The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It follows Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based legal practitioner who investigates a series of strange occurrences between his old friend Dr. Henry Jekyll and a murderous criminal named Edward Hyde.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of the most famous pieces of English literature, and is considered to be a defining book of the gothic horror genre. The novella has also ha...

Reprint: 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' is a collection of 12 short stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, written by Arthur Conan Doyle.

I. A Scandal in Bohemia

II. The Red-Headed League

III. A Case of Identity

IV. The Boscombe Valley Mystery

V. The Five Orange Pips

VI. The Man with the Twisted Lip

VII. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

VIII. The Adventure of the Speckled Band

IX. The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb

X. The Adventure of the Noble ...

The stories found in this volume aim to faithfully reflect the spirit of the common folk. The stories are mostly genuine fairy tales bearing at times some resemblance to the tales heard in other lands. However, they are more often legends and wayside stories that are undeniably Dutch from start to finish with droll touches of humor. Some are parables or allegories on life. The author spent many years as a resident of Holland and has personal knowledge of the people and their tales.

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

"I've never written a line that I'd be ashamed for my young daughters to read, and I never shall write such a line!" Thus Jack London, well along in his career. And thus almost any collection of his adventure stories is acceptable to young readers as well as to their elders. So, in sorting over the few manuscripts still unpublished in book form, while most of them were written primarily for boys and girls, I do not hesitate to include as appropriate a tale such as "Whose Business Is to Live."

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A young English woman, who grew up in a protected and rigid environment, meets a freethinker in Florence who thoroughly disrupts her world.

A Christmas Carol is a Victorian allegory about an old and embittered miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who has a number of dreams on the night before Christmas and as a result comes to his senses.