Classic Fiction

Winnie-the-Pooh, the loveable bear with a fondness for honey, resides in the Hundred Acre Wood, a magical forest where he embarks on whimsical adventures with his friends. Whether he’s hunting for Heffalumps, getting stuck in Rabbit's doorway after eating too much honey, or trying to help Eeyore find his lost tail, Pooh's days are filled with simple joys and delightful...

The Magician’s Nephew is a captivating tale that sets the stage for the unforgettable adventures in C.S. Lewis's classic series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This beautifully presented hardback edition features the original, enchanting illustrations by Pauline Baynes, bringing to life the magic and wonder of Lewis's creation. The story follows two young friends, Digory and Polly, who embark on a...

The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss is a timeless adventure story that has captivated readers for generations. It tells the story of the Robinson family, who find themselves shipwrecked on a remote tropical island after surviving a ferocious storm at sea. The novel follows the family's efforts to overcome the challenges of their new environment and build a...

Vampires, vaqueros, and star-crossed lovers face off on the Texas–Mexico border in this supernatural Western from the author of The Hacienda.As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters—her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night,...

A magnificent new translation of The Odyssey by best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn. With his Odyssey, best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn has created a momentous new work, hailed by classicists and poets alike—a translation to stand with those of E. V. Rieu and Robert Fagles. Setting aside the streamlining, modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces...

A Midsummer Night's Dream is part of the new Puffin Classics collection entitled STAGED, which features timeless tropes and enduring stories. 'The course of true love never did run smooth ...' Hermia loves Lysander. But she must marry Demetrius or be condemned to life in a convent. Together, they plan to elope to escape their fate. However, Helena, Hermia's best...

The most popular anthology of Jorge Luis Borges's short stories, Fictions is a wildly original and influential collection of fantastic tales, translated from the Spanish with an afterword by Andrew Hurley in Penguin Modern Classics. Nobody before Borges had ever attempted this strange and wonderful mixture of arcana, popular literature, national myth, the nature of time and classical themes. Now...

Immerse yourself in the breathtaking world of Middle-earth with The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings Gift Set: A Middle-earth Treasury by J. R. R. Tolkien. This deluxe boxed set features pocket edition hardbacks of Tolkien’s most celebrated works, weaving together an enthralling tale of bravery, adventure, and friendship. Journey through an extraordinary landscape with the unassuming yet brave...

Perfect for longtime fans and new readers alike—a beautiful trade paperback boxed set of the first six novels in Frank Herbert's Dune Saga. In the far future, on a remote planet, an epic adventure awaits. Here are the first six novels of Frank Herbert’s magnificent Dune saga—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction series of...

Paddington: A Classic Collection by Michael Bond brings together ten beloved stories of the charming bear with a penchant for getting into delightful predicaments. Paddington Bear has been delighting adults and children alike with his earnest good intentions and humorous misadventures for nearly sixty years. To celebrate his enduring popularity, ten classic paperback novels are brought together in this special...

A magnificent new translation of the Odyssey by best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn With his Odyssey, best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn has created a momentous new work, hailed by classicists and poets alike - a translation to stand with those of E. V. Rieu and Robert Fagles. Setting aside the streamlining, modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn...

From the bestselling author, Claire Keegan, an exquisitely written story which finds an unsatisfied man on his bus journey home reflect on the love that got away. After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind agitates over a woman named Sabine with whom he could have...

"Ah, the taste and feel of blood when all passion and greed is sharpened in that one desire!" The Vampire Lestat introduces us to Lestat, a vampire who is anything but the conventional undead. Lestat is truly alive, vivid, ecstatic, and stagestruck. In his extravagant tale, he plunges from the lasciviousness of eighteenth-century Paris to the demonic Egypt of prehistory;...

Buddenbrooks, Mann's semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic, is the book that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature. Discover Mann's Nobel Prize-winning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family—wealthy, esteemed, established. Four generations later, a tide of twentieth-century modernism has gradually disintegrated the bourgeois values on which the Buddenbrooks...

One of the greatest American novelists of the twentieth century - Sunday Telegraph Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate, and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation. Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers, or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic pretensions, Yates ruthlessly examines the...

The timeless children's classic full of interactive fun—a perfect gift for babies and first birthdays—now has sturdy board pages and a hardback cover! One of the best-selling children's books of all time is now available as a sturdy board book for even the most curious hands! With all the interactive fun of the original, it's a perfect gift for new...

