Meet the human boy Mowgli, the sleek Panther Bagheera, The sleepy brown bear Baloo, and the conniving tiger Shere Khan

Rather than be ´sivilized´ by the Widow Douglas, Huckleberry Finn - the grubby but good-natured son of a local drunk - sets off with Jim, an escaped slave, to find freedom on the Mississippi river. With the law on their tail, they navigate a world of robbers, slave hunters and con men, and Huck must choose between what society says is ´right´ and his own burgeoning understanding of Jim´s friendship and humanity.

One of the most irrepressible and exuberant characters in the history of literature, Tom Sawyer explodes onto the page in a whirl of bad behaviour and incredible adventures. Whether he is heaving clods of earth at his brother, faking a gangrenous toe, or trying to convince the world that he is dead, Tom´s infectious energy and good humour shine through. This beautiful Macmillan Collector´s Library edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer features an afterword by playwright and screenwriter Peter Harness. This beautiful Macmillan Collector´s Library edition features an afterword by Peter Harness. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector´s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector´s Library are books to love and treasure.

On board the whaling ship Pequod a crew of wise men and fools, renegades and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by crazed captain Ahab, a man hell-bent on hunting down the mythic white whale. Melville transforms the little world of the whale ship into a crucible where mankind´s fears, faith and frailties are pitted against a relentless fate

Living in Corfu was rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas

Sherlock Holmes is back on the case