Jane Austen

Gill Tavner

Ann Kronheimer

Pride and Prejudice

Northanger Abbey

Charles Dickens

Karen Donnelly

In the dark, dangerous streets of Victorian London Oliver enters the world of people so poor and desperate that they will take any risk and know no mercy. Relentlessly pursued by the menacing criminal world, who should Oliver trust? Are his true friends strong enough to resist the determined plotting of desperate villains? In this gripping tale of kidnapping, shooting and murder, Charles Dickens shows the threats to a vulnerable boy’s existence and asks the eternal question: which is more powerful, good or evil?

Oliver Twist

Alone in a strange country where it isn’t safe to be a single girl, Viola disguises herself as a boy called Cesario and finds work as a servant. But dressing in boy’s clothes doesn’t stop Viola falling in love with a man – who is in love with someone else. Will she ever manage to win his love for herself? And who is this other young man that appears, looking so like Cesario? What confusion will result from his arrival? Perhaps Viola’s brother didn’t drown after all …

A Tale of Two Cities

Retells the classic tale of a young orphan boy dealing with hardship in his early life at a boarding school and living with a controlling aunt.

David Copperfield

Alan Moore

My darkness lifted, never to return. This man was truly the light of the world.

Mary Magdalene

Rozum a cit

Edgar Allan Poe

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Pýcha a předsudek

Charlotte Brontë

Jane’s aunt and cousin detest her. Life at Lowood School is cruel and dangerous. What inner strength can the young Jane find? Seeking adventure and independence, Jane sets out alone. Is her new master, Mr Rochester, all that he seems? What secret does he keep locked in the third storey, where strange laughter haunts the nights? In her search for affection, Jane faces horror, cruelty, poverty and temptation. Is she strong enough to do what is right? Will she ever mean anything more to anybody than poor, plain Jane Eyre?

Jane Eyre

Retells the story of an industrial city in Northern England and the bleak existence of its inhabitants in the mid-1800s.

Hard Times

Fanny's arrival at her wealthy relatives' estate creates a conflict of class and virtue.

Gill Tavner

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