Far from the Madding Crowd

This classic tale recounts the adventures of three children who strike up a friendship with the stationmaster of the nearby railway station.

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics.'Blow winds and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!'Epic and tragic in its scope King Lear explores a king's demise into madness and insanity when he is betrayed by two of his manipulative and scheming daughters. It is Cordelia the third and only daughter who refuses to flatter her father to deceive who is banished from the kingdom leading to dramatic and tumultuous events.

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 of the writer's works displays his brilliant, quick wit to its full glory.

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-09-12 Pages: 144 Language: English Publisher: William Collins HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved. essential classics Power. corruption and betrayal are at the heart of Shakespeares most well-. known historical and political drama. As Julius Caesar moves closer to securing power for himself and is perceived by some as a threat to Roman citizens. his senators plot to bring about his downfall. Caesars assassination leads to civil war rather than peace and the play explores the subsequent deaths of the conspirators Brutus and Cassius. Shakespeares contemporaries would have spotted the playwrights attempts to use the shift from republican to imperial Rome to highlight the political situation of the Elizabethans at the time. Featuring some of the most powerfully resonant and rousing speeches of any of Shakespeares plays. ...