Brilliant Classics

Reducere. A selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Normandy countryside.Introducing Little Black Classics...

Reducere. 'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth...Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become...

This is Elena Barshai’s second recording of Bach for Brilliant Classics. Her first was of the concertos by Vivaldi that Bach transcribed for solo a...

Brilliant Classics presents a re-issue of an exciting recording by two Dutch musicians, harpsichordist Pieter-Jan Belder and soprano Johannette Zom...

With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity , " for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are ...

Reducere. For over 150 years, Pride And Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen herself called this brilli...

Reducere. Flamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some ...

Brilliant Classics presents the recordings of all six symphonies by Carl Nielsen. Performed by the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra under Theodore Ku...

Reducere. Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's most brilliant and...

Reducere. Featuring one of her most likeable characters, this sparkling love story set in a seaside resort is Jane Austen's final finished work. Since Anne E...

Jane Austen's last completed novel, marrying witty social realism to a Cinderella love story At twenty--seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and h...

Reducere. This is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever captured in the timeless spirit of romance. Set in L...

Reducere. In 1811, Jane Austen's first published work, Sense and Sensibility, marked the debut of England's premier novelist of manners. Believing that "3 or...

A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike. The Classic Stories Edgar Allan Poe's Ms. Found in a Bottle ...

Reducere. Following the demise of bloodthirsty buccaneer Captain Flint, young Jim Hawkins finds himself with the key to a fortune. For he has discovered a ma...

DescriptionThis volume stands as the only available critical edition of two of the most popular classics in English literature. Three Men in a Boat...

Contributor(s): Author: Alexis de TocquevilleIntroduction by: Joseph EpsteinFrom America's call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist s...

Reducere. This series of modern classics about the charming Penderwick family from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestseller Jeanne Birdsall i...

Reducere. DescriptionHands up - who remembers Chocolate Concrete? Pink Custard? Cornflake Tart? Cheese and Potato Pie? If you do, you probably went to a Brit...

A 'romance of many dimensions' that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social satire and mathematical theory, the Pengu...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Greatest Inspirational Work of Our Time--now in a Special Condensation The Prophet has touched more lives than any other modern work...

Published in 1905 to immediate critical and commercial success, Edith Wharton's enduringly popular novel of manners is a brilliant evocation of the...

Reducere. With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. ' ...the hand was writhing in agonized contortions, squirming and wriggling upon the nail like a worm ...

DescriptionAn exciting approach to the classics: vibrant, appealing graphic novels that bring beloved stories to a new generation of kids. Shipwrec...

An incomparable Henry James novel in a new edition Featuring a new introduction, it is a brilliant and sophisticated satire of manners and morals i...

Reducere. When a dead body, carefully arranged and naked except for a pince-nez, is discovered in a bathtub, amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, deducing the m...

A new translation of the ancient Chinese military classic that is widely admired by military and business strategists For more than two thousand ye...

Reducere. I am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of TyndareusMy father killed me Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and cri...

Fourteen terrifying ghost stories chosen by the master of the macabre, Roald Dahl.'Spookiness is the real purpose of the ghost story. It should giv...

Here are Alan Bennett's four hugely admired, triumphantly reviewed and bestselling stories, brought together in one book for the first time. Like e...

Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. T...

BabyLit Storybooks are a great way to introduce young readers to the classics, with easy to read storylines and bright illustrations. They are part...

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the forgotten second novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed 'The King of Detective Story Writers'.When the...

Indeed, Brilliant Classics is the most remarkable classic label since the emergence of Naxos. One may approach challenging music without spending a...

The final masterpiece from the celebrated author of Crime and Punishment and The Idiot... This extraordinary novel, Dostoyevsky's last and greatest...

DescriptionHerbert George Wells was born on September 21st, 1866 at Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley, Kent. He was the youngest of four sibling...

All Souls is a compelling black comedy of Oxford life by Javier Marías, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. T...

