An abridged version of the tale of Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, who is informed one day he has "great expectations" and is to be educated and reared as a gentleman.
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.
Alex Rider is forced to hide out when an MI6 reconnaissance mission sets off a chain of events that could rewrite history, and as Alex tries to outwit an insane Russian general, he fears he is the only one who can stop a deadly cataclysmic explosion.
The characters in Freddy's latest novel, an evil fifteenth-century poacher and his ferrets, mysteriously come to life, endangering Freddy and his friends and drawing them to an English castle near where the poacher once lived.
While staying with distant relatives in England, Americans Rowan, Meg, Silly, and James Morgan, with their neighbors Dickie Rhys and Finn Fachan, learn that one of them must fight to the death in the Midsummer War required by the local fairies.
An unabridged republication of three Yuletide stories by nineteenth-century author Charles Dickens, including "The Holly-Tree," "The Haunted House," and the title work, a tale of a pleasant and simple home life.
