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 ...

Roald Dahl is the master of the unexpected. Things are not always what they seem and nobody should be trusted. In this collection of his short stories ...

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 ...

Visiting the fashionable city of Bath, 17-year-old Catherine Morland looks for the excitement she finds in romantic fiction. She makes friends and fal ...

His mother is dead, so little Oliver Twist is brought up in the workhouse. Beaten and starved, he runs away to London, where he joins Fagin?s gang of ...

Pynex, a tobacco company, could lose hundreds of millions of dollars in a big court case. The jury is being watched. One of the jurors is working with ...

Set in Europe during World War II, Saving Private Ryan follows Captain Miller and his soldiers as fight to find Private Ryan, the last surviving broth ...

Thomas Keneally?s famous novel tells the true story of Oskar Schindler, a businessman who risked his life every day during the Second World War to sav ...