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London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a ...

A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of this century. The city has changed greatly since that ...

This is the story of Karen Silkwood. It begins with her death.Why does her story begin where it should end? Certain people wanted her death to be an ending. Why? What were they ...

Dorothy Lives in Kansas, USA, but one day a cyclone blows her and her house to a strange country called Oz. There, Dorothy makes friends with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the ...

Then a letter came for Aloo from a famous college in America. They offered him a place... a place wiht a csholarship. Aloo could not believe it at first. He read the letter again ...

Pinewood Academy is an expensive school in the most fashionable part of town - and scholarship kids like Liza and her friends Marco and Suki aren't always welcome there. There's a ...

The job was too good. There had to be a problem - and there was. John Duncan was an honest man, but he needed money. He had children to look after. He was ready to do anything, and ...

COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED: A burning curiosity draws Rudolf Rassendyll, a young Englishman, to Ruritania to see the coronation of the new King. His distinctive red hair and long ...

San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted apartment buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because so many real animals have died. ...

"The Marquis lay there, like stone, with a knife pushed into his heart. On his chest lay a piece of paper, with the words: Drive him fast to the grave. This is from JACQUES."The ...

They said Steve Biko was a man of violence; then why did he talk of peace7 They said revolution; so why did he talkof friendship? They said he died of hunger; why was his body ...

All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said 'No!' He was Edward VIII, King of Great Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and King of thirty-nine ...

Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his ...

When Christmas comes for the four March girls, there is no money for expensive presents and they give away their Christmas breakfast to a poor family. But there are no happier ...

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 ...