Children's Classics

You've just told a lie! I know you have, because your nose is growing longer!” The Adventures of Pinocchio* beautifully presents the classic tale o...

“No class of man is altogether bad, but each has its own faults and virtues.” Set during the background of the Jacobite Scot rebellion in the 18th...

The Happy Prince and Other Stories* is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde and contains five stories: "The Happy Prince", "The Nigh...

The arrival of a man in bandages at the English Inn arouses sympathy from the locals as they consider him an accident victim. But the strange behav...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is credited as being Sherlock Holmes' most famous and most chilling case. Sherlock Holmes and his companion. Dr. Wats...

Little Women chronicles the lives, loves and tribulations of four sisters growing up during the American Civil War. As they progress towards womanh...

When Mole decides he has had enough tiresome spring-cleaning for one day, the scrappy nonesuch throws down his broom and bolts out of his house loo...

Pollyanna is the story of an orphan who is sent to live with her wealthy but stern Aunt Polly. But Pollyanna doesn’t seem to notice how strict her ...

“Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.” Rising from the ashes of tragedy and depression, Frances Hodgson Burnett penned some of he...

“She is not fashioned for a life among strangers.” Johanna Spyri’s Heidi paints the events in the life of an orphan girl, Heidi, who is raised by h...

Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. An aviator whose plane is forced dow...

“If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.”A well-known author of children lit...

Silas Marner, the linen weaver of Raveloe, lives in a village on the brink of industrialization. Once he was a respected member of a narrow congreg...

“Rainwater is the chief article of diet at supper.” Jerome K. Jerome was an English writer best remembered for his humorous travelogue, Three Men i...

The French novelist, Jules Verne unravels an exotic and fascinating underwater world through the book 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. It depicts the ...

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”*Pride** and Prejudice *beautifully caric...

“You are in every line I have ever read.” First published serially in Dickens' weekly periodical All Year Round, Great Expectations is the thirtee...

By all accounts Tales from Shakespeare has remained the best introduction to the Bard, not only for young people but also for readers of all ages. ...

“Those who beg in silence starve in silence...” A prominent writer of his age, Rudyard Kipling’s works are known for their realistic portrayal of ...

Rudyard Kipling was a British author and poet, born in India. He is best known for the book of children's tales The Jungle Book (1894), the Indian ...

“Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.” An inspirational tale of resilience and exploration, The Call of the Wild revolves ar...

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.” Most interesting of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma is the most flawed, the most infuriating a...