Adult Fiction

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In its concentration of interest upon the protagonists, Macbeth can be seen as Shakespeare's experiment in unity of focus, whose chief appeal arise...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Horse and his Boy is a stirring and dramatic fantasy story that finds a young boy named Shasta on the run from his homeland with the talking ho...

In the light of a huge roaring bonfire the last battle of Narnia is about to take place between King Tirian, aided resolutely by Jill and Eustace, ...

The Way We Live Now is both a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finance in ...

Son of a bankrupt landowner, Frank Gresham is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne, despite her illegitimacy and apparent poverty. Frank's am...

Lambert Strether is sent by his wealthy fiancee, Mrs Newsome, to Paris to bring home her son Chad who is required to take charge of the family busi...

First published in serial form in Dickens's "Household Worlds", this novel centres around an early Victorian country town at a crucial moment of tr...

The five children find a cantankerous sand fairy, a psammead, in a gravel pit. Every day 'It' will grant each of them a wish that lasts until sunse...

Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challengin...

Barchester Towers (1857) is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire, the work in which, after a ten years' apprenticeship, Trollope finally...

A king and some unexpected companions embark on a voyage that will take them beyond all known lands. As they sail farther and farther from charted ...

trollope conceived the story of the novel in salisbury while wandering round the cathedral one midsummer eveing in the 1850s . Set in the world of ...