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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...

Homer's Odyssey is the ancient Greek tale of Odysseus and his eventful voyage home after the Trojan War, The hero and his crew...

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...

A cornerstone of Western literature, Homer's Iliad is the epic tale of the Troy.
After nine years, the Greeks are still fighting...

'The horror! The horror!'

Seaman Charlie Marlowe lakes 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...

Originally entitled The Saddest Story, this is a heartbreaking, yet darkly witty, tale of betrayal and conflict in the years...

Alexei Ivanovich is tutor to a Russian family in a German spa town. They are bankrupt and eagerly awaiting the death of their...

''Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. "
First written during the sixth...

When the mild-mannered Lambert Strether travels from America to Paris on a mission to 'save' Chad, the son of his formidable...

"Who knows, he may grow up to be President some day, unless they hang him first!"
Aunt Polly's assessment of Tom's character...

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

To escape from his violent, drunken father, Huckleberry Finn, a thirteen-year-old boy from the wrong side of the tracks, fakes...

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

Sons and Lovers (1913) is the semi-autobiographical story of a young man's struggle for emotional independence.
Trapped in a...

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...

In The Portrait of a Lady. (1881), spirited young Isabel Archer travels from her home in Albany, New York, eager to discover what...

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

'There is grandeur in this view of life ... from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been,...

"Please, sir, I want some more."
Oliver Twist sent out shock waves when it appeared in 1838. With a half-starved orphan for a...