Edmond Dantes is a sailor and has a beautiful fiancee, Mercedes. But Edmond's enemies are jealous of his success and devise a plan to have him sent to ...

"For a number of years, William Harris plays a game with a ghost before he goes to sleep. The ghost is a poltergeist that William calls 'Poldy'. At th ...

David Copperfield's happy life suddenly changes when his mother marries again. Her new husband is cruel to him and sends him away to school. When Davi ...

Dr Jekyll is a respected doctor and Mr Hyde is a small, sinister man. Why are they friends? After a terrible murder, everyone searches for Mr Hyde, bu ...

Count Dracula lives in a castle in Transylvania and is a strange and evil man. Professor Van Helsing knows Dracula is a vampire, but can the professor ...

American English There are five stories in this book. 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'The Barrel of Amontillado' are stories of madness; 'The Ma ...

Has Mrs Brown killed Granny on the beach? Why does Mrs Hill want to leave her husband? Who wants to steal the Professor's invention? And what is littl ...

Joe is working on his uncle's organic farm. Soon he finds himself in the middle of a debate about GM (genetically modified) crops. Joe also meets Kate ...

Katy and her boyfriend Tom are happy in their band, Steel City. But then Tom gets a new guitar and the trouble begins. Suddenly he can play very well, ...

In the 1930s, Grey Owl was the most famous North American Indian in the world. He wanted to save his land, its forests and animals. He wanted to chang ...

Hamlet is the Prince of Denmark. His heart is filled with sadness and pain. Why? Only his two best friends, Horatio and Marcellus, know the true reaso ...

Britain is a small country, but it has a long history. Two thousand years ago, it was part of the Roman Empire. In the 1930's the British Empire was t ...