The Italian officer, Captain Corelli, falls in love with Pelagia. But Pelagia's fiance is fighting the Italian army. This is a great love story set in ...

The horror of death row is that you die a little each day. The waiting kills you. Seventy-year-old Sam Cayhall is on Mississippi?s death row. Sam hate ...

Raskolnikoff, a young student, has been forced to give up his university studies because of lack of money. He withdraws from society and, poor and lon ...

?All novels ? are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves between good and evil.? John Steinbeck, one of America?s greatest writers, considered ...

Classic / British EnglishPip is a poor orphan whose life is changed forever by two very different meetings - one with an escaped convict and the other ...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings recounts the trials and tribulations of Maya Angelou's life growing up as an impoverished black woman in the southern ...

Clay Carter has worked in the Office of the Public Defender for years for low pay when he defends another murderer. But things are not what they seem. ...

After spending nineteen years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread, Jean Valjean is at last a free man. But he is a cold, tired, hungry man with no ...

Emma Bovary is a dreamer. She escapes from her boring life with her father by marrying Charles, a doctor, but married life does not bring her the love ...

Contemporary / British EnglishRoald Dahl is the master of the unexpected. Things are not always what they seem and nobody should be trusted. In this c ...

The Moonstone is an ancient Indian diamond which brings disaster to everyone who owns it. Rachel Verinder?s uncle gives her the diamond as a birthday ...

Life changes completely for Margaret Hale and her parents when they move to a smoky northern city. There, Margaret meets Mr Thornton, a wealthy cotton ...