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"It was all so different from London. The strangest thing was the light that came into his room. It travelled across his ceiling and then it went, leaving his room dark. After a few seconds it was bac...

Hello! My name is Black Beauty. And Im a horse. I have an interesting story to tell you. I want to tell you about my life.My story starts with my mother, who taught me many things. And, when I close m...

A man goes back to the house where he grew up and becomes a little boy again.Tom visits the house he lived in when he was a little boy, and he finds an old newspaper in the wardrobe. He picks it up, a...

“She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.” One sleepy summer, an American woman arrives in England, and wakes everybody up. Isabel Archer is an interesting ...

"You must be the best judge of your own happiness."Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, rich, intelligent and a snob. She says she will never marry, but loves matchmaking and is determined to find a suitable ...

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, old Roger Chillingworth and the tormented Arthur Dimmesdale soon...

The book is set in the 1920s in India and is a story of Dr. Aziz, an Indian doctor, his friend Mr. Fielding, a British professor and two British women Mrs. Moore and Miss Adela Quested. Due to an inci...

Mrs Dalloway is a novel that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I. It is one of Woolfs best-known novels.London 1923. The First World War has been over for five years, bu...

In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bront shows us the destructive power of hatred and revenge, but she also explores love in its many forms and, in the end, her story is about hope.Topics covered Love and Ha...

Joyces first major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time.An ambitious mother, a boy in love, a lonely older man, a cynical intellectual and a gir...

An excellent introduction to the world of Shakespeare. This edition includes seven of Shakespeares plays As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Much Ado About Not...

A Tale of Two Cities is perhaps Charles Dickens most famous historical novel.Set in Paris and London at the time of the French Revolution, this is the story of two men, Frenchman, Charles Darnay, and ...

One of the most universally studied of the English classics, Beowulf is considered the finest heroic poem in Old English. This epic poem tells the story of Beowulf, a warrior who becomes famous by hel...

Kidnapped is an adventure story set in Scotland in the 18th century about a young man, David Balfour. After his father dies, David leaves his quiet, hometown in search of a new life at the house of Sh...

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

"A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented"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 a victim of fate and her ...

An adventure novel featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations.Richard Hannay is bored. He is all alone in a...

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."Theseus of Athens is looking forward to his wedding to Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons. But two other young couples are not so happy Hermia wants to m...

The Woman in White is the first English sensation novel full of mystery and dark secrets. After meeting a strange woman one night in London, Walter Hartright begins to realise that this mysterious wom...

Three Men in a Boat is a humorous book that will make you laugh while it gives you a view of Victorian England and the Thames.Three friends, George, Harris and J. decide they need a holiday and plan t...

The philosophical resolution of the novel is ambiguous the reader must decide whether sense and sensibility have truly merged.Elinor is careful but Marianne is not. They both meet the man of their dre...

Part of the "Real Lives" collection.Join Ivan in the beautiful Russian city of Saint Petersburg.Youll discover that theres lots to see and do and special places to visit for good luck. Youll also lear...

Sathya, Isuri and their friends live near Weligama, a town in Sri Lanka.Every morning they go to school, and every afternoon they jump on a tuktuk to go to the Human Solidarity Children Village. Join ...

Doruk, a ten-year-old Turkish boy, loves cats and wants to have a nice cat.He listens to Aunt Banus advice and starts looking for a cat in Istanbul streets. His nice journey is very exciting. He learn...

Discover my Perù. Juanita has a dream she hopes her alpaca will have two little babies, one for her and one for her brother. But usually alpacas only have one baby at a time Lets find out more about t...

Join Irene and Camilla in the beautiful Italian city of Florence.Theres lots to see! Read also about how the girls spend their days and about their special hobby playing the piano!

Part of the "Real Lives" collection.Meet Ricardo, a young boy from Bolivia who wants to tell you about his homeland and what life is like in a small Bolivian village. Then join Ricardo and his friends...

Part of the "Real Lives" collection. Written with Action Aid International Italia."Smile with me in the Congo". Join Ça Depend, a young boy from the Congo. Discover his country, in the heart of Africa...