"Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old". As a survivor of a shipwreck, Lemuel Gulliver encounters some entirely absurd things – at first, he is in the land of Lilliputians, the tiny men; but later he ventures to the land of the...

Welcome to the world of the Brothers Grimm: a world of heroes and villains, of a prince and his princess, of lives determined by healing spells and fatal curses. The stories collected here have formed the basis for some of our most beloved tales, in...

In "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", our fun-loving protagonist goes on multiple adventures, getting into all kinds of trouble as he navigates the messiness of boyhood. "Sawyer" is now so emblematic of a particular time and place in American history t...

"For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack". First published in 1894, Rudyard Kipling's beloved short story collection has entertained both young and old readers with the story of the young boy Mowgli who's r...

"Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world". As it gets harder for the older siblings Miss Marilla Cuthbert and Mr. Matthew Cuthbert to take care of their farm on Prince Ed...

A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt who mistakes hi...

"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, and what is the use of a book,...

"To go around the world... in such a short time and with the means of transport currently available, was not only impossible, it was madness". The latest edition of the classic novel from Jules Verne, featuring Phileas Fogg and his quest to circumna...