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An english comic novel, The Diary of a Nobody, reproduces the diary entries of one Charles Pooter, a city clerk, his scrapes, his attempts to reach high society, his despair of his son ever finding a decent position, of his friends Cummings and Gowing, and numerous comic adventures and...

One of Burnett's most popular novels and seen as a classic of English children's literature, the Secret Garden is a story of regrowth and regeneration. This classic tale centers around Mary Lennox, an orphan who is sent to her strange Uncle and his mansion in Yorkshire. The mansion is a...

This classic detective anthology by GK Chesterton, beloved by both readers and writers of crime fiction alike, narrated here by Michael Ward. Father Brown is a small, unobtrusive Essex parson, but underneath his wide brimmed hat, lurks one of the finest deductive minds in all England. Included...

John Carter returns in this, his most thrilling adventure yet! Continuing where The Gods of Mars left off, we see John Carter, desperately seeking to rescue his lost wife; Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium. To this end, he pursues his two adversaries: Matai Shang, father of Therns, and Thurid the...

An original fairy tale by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen; The Snow Queen centres on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by Gerda and her friend, Kay. The story is one of Andersen's longest and most highly acclaimed stories. It is regularly included in selected tales and...

Jane Austens last ever published work, Persuasion is a tale reconnection, romance and the virtues of maturity. When mature and sensible Anne Elliot's spendthrift father: The Baronet Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall is forced to rent the property and relocate to Bath due to his arrears, Anne is...

A follow up to Arthur Conan Doyles well known novel, The Lost World, the Poison Belt is a short story set over a single 24 hour span of time. On the Anniversary of their momentous trip to the Plateau, as depicted in The Lost World, the irascible Professor Challenger calls his companions to his...

When Dyson chances upon a mysterious gold coin in the dingy backstreets of London, he is unknowingly drawn into a sinister tale of strange stories, and false agents. Who are the three individuals that continually dog his and his friend's path, always on the search for an elusive man in...

Alistair Maclean is a soldier in the employ of Lee's Regiment and an agent of Bonnie Prince Charlie at the height of the Jacobite rising of 1745. Amidst seeking support from the English Grandees for his masters cause, he finds himself embroiled in twisted web of deceit and betrayal that lies in...

"They seek him here... they seek him there..." It is the bloody height of the French Revolution. Men, women and children are put to death under the blade of the remorseless Guillotine, all to feed a baying mobs lust for blood and murder. Their only hope of salvation comes from a band of 20 brave...

George Bernard Shaws most well known work, adapted multiple times by film and stage, such as My Fair Lady and Pretty Woman, "Pygmalion" premiered in Vienna in 1913 before coming to england in 1914 on London's West End. This 5 act play introduces us to the irascible Professor Henry Higgins, who...

A small collection of short ghost stories, penned by Charles Dickens, narrated here by Michael Ward. "The Haunted House" When the narrator witnesses a dreary house in rural England, he is soon told the place is deeply haunted. But is it really? "The Trial for Murder" Haunted by visions of a...

Possibly the most widely known tale written by gothic horror writer H.P Lovecraft; the Call of Cthulhu is a short story published in 1928 about a young man who inherits a strange body of work from his deceased Uncle, who had been researching a dark and unknown cult, and mysterious happenings of...

Jean Muir is young, charming, and talented. As she diligently works as the Governess of young Bella Coventry, the men of the house seem to fall about her, won over by her charm and mysterious air. But is she really all that she seems...? Writted by Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women in...

The Trumpet-Major is the seventh published novel by English author Thomas Hardy published in 1880, and his only historical novel. When Anne Garland wakes up one morning, she little realises the significance of the sight from her window; of soldiers setting up camp for the summer on the hills...

Jane Austens tongue in cheek Coming of Age story, Northanger Abbey tells the story of Catherine Moorland and her first entry into society at Bath, and then of her time in the titular Northanger Abbey. Narrated by Michael Ward...

In Cranford, society belongs to the women. Amazons of middle age, high refinement and "Elegant Economy". From the Jenkyn's sisters Deborah and Matilda, to Miss Pole; irascible and incredulous. From honourable Mrs Jamieson to Mrs Fitz-Adams. Elizabeth Gaskell shows us the insights and workings of...

A humerous account of three men's boating holiday up the Thames that the author, Jerome K Jerome assures us is entirely factual, and definitely did happen as described. Even if the dog was somewhat more metaphorical than the other passengers. Especially George, who's realness is at least twice...

Written by the British author Hugh Lofting, is the first of his Doctor Dolittle books, a series of children's novels about a man who learns to talk to animals and becomes their champion around the world. In this book, we are told how Dr John Dolittle came to learn the language of animals, and...

Opening with the poem that made Poe a household name overnight, this collection of his short works includes the narrative poem "The Raven", the short story "The Fall of the House of Usher", and the first of Poe's "ratiocination" tales: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", featuring the first of the...