DescriptionBabyLit Storybooks are a great way to introduce young readers to the classics, with easy to read storylines and bright illustrations. Th...

Alan Melville's accomplished translations match the sophisticated elegance of Ovid's Latin. Their witty modern idiom is highly entertaining. In thi...

Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' "The Frogs and Other Plays" offers a unique...

Philip Roth's brilliant conclusion to his eloquent trilogy of post-war America - a magnificent successor to American Pastoral and I Married a Commu...

Designed for the lover of fine literature as well as the intermediate language student, this dual-language book contains 13 great, representative S...

"Sherlock Holmes could glance at a bowler hat and tell that its owner's wife had ceased to love him. In this brilliant book about metaphor James Ge...

Reducere. E.M. Forster's vision of love struggling to assert itself in spite of the rigid class boundaries of Edwardian England, A Room with a View contains ...

DescriptionIan McEwan: "This is a brilliant and extremely useful guide, approachable on every level. Boyd Tonkin opens up infinite worlds of the im...

DescriptionA stunning new edition with deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompani...

DescriptionThe FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning edition features deluxe c...

A brilliant, daring and darkly funny novel by Muriel Spark, 'mistress of the highest high comedy' (The Times). Published as part of a beautifully d...

Leblanc's creation, gentleman thief Arsene Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat - witty, charming, brilliant, sly ... and...

"Walker masterfully evokes time and place with historical detail woven throughout and a narrative voice that will put readers in mind of classics f...

Like the other Sasek classics, this is a facsimile edition of the original book. The brilliant, vibrant illustrations have been meticulously preser...

DescriptionOn the heels of the runaway bestsellers This is New York and This is Paris, Universe is pleased to reissue another title from M. Sasek's...

Like the other Sasek classics, these are facsimile editions of his original books. The brilliant, vibrant illustrations have been meticulously pres...

Like the other Sasek classics, this is a facsimile edition of the original book. The brilliant, vibrant illustrations have been meticulously preser...

Following the runaway bestsellers This is New York and This is Paris, Universe is pleased to reissue another title from M. Sasek's beloved and nost...

Jacques the Fatalist is a provocative exploration of the problems of human existence, destiny, and free will. In the introduction to this brilliant...

DescriptionThese short works, ranging from Tolstoy's earliest tales to the brilliant title story, are rich in the insights and passion that charact...

DescriptionThe FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning edition features deluxe c...

This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein includes all 65 hauntingly beautiful, moody, and subtly erotic woodcut il...

Reducere. The Enormous Room is a fictionalized autobiographical account of the three months that E. E. Cummings spent in a French prison under suspicion of e...

Anton Chekhov's only full-length novel, this "Penguin Classics" edition of "The Shooting Party" is translated and edited by Ronald Wilks, with an i...

"It was I who removed de P- this morning." With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fel...

Reducere. Like the other Sasek classics, This is Munich is a facsimile edition of his original book, which was first published in 1969. The brilliant illustr...

Reducere. Like the other Sasek classics, these are facsimile editions of his original books. The brilliant, vibrant illustrations have been meticulously pres...

Reducere. Curtis Mayfield was one of the seminal vocalists and most talented guitarists of his era, and his music played a vital role in the civil rights mov...

Reducere. Harcourt is proud to introduce new annotated editions of three Virginia Woolf classics, ideal for the college classroom and beyond. For the first t...

Reducere. A powerful new translation of Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse's masterpiece of youthful rebellion--with a foreword and cover art by James Franco A...

Reducere. The publication of The Beautiful and Damned confirmed F. Scott Fitzgerald's place in the pantheon of great American writers. The story chronicles t...

Reducere. "All of us know somehow that there is a Mr. Hyde and a Dr. Jekyll in us... There's a tension at the heart of human nature. And whenever we set out ...

The concluding volume of the masterful Elenium trilogy, now part of the voyager classics collection. The jewel of life is rescued from the distant ...