Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.
One of Shakespeare's most witty and enjoyable comedies, Much Ado About Nothing is a...

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
Born into slavery during the early...

While staying in Bath, Catherine meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor who invite her to their family estate, Northanger...

Fleeing the workhouse, Oliver finds himself taken under the wing of the Artful Dodger and caught up with a group of pickpockets...

Anne Elliot is persuaded by her friends and family to reject a marriage proposal from Captain Wentworth because he lacks in...

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

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'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a...

Shipwrecked in a storm at sea, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a remote and desolate island. As he struggles to piece together a...

A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century 'puritan New England...

'When I was about sixteen I suddenly discovered the joy of mere words'

Best known for his remarkable novels Animal Farm and...

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"I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more."

This selection of works showcases...

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many...

To an anonialous species of terror I found h bounden slave.
Including Рое's most terrifying, grotesque and haunting short...

"Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure."
Set on the French Riviera in the 1920s, American Dick...

Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking...

Despite dating from the 4th century BC, The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded by many as the single most important work on...

Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that is still revered today as the...

The victor belongs to the spoils.
Anthony and Gloria Patch are the bright lights of the 1920s New York smart set and lead a life...

Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and... he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire, and to plunge into the...

In l901, Conan Doyle finally bowed to public pressure and resurrected the nation's favourite detective. Featuring the last 12...

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Confessions describes Saint...

From Collins Classics, short stories from the author of 'The Great Gatsby' and including 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'....

Originally serialized in the Strand Magazine, Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles follows the infamous Sherlock Holmes...

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The movements of his mind seemed to tend to...

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Attributed to the blind Greek poet, Homer, The Odyssey is an epic tale about cunning and strength of mind. It takes its starting...

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