When a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, she fears that she will never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry ever again. But she meets the Munchkins, and they...
`The White Company` is a motley group of English mercenaries, led by Sir Nigel Loring whose youthful adventures are recounted in `Sir Nigel`, also published as a Wordsworth Classic. With assiduous attention to...
Three Sea Stories. Typhoon. Falk. The Shadow - Line
As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate, Conrad is our greatest writer of the sea. His characters are tested by dramatic events `that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man, the edge...
`Tom Jones` is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the funniest. Tom Jones, the hero of the book, is introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset...
Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his-Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures,...
The gentle melancholy and lyrical atmosphere of "Twelfth Night" have long made the play a favourite with Shakespearian audiences. The plot revolves around mistaken identities and unrequited love, but is further...
The gentle melancholy and lyrical atmosphere of `Twelfth Night` have long made the play a favourite with Shakespearian audiences. The plot revolves around mistaken identities and unrequited love, but is further...
Based on Charlotte Bronte`s personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude. Rising above...
`War and Peace` is a vast epic centred on Napoleon`s war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy`s view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over...
When "The Forsyte Saga" was shown on television in 1967 it was hugely successful. The nation was gripped by the masterful visual telling of the Forsyte family`s troubled story and adapted its activities to suit the...
