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Into the sleepy village of Weatherburv arrives one day Bathsheba Everdene, come to take charge of her late uncle's thriving farm....

Forced by the death of her parents to seek her fortune in London, Fanny Hill is duped into prostitution by an old procuress. In...

Edith Wharton's novella Ethan Frome (1911) is a classic of American literature. Mattie Silver, a young and guileless girl, is...

Dracula (1897) begins with a young solicitor, Jonathan Harker, on his way to Transylvania to meet Count Dracula, who is buying...

".. losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse."
Victorian London is...

'Patience, Firmness, and Perseverance were my only weapons.'
Agnes Grey (1847) was Anne Bronte's first novel and a poignant...

'It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known....

When young Jim Hawkins discovers a mysterious map in a dead man's sea-chest, he sets off on a thrilling adventure of pirates,...

Mole, rat, and badger are toad's dearest friends even as the aristocratic amphibian's wastrel ways get him into trouble. After...

When a Swiss family find themselves shipwrecked on a tropical island they have to build a new life from scratch. Follow their...

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The present Yearbook is subtitled Historical and Technological Dynamics: Factors, Cycles, and Trends. Its articles demonstrate...

Join Mowgli the Man-cub as he embarks on a series of incredible adventures and meets a cast of unforgettable characters along the...

When Peter Pan flies through the nursery window and invites Wendy, John and Michael to come to Never-Never-Land, they set off on...

Black Beauty is a horse with a glossy coat and a white star on his forehead. Life in the field with his mother is Idyllic, but...

When Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert decide to adopt a boy from an orphanage they are not sure what to expect. They are in for a...

Follow Alice as she ventures down a rabbit hole and into Wonderland, a world filled with unforgettable characters such as the...

Like the house itself, Wuthering Heights is set on the bleak Pennine moors, a fitting backdrop to this story of love, torment and...

This startlingly raw tale of a man and boy sold into slavery and the hardships they face was one of the first to address the...

"Like millions of my race, my mother and father were born slaves, but were not contented to live and die so."
First published in...

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains"
This is the first line of Rousseau's seminal work of political philosophy, a...

The elderly husband of Hester Prynne returns unexpectedly to their New England village to find his wife nursing an illegitimate...

''Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess."
Thomas...

Sherlock Holmes was the most popular character in Victorian fiction, but when arch-enemy Moriarty bumped him off at the...

'Wealth and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of...

The most famous line of Machiavelli's The Prince reveals both his extraordinary insight and his willingness to disregard...

At eighteen, the handsome Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, which prompts an admirer, Lord Henry Wotton, to declare that life...

In Paris, terror stalks the Opera Garnier. Stories of a terrifying ghost haunting the theatre create panic amongst the musicians...

The Legendary Moonstone diamond is given to spirited Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday, the gift of an uncle who came by...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson appear in a second series of twelve intriguing cases. They include The Adventure of Silver Blaze,...

Professor Otto Lidenbrock's great adventure begins by chance when a scrap of paper drops out of an ancient book he has just...