When their father dies and the estate goes to their half-brother, Dashwood sisters and their mother are on their own. Margaret is a child but Elinor and Marianne have come...

Set in the early 19th century, Silas Marner is the story of a small-town weaver. A member of a Calvinist congregation in a town of northern England, Silas Marner is...

Paul Morel is a sensitive young artist who grew up in a working-class family dominated by his strong-willed mother, Gertrude. Trapped between loyalty to her and his desire for independence,...

Tales from Shakespeare is a prose retelling of 20 Shakespearean plays for children and has been an ideal introduction to his works since its first publication in 1807. It includes...

Set against the hauntingly beautiful backdrop of Wessex, Tess of the d'Urbervilles traces the fate of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and wayward villager, who discovers a tenuous...

Having helped the authorities catch the murderer Injun Joe in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn may be a hero for everyone but he is nobody to his cruel...

The stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes appeared in the Strand Magazine before their publication in book form in 1892. Having appeared in A Study in Scarlet (1887) and...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s elegant and incisive portrait of passion restrained by social convention. Set in the upper-class circles of 1870s New...

The arabian Nights: Tales From One Thousand and One Nights

Fyodor Karamazov is found dead one night. An epicurean and a compulsory liar, he was not a good father either. Therefore, his death raises the question of parricide. It could...

Buck, a pet St. Bernard-Scotch Shepherd, is stalen from his Californian abade and having suffered at the hands of his successive masters he is finally sold as a sled dog...

Published in 1927 The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes was the concluding volume of Sherlock Holmes adventures. It contains the last 12 of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written from 1921...