A woman's struggle against her passionate and sensual nature leads her to a deeper understanding and eventual tragedy.
Fanny Price, a teenaged girl of low social rank brought up on her wealthy relatives' countryside estate, feels the sharp sting of rejection when her cousin Edmund, the only person who treats her as an equal, is won over by a flirtatious, exciting--and unprincipled--London girl.
A story of passionate love, travail and final triumph. The relationship between the heroine and Mr Rochester is only one episode, albeit the most important, in a detailed fictional autobiography in which the author transmuted her own experience into high art.
An autobiography of the life of British children's author Jacqueline Wilson, from her birth in England in 1945, to her early youth when she decides she wants to become a writer when she grows up.
Features characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers and his family, to the delightful Mrs Nickleby, taking in the eccentric Crummles and his travelling players, the Mantalinis, the Kenwigs, and many more.
Presents a folk tale of Robin Hood and his band of merry men, who rob from the rich to give to the poor. This work is intended for teenage boys
Ralph has always longed for adventure and he finds it when he, along with the older and wiser Jack and the irrepressible Peterkin, are shipwrecked on a Pacific island. But their exploits don't stop there. Apart from being battered by storms, they are attacked by sharks, kidnapped by pirates, and have to save a beautiful native girl from an unhappy marriage. They even get a chance to see some su…
Set in the dramatic northern landscape made familiar by the author's more famous sisters, it tells the story of Helen Graham, a mysterious single woman who rents the semi-ruinous Hall of the title.
A sometimes violent and brutal tale of love and betrayal, separation and reconciliation, set in the familiar Bronte landscape of bleak houses in moorland settings.
A passionate story of the love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine''s father. The story''s action is chaotic and violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the descriptions of the moorland setting and the poetic grandeur combined to make this novel a masterpiece of English literature.
Peter and Phyllis growing up in Victorian London. An unexpected event sees their father taken from them and causes the family to fall upon hard times. The children and their mother move to the countryside, where they make new friends and have many wonderful adventures on the railway.
Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver insights into human behaviour.
"So begins the tale of Alice, following a curious White Rabbit down a rabbit-hole and falling into Wonderland. A fantastical place, where nothing in quite as it seems: animals talk, nonsensical characters confuse, Mad Hatter's throw tea parties and the Queen plays croquet. Alice's attempts to find her way home become increasingly bizarre, infuriating and amazing in turn. A beloved classic, Alic…
chronicling the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England.
This story tells of three young sailors, sole survivors of a wreck, and their discovery of the enchanting beauties of the South Pacific. They learn how to live on their tropical paradise but then they are swept into adventures with bloodthirsty pirates, before sailing back to England.
The English language features countless biblically-derived phrases that are used by people on a day-to-day basis, yet the user often does not know the origin or meaning behind them. This title looks at the stories behind the expressions - explaining where in the Bible these familiar phrases appear.
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