C2 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 English...
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 begins to...
C1 “Our story begins just outside Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for Young Ladies at Chiswick Mall in London. A large family carriage is waiting for two young ladies, Amelia Sedley and...
B2 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...
A1 A Study in Scarlet is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s first story with Holmes and Watson. Come and walk the dark streets of London with the great Mr Sherlock...
B2 ‘You must be the best judge of your own happiness.’ Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, rich, intelligent and a snob. She says she will never marry, but loves matchmaking...
B2 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...
“A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented” The story, set in a poor rural area of England in the 19th century, centres around Tess Durbeyfield, a sweet, innocent, country girl who is...
B1 When five young people in Berlin receive a mystery invitation, they begin an adventure that takes them to Greenland, Rwanda, South Africa and South America. It’s an adventure that...
B1 “She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.” One sleepy summer, an American woman arrives in England and wakes everybody up. Isabel Archer...
B1 The novel has attracted the admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James and Jorge Luis Borges. Kidnapped is an adventure story set in Scotland in the 18th...
A2 Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, he defined its modern form. When Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to meet Count Dracula, he soon realizes that he has...
A2 An adventure novel featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations. Richard Hannay is...
A1 Crusoe’s father wants him to be a good guy, but Crusoe wants nothing more than to travel around the world. His first voyage is a disaster! Robinson survives but...
A1 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. Nantucket is a...
A1 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...
B1 “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 recognize the lady...
B2 Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet letter “A” because she is an adulteress. She lives a simple life with her daughter, Pearl but the evil, old Roger Chillingworth and...
