convey to the reader. This novel tells a lot about a cheerful childhood. That said, the stories in it are based on Mark Twain's own experience, along with the characters in it. Fresh and full of imagination, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” recalls the childish soul within the reader. This kid is really naughty. It's just what he did, one time his fun brought a strange problem. He has to deal with cunning criminals. In fact, the criminal managed to trap Tom in a cave. Tom didn't want to lose his shrewdness. If he manages to get out, not only himself will survive, but also his friends, and more importantly the girl he loves. It tells how well Tom Sawyer influences his friends, who willingly and without pressure do what he wants. The problem discussed is that the characters in this novel are analyzed from the point of view of their moral and psychological development. Mark Twain, through the main character, Tom Sawyer, actually wanted to criticize the hypocrisy of society at that time with the story in the novel.

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.' Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking independence and freedom. On his travels, Huck meets an escaped slave, Jim, who is a wanted man, and together they journey down the Mississippi River. Raising the timeless and universal l issues of prejudice, bravery and hope, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was and still is considered the great American novel.

At convent school, a girl acquires romantic notions of a lover who will live for her alone. She marries a kind but dull country doctor and discovers that "This life of hers was as cold as an attic that looks north; and boredom, quiet as the spider, was spinning its web in the shadowy places of her heart." Emma Bovary's quest for escape from the emptiness of her bourgeois existence leads to infidelity and financial extravagance, and Gustave Flaubert's powerful and deeply moving examination of her moral degeneration is universally regarded as a landmark of nineteenth-century fiction. Flaubert was brought to trial by the French government on the grounds of this novel's alleged immorality but narrowly escaped conviction. Madame Bovary remains a touchstone for literary discussions of provincial life and adultery as well as a summit of prose art, a pioneering work of realism that forever changed the way novels are written. This complete and unabridged edition features the classic translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling.