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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

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. The residents of Cranford are regimented aristocrats who "practice 'elegant economy.'" The ladies go calling only during prescribed times, serve one another inexpensive foods, pretend not to notice each

Part of the Chiltern Classics range. When a pilot is forced to land in the Sahara Desert he meets the little prince, whose stories about his tiny home planet and his extraordinary journey are full of wisdom and whimsy. First published in 19