An exciting new activity series for boys and girls aged 7 and up! Puzzles are themed according to the title and each book is...

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

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

The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) introduces Richard Hannay, the original gentleman-hero of spy thrillers and a forerunner of James...

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

' … as good as I can write. It contains more pith, more substance, more reality, in my judgment, than much of Jane Eyre.'...

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

Dickens's Little Nell became one of his best-known heroines when The Old Curiosity Shop was first published in 1841 .Virtuous and...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Great Expectations (1861) is a favourite among many Dickens readers. In addition to its endearing hero, Pip - a blacksmith's boy,...

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...

'Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich...had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex...