Real reads

A retelling of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," in which spirited Elizabeth Bennet, one of five unmarried sisters, refuses the attentions of the wealthy but aloof Mr. Darcy until she learns that his cold manner hides a noble heart.

An illustrated retelling in which Ebenezer Scrooge is shown the spirit of Christmas through the intervention of four ghosts.

A retelling of Charles Dickens's novel "Hard Times," in which disciplinarian Thomas Gradgrind must reexamine his utilitarian worldview when his daughter's upbringing and loveless marriage lead her to a crisis.

Retelling of the novel about Jean Valjean, a French peasant who has been released from prison where he spent nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread for his starving family.

A retelling of the story of a doctor who is transformed into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug of his own creation.

Highlights the life and spiritual journey of Siddhartha Gautama who would become the Buddha.

Holmes and Watson must confront and conquer the "luminous, ghastly, spectral" hound of Baskerville family legend that stalks the moors at night.

An abridged version of the story in which, forced by a storm to spend the night at the home of the somber Heathcliff, Mr. Lockwood uncovers a tale of terror and hatred on the Yorkshire moors.

An abridged, graphic retelling of Jane Austen's "Persuasion, " a story in which Anne Elliot, persuaded by family and friends that the charming and handsome Frederick Wentworth is not worthy of her regard, questions her decision to send him away until he returns seven years later, his circumstances much improved.