Jane's romance with Tom Lefroy inspired her to write Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Read the story of Jane Austen, one of the greatest ...

Eleven-year old Billy Elliot is different from other boys. He is not very clever or good at spor t. Then, one day, he discovers ballet dancing. Finall ...

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Who are the British? This book will tell you about their lives, TV programmes, business, family, life, pets ? and the food. This is a book about real ...

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is considered one of the greatest works in English literature. The tales are told by a group of pilgrims goin ...

Sarajevo is under siege. There is little food or water and the city is attacked, every day, from the hills. Ordinary people try to live their lives, b ...

A mysterious stranger has come to the island where Costas lives. Why is the man there, and why is he looking at Eagle’s Rock? Costas wants to be the ...

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 ...

William Harris enjoys the company of a friendly poltergeist he names 'Poldy'. At the beginning, William and Poldy play a friendly game every night, bu ...

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 ...