B1 Dickens favorite Christmas story shows us the difficult lives of the poor, but it is also a story of hope, where the future can be better. Ebenezer Scrooge...
C1 Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel was published in 1925 and has justifiably become a 20th-century literary classic. “Gatsby?” asked Daisy urgently. “What Gatsby?” Could it be the same young...
B2 One of the most widely-read books worldwide. Moby Dick is the saga of Captain Ahab and his continuous pursuit of Moby Dick, the great white whale who maimed him...
C1 Mrs. Dalloway is a novel that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I. It is one of Woolf’s best-known novels. London 1923....
B1 Jane Eyre was an immediate bestseller, and most critics liked it. One reviewer wrote: ‘It is one of the most powerful domestic romances which have been published for many...
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...
B1 ‘A good portrait is a portrait of the artist, not the sitter. I am afraid I show my soul in this painting.’ Late nineteenth-century London: a city of...
B1 ‘There’s daggers in men’s smiles’ (Act II, Sc. III) Tag Ambition Power Macbeth is a brave general, loyal to King Duncan and to Scotland. Until that is, he...
B2 A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s most famous historical novel. Set in Paris and London at the time of the French Revolution, this is the story...
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...
B2 An excellent introduction to the world of Shakespeare. This edition includes seven of Shakespeare’s plays: As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Much...
B1 One of the most universally studied of the English classics, Beowulf is considered the finest heroic poem in Old English. This epic poem tells the story of Beowulf,...
A2 “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” – William Shakespeare, Hamlet After Hamlet sees his father’s ghost, he begins to act in a...
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 She was looking for a key to understand. Then she could deal with the heavyweight that had fallen on her young heart. Maggie is a curious girl. She...
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...
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...
B1 The philosophical resolution of the novel is ambiguous: the reader must decide whether sense and sensibility have truly merged. In this Reader you will find: Background information about...
B1 ‘Everybody knows that it is true that any rich, single man must definitely want a wife. And, of course, all mothers think this rich, single man is the perfect...
C2 Heart of Darkness is classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the “100 best novels” and part of the Western canon. Marlow, a man who...
A2 Great Expectations depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. In this reader you will find: Information about Charles Dickens’ life | A section...
B2 ‘After many more days and nights of study, I discovered exactly how life was created. With this knowledge, I became the first man in history to have the power...
“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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
A2 The novella’s impact is such that it has become a part of the language. Jekyll is a famous London doctor, but something unusual is happening in his house....
B2 ‘It’s a risk, but you look so like him, I’m sure no one will suspect you’re not the real King.’ English gentleman, Rudolf Rassendyll, travels to the small European...
A1 ‘Suddenly, in the darkness, there was a terrible, low howl and it came from the moor. ‘The hound!’ cried Holmes.’ Tag Mystery In this Reader you will find:...
