When Christmas comes for the four March girls, there is no money for expensive presents and they give away their Christmas breakfast to a poor family. But there are no happier girls in America than Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. They miss their father, of course, who is away at the Civil ...

Four women answer an advertisement in The Times newspaper. They leave cold, rainy London and go on holiday to San Salvatore — an Italian castle by the sea. They leave their husbands, their friends and their unhappiness behind in England. In Itaty, they find enchantment, happiness ...

Two funny stories about Mr Bean. In the restaurant Mr Bean doesn't like his food. He tries to hide it in very strange places! Then Mr Bean goes to the launderette. What happens? He loses his trousers, of course!

It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, ...

Grand Central Station, New York in mid-July. It's early morning, but everyone is suffering in the heat. Private investigator Nathan Marley is on his way to another wasted day at the office. But a chance meeting with a homeless woman at the station and a surprise telephone call change ...

Dorothy lives in Kansas, USA, but one day a cyclone blows her and her house to a strange country called Oz. There, Dorothy makes friends with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion. But she wants to go home to Kansas. Only one person can help her, and that is the country's ...

Britain is a small country but it has a long history. Two thousand years ago it was a part of the Roman Empire. In the 1930s the British Empire was the biggest empire in world history. In the past, kings and queens fought to rule Britain. Discover how wars, revolutions and religion ...

Five stories about discovery—a perfume that attracts men, a book that shows people's thoughts, a remarkable change in a widow's life, the secret of high intelligence, and a way of making time stand still—make up this entertaining collection.

The wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors. There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out from the hill and challenges the wind to do its worst. The house is called Wuthering Heights. When Mr Earnshaw ...

'I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Shudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.' Soon Richard Hannay is running for his life across the hills of ...