In the three stories collected here, Edgar Allan Poe laid down the ground rules of detective fiction. This is a compendium of Poe’s tales of mystery and intrigue featuring his ground-breaking detective Auguste Dupin.

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway’s magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young… If it was only the other way!’ Wilde’s first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray who upon having his portrait painted desires that it will age and grow ugly while he may remain eternally beautiful. The painting, which reflects each of Gray’s sins and transgressions in its hideousness, haunts him until it finally becomes unbearable. In this dark tale of duplicity and mortality, Wilde creates a world where art and reality collide.

‘A triumph of execution … one of the best narratives of the “double life” of a Victorian gentleman’ Peter Ackroyd