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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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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

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How can you measure the speed of light with chocolate and a microwave? Why do yo-yos yo-yo? Why does urine smell so peculiar after eating asparagus...

Jill and Eustace must rescue the Prince from the evil Witch. NARNIA... where owls are wise, where some of the giants like to snack on humans (and, ...

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 ...

While in pursuit of independence and love, a young woman finds her family needs her more than ever. Liverpool Gems is a dramatic and warm-hearted L...

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...

It is 1933. Jessica and Jane have been living together for six months. They are devoted friends - or are they? Jessica loves her friend with the cr...

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 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...

It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant things are!' A portrait of the residents of an Englis...

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

Lucy and Edmund, with their odious cousin Eustace in tow, journey on board the gallant ship the Dawn Treader to the Eastern Islands in search of th...

Katy Carr is the longest girl that was ever seen. She is all legs and elbows, and angles and joints. She tears her dress every day, hates sewing an...

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...

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...

The New Penguin Shakespeare offers a complete edition of the plays and poems. Each volume hs been newly prepared from the original texts and includ...