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Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty and at the mercy of a cold-hearted school mistress when her father dies, but she continues to believe in her own self worth and is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.

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.

An annotated edition of American author Mark Twain's 1889 social and technological satire in which Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American, is transported to sixth-century England.

The Story of one brave man's attempt to restore Richard The Lion- Hearted to the throne stolen by his evil brother, Prince John, Ivanhoe also depicts an unusual dilemma of love.

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.

In early nineteenth-century Yorkshire, the passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father causes tragedy for them and many others, even in the next generation.

An adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's novel in which the Saxon knight Ivanhoe returns from the Crusades in 1194 to a chaotic England ruled by the enemies of the absent King Richard the Lion-Hearted and finds himself disowned and dishonored, forced to fight for his name and the people he loves.

An adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel in which a nineteenth-century orphan boy tells his life story, relating the way he overcame an unhappy childhood.