The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique ...
Mary Lennox undergoes massive change when she finds a secret garden and begins to tend it. The Secret Garden is one of the best-loved stories of all time.
When orphan John Trenchard is banished, he goes to live at the local inn with the mysterious Elzevir Block, whose son has been killed. Unofficially adopted by Block, John comes to learn the reasons for the noises in the graveyard at night.
This edition also includes the sequel, Good Wives, which takes up the story of the March sisters some three years later when, as young adults, they must face up to the inevitable trials and traumas of everyday life in their search for ...
With an Introduction by A.A. Milne and Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation.
This edition contains Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. It is illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel, whose drawings for the books add so much to the enjoyment of them.
Seen through Black Beauty's eyes, the story tells of his idyllic upbringing and the hardship and cruelty he suffers, before finding security and happiness in a new home.