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Presents an illustrated retelling of Jane Austen's novel about spirited Englishwoman Elizabeth Bennet, who tries to cope with the snobbish Mr.

David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist.

They tried their best to break his powerful body. But they could never break his magnificent spirit! Anna Sewell's timeless tale of the powerful, yet gentle Black Beauty has become the best-loved horse story of all time.

"The Invisible Man (1897) blends comedy and tragedy in its story of a scientist who discovers a way to make himself invisible.

Presents nineteenth-century Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson's novel about good and evil in human nature, in which a scientist named Dr.

Presents an adaptation of the classic novel in which Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and falls in love with her melancholy employer, Mr.

A poor, unwanted orphan, Jane Eyre seems destined to live a sad and ordinary life.

The fiery Eustacia Vye, wishing only for passionate love, believes that her escape from Egdon lies in her marriage to Clym Yeobright, the returning "native," home from Paris and discontented with his work there.

Presents the complete text of Jane Austen's classic novel in which young, well-to-do, and bored Emma Woodhouse learns a thing or two about true class--and love--after an eventful turn as a matchmaker, and includes a comprehensive study guide with explanations and discussions of the plot, question and answer sections, a list of characters, and a short biography of Jane Austen.

Pip is a poor young orphan, living with his sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith.

In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters; and includes a short essay comparing Austen's Elizabeth and Mr.

After escaping from the dark and dismal workhouse where he was born, Oliver finds himself on the mean streets of Victorian-era London and is unwittingly recruited into a scabrous gang of scheming urchins.

Wuthering Heights was Emily Bronte's only novel, published in 1847.

Dr. Jekyll invented a drug that would change him into the ominous Mr.

Tells the adventures of Pip, an orphaned young man in Victorian England, who is given a great deal of money by an unknown benefactor to enable him to live as a gentleman, pursuing an education and fulfilling great expectations.