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

Published in 1826, The Last of the Mohicans is an adventure story centred on the kinship between white frontiersman, Natty Bumppo...

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

'The horror! The horror!'
Seaman Charlie Marlowe takes a decaying steamboat on a perilous voyage to the heart of Africa. His...

The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel of the American Jazz Age. It is the story of a fundamentally innocent man...

Sherlock Holmes and the faithful Dr Watson are featured here in a series of twelve of their earliest cases. They include A...

"All American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. There was nothing before. There has been...

Thomas Hardy's beautiful and spirited heroine is driven to her tragic end by three men who betray her trust: John Durbeyfield,...

The French Riviera of the mid-1920s is the new playground for rich Americans, among them elegant heiress Nicole Warren and her...

Silas Marner (1861) is Eliot's classic tale of an outsider. A weaver who comes to live and work alone in the Midlands village of...

The Dashwood sisters - 19-year-old Elinor and Marianne, aged 17 - are left poor and homeless by their father's death. Although...

'It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the...

'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.'
The...

"I am half agony, half hope."
Anne Elliot lost the love of her life eight years earlier and the sorrow lingers on. Yet the...

Northanger Abbey is the light-hearted account of a young girl's first excursion into fashionable society. Catherine Morland is...

Written in the early part of Dickens's career, Nicholas Nickleby (1838) is a masterly piece of comic fiction that recalls the...

Everyone looks upon shy, self-effacing Fanny Price as the poor relation among her four spoiled cousins at Mansfield...

The backdrop to this campaigning novel is the grim industrial centre of Coketown, with its belching chimneys, purple-dyed river...

Originally entitled Children's and Household Tales, Grimm's Fairy Tales were first published by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm...

In an attempt to create a perfect new being, scientist Victor Frankenstein secretly assembles a collection of body parts and...

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...

Originally published in Graham's Magazine in 1841, The Murders in the Rue Morgue is considered to be the first classic tale of...

'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...