Murder, mystery, and majesty combine in this new Special Edition hardback of the Queen of Crime's very best short stories set in London. Agatha Christie is recognised throughout the world as the writer of remarkable country house mysteries and ingenious murders set in faraway countries. Yet many of her books and stories were set in the city she knew best...

A new, Vintage Classics red spine edition of the Booker Prize-winning novel, The Sense of an Ending, published to celebrate the enduring impact of a writing career that spans almost half a century. We live in time—it holds us and molds us—but I never felt I understood it very well. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at...

'It is almost impossible to put down' - Lisa Tuttle, GUARDIAN 'A stonking great slice of American folk horror: modern trauma layered with ancient evil' - DAILY MAIL The ranch was our dream home. Nestled in the arms of a valley below the Teton mountains, acres upon acres of wilderness, our nearest neighbours over a mile away... Beautiful, serene -...

A man is forbidden to uncover the secret of the tower in a fairy-tale castle by the Rhine. A headless corpse is found in a secret garden in Paris — belonging to the city's chief of police. And a drowned man is fished from the sea off the Italian Riviera, leaving the carabinieri to wonder why his socialite friends at...

From the Booker Prize shortlisted author of This Mournable Body, one of the BBC's 100 Women for 2020. 'Unforgettable' Alice Walker 'This is the book we've been waiting for' Doris Lessing 'A unique and valuable book.' Booklist 'An absorbing page-turner' Bloomsbury Review 'A masterpiece' Madeleine Thien 'Arresting' Kwame Anthony Appiah Two decades before Zimbabwe would win independence and end white...

A classic wartime adventure story. In their trusty fishing boat Genevieve, armed with a flame thrower and limited ammunition, a small group of officers and men take a stand against the might of the German army after the fall of France in World War II. This is classic Shute—at once a thrilling adventure that will keep you on the edge...

The complete series of Ngaio Marsh reissues concludes with the re-publication of this 20th anniversary edition of Light Thickens, her final novel. Peregrine Jay, owner of the Dolphin Theatre, is putting on a magnificent production of Macbeth, the play that, superstition says, always brings bad luck. But one night the claymore swings and the dummy's head is more than real:...

Time by Stephen Baxter is a visionary and gripping tale set in the year 2010, where more than a century of ecological destruction, unchecked industrial expansion, and relentless population growth have pushed the Earth to the brink of collapse. As the world's governments retreat into insular, protectionist policies, one man dares to dream of a bold and brighter future beyond...

Rich, handsome, darling of the ton, the hope of ambitious mothers and despair of his sisters, the Marquis of Alverstoke at 37 sees no reason to put himself out for anyone. Until a distant connection, ignorant of his selfishness, applies to him for help. Plunged into one drama after another by the large and irrepressible Merriville family, Alverstoke is surprised...

On Heroes and Tombs is Sabato's masterpiece of obsessive love and murder set in 1950s Buenos Aires, now available in Penguin Modern Classics. This dark, philosophical novel is centred around a violent crime committed by Alejandra, the daughter of a prominent Argentinian family. Alejandra's act entangles the lives of three men: her father, Fernanda Vidal, who believes he is hunted...

It broke my heart and then splinted it back together again... Magnificent. – Hannah Gold, bestselling author of The Last Bear A dog’s eye perspective that’s so vivid you can almost taste the earthworms. – FT, YA Book of the Year This visceral story of heartbreak and survival...has the memorable feel of a classic. – The Guardian, Best children’s and...

'It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore...' Thus Defoe describes the heart-stopping moment when—after years of solitude—the world's most famous shipwrecked mariner discovers that he is not totally alone on his island. From its publication in 1719, and through many translations, Robinson...

A new HarperCollins Children's Classic edition, from the author of best-loved classic The Snow Goose. “I was aware, from the very beginning, that I was a most unusual cat…” Thomasina is the beloved pet cat of 7-year-old Mary Ruadh, whose strict father is the town's vet. When Thomasina falls ill, her father sees no other option but to put the...

THE BRAND NEW DESTINATION THRILLER FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Welcome to The Surf House Where everyone’s escaping something… High on the cliffs of Morocco, far from the city lights and the souks, stands The Surf House: a sanctuary for travellers chasing sunshine and waves. But the idyll hides a dark mystery. And when Bea washes in, seeking refuge after a...

