Adult Classics

South London, 1932. Times are hard for ten-year old Lizzie Collins and her family. With her father dead, it is up to her mother, grandmother and au...

An unexpected windfall gives Peggie Cartwright the lucky break she deserves. At last she can save her family from financial ruin. Ever since Cyrus ...

Spend a season on the river bank and take a walk on the wild side... Spring is in the air and Mole has found a wonderful new world. There's boating...

Both Kirsty and Craig Nicholson sacrifice lovers to hold their marriage together for the sake of their crippled son. For a time all seems well unti...

John, Susan, Titty and Roger sail their boat, Swallow, to a deserted island for a summer camping trip. Exploring and playing sailors is an adventur...

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink is the first line of a novel about love, sibling rivalry and a bohemian existence in a crumbling castle in...

When their father is mysteriously taken away, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis move with their mother to a house in the country. Intrigued by the nearby ...

Following a terrible storm, seven-year-old Lottie is rescued from a shipwreck local Cornishman, Arnie Lanroska. Her clothing suggests she comes fr...

The gentle women of Cranford go about their quiet lives expecting nothing to happen to them, and adhering to their own rather eccentric set of rule...

One of Thomas Hardy's most powerful works, The Return of the Native centers famously on Egdon Heath, the wild, haunted Wessex moor that D. H. Lawre...

Amy Dorrit (known as Little Dorrit) was born in the Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. She has lived there with her father and two elder sibling...

Dr. Carr's mind is firmly made up. Katy and her little sister Clover are to spend a year away at boarding school. A strange place, far from home, b...

For Oxford, the arrival of twenty-seven American tourists is nothing out of the ordinary... until one of their number is found dead in Room 310 at ...

Set against the French and Indian siege of Fort William Henry in 1757, this title recounts the story of two sisters, Cora and Alice Munro, daughter...

Troubled times have come to the magical land of Narnia. Gone are the days of peace and freedom when the animals, dwarfs, trees and flowers could li...

Olivia Coulson is pretty and determined enough to attract any man. She is torn between two suitors, George Chilton-Brookes, heir to the Cropton est...

Lottie is just three years old when her Mammy dies and she is sent to the workhouse. A childhood spent in poverty, skivvying for other people, leav...

Sara Crewe is a gifted and well-mannered child, and Captain Crewe, her father, is an extraordinary wealthy man. So Miss Minchin, headmistress of Sa...

The central drama of the book is that of Mr. Crawley, the curate of Hogglestock who, falsely accused of theft, suffers bitterly with his family. Th...

Shamela is a brilliant parody of Samuel Richardson's PAMELA, in which a virtuous servant girl long resists her master's advances and is eventually ...

The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is set in the time of the English Civil War and the...

She would give herself to pain with a passionate readiness, seeing only its beauty, with the singleness of vision which is the glory and the curse ...

A novel of social realism, The Odd Women reflects the major sexual and cultural issues of the late nineteenth century. Unlike the "New Woman" novel...