In this reader you will find nine of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous stories of mystery and suspense. They range from Gothic historical stori...

Cathy’s life is changed forever when her father brings home an abandoned child he names Heathcliff. As Cathy and Heathcliff grow up, their ...

Ismael, a young sailor, tells this classic American tale of the gigantic white whale and his obsessed hunter, Captain Ahab. Start your jour...

Maggie is a curious girl. She asks many questions. And she wants some answers. What do people mean when they say she is too intelligent? Wh...

Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, rich, intelligent and a snob. She says she will never marry, but loves matchmaking and is determined to find a...

Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet letter “A” because she is an adulteress. She lives a simple life with her daughter, Pearl but the evil, o...

The book is set in the 1920’s in India and is a story of Dr. Aziz, an Indian doctor, his friend Mr. Fielding, a British professor and two B...

“Gatsby?” asked Daisy urgently. “What Gatsby?” Could it be the same young army lieutenant whom Daisy Fay met five years ago – and who owns ...

London 1923. The First World War has been over for five years, but the effects are still being felt all round the metropolis. A ocialite an...

«Vanity Fair» was written 200 years ago, but it is a thoroughly modern story that provides us with universal truths about what it means to ...

Marlow, a man who has spent his life at sea, tells the story of a journey up the River Congo which changed his life. His journey upriver to...

This collection reflects the wide variety of poems written, in the English language, about The War that Will End War (H.G. Wells, 1914). Th...