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On a dark heath, Macbeth stumbles across three witches who can see into the future.

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A strange figure stood in front of him, dressed from head to foot in white clothing. The moonligh...

Hester Prynne stands defiantly on a scaffold before hostile Puritans in seventeenth-century Bosto...

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In ancient China a magical monkey appears, creating chaos everywhere he goes. The only way to put...

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Hamlet's father, the king of Denmark, has died suddenly. But instead of grieving, his mother Gert...

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'At 5 o'clock on the evening of November 21st, after the ice had drawn back like pall bearers at ...

Michael Henchard knew he deserved the pain he felt. Henchard is a handsome farm laborer. When he ...

Edward Waverley is an English officer in the army of King George, but will his love for Flora, th...

'I find myself in a very strange and mysterious situation.'

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Clouds of multi-coloured fish rose from our feet like surprised birds from long grass. Every so o...

In the second book of this exciting three-part series a single roll of the dice reverses the fort...

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'There is a whistling sound behind us. Shells pass overhead and explode in a sheet of flame a hun...

Nick Carraway's mysterious neighbor Gatsby gazes across the dark bay at a distant green light. As...

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Marianne is ablaze with fire and passion; Elinor keeps her own heat under control. Marianne seeks...

Ali Baba put down his axe and wondered if the magic words really would have any effect on the mas...

Although Song Jiang is only a lowly local government official, he is loyal to the emperor and kin...

It is the ninth year of the siege of Troy by the Greeks. Will the fighting go on forever? Achille...

What could be worse than falling in love with your enemy?

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'Send the brat home? Oh no we won't! Her mother must have met some rich man - we can make a load ...

Dr Livesey opened up the folded paper - it was a hand-drawn map of a small island. My heart raced...

Viola survives a shipwreck, but she thinks her twin brother Sebastian has died.

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Frank hates working in his father's office. He swaps places with his cousin Rashleigh. But what i...

Set in 1482, Victor Hugo's powerful novel is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics.

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'It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done.'

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An amazing sight met my eyes. All around me were dozens of human creatures a little less than six...