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British actor Stephen Fry describes his experiences visiting each state in the U.S. in an attempt to understand everyday life in America.

Presents Daniel Defoe's eighteenth-century novel about a woman born in Newgate prison who becomes an infamous prostitute and thief in both England and the American colonies.

Presents Virginia Woolf's first novel, originally published in 1915, about Rachel Vinrace, an impressionable young Englishwoman who travels to South America where she enters into a doomed love affair with an aspiring writer.

Moll Flanders, born in Newgate Prison, pursues a life of adventure that eventually leads her to a position of wealth and stature in bustling eighteenth-century London.

A collection of short stories by W. Somerset Maugham.

Presents Daniel Defoe's eighteenth-century novel about a woman born in Newgate prison who becomes an infamous prostitute and thief, tasting adventure and adversity on both sides of the Atlantic; and includes contextual writings and eleven works of criticism.

A memoir that chronicles the author's journey back to his ancestral home in Ghana in search of his roots.

An illustrated edition of the classic poem, in which a British soldier recalls his experiences in the army in India and pays homage to the courage of the Indian water carrier Gunga Din.

In 1611 Japan, English orphan Jack Fletcher continues his difficult training during his first year at samurai school while Dragon Eye, the ninja who killed his father, seeks him out to obtain a navigational logbook, and Jack's only hope of survival rests on his success in an ancient ritual.