Dumas' tale of swashbuckling and heroism follows the fortunes of d'Artagnan, a headstrong country boy who travels to Paris to join the Musketeers - the bodyguard of King Louis XIII. Here he falls in with Athos, Porthos and Aramis, and the four friends soon find themselves caught up in court politics and intrigue.

Charles and Mary Lamb bring vividly alive the power of Shakespeare conveying all the wit, wisdom and humanity, and never losing the feel of his beautiful language

White Fang is halfdog, halfwolf and the only animal in the litter to survive extreme cold and desperate hunger. This is a story about a fiercely independent creature of the wild, where each day becomes a fight to stay alive. The author also wrote The Call of the Wild.

Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are forced by their father's death to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite society. The charms of unsuitable men and the schemes of rival ladies mean that their paths to success will be beset with disappointment.

Princess Irene's discovery of a secret stair leads to a wonderful revelation. At the same time, Curdie overhears a fiendish plot by the goblins. Princess Irene & Curdie must make sense of their separate knowledge & foil the goblins' schemes.

From the children's nursery carpet there falls a mysterious egg which is hatched to reveal a Phoenix who explains that the carpet possesses magic qualities. And so begins a series of fantastic adventures as the carpet transports the group to many different places.

The story of a young girl who learns to love her life in the Alps with her grandfather. They are both unhappy when Heidi is sent away again to a family in town, but she soon manages to get home to her Alps - and to share her happiness with her new friends.

'I really am quite useless as a wizard', says Mr Majeika. But Class Three thinks Mr Majeika is an excellent wizard, particularly when his spells go wrong.

Tom Sawyer and his friends play truant from school and set off for an island near their home town. Here they decide to play pirates but their game is interrupted when they witness a murder. Tom has to grow up very quickly and do the right thing.

The opera ghost makes performers at the Paris Opera House nervous. When Christine disappears, a sense of dread begins to pervade. In an ever-increasing pattern of fear and violence, the Phantom of the Opera begins to strike, but always with the young singer at the centre of his macabre desires.