Wordsworth
Far from the Madding Crowd
58%
»Far from the Madding Crowd» is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the…
Five Children and It
86%
'It' was the Psammead, the grumpy sand-fairy that could, if in the mood, grant a wish a day. When…
The Golden Age of Myth and Legend
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For over a hundred years Thomas Bulfinch's masterpiece on ancient myth and legend has been…
Grimm's Fairy Tales
69%
The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their…
The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book
86%
The «Jungle Book» introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of…
Just So Stories
68%
These witty stories were originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his own children. In them he gives…
Lord Jim
75%
First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the…
Lorna Doone
65%
»Lorna Doone», a Romance of Exmoor is an historical novel of high adventure set in the South West…
Madame Bovary
76%
Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm.…
Middlemarch
88%
Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love.…
Moll Flanders
79%
Moll Flanders follows the life of its eponymous heroine through its many vicissitudes, which…
North and South
67%
Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author's first-hand experience, North and South…
Peter Pan
77%
The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael.…
The Railway Children
65%
When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are…
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
78%
After Sherlock Holmes' apparently fatal encounter with the sinister Professor Moriarty at the…
The Secret Garden
58%
Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in…
The Swiss Family Robinson
66%
This story tells of the happy discovery of the wonders of natural history by a family shipwrecked…
The Taming of the Shrew
56%
The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare's comedies. The…
Tom Brown's Schooldays and Tom Brown at Oxford
58%
Lively and mischievous, idle and brave, Tom Brown is both the typical boy of his time and the…
The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers
77%
»The Turn of the Screw» is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered. Set in a…