Jane Eyre was an immediate bestseller, and most critics liked it. One reviewer wrote It is one of the most powerful domestic romances which have been published for many years.Jane Eyre is an orphan, a...

Dickens famous Christmas story shows us the difficult lives of the poor, but it is also a story of hope, where the future can be better. Ebenezer Scrooge loves only one thing - money. He has no friend...

Crusoes father wants him to lead an ordinary honest life at home, but Crusoe wants nothing more than to travel around the world. His first voyage is a disaster but he survives and instead of returning...

Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, he defined its modern form.When Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to meet Count Dracula, he soon realises that he has made a big mistake. What is happ...

Joyces first major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time.An ambitious mother, a boy in love, a lonely older man, a cynical intellectual and a gir...

An adventure novel featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations.Richard Hannay is bored. He is all alone in a...

After I had accepted the position and agreed to his condition, I had two or three very bad days. I was full of doubts, sure I had made a terrible mistake. I was in this state of mind as I sat in the u...

"Theres daggers in mens smiles" Act II, Sc. IIIMacbeth is a brave general, loyal to King Duncan and to Scotland. Until, that is, he meets three evil witches after a battle against King Duncans enemies...

A good portrait is a portrait of the artist, not the sitter. I am afraid I show my soul in this painting.Dorian is visiting his friend, the kind and gentle painter Basil Hallward, when he meets Lord H...

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."In this reader you will find nine of Edgar Allan Poes most famous stories of mystery and suspense. They...

Scott Fitzgeralds third novel was published in 1925 and has justifiably become a 20th century literary classic.Topics Love, SocietyGatsby? asked Daisy urgently. What Gatsby? Could it be the same young...

The stories of ten people who have changed the world from protecting world peace and the rights of women and children to saving the environment. It is possible to change the world and the stories of t...

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."Theseus of Athens is looking forward to his wedding to Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons. But two other young couples are not so happy Hermia wants to m...

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” Oscar Wilde One of Oscar Wilde’s funniest plays, The Importance of Being Earnest was described by the dramatist as being ‘a trivial comedy for serious peo...

Romeo Montague was in love with Juliet Capulet. He went over to her. I dont know who you are he said. But I know that I love you. Youre very handsome, she replied. I think I love you too. Romeo kissed...

"You must be the best judge of your own happiness."Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, rich, intelligent and a snob. She says she will never marry, but loves matchmaking and is determined to find a suitable ...

Great Expectations depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. Pip is born poor, but one day his life mysteriously changes. He is sent to London to learn to become a gentleman....

Suddenly, in the darkness, there was a terrible, low howl and it came from the moor. "The hound!" cried Holmes.An old family document says that everyone who lives at Baskerville Hall is in danger from...

One of the most widely-read books worldwide. Moby Dick is the saga of Captain Ahab and his continuous pursuit of Moby Dick, the great white whale who maimed him during their last encounter.Ismael, a y...

"Everybody knows that it is true that any rich, single man must definitely want a wife. And, of course, all mothers think this rich, single man is the perfect partner for one or another of their daugh...

‘She was looking for a key to understand. Then she could deal with the heavy weight that had fallen on her young heart’. Maggie is a curious girl. She asks many questions. And she wants some answers...

This novel shows the indecision and unpredictable side of youth compared to the wisdom of maturity. Set in Asia in Victorian times, it is the story of a young sailor who is unsure of what he wants t...

Heart of Darkness is classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the ´100 best novels´ and part of the Western canon. Marlow, a man who has spent his life at sea, tells the story of a j...

When a gentleman is found murdered in his country manor in Sussex, the great Sherlock Holmes is asked, once again, to help in this complicated case, which seems to involve the infamous Professor ...

When Sherlock Holmes gets a letter from the police, he and his new friend, Dr Watson, have a difficult problem. Who is the rich man in the empty house? Why did he die? And, most important of all, will...

In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bront shows us the destructive power of hatred and revenge, but she also explores love in its many forms and, in the end, her story is about hope.Topics covered Love and Ha...

After many more days and nights of study, I discovered exactly how life was created. With this knowledge I became the first man in history to have the power to create life from death.Victor Frankenste...

Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet letter A because she is an adulteress. She lives a simple life with her daughter, Pearl but the evil, old Roger Chillingworth and the tormented Arthur Dimmesdale soon...

"Newland felt more and more embarrassed. The men were all staring into the box where May was sitting between her mother and her aunt, he didnt recognise the lady in the strange dress, and he didnt kno...

Washington Irving, Bram Stoker, Thomas Hardy, D.H. Lawrence, Kate Chopin: five different authors, all from different backgrounds, but with one thing in common, the theme of freedom. The common th...

Jonathan Swifts best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. Gulliver is a doctor on a ship. He travels from England to many places. He meets little people and giants, he meets pe...

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet.After Hamlet sees his fatherâs ghost, he begins to act in a strange way. He now knows the terrible secret...