Part of the Chiltern Classics range. A curse has hung over the Baskerville family for generations and the latest victim is Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the legendary gigantic hound be responsible for his death - or is there a malevolent h
Part of the Chiltern Classics range. In 1843 Charles Dickens took up his pen to begin his ‘ghostly little book’ and so created A Christmas Carol and the mean-spirited Ebenezer Scrooge, one of the most memorable characters in literature. In
Part of the Chiltern Classics range. When Alice follows a well-dressed white rabbit down a hole, she enters a magical subterranean world. There she encounters an extraordinary cast of characters, including the grinning Cheshire Cat, the ecc
Part of the Chiltern Classics range. Orphaned Jane Eyre has endured a life of austerity and hardship until she is appointed governess at Thornfield Hall by its remote and brooding master, Edward Rochester. When the two finally meet, they ar
Part of the Chiltern Classics range. Nick Carraway rents a property on Long Island, where the new moneyed class are given to ostentatious displays of wealth. None more so than the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a man who throws lavish parties for u
Part of the Chiltern Classics range. Believed to have been first published more than two thousand years ago, The Art of War is the classic Chinese book of military strategy. It has not only influenced many of the world's most powerful milit
Part of the Chiltern Classics range. Shy young Fanny Price is sent to live with wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park, where of her four cousins only Edmund shows her any real kindness. When the wealthy, flirtatious Henry Crawford and his viv
Part of the Chiltern Classics range. When young Jim Hawkins finds a pirate's map, the race is on to be first to reach Treasure Island and discover the buried gold. With a motley crew including one-legged sea cook Long John Silver, Jim sets
Part of the Chiltern Classics range. With their father away at the Civil War,times are hard for the March sisters - Meg, Jo,Beth and Amy - and their mother, Marmee. Louisa May Alcott's moving coming-of-age story, whose homespun charm and co
Part of the Chiltern Classics range. Sherlock Holmes made his debut in 1887 but it was this collection of 12 stories, first published in The Strand magazine, that established him as an unrivalled detective, and Arthur Conan Doyle as one of
Part of the Chiltern Classics range. Since its publication in 1923, The Prophet has provided inspiration and spiritual guidance to generations of readers. Exploring universal themes such as love and marriage, sorrow and joy, beauty and free
Part of the Chiltern Classics range. Oliver Twist is a story of a young orphan. His life in the workhouse is lonely and sad.
Oliver becomes an apprentice for an undertaker but runs away after he gets into a fight with another apprentice. W
Part of the Chiltern Classics range. Meditations, by Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, is one of the definitive texts on Stoicism. In Meditations Taken from A.S.L Farquharson's Translation.
Aurelius shares his thoughts about the importance of
Part of the Chiltern Classics range. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is the story of an English seaman, Charles Marlow, who is hired by a Belgian company to captain a steamer up river through the African interior. Widely regarded as a cri
Part of the Chiltern Classics range. The most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet tells the story of the ghost of the King of Denmark who tells his son Hamlet, to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet pr
The Phantom of the Opera tells the tale of a disfigured musical genius who haunts the Paris Opera House. Mesmerized by the talents and beauty of the young soprano Christine, the Phantom lures her as his protege and falls fiercely in love wi
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'
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 Ishmael joins the crew of a whaling ship, he doesn’t know that the captain is obsessed with taking revenge on Moby Dick, the great whale that ripped off his leg. Ishmael recounts their adventures aboard the ship as the captain pursues
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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