Brendan Lynch Libri

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly and spectral.' Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine, Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles follows the infamous Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson as they investigate the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville, whose dead body is found on the misty and desolate Devon moors. The locals blame his death on the legend of the fearsome phantom hound that they claim has haunted the Baskerville family for generations. When the heir to the Baskerville fortune, Sir Henry, also comes under threat Holmes' detective skills are put to the test as he battles to discover the truth behind the legend and to solve one of the most macabre mysteries of his career.

One of the world's best-loved stories of shipwreck and survival, The Swiss Family Robinson portrays a family's struggle to create a new life for themselves on a strange and fantastic tropical island. Blown off course by a raging storm, the family-a Swiss pastor, his wife, their four young sons, plus two dogs and a shipload of livestock-must rely on one another in order to adapt to their needs the natural wonders of their exotic new home. Inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, this classic story of invention and adventure has fired the imaginations of readers since it first appeared in 1812. Freely translated over the years, with major sections excised and new subplots added, the novel is published here in its original English translation.

The final episode in the saga of 'The Three Musketeers' finds Artemis attempting a royal coup. Philippe, the 'Man in the Iron Mask', has been a prisoner in the Bastille for 18 years. He is also King Louis' twin brother. Artemis wants him on the throne, but D'Artagnan cannot allow it.

Il professore Otto Lidenbrock trova in un vecchio libro una pergamena che contiene un messaggio cifrato scritto in caratteri runici. Il messaggio viene decifrato da Axel, nipote del rinomato professore di mineralogia che insegna in un prestigioso ginnasio di Amburgo dove vive. Il testo in latino contiene le indicazioni per raggiungere il centro della Terra attraverso un vulcano, lo Snaeffels in Islanda

Romanzo storico consacrato al realismo narrativo, Le due città mette in scena i destini di personaggi coinvolti nel vortice degli eventi della Rivoluzione francese e del successivo periodo del Terrore. Sebbene l'ambientazione, tra Londra e Parigi - le due città del titolo - differisca notevolmente dall'Inghilterra vittoriana, cui il romanziere ha quasi sempre attinto per i suoi lavori, quest'opera contiene tutti i classici temi dickensiani: dalla povertà alla nobiltà di spirito, dal sacrificio alla redenzione. Considerato dall'autore stesso uno dei suoi più riusciti esiti narrativi, Le due città è un testo che appassiona il lettore sin dalla prima pagina per il suo mescolare verità storica e finzione, ricerca erudita e capacità di rappresentazione delle sofferenze umane

Pip is a poor young orphan, living with his sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith. His life is changed forever by two very different meetings--one with an escaped convict and one with an eccentric old lady and the beautiful girl who lives with her. But who is the mysterious person who leaves him a fortune? -- p. 4 of cover.