england

A retired teacher reminisces about his years at Brookfield school, the thousands of boys he taught, his happy marriage, and about the comic and tragic events in his life.

Contains an abridged version of the 1860 novel about Pip, an orphan in Victorian England who is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be educated and reared as a gentleman.

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. Rochester, a man with a terrible sercret; retold in comic-style format.

Upon discovering that he can enter paintings and speak with the people in them, a twelve-year-old boy sets out on a journey of discovery that ultimately leads to his own forgotten past.

Lonely after being dumped by her two best friends, Amy hopes for a romance with Zed, whom she met in an Internet chat room, but the day they spend together in his seaside village near London is not what she expected.

A collection of fifteen short stories featuring the English aristocrat Bertie Wooster and his manservant Jeeves, including the first eight stories along with the complete Reggie Pepper series.

Follows the adventures of Moll Flanders from her birth in Newgate Prison to her position of wealth and stature in seventeenth century England and move to the American colonies.

Presents color illustrations and topical text on a wide variety of aspects of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England, during the Tudor and Stuart monarchies. Covers daily life, subjects such as medicine and art, and key events in history.

Photographs and text provide information about everyday life in the middle ages, discussing food and drink, entertainment, fashion, art and architecture, health and medicine, love and marriage, war and weaponry, and crime and punishment, transport and science, and religion.

Follows the humorous adventures of a four-year-old English girl as she pursues her dream of becoming a farmer and collects flocks of insects and herds of snails.