Chris Riddell's brilliant full-colour illustrated The Little Prince in a sumptuous hardback and jacketed edition. A perfect gift for families, children, and all fans of this much-loved favourite classic. After crash-landing in the Sahara Desert, a lonely pilot encounters a little prince who is visiting Earth from his own planet. Their strange and moving meeting illuminates many of life's universal...

"Whatever happens in your house, robbery or murder, you must have your breakfast."The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond, is looted from an Indian temple by a murderous British colonel. Years later, it is given to young heiress Rachel Verinder as an eighteenth birthday present ... but seems to only bring danger and misfortune. On the night of Rachel's birthday, the...

You're Only Old Once! invites you to join in on the fun (and funny) journey of getting older with this hilarious Dr. Seuss picture book—it’s just what the doctor ordered for new retirees, old souls, and kids at heart, and makes a perfect gift to celebrate birthdays and other milestones! The Doctor is in...Dr. Seuss that is! Readers will laugh...

Only UK edition in print First published in 1939, a few years before his most influential works in theatre and philosophy, The Wall was Sartre’s first and only collection of short fiction. The title piece tells the story of a prisoner during the Spanish Civil War, on the eve of his execution by a firing squad, who is told he...

Manga Classics: The Secret Garden brings the classic tale of a young girl who finds new life and hope in growing a garden to life as a comic book. Despite her spoilt upbringing in a wealthy family in British India, Mary Lennox has never really had anyone pay any attention to her. So, when she finds herself all alone in...

This elegant collector's edition presents Jane Austen's classic novel, Northanger Abbey, featuring gold cover embossing and gilded page edges. On Catherine Morland's first excursion into fashionable society, she meets the distinguished Henry Tilney and is invited to visit his home, Northanger Abbey. A devotee of Gothic novels, Catherine hopes that the Abbey will live up to the haunted ruins conjured...

This elegant hardback edition presents Lewis Carroll's best loved work, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with gilded page edges and original pen and ink illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. First published in 1865, this perennially popular tale follows the story of curious Alice and her fall through the rabbit hole into a fantasy world filled with anthropomorphic and peculiar creatures, including...

A stunning edition of the beloved modern classic from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. 'The work of a great storyteller' - WASHINGTON POST California's fertile Salinas Valley is home to two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, whose destinies are fruitfully, and fatally, intertwined. Between the beginning of the twentieth century...

Max—aka the Grinch’s partner-in-crime—is ready to share his view about what happened that fateful Christmas Eve in this heartwarming retelling of the classic Dr. Seuss story, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Those Whos down in Who-ville loved Christmas, it’s true. And a DOG Just north of Who-ville… …Did TOO! The Grinch and Max live high up on Mt. Crumpit, overlooking...

A striking new edition of the New York Times No.1 bestselling YA crime thriller and TikTok sensation. Now a major BBC and Netflix series! A stunning exclusive edition of the bestselling YA crime thriller sensation, with a striking new cover design and black sprayed edges. Pip Fitz-Amobi is haunted by the way her last investigation ended. Soon she’ll be leaving...

The Magician’s Nephew, from Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Greta Gerwig, will release in IMAX and wide globally in theatres on 12 February 2027, and on Netflix on 2 April 2027. Sneak previews only in IMAX will begin on 10 February 2027. A picture book retelling of C. S. Lewis's classic story The Magician’s Nephew, abridged for the youngest fans! Introduce readers...

’Twas The Night Before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; the stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. A lavish, brilliant, and beautifully illustrated retelling of the classic Christmas poem, brought to life as never before by beloved master watercolourist Jon...

She Who Devours SCHOLAR. SHAMAN. SAVIOUR. An aspiring professor is thrust into a perilous world of supernatural creatures, ancient magic, and political turmoil in this new adult fantasy story inspired by Filipino folklore and mythology. 21-year-old Maya Halili is determined to secure her spot as a full-time faculty member at the National University of the Seven Islands, the most prestigious...

Step into the timeless epic of Homer’s The Odyssey, where myth and destiny collide. Packaged in a stunning foiled cover. Follow legendary Odysseus, a king and hero forged in the fires of the Trojan War, as he embarks on a long and perilous journey that will push him to his limits. This is no ordinary voyage, though, as he and...

Rediscover Puffin Classics - bringing the best-loved stories to a new generation. Princess Irene lives in a castle in a wild and lonely mountainous region. One day, she discovers a steep and winding stairway leading to a bewildering labyrinth of unused passages with closed doors - and a further stairway. What lies at the top? Can the ring the princess...

