Barbara Sauser
Ein Meisterwerk des Deutschen Realismus, von Theodor Fontane! Effi Briest ist fast noch ein Kind, als sie mit Baron Geert von Innstetten verheiratet wird. Die S ...
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More than any other conflict, the Great War inspired writers of all generations and classes. This collection reflects the wide variety of poems written, in the ...
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Jerome Klapka Jerome
Three Men in a Boat is a humorous book that will make you laugh while it gives you a view of Victorian England and the Thames. Three friends, George, Harris and ...
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Alexander Hope
‘It’s a risk, but you look so like him, I’m sure no one will suspect you’re not the real King.’ English gentleman, Rudolf Rassendyll, travels to the small Europ ...
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Oscar Wilde
“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 ...
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Joseph Conrad
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 ...
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Natsume Soseki
Botchan is a novel written in 1906. It is considered to be one of the most popular novels in Japan. A Tokyoite known only as Botchan thinks teaching a bunch of ...
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Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White is the first English ‘sensation novel’ full of mystery and dark secrets. After meeting a strange woman one night in London, Walter Hartright ...
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Are there ghosts at Bly, or is the governess going mad? A young woman starts her first job as a governess in charge of two young orphans, Miles and Flora, at a ...
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Edgar Alan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe’s only novel is an exciting and unmissable story and a classic of American literature. His name is Arthur Gordon Pym. He comes from Nantucket. N ...
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Edith Whartonová
“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 didn’t recognise the la ...
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Joyce’s 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 o ...
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Emily Brontëová
In Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë shows us the destructive power of hatred and revenge, but she also explores love in its many forms and, in the end, her story ...
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William Shakespeare
“Don’t worry, my child. I’ve heard your words of love and I’m happy for you both Ferdinand, I only wanted to see if your love for my beautiful, sweet daughter M ...
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It is one of Burnett’s most popular novels, considered to be a classic of children’s literature. One day in India, nine-year old Mary wakes up and finds that sh ...
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Edgar Alan Poe
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 Poe’s most famo ...
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Robert Louis Stevenson
The novella’s 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 i ...
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Use this play-script version to prepare a fun and amusing stage version of the English legend of Robin Hood. Follow Robin Hood’s adventures in Sherwood Forest i ...
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‘Once upon a time, a long time ago, in London there was a happy family in a happy house...’ The story of a boy who never grew up, with his friends Wendy and the ...
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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 ...
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Bram Stoker
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 tha ...
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William Shakespeare
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” – William Shakespeare, Hamlet After Hamlet sees his father’s ghost, he begins to act in a stran ...
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift’s 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 me ...
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
‘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 ...
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