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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...

Poor orphan Jane Eyre lives an unhappy childhood. Hated by her guardian aunt and cousins, she is sent to the strict and loveless Lowood School. But life at school improves, though Jane still longs for...

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...

The novellas impact is such that it has become a part of the language.Jekyll is a famous London doctor, but something unusual is happening in his house. Who is his strange young friend? Why does Jekyl...

Born in a workhouse, the little orphan Oliver Twist survives with little food or love. He runs away to London and finds a place to stay with Fagin and his ‘family´. But Oliver soon realizes that Fagin...

"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...

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...

Voted America´s Best-Loved Novel in PBS´s The Great American Read Harper Lee´s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of bli...

Edward Albee´s Who´s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? shocked audiences and critics alike with its assault on decorum. At base though, the play is simply a love story: an examination of a long-wedded life, f...

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...

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick One of the most famous and beloved mysteries from The Queen of Suspense—Agatha Christie—now a Lifetime TV movie. "Ten . . ." Ten strangers are lured to an isol...

A secure and secluded retreat for the rich and powerful becomes the setting for an unsettling series of murders. Combe Island off the Cornish coast is a restful haven for the elite. But when one of it...

Maya Angelou´s unforgettable collection of poetry lends its name to the documentary film about her life, And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS´s American Masters. Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. ...

"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...

Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say. From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. ...

A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival—featuring an introduction by David Mamet A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and ...

Now with a beautiful new series look, Agatha Christie’s first mystery to feature the beloved investigator Miss Marple—as a dead body in a clergyman’s study proves to the indomitable sleuth that no pla...

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...

50 years of an iconic classic! This international bestseller and inspiration for a beloved movie is a heroic story of friendship and belonging. No one ever said life was easy. But Ponyboy is pretty su...

Why do swings swing? Why do swings stop swinging? What makes things change direction? You can find the answers to these and other questions about movement in Why Do Swings Swing?

In this Newbery Medal-winning novel, Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place—he´s the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery...

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - From the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists--a haunting story of love and war. - Recipient of the Women´s Priz...

In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his door...

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...

Here is the Pulitzer Prize-winning, National Book Award-winning, Oprah-anointed, #1 New York Times bestselling novel that explores America´s troubled racial past as only Colson Whitehead can--and has ...

"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...

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....

A series of twenty non-fiction science readers which engages children in the world around them. Why do spiders live in webs? Where do otters sleep? Why do bees make hives?