This story is the first person account of Pip, an orphan, whos is adopted by his cruel sister and brother-in-law, who adores him. He comes across two people who change the course of his life - an escaped convict and the weird Miss Havisham. Pim falls in love with the beautiful but proud Estella, whom he would continue to love throughout his life. Soon, he finds luck to meet good people and expe…
The novel unfolds the plight of demoralised French peasantry, brutality shown by revolutionaries on former French aristocrats as well as parallel social lives in London. When Lucie wants to bring home her father, who is languishing in French prison for two decades, her family is also embroiled in the revolution. Meanwhile, a complex love trial a develops in a dramatic turn of events as a revolu…
Fourth graders George Beard and Harold Hutchins are a couple of class clowns. The only thing they enjoy more than playing practical jokes is creating their own comic books. And together they've created the greatest superhero in the history of their elementary school: Captain Underpants! His true identity is SO secret, even HE doesn't know who he is!
They defeated Dr. Diaper! They trampled the terrible talking toilets! They crushed the crazy cafeteria ladies! And they prevented preposterous Professor Poopypants from pulverizing the planet! Now George and Harold are back for more fun and games with their wedgie-powered superhero, Captain Underpants! Join George and Harold as they play hilarious pranks on clueless Mr. Krupp and get caught …
George and Harold are in a sticky situation. Their latest prank has snooty school brainiac Melvin Sneedly seeing red, and he can't wait to get them back. But when Melvin tries to transform himself into a bionic-powered superboy, things get a little gloppy - and the Bionic Booger Boy is born! Can Captain Underpants beat this blobby behemoth of blech, or is the entire world doomed to drown in dis…
A fabulous gem is looted from a sacred Hindu shrine furing the siege of an Indian city. With his dying breath one of the shrine's guardians tells colonel John Herncastle that the Moonstone will have its revenge. Fifty years later, Herncastle bewuaths the diamond to his niece, Rachel Verinder, as an eighteenth-birthday gift. An act of generosity? or merely trying stansfer the curse ? Racher rece…
Just when they thought they were out, it pulls them back in! Our heroes beat the Bionic Booger Boy, but they forgot about those rascally Robo-Boogers. Join George, Harold, Mr. Krupp, Melvin Sneedly, and Sulu the Bionic Hamster on an adventure that will take them into the deepest regions of outer space and back through time to the mysterious and uncharted world of the day before yesterday! It's …
George and Harold have really done it this time... they've created a MONSTER! She's faster, smarter, and more evil than anything the world has seen before - she's Welgie Woman! With the help of her horrible robots and her horrendous hairdo, Wedgie Woman is on a mission to take over the world, and she'll give a whopping wedgie to anyone who stands in her way - including Captain Underpants. Will …
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas, three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward. This finest of all Christmas stories is beautifully illustrated with Arthur Rackham's superb line drawings.
The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instruct Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle.