didactic fiction

When Emery and Richard play the game Nicky-Nicky Nine Doors, they discover that there are serious consequences to scaring the neighbors.

Alex Rogo, who manages a failing manufacturing plant, receives an ultimatum to improve the situation and--with assistance from a mysterious helper--finds a new, unconventional way to do business that reveals a way to coordinate everybody's work.

When it's Bingo's turn to take Bob Bilby the puppet home, will they put down their screens and devices to have fun times? This book retells the Bluey episode, Bob Bilby. Once again, Blue Heelers Bingo and Bluey use their limitless energy to explore their world in unpredictable and humorous ways.

An exquisitely beautiful young man in Victorian England retains his youthful and innocent appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption.

Uncle Tom, a slave in the American South, maintains his dignity despite the suffering and eventual death brought upon him by the cruel treatment of a Yankee overseer.

The story of a family and the system of debtors' prisons as symbols of the social and psychological imprisonment of 19th century England.

"Dorothea is bright, beautiful and rebellious. Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in town. Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world. But their stories do not proceed as expected and both they, and the other inhabitants of Middlemarch, must struggle to reconcile themselves to their fates and find their places in the world. This novel contains all of life, the rich and the poor, the conventional and the radical, literature and science, politics and romance, but above all it gives us a vision of what lies within the human heart"--Provided by publisher.

A young man becomes entranced with the power of his physical beauty and stops aging, while his portrait, hidden away in his attic, ages for him.

Set in the early nineteenth-century English countryside, an English squire yields to the temptations of an innocent country girl and crime, remorse, and suffering are the consequences.

Presents an adaptation Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" in which a young woman finds herself the victim of fate and of forces beyond her control in nineteenth-century England.