The Hachette Essentials series comprises a collection of titles that are regarded as modern classics. A carefully and lovingly curated selection of distinctive, ground-breaking fiction and non-fiction titles published since 1950. Timeless.

Relevant. Passionate. Unified as a series - distinctive as books.

A good book is great. A great book is essential. Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies .

. . Six interlocking lives - one amazing adventure.

In a narrative that circles the globe and reaches from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future, Cloud Atlas erases the boundaries of time, genre and language to offer an enthralling vision of humanity's will to power, and where it will lead us.