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You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of ...

Hank Morgan is a happy young man in Connecticut, USA, in 1879 until one day someone runs into his office and shouts, 'Come quickly, Boss! Two men are fighting.' After this, ...

So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilfu$1, $2nd fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, ...

It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things - about young women, and love. There are angry words, and then a ...

The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it works in strange and frightening ways. That sound in the night...isitadoorbanginginthewin$1, $2r a murdered man knocking ...

Who wants to Live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that's for sure. So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the ...

What does the name 'Agatha Christie' mean? To many people, it means a book about a murder mystery - a 'whodunnit'. 'I'm reading an Agatha Christie,' people say. 'I'm not sure who ...

The woman in white first appears at night on a lonely heath near London and is next seen at a grave-side in Cumberland. Who is she? Where has she come from, and what is her ...

When men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs -big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines. Buck is stolen from his home ...

In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face ...

In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf-Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf - he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts ...

There were six of them - three Kathermes, two Annes, and a Jane. One of them was the King's wife for twenty-four years, another for only a year and a half One died, two were ...

DOn the Polar ice-cap, 640 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, the deadly, icy winds can freeze a man to death in minutes. But the survivors of the crashed airliner are lucky - ...

Every day someone takes money from people near the shops. we must stop this, says Dan, a police officer. The police use TV cameras but it is not easy because there are so many ...

It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of, the Opera, the ghost that Lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black ...

The wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors.There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out ...

There, on top of the mushroom, was a large caterpillar, smoking a pipe. After a while the Caterpillar took the pipe out of its mouth and said to Alice in a slow, sleepy voice, 'Who ...

England in 1647: King Charles is in prison, and Cromwell's men are fighting the King's men. These are dangerous times for everybody. The four Beverley children have no parents; ...

When we are happy, we are always good,' says Lord Henry, 'but when we are good, we are not always happy.' Lord Henry's lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world ...

On a September day in 1821, in the church of a Yorkshire village, a man and six children stood around a grave. They were burying a woman: the man's wife, the children's mother. The ...

Tom Sawyer does not Like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his ...

It is Molly Clarkson's fiftieth birthday. She is having a party. She is rich, but she is having a small party - only four people. Four people, however, who all need the same thing: ...

History and the modern world are full of women who have done extraordinary things in all areas of life - art, campaigning, science, medicine, sport, space travel and fashion. But ...

'Curtis Colt didn't kill that liquor store woman, and that's a fact. It's not right that he should have to ride the lightning - that's what prisoners call dying in the electric ...

Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter 'A' stands for 'Adultery'. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child born ...