Adult Classics
Twelfth Night:Shakespeare Stories for Children
Twins cause trouble in this classic Shakespeare comedy! With notes on Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre and Appearance in Twefth Night. The tales h...
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A wonderful retelling of Shakespeare's thrilling tale of love torn apart by history. With notes on Shakespeare and the Globe theatre and Love and D...
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After the death of her parents, Mary Lennox is brought back from India as a forlorn and unwanted child to live in her uncle's great lonely house on...
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They say Aslan is on the move. Perhaps he has already landed, whispered the Beaver. Edmund felt a sensation of mysterious horror. Peter felt brave ...
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The girls are in a higher form now. This year there is the tension of exams for the first time, but there is all the fun of the summer term as well...
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“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wo...
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With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is mo...
View full detailsAnne of Green Gables
As soon as Anne Shirley arrives at the snug white farmhouse called Green Gables, she is sure she wants to stay forever . . . but will the Cuthberts...
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A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens. It was first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. It tells the st...
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Digory let out a scream. "What's happened to Polly?" "Congratulate me, my dear boy," said Uncle Andrew, rubbing his hands. "My experiment has succe...
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Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring ...
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In the persons of Gradgrind and Bounderby, Dickens stigmatized the prevalent philosophy of utilitarianism which, whether in school or factory, allo...
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A classic Enid Blyton school series with timeless appeal - in new adventures by Anne Digby. Elizabeth longs to star in the school play, so she know...
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White Fang is part dog and part wolf, and the lone survivor of his family. In his lonely world, he soon learns to follow the harsh law of the North...
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The story begins with a mysterious treasure map and an old buccaneer in an English country inn: soon we are on the high seas in a dangerous Caribbe...
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When Miley is invited to a sneak preview of a hot new movie, she's sure that her dad won't mind a bit. He can't say no, right? Wrong! It's exam tim...
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Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York Although the shortest of George Eliot's novels, Silas Marner is one...
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In its concentration of interest upon the protagonists, Macbeth can be seen as Shakespeare's experiment in unity of focus, whose chief appeal arise...
View full detailsLittle Women
Little Women is the delightful story of the four March girls and their approach towards womanhood. Meg, the eldest and most beautiful, shrugs off h...
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The intimate story of one young man's participation in the fight for Bonnie Prince Charlie's cause in Scotland. Stevenson's vivid descriptive power...
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Adopted as babies by Great Uncle Matthew, Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil lead a sheltered life until they begin at the Children's Academy of Danc...
View full detailsAlice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
i " I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice, "Because I'm not myself, you see." When Alice sees a white rabbit take a watch out of its...
View full detailsA Treasury of Children's Classics: Book Three
Here the classic tales of hans christian anderson the brothers grimmand perrult are carefully retold for today's child with fresh lively illustrati...
View full detailsThe Three Musketeers
First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical novels and one of the most popular adventure novels...
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