We’ve all grown up with stories of magical dragons and mythical winged creatures. This thoroughly entertaining collection of...

Find out what happened when King Midas was granted his wish, how Icarus flew too close to the sun, and relive the adventures of...

The stories of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece are sprawling, dramatic and wonderfully strange; their lives intertwine...

George Orwell wrote extensively about English life and politics. The selection of essays and journalism in Orwell and England...

One of Charles Dickens's most renowned and enjoyable novels, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an orphan boy who wishes...

Bringing together all Charles Dickens' ghost stories - twenty in all - including several longer tales. Here are chilling...

In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton gives us a witty and piercingly insightful dark satire about the privileged society of early...

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes contains Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's final twelve stories about his great fictional detective....

A child's life should be full of poems, rhymes and songs, and Poems of Childhood is a celebration of that.
Part of the Macmillan...

With precise plotting underpinned by a wise understanding of human nature, George Eliot's most autobiographical novel gives a...

Why has the mild mannered Dr Jekyll suddenly begun to associate with the ugly and violent Mr Hyde? And why are they never seen...

It's a warm summer's afternoon when young Alice first tumbles down the rabbit hole and into the adventures in Wonderland that...

Faithfully supported by his chronicler, Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes pits his wits against 'Napoleon of Crime' Professor Moriarty,...

"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart."
After crash-landing in the...