Collins Classics

Wuthering Heights

Author :Emily Brontë

Price: RM8.50

Code: C024

Emily Brontë’s only novel, Wuthering Heights remains one of literature’s most disturbing explorations into the dark side of romantic passion. Heathcliff & Cathy believe they’re destined to love each other forever, but when cruelty & snobbery separate them, their untamed emotions literally consume them.

Northanger Abbey

Author: Jane Austen

Price: RM8.50

Code: C023

Innocent 17-year-old Catherine meets & falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with terrible suspicions. A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Austen’s “Gothic parody.”

Sense and Sensibility

Author: Jane Austen

Price: RM8.50

Code: C022

Jane Austen’s first published novel, Sense and Sensibility is a wonderfully entertaining tale that revolves around two starkly different sisters, Elinor & Marianne Dashwood. Filled with satiric wit & subtle characterizations, Sense and Sensibility teaches that true love requires a balance of reason & emotion.

Persuasion

Author: Jane Austen

Price: RM 8.50

Code: C021

Persuasion follows the romance of Anne Elliot & naval officer Frederick Wentworth. One cannot but pity Miss Anne Elliot, who was called upon by duty to forsake love, & Frederick Wentworth who’s heart she broke. Eight years later, they are given a second chance at love, but will they take it?

Pride and Prejudice

Author: Jane Austen

Price: RM 8.50

Code: C020

Pride and Prejudice—Austen’s own ‘darling child’—tells the story of fiercely independent Elizabeth Bennet, one of five sisters who must marry rich, as she confounds the arrogant, wealthy Mr. Darcy. What ensues is one of the most delightful and engrossingly readable courtships known to literature, written by a precocious Austen when she was just 21-one years old.

Emma

Author: Jane Austen

Price: RM8.50

Code: C019

Emma Woodhouse is a wealthy, exquisite, & thoroughly self-deluded young woman who has “lived in the world with very little to distress or vex her.” What ensues is a delightful series of scheming escapades in which every social machination and bit of “tittle-tattle” is steeped in Austen’s delicious irony. Ultimately, Emma discovers that “Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.”

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Author: Jules Verne

Price: RM 8.50

Code: C018

The year is 1866 & the Pacific Ocean is being terrorized by a deadly sea monster. Captain Nemo will take you on a series of fantastic adventures in which they encounter underwater forests, giant clams, monster storms, huge squid, treacherous polar ice &—most spectacular of all—the magnificent lost city of Atlantis! 

Around the World in 80 days

Author: Jules Verne

Price: RM 8.50

Code: C017

Phileas Fogg, wagers 20 thousand pounds that he can travel around the world in 80 days or less over a game of cards. What follows is a headlong adventure full of trains, ships, elephants, & wind sledges, not to mention human sacrifice, duels, and Indian attacks. A successful combination of modern speed & period quaintness, Around the World in Eighty Days has become a delightful, timeless, steam-driven classic.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Price: RM 8.50

Code: C016

Mysteries–and many more–are brought to the house on Baker Street where detective Sherlock Holmes resides. No case is too tricky for the world’s most famous sleuth and his incredible powers of deduction.

A Tale of Two Cities

Author: Charles Dickens

Price: RM 8.50

Code: C015

A Tale of Two Cities tells the story of a family threatened by the terrible events of the past. From the tranquil lanes of London, Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, & Sydney Carton are all drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror and soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.

Oliver Twist

Author: Charles Dickens

Price: RM 8.50

Code: C014

Set against London’s seedy back street slums, Oliver Twist is the saga of a workhouse orphan captured & thrust into a thieves’ den, with a string of uneventful fate encountering the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, & the terrible Fagin, a treacherous ringleader. Yet at the heart of this drama is the orphan Oliver, whose unsullied goodness leads him at last to salvation.

Great Expectations

Author: Charles Dickens

Price: RM8.50

Code: C013

Pip is an orphan, alone in the world. Then his path crosses with that of an escaped convict, & his life is never the same again. From the decaying mansion of Miss Havisham & her cold, beautiful ward, Estella, to a new world of unexpected wealth, Pip must struggle to find his way. Pip knows the kind of life he was meant to lead. What he doesn’t know is whether life will lead him in an altogether different – and startling — direction.

