Mrs Bennet has five daughters and they are all unmarried. When rich, single Mr Bingley comes to live in the area, she is sure that he will ...

Macbeth is a brave general, loyal to King Duncan and to Scotland. Until, that is, he meets three evil witches after a battle against King D...

One sleepy summer, an American woman arrives in England, and wakes everybody up. Isabel Archer is an interesting woman. Everybody thinks so...

Ebenezer Scrooge loves only one thing – money. He has no friends, doesn’t like his family and never helps anyone. But when Jacob Marley, wh...

This epic poem tells the story of Beowulf, a warrior who becomes famous by helping Hrothgar, King of the Danes. Beowulf kills first Grendel...

Kidnapped is an adventure story set in Scotland in the 18th century about a young man, David Balfour. After his father dies, David leaves h...

The story, set in a poor rural area of England in the 19th century, centres around Tess Durbeyfield, a sweet, innocent, country girl who is...

When five young people in Berlin receive a mystery invitation, they begin an adventure that takes them to Greenland, Rwanda, South Africa a...

After meeting a strange woman one night in London, Walter Hartright begins to realise that this mysterious woman is connected, in some way,...

Newland Archer, heir to one of New York City’s best families, is planning a proper marriage, a perfect product of New York society. One nig...

Elinor is careful but Marianne is not. They both meet the man of their dreams, but will they find true happiness? Sense and Sensibility is ...

Jane Eyre is an orphan, and all alone in the world. But she is no ordinary young woman; despite her lonely and unhappy childhood, she is de...

Late nineteenth-century London: a city of contrasts. Great wealth and terrible poverty, beauty and ugliness, purity and immorality. Oscar W...

Victor Frankenstein is a young, ambitious scientist who wants to make a better world, but does not understand the consequences of his work....

A young woman starts her first job as a governess in charge of two young orphans, Miles and Flora, at a country house called Bly. The child...

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

An ambitious mother, a boy in love, a lonely older man, a cynical intellectual and a girl who dreams of a life in another country are just ...

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...

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...

This edition includes seven of Shakespeare’s plays: As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Much Ado A...