A classic tale of an orphan growing up in the 1800's of England. Intimately rooted in the author's own biography and written as a first-person narrative, "David Copperfield" charts a young man's progress through a difficult childhood in Victorian England to ultimate success as a novelist, finding true love along the way. Jeremy Tambling's provocative Introduction reveals subtle themes relevant today in Dickens' favorite work.

Recounts the adventures of a young boy and an escaped slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.

Horrified at the thought of caring for talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca, the spinster aunts nevertheless spend seven difficult years raising their niece, rewarding years for all three inhabitants of the little brick house in a small New England town.

"Considered the greatest satire ever written in English, Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' chronicles the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, principally to four marvelous realms: Lilliput, where the people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land inhabited by giants; Laputa, a wondrous flying island; and a country where the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses, are served by savage humanoid creatures called Yahoos. Beneath the surface of this enchanting...

No case is too tricky for the world's most famous sleuth and his incredible powers of deduction, in a collection of mystery stories for young readers.

A scientist invents a machine that transports him far into the future where he discovers a changed world inhabited by two unusual races, the Eloi and the Morlocks.

The tale of the hunchbacked bellringer of medieval Notre Dame, Quasimodo, whose love for the gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, had tragic consequences.

"Mary Lennox is a spoiled, sour child, raised by self-involved parents in India. When a cholera epidemic leaves her orphaned she is transplanted to her uncle's rambling estate in Yorkshire. There, she's transformed by the discovery of a secret garden - and many other secrets besides. An enchanting tale about the healing powers of nature and empathy."-- Provided by publisher.

Presents the adventures of Mowgli, the "man-cub, " abandoned as a baby by his parents and raised by the wolves in the wilds of the jungle.