Includes such tales as A Scandal in Bohemia ; Silver Blaze ; The Adventure of the Copper Beeches ; The Adventure of the Priory School ; The Red-Headed League ; and, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle .
Ebeneezer Scrooge, is the meanest, most miserly and most miserable person in the whole world. However, he is surrounded by many other characters who veritably bubble over with life, warmth and the cheery spirit of Christmas. These include Bob, the most forgiving of men, and various 'ghosts of Christmas' who come to visit Scrooge in the night.
The debonair and wiley Uncle Fred makes a welcome return to Blandings, where plotting and confusion is rife as always, set against the spectacular backdrop of the beautiful castle and its grounds.
A collection of stories such as The Odd Couple ; The Owl and the Pussycat ; Pat Hobby Does His Bit ; A Tale of Negative Gravity ; The Werewolf ; On Eating & Drinking ; At the Article of Death ; A Double Tragedy ; The Boar Pig ; Sredni Vashtar ; The Son's Veto ; A Terribly Strange Bed ; and, Providence and the Butler .
The animals in the farmyard decide that working for humans is doing them no favours, so under the leadership of Napoleon, the only Berkshire Boar on the farm, and the other pigs, they drive out the farmer and his cohorts and set about structuring their own society.
A collection including such stories as: Old Cornille's Secret ; The Violet Car ; The Purloined Letter ; The Clock that Went Backward ; The Homes of the Stars ; The Mystery of the Sleeping Car Express ; The Werewolf ; Which Make Them Remember ; On Being in Love ; A Double Tragedy ; Martin's Close ; The Mouse ; and, The Son's Veto .
Featuring the voice of Orson Welles as Sydney Carton and Ronald Colman as Jean Valjean, both backed by fine casts, this set contains two 'revolutionary' tales.
Mr Gradgrind, MP for Coketown, northern England, runs a strict regime at his utilitarian school. His children also attend the school, and are taught to value facts and duty and neglect their emotions. This title charts the progress of these three children, strictly schooled by their father, into adulthood.
Exposes the mannered social scene of Jane Austen's England. This was an era when ladies were groomed for matrimony and little else, so Mrs Bennet is eager to see at least some of her five daughters married off. But, the varying temperaments and spirits of the heroine and her sisters, means the quest for love and happiness is not without setback.
The illegitimate Chance twins are the black sheep of the family; the all-singing, all-dancing, sweary, aging, make-up caked, high-heeled, bawdy, gritty and magnetic Chance twins, that is. Never apart for long, the two are peas from the same pod: Sir Melchior Hazard, surviving head of an acting dynasty, who is to celebrate his 100th birthday.
Winston Smith, a civil servant assigned the task of falsifying records and political literature, effectively perpetuating propaganda, who grows disillusioned with his meager existence and so begins an ultimately futile rebellion against the system.
Contains 6 suspense-filled investigations. This title contains stories including: The Adventure of the Empty House , The Adventure of the Devil's Foot , The Adventure of the Abbey Grange , The Adventure of the Cardboard Box , The Man With the Twisted Lip , and, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
Clem Yeobright returns home from his education, keen for the comfort of home and full of idealistic notions. Eustacia Vye, a local girl, decides to leave her true love for him, and the very fabric of Egdon Heath starts to unravel due to the fragile threads the two un-pick in the community and in themselves through their actions.