The Time Machine offers a post-apocalyptic vision of humanity’s future. A scientist builds a time machine and travels to future. He finds that humanity has devolved into two races: the childlike Eloi and the monstrous Morlocks. His machine
It traces emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and his suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers. The novel revolves around Paul Morel, a sensitive young artist whose love for his mo
Despite the wishes of his parents, Robinson Crusoe is determined to devote himself to a life at sea. Luck, however, is not with him in his various voyages his first is shipwrecked and his second taken by pirates, yet nothing dissuades him f
Macbeth is a valiant warrior loyal to King Duncan - until a witches' prophecy suggests he will himself one day sit upon the throne. He is soon made Thane of Cawdor in reward for his battlefield exploits, fulfilling the first of the witches'
Aging monarch King Lear decides to divide his domain between his three daughters, demanding professions of love from each before sharing out the spoils. Goneril and Regan flatter him out of self-interest, while virtuous, dutiful Cordelia re
One of Mark Twain’s best-known and most important novels tells the story of Huckleberry Finn’s escape from his alcoholic and abusive father and Huck’s adventurous journey down the Mississippi River together with the runaway slave Jim. Huck
Hard Times was published in 1854 and is set in Northern England in Coketown, a polluted and suffering place with smoke-filled factories and soulless workers who have been downtrodden by the cruel and heartless Thomas Gradgrind and Josiah Bo
Destitute ex-student Raskalnikov has murder in mind. He plots to kill an old pawnbroker, justifying the savage act by postulating that his worth to society is greater than that of his parasitic victim. A bloodhound policeman is on his trail
The Call of the Wild is an adventure novel set in the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s. The novel follows the story of a domesticated dog named Buck, who is stolen from his home in California and sold as a sled dog in the Yukon Territor
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Flame-haired, precocious orphan Anne Shirley is mistakenly sent to live with sibling farmers Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, dashing their hopes of adopting a boy to help them run the place. But the Cuthberts soon succumb to Anne's irresistib
When Alice discovers she can step right through a mirror, she enters a fantastical world of logic-defying reversals. She meets the Red Queen, who lets her join a giant game of chess playing out across the landscape. A lowly pawn in the game
Impish Tom Sawyer spends his time skipping school, getting into scrapes and trying to avoid the wrath of his Aunt Polly. Becky Thatcher is the object of Tom's affections, but when it comes to midnight escapades in a graveyard, local waif Hu
Northanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated world of Bath in the late 1790s. Austen observes with insight and humour the interaction between Cathe
The title, The Moonstone, refers to a brilliantly beautiful but flawed gem seized by a British officer in India. The officer brings it back to England as a family heirloom with a supposed curse placed upon it. The officer leaves the stone t
In Great Expectations Dickens tells the enthralling story of the orphaned Pip and introduces us to a gallery of unforgettable characters including Joe, the kindly blacksmith, the mysterious Magwitch, the reclusive Miss Havisham and the beau
Good Wives takes off about three years after where Little Women left off. Meg is about to get married, Jo is attempting to launch a literary career, Beth has sadly never recovered from her scarlet fever and is now virtually housebound, and
In her last completed novel, Jane Austen revisits the theme of mischance and misunderstanding along the road to happiness. Seven years after she was persuaded to break off their engagement, Anne Elliot is unexpectedly reacquainted with Capt
In Emily Brontë’s only novel, the passion of Catherine and Heathcliff is as wild as the moors surrounding their childhood home, Wuthering Heights. This dark tale of love and loss, power and possession, action and terrifying reaction, stands
Part of the Chiltern Classics range. Far From A Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy tells the story of a farmer named Gabriel Oak who falls in love with a headstrong, independent woman named Bathsheba Everdene. Bathsheba also has other suitors bu
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