Black Beauty tells the story of a working horse in Victorian England who has to adapt to life with a series of different masters and grooms, some of them kindly but many of them cruel or thoughtless. He survives flood, fire and fever until he feels ready to die, but then he is taken to yet another [...]

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the chilling story of a scientist who suceeds in creating a fearful monster ... a monster that holds a terrible power over him and the people he loves. Essential Classics are a quick way into some of the most exciting classic novels. Includes glossary and a readin[...]

Original / British English (Available April 2008) Farm work isn't Joe's idea of holiday fun. He wanted to spend the summer surfing. But when he finds himself in the middle of a disagreement about GM (genetically-modified) crop trials, life becomes more interesting. He also meets two very different g[...]

A classic science fiction adventure about three men who are taken captive by the evil genius Captain Nemo, retold for younger readersFirst published more than a century ago, Jules Verne's science fiction adventure tells the story of a scientist, Arronox, who joins an expedition to find and destroy a[...]

Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic novel of an orphan who discovers a magical garden through a hidden door, retold for younger readers"The Secret Garden" tells the story of a orphan, Mary Lennox, who is brought from India to live at her uncle's great lonely house on the moors after the death of her p[...]

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Victor Frankenstein är besatt av tanken på att ge liv åt något dött. Han bygger en mänsklig varelse. En dag lyckas han väcka varelsen till liv med hjälp av elektriska stötar.

Men efter det lyckade experimentet blir det inte som Frankenstein t[...]

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Det vilar en förbannelse över familjen Baskerville. En gigantisk, eldsprutande spökhund förföljer familjen. En dag hittas sir Charles Baskerville död. Hjärtattack, säger läkaren. Men bredvid honom fanns ett stort avtryck, ett fotspår av en stor hund ..[...]

Retold for younger readers, Henry James' classic horror story tells the tale of a haunted house, two children, and the governess who tries to save them Published in 1898, "The Turn of the Screw" is his best-known horror story. A young, inexperienced governess watches Miles and Flora, the two small c[...]

First published in 1818, this retelling for younger readers of Mary Shelley's classic tale is the chilling story of a scientist, Doctor Frankenstein, who succeeds in creating a fearful monster, only to find that the monster holds a terrible power over him and the people he loves.[...]

Robert Lewis Stevenson's classic story of a young orphan's adventures involving kidnapping, shipwreck, murder, and pursuit, retold for younger readers"Kidnapped" is set in Scotland in 1751. It tells the story of David Balfour, a newly-orphaned young boy who is cheated out of his inheritance by his u[...]

Arthur Conan Doyle's classic work of science fiction follows Professor Challenger's team as they seek proof that dinosaurs do still walk the earth, retold for younger readers"The Lost World" was written in 1912 and was his first work of science fiction. It tells the story of the notorious Professor [...]

Retold for younger readers, Gaston Leroux's classic tale of horror follows a young opera singer, Christine Daae, who makes her triumphant debut at the Opera--and then disappearsWritten in 1909, "The Phantom of the Opera" is a spine chilling, dramatic story. What has happened to the vanished young op[...]