Set against the lush, untamed wilderness of upper New York State during the French and Indian War, The Last of the Mohicans follows the fearless frontiersman Hawkeye and his steadfast...

Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this bold edition...

Set in 19th-century England, The Mayor of Casterbridge centers on Michael Henchard, a man whose impulsive decision in a moment of drunken despair sets the course for a lifetime of...

Set in the 19th-century Russia, The Meek One, also known as A Gentle Spirit, is a retrospective account of an ill-fated marriage of a pawn- broker and a teen girl,...

Published in 1894, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes was the second collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. It contains 11 stories all of which appeared in...

Troy of The Iliad could still be standing there in all glory today if it were not for Odysseus who conceived the Trojan Horse and laid the foundation of Greek...

Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this magical edition of The Phoenix and the Carpet. It's startling enough to have...

Enamoured by the beauty of Dorian Gray, the sensitive artist Basil Hallward paints in oil a full-length portrait of the protagonist. Sitting there Gray listens to the hedonistic worldviews of...

We are in the 16th century England. Two identical boys. Edward and Tom, are born in London on the same day. Edward is the crown prince and Tom is a...

Young princess Irene, living in a lonely mountain castle, discovers a secret great-great-grandmother who gives her a magical thread to guide her through danger. The princess doesn’t know that a...

Henry Fleming, a young soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War, runs away from battle in fear. Ashamed of his actions, he wishes for a wound—a ‘red...

Conan Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes in “The Final Problem” (1893), the last story in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. However, he succumbed to the public pressure and resurrected him after...