The Elves have been given their own mystery to solve. On Christmas Eve, a letter arrives at the North Pole from a little girl called Sofi. She has one question – how old is Santa Claus? And so begins a quest for two little Elves to find out the answer! But will the Elves discover how old Santa is? A...

They should have made sure he was dead. DI Hope Fenton is haunted by the abduction of her son Noah eight years ago. It shadows every investigation she works on with her ex-husband, forensic scientist Dr Adam Fenton. One down. When a supposed overdose victim is found to have received a postcard marked “You're first”, Hope uncovers links to a...

Classic tales by Laura Ingalls Wilder about life on the frontier and America’s best-loved pioneer family. Teaching at the Brewster settlement, miles away from her family, isn’t as exciting as Laura Ingalls had hoped and she is very homesick. The winter passes slowly and she has only rare drives in Almanzo Wilder’s new pony trap to look forward to. As...

Classic tales by Laura Ingalls Wilder about life on the frontier and America’s best-loved pioneer family. Little Town on the Prairie follows Laura Ingalls as she hopes to gain her teaching certificate and is determined to study hard at school. The school exhibition gives Laura the perfect chance to impress, and as she approaches her sixteenth birthday, she hopes to...

The classic and ultimate edition of the original tales by Laura Ingalls Wilder about life on the frontier and America’s best-loved pioneer family. With a stunning new cover look and classic inside illustrations from Garth Williams – now the inspiration for a brand new and much-anticipated Netflix show. After all their travelling, from the Big Woods and the Prairie, the...

A translation of the twelfth book of The Mahābhārata, an epic tale of history and kingship, reinforced with legends, romances, and metaphysical, theological, and ethical teachings written in Sanskrit 1700 or more years ago. A remarkable composition of 100,000 couplets, The Mahābhārata is the second-longest poem in world literature. In this volume, James L. Fitzgerald completes his translation of the...

"What is your nation if I may ask," says the citizen. "Ireland," says Bloom. "I was born here. Ireland." Ulysses, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, has had a profound influence on modern fiction. In a series of episodes covering the course of a single day, 16 June 1904, the novel traces the movements of Leopold Bloom...

I am making up To the Lighthouse - the sea is to be heard all through it Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers in Cornwall, Virginia Woolf produced one of the masterworks of English literature in To the Lighthouse. It concerns the Ramsay family and their summer guests on the Isle of Skye before and after the...

The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. The work is a portal to Proust's novel and an introduction to its unforgettable first-person narrator-protagonist. Immersed in themes of time, memory, identity, art, sensation, love, and jealousy, the narrator embarks on the story...

Thérèse Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Zola's dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters, mere human beasts who kill in order to satisfy their lust, is much more than an atmospheric Second Empire period-piece. Many readers were scandalised by an approach to character-drawing which seemed to...

In this vigorous and fast-moving novel of post-Napoleonic France, Julien Sorel's plans to reach the higher echelons of society through the priesthood are deflected by his realisation that the attainment of happiness is of greater consequence than the pursuit of ambition. Subtitled A Chronicle of 1830, Stendhal's depiction of a nation of smug hypocrites scandalised contemporary readers, who recognised themselves...

I am not an angel nor a genie nor a ghost...I am Erik! A mysterious Phantom haunts the depths of the Paris Opera House where he has fallen passionately in love with the beautiful singer Christine Daaé. Under his guidance, her singing rises to new heights and she is triumphantly acclaimed. But Christine is also loved by Raoul de Chagny,...

"I never can resist a touch of the dramatic." The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is now best remembered for its concluding story in which the great detective appears to plunge to his death into the waters at the bottom of the Reichenbach Falls, locked in a struggle with his nemesis, Professor Moriarty. However, the collection also brings the reader back...

'All his powers were in decline; the only thing growing stronger in him was the conviction that all this could not last much longer, that his demise was imminent.' The Buddenbrooks (1900) was Thomas Mann's first major success. It draws on his own family history and on his vivid memories of growing up in the commercial town of Lübeck in...

"Pray, pray be composed," cried Elinor, "and do not betray what you feel to everybody present. Perhaps he has not observed you yet." For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic, impetuous younger sister Marianne, the prospect of marrying the men they love appears remote. In a world ruled by money and self-interest, the Dashwood sisters have neither fortune...

Winner of the Newbery Medal, this remarkably moving novel has impressed the hearts and minds of millions of readers. Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face of racism and social injustice. And it is also Cassie's story—Cassie Logan, an independent...

