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Persuasion
500 LAnne Elliot is persuaded to reject a marriage proposal from handsome Captain Wentworth because he lacks rank or fortune. But when he returns home from the Navy, more than seven years later, Anne realises she still has strong feelings for him, despite the fact that his attentions have now turned towards her friend.
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The wonderful Wizard of Oz
500 LHarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘“Come along, Toto,” she said. “We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to Kansas again.”
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Green eggs and ham
1,000 LDo you like green eggs and ham? If so, you’ll love them with flaps and stickers! Flip the flaps to see where those green eggs and ham will pop up next! All the fun and charm of the original book is here in this interactive version of Dr. Seuss’s classic Green Eggs and Ham!Please ask if you need a specific version. The data provided here may not be correct. With buying and not asking you are accepting the book as is.
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The Secret Garden
500 LDo you like secrets? You might say that The Secret Garden is organized around secrets. The main character, Mary, is a secret from her parents’ associates. Colin, the young boy she meets at her new home, is also kept secret from his family and himself. The new home itself has many locked rooms and its servants are forbidden to speak of its history. Then the secret garden is brought into view. The garden that Mary uncovers has been kept secret for years, and the effect it has on her and others who find it changes their lives forever…
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The picture of Dorian Gray
500 LHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young… If it was only the other way!’ Wilde’s first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray who upon having his portrait painted desires that it will age and grow ugly while he may remain eternally beautiful. The painting, which reflects each of Gray’s sins and transgressions in its hideousness, haunts him until it finally becomes unbearable. In this dark tale of duplicity and mortality, Wilde creates a world where art and reality collide.
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20000 leagues under the sea
500 LThe book follows the story of world renowned scientist, Professor Arronax, as he sets out on a journey to kill a mysterious sea monster dominating the seas. Accompanied by his trusty helper and whale harpoonist Ned Land, Arronax is thrown into the belly of the beast. The mysterious monster turns out to be a gigantic ship that can venture and dive into the depths of the ocean. Commanded by Captain Nemo, the Nautilus is the first submarine of its time but is mistaken around the world for a sea monster. Locked inside the Nautilus, Arronax dives into the depths of the ocean on an unforgettable adventure.
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The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
500 LHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
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Gulliver’s travels
500 LGulliver’s travels purports to be a travel book. It is a blend of fantasy and realism and describes the shipwrecked Gulliver’s encounters with the inhabitants of four places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms
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Treasure island
500 LTreasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, telling a story of “buccaneers and buried gold”. It is considered a coming-of-age story and is noted for its atmosphere, characters, and action.
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Little women
500 LLittle Women is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869 at the request of her publisher. The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood. Loosely based on the lives of the author and her three sisters,? it is classified as an autobiographical or semi-autobiographical novel.
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Macbeth
500 LOne of Shakespeare’s darkest and most violent tragedies, Macbeth’s struggle between his own ambition and his loyalty to the King is dramatically compelling. As those he kills return to haunt him, Macbeth is plagued by the prophecy of three sinister witches and the power hungry desires of his wife.
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Black beauty
500 LBlack Beauty is considered to be one of the first fictional animal autobiographies. Originally meant to be informative literature read by adults on the norms of horse cruelty and preventions of these unjust acts, Black Beauty is now seen as a children’s book. Narrated by the main character, Black Beauty, the novel is read by thousands of children worldwide.
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Frankenstein
500 LFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
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Sons and lovers
500 LGertrude and Walter Morel’s marriage has turned into a battlefield. Gertrude, a special and respectable woman, rejected by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, decides to devote herself fully to her children, especially her sons William and Paul. She is determined not to let them become miners like their father. But the conflict is inevitable when Paul tries to escape from his mother’s suffocating embrace and starts having his first relationships with women.
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Around the world in eighty days
500 LAround the World in Eighty Days is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,000 (equivalent to £1.9 million in 2019) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne’s most acclaimed works.
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Through the looking glass
500 LAn impressive story where the extraordinary becomes ordinary, where magic has no end and adventures unfold one after the other.
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