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On September 18, 1740, during the Anglo-Spanish conflict known later as the War of Jenkins' Ear, a squadron of eight ships under the command of Commodore George Anson set sail from England with the...

In December, 1787, HMS Bounty, under the command of Captain William Bligh, sailed from England to the South Pacific with a crew of 46 men. The purpose of the voyage was to collect breadfruit...

When feisty eleven-year-old Anne Shirley - orphaned, red-headed and freckled - is sent to the Green Gables farm by mistake the farm's elderly owners, brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert,...

Thomas Hardy was born in June, 1840, and died in January, 1928. He grew up in Higherbockhampton, Dorset, the son of a stonemason. Trained as an architect he began writing poetry in the 1860s but did...

Frankenstein, originally published in 1818, is Mary Shelley's first novel and was published when she was only twenty years of age. It tells the story of the brilliant young scientist, Victor...

Jane Austen's third novel is a classic loved by millions the world over. Edited and with an introduction by Harriet Nieve, this delightful work presents a witty and insightful view into the lives and...

Jane Austen's second novel is a classic loved by millions the world over. Edited and with an introduction by Harriet Nieve, this delightful work presents a witty and insightful view into the lives...

Jane Austen's first novel is a classic loved by millions the world over. Edited and with an introduction by Harriet Nieve, this delightful work presents a witty and insightful view into the lives and...

The Adentures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain's most controversial novel, was published in England and Canada in 1884, and the United States in 1885. The journey along the Mississippi River of...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, first published in 1876, is one of America's best-loved tales. Set in a small town on the banks of the Mississippi River during the 1840s, the story describes the...

Joseph Michaud's pioneering work on the crusades is rightly acclaimed as a major landmark in the field of medieval history and at the same time presents an exciting and fascinating read. Michaud's...

Joseph Michaud's pioneering work on the crusades is rightly acclaimed as a major landmark in the field of medieval history and at the same time presents an exciting and fascinating read. Michaud's...

Joseph Michaud's pioneering work on the crusades is rightly acclaimed as a major landmark in the field of medieval history and at the same time presents an exciting and fascinating read. Michaud's...

The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's vivid and entertaining Gothic parable of the aesthetic ideal. It tells the story of a handsome young man who sells his soul in exchange for eternal youth,...

The Secret Agent is Joseph Conrad's intriguing and darkly humourous novel of anarchists, spies and agents-provocateurs. Set in London in 1886, it tells the story of Mr Verloc, a shop-keeper and...

Part autobiography and part epic fiction, White-Jacket is a moving tribute to wanderlust by one of the great writers of the sea. Based on Melville's experiences aboard the USS United States from 1843...