"All kinds of people, from shopkeepers to king, want the help of Sherlock Holmes in these six stories about the adventures of the famous detective. Wh ...

Sense and Sensibility tells the story of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Elinor is sensible and self-controlled; Marianne is emotional and ...

Who killed Charles McCarthy at Boscombe Pool? And why? Detective Lestrade from Scotland Yard thinks it was McCarthy's son, James. Things do not look g ...

These are the stories of some of Shakespeare's most famous plays. We travel to Venice, Greece, Denmark and Rome, and meet many different people. There ...

Some people choose adventure. Others suddenly find themselves in danger in their ordinary lives. This book tells the true stories of survivors. In the ...

?It was the seventh day of the storm. We didn?t know where we were. Everyone on the ship believed that death was very near.? The Robinson family do no ...

This book tells the story of the greatest band in the world from the early days in Liverpool to the Beatles' music in the world today.

In the early 1970s, a young Scottish doctor goes to work in Uganda. Then he meets President Idi Amin, a dangerous, crazy man. His new boss is a killer ...

Jack Sparrow, captain of the Black Pearl, is back in a new adventure. This time Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, and Elizabeth Swann are looking for a chest ...

A young woman comes to a big house to teach two young children. It?s her first job and she wants to do it well. But she begins to see strange things ? ...

Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people?s lives every second of the day. Alone in his small, oneroom apartment, Winston ...

Born in 356 BC, Alexander the Great became the king of Macedonia at age twenty. When he dies at age thirty-two, he ruled the biggest empire that the w ...