A visitor to the Yorkshire moors becomes entangled in the history of Heathcliff, Catherine Earnshaw and two neighbouring households. Through Lockwood's account and Nelly Dean's...

Plumfield is a lively country school where Jo Bhaer and her husband, Professor Bhaer, bring up a dozen boys and a few girls more like a large family than a class of pupils....

Alone in the world after a family disaster she never fully explains, the quiet, watchful Lucy Snowe crosses the sea and finds work at Madame Beck’s boarding school for girls in...

In the Midlands town of Middlemarch around 1830, the ardent, idealistic Dorothea Brooke marries the much older scholar Edward Casaubon, hoping to find a life of real purpose by...

On his wedding day, Conrad, the sickly only son of Manfred, prince of Otranto, is found crushed beneath a gigantic helmet in the castle courtyard. Haunted by a prophecy that...

Having renounced Jane Porter and his claim to be Lord Greystoke, Tarzan sails for France, where his strength and jungle instincts set him against two Russian schemers, Nikolas...

High above a city stands the gilded statue of the Happy Prince, and when a little Swallow on his way to Egypt shelters at his feet, the Prince asks him to carry his jewels and...

Laura, who lives with her English father in a lonely castle in the forests of Styria, gains an unexpected companion when a carriage overturns near the gate and a mysterious...

Sherlock Holmes has just decoded a cipher warning that danger threatens a man named Douglas at Birlstone when Inspector MacDonald of Scotland Yard arrives with news that Mr....

Maggie Tulliver grows up at Dorlcote Mill on the river Floss, a clever, impulsive, passionate girl who longs above all for the love and approval of her proud, stubborn brother...

His Last Bow collects eight cases of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, among them The Bruce-Partington Plans, The Dying Detective, The Devil’s Foot and the title story. In The...

A ghost haunts the Paris Opera, demanding a salary and his own box from the new managers, while an unseen voice secretly trains the young Swedish singer Christine Daaé....

Back in London after being wounded in Afghanistan, army doctor John Watson takes rooms at 221B Baker Street with Sherlock Holmes, an odd young man who calls himself a...

This collection of forty-five Hans Christian Andersen tales opens with What the Moon Saw, in which the Moon tells a lonely young painter what it has seen around the world, and...

Found seven centuries later in a hollow oak, the Everhard Manuscript is Avis Everhard’s account of the years when an oligarchy of capitalists, the Iron Heel, took power in the...

After the Civil War, the Confederate veteran John Carter hides from Apache warriors in an Arizona cave and is mysteriously carried to Mars, which its people call Barsoom. In...

The kindly, learned vicar Dr. Primrose lives happily with his wife and six children until the merchant holding his money absconds and the family loses almost everything. In a...

In 1815 Jean Valjean leaves the galleys after nineteen years, punished for stealing a loaf of bread and trying to escape, and finds every door shut until a kindly bishop takes...

In Hamburg, the hot-tempered Professor Otto Liedenbrock deciphers a runic note that falls from an old Icelandic manuscript: the sixteenth-century alchemist Arne Saknussemm...

In a village of La Mancha, a country gentleman reads so many books of chivalry that he loses his wits and decides to become a knight-errant. As Don Quixote of La Mancha he puts...

David Copperfield looks back on a childhood transformed by his mother’s marriage to the harsh Mr Murdstone. After school, loss and warehouse work, he seeks refuge with his aunt...

Margaret Hale leaves her rural home in southern England when her family moves to the industrial town of Milton. There she meets mill owner John Thornton and befriends workers...

After his father dies, Nicholas Nickleby must find a way to support his mother and sister, but his wealthy uncle Ralph offers help on harsh terms. A teaching job at Dotheboys...

Becky Sharp leaves school determined to rise in society, while her friend Amelia Sedley dreams of marrying George Osborne. Their fortunes become entangled with the Crawley...