A Christmas Carol

Author: Charles Dickens

Price: RM8.50

Code: C012

A Christmas Carol famously recounts the plight of Bob Cratchit, whose family finds joy even in poverty, & the transformation of his miserly boss Scrooge as he is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, & future. A Christmas Carol shines with warmth, decency, kindness, humility, & the value of the holidays.

Jane Eyre

Author: Charlotte Brontë

Price: RM8.50

Code: C011

Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is an extraordinary coming-of-age story featuring one of the most independent & strong-willed female protagonists in all of literature. One of the world’s most beloved novels, Jane Eyre is a startlingly modern blend of passion, romance, mystery, & suspense.

Moll Flanders

Author: Daniel Defoe

Price: RM 8.50

Code: C010

Moll Flanders will do anything to avoid poverty. Taking Moll through the echelons of 18-century English society, Defoe seldom moralizes as he champions the personal qualities of self-reliance, perseverance, & hard work—even when it takes the form of crime.

Robinson Crusoe

Author: Daniel Defoe

Price: RM8.50

Code: C009

 The story of an English mariner, sole survivor of a shipwreck, who manages to survive for 28 years on a deserted island in the South Pacific, encountering mutineers, cannibals, natives & captives. The novel is loosely based on Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway, who survived for 4 years on a deserted island.

The Age of Innocence

Author: Edith Wharton

Price: RM 8.50

Code: C008

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is a masterful portrait of May Welland, demure & pretty, born & bred to marry Newland Archer but Archer falls deeply in love with a mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska. Torn between duty & passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his life or mercilessly destroy it. 

Son and Lovers

Author: D.H. Lawrence

Price: RM 8.50

Code : C007

Based very closely on D.H. Lawrence’s own life, Son and Lovers tells the story of young Paul Morel. Set in Nottinghamshire, this work is an autobiographical portrayal of childhood, adolescence & the clash of generations.

The Secret Garden

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Price: RM 8.50

Code: C006

Mary Lennox, sent to Misselthwaite Manor, on the Yorkshire moors, to live with her uncle after her parents die of cholera & discovers her sickly cousin Colin, who is equally obnoxious and imperious. They are the book’s spiritual secret gardens, needing only the right kind of care to bloom into lovely children.

King Solomon’s Mines

Author: Henry Rider Haggard

Price: RM 8.50

Code: C005

Adventure, discovery, immortality & terror–these are the themes of King Solomon’s Mines. Three men set out on a journey into the heart of Africa to search for a lost friend. They stumble upon an unknown country, cut off from civilization, & learn of a diamond mine, from which no one has returned…

The Last of the Mohicans

Author: James F. Copper

Price: RM 8.50

Code: C004

It is 1757. The English & French are engaged in a savage, bloody war for control of the North American continent. Hawkeye, a white scout who was raised among the Indians. Not fully belonging to either world, Hawkeye has learned to respect the best of both civilizations. The book established the American frontier as a setting for thrilling adventures & introduced, in Hawkeye, the prototype of the rugged frontier hero.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Author: L. Frank Baum

Price: RM 8.50

Code: C003

L. Frank Baum’s story of a little girl carried away by a tornado to the strange & beautiful Land of Oz has had an extraordinary adventures with the famous trio of characters, defeats a wicked witch, & learns about the power of friendship, loyalty, & self-confidence.

Alice in Wonderland

Author: Lewis Carroll

Price: RM 8.50

Code: C002

Alice. The Mad Hatter. The White Rabbit. The Cheshire Cat. The Queen of Hearts. Everyone knows the characters who inhabit Lewis Carroll’s remarkable Wonderland— where she meets a variety of wonderful creatures, including Tweedledee & Tweedledum, the Cheshire Cat, & the hookah-smoking Caterpillar. Throughout her fantastic journeys, Alice retains her reason, humor, & sense of justice.

Through the Looking Glass

Author:  Lewis Carroll

Price: RM 8.50

Code: C001

Alice continues her adventures in Through the Looking-Glass, which is loosely based on a game of chess & includes Carroll’s famous poem “Jabberwocky.” Carroll’s sense of the absurd & his amazing gift for games of logic & language have secured for the Alice books an enduring spot in the hearts of both adults & children.