I feel the need of an escapade after these serious poetic experimental books...I want to kick up my heels & be off. Orlando tells the tale of an extraordinary individual who lives through centuries of English history, first as a man, then as a woman. The story spans encounters with queens, kings, novelists, playwrights, and poets, and explores a struggle...

It was at the time when I was wandering around hungry in Kristiania, that strange city no one leaves before it has set its mark on them... Hunger is the first-person story of a young man desperately trying to establish himself in the city as a writer, living in shabby lodgings where he can seldom afford to pay the rent,...

'There's an east wind coming... such a wind as never blew on England yet.' Arthur Conan Doyle's His Last Bow features a selection of Sherlock Holmes stories written at a time of growing tensions in Europe. First published as a collection in 1917, against the backdrop of the First World War, the volume covers tales that deviate from the pattern...

"I shall do one thing in this life - one thing for certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die." Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy and respectable, middle-aged...

'His rise testifies to the decline of a whole society.' Jean-Paul Sartre Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885), is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man, Georges Duroy, christened 'Bel-Ami' by his female admirers, making it to the top in fin-de-siècle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the...

This study of natural goodness is Dostoevsky's most touching novel. Prince Myshkin, the last, poverty-stricken member of a once great family and regarded by many as an idiot, returns to Russia from a sanatorium in Switzerland in order to collect an inheritance. Before he has even arrived home, he becomes involved with Rogozhin, a rich merchant's son whose obsession with...

New York City girl Claudia, a month shy of her twelfth birthday, has resolved to run away from home with her younger brother, Jamie. She plans everything to perfection, including their destination: the grand, elegant, all-encompassing Metropolitan Museum of Art. However, no sooner have Claudia and Jamie settled into their new home, than they are caught up in the mystery...

You said I killed you - haunt me, then! Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain...

One ought to choose something very deliberately, and be faithful to that. Isabel Archer is a young, intelligent, and spirited American girl, determined to relish her first experience of Europe. She rejects two eligible suitors in her fervent commitment to liberty and independence, declaring that she will never marry. Thanks to the generosity of her devoted cousin Ralph, she is...

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) proclaims that it is "A Trivial Play for Serious People." In fact, collected here alongside Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Salome (1891, 1894), A Woman of No Importance (1893), and An Ideal Husband (1895), Earnest shows that the questions...

Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions! The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be forever associated with the effects that Walpole pioneered. Professing to be a translation of a mysterious Italian tale from the...

'Pray, pray be composed,' cried Elinor, 'and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you yet.' For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic, impetuous younger sister Marianne, the prospect of marrying the men they love appears remote. In a world ruled by money and self-interest, the Dashwood sisters have neither...

Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Austen's six remarkable novels. Full of crackling dialogue, it achieves the finest balance of comedy and reflection, liveliness and solemnity. While revealing the restrictive life of genteel women at the turn of the nineteenth century, it provides as the central consciousness the clever, witty, and flirtatious Elizabeth Bennet, arguably Austen's most alluring...

"He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention." Pride and Prejudice, one of the most famous love stories of all time, has also proven itself as a treasured mainstay of the English literary canon. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters are...

A powerful portrait of grief triumphantly overcome, Persuasion is Austen's most passionate work: more than any previous novel, it concentrates on the intense inner life of the heroine. It opens with Anne Elliot lamenting lost love in a painful reversal of the courtship novel; it then transforms into a rapturous romantic comedy. Against a dysfunctional gentry family corroded by snobbishness,...

This is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his financial and personal ruin. It is set against the background of a whole society driven by social ambition and lust for money. The detailed descriptions of both affluence and squalor in the Paris of 1819 are an integral part of the drama...

The limited deluxe edition will include gorgeous designed edges, foil, spot gloss, and an inside cover design. From New York Times bestselling author Keri Lake comes a hardcover repackage of her TikTok sensation Nocticadia, a dark, atmospheric tale of deadly secrets and forbidden love. Mortui vivos docent. The dead teach the living. After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious...

"It will be a strange sort of a book, tho', I fear; blubber is blubber you know; tho' you may get oil out of it, the poetry runs as hard as sap from a frozen maple tree;—& to cook the thing up, one must needs throw in a little fancy.... Yet I mean to give the truth of the thing,...

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts. The greatest 'state of the nation' novel in English, Middlemarch addresses ordinary life at a moment of great social change, in the years leading to the Reform Act of 1832. Through her portrait of a Midlands town, George Eliot addresses gender relations and class, self-knowledge and self-delusion, community...