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Through the fictional Cranford, Elisabeth Gaskell depicts with ironic affection the people and old-fashioned customs and values of Knutsford, the s...

Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and...

Barchester Towers is a novel by English author Anthony Trollope published by Longmans in 1857. It is the second book in the Chronicles of Barsetshi...

Librarian's note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book here (Andrew Betsis ELT edition), here, here, here and here. Int...

This stirring tale of resurrection, renunciation and revolution is one of Dickens's best and most popular novels. Superficially it appears the leas...

'I must confess I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print', wrote Jane Austen of Elizabeth Bennet, the heroine of Pride and Pr...

In a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit is entrusted with an immense task. He must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Crac...

'A story of old-fashioned village life' wrote George Eliot of Silas Marner, whose Wordsworthian theme is 'the remedial influence of pure, natural h...

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...

Scott's magnificent historical romance Rob Roy is set against the background of the 1715 Jacobite Rising In the foreground of the novel we meet yo...

Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book expertly interweaves myth, morals, adventure and powerful story-telling. Set...

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...

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...

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...

There was a miller whose only inheritance to his three sons was his mill, his donkey, and his cat. The eldest took the mill, the second the donkey,...

Here the classic tales of hans christian anderson the brothers grimmand perrult are carefully retold for today's child with fresh lively illustrati...

Here the classic tales of hans christian anderson the brothers grimmand perrult are carefully retold for today's child with fresh lively illustrati...

First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical novels and one of the most popular adventure novels...

This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two bo...

Meet Laura Ingalls, the little girl who would grow up to write the Little House books. Pa Ingalls decides to sell the little log house, and the fa...

Doctor John Dolittle loves animals. He loves them so much that his home and office overflow with animals of every description. When Polynesia the p...