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English Fairy Tales
This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, but stories from different traditions also make their appearance, including The Three Bears and Little Red Hiding Hood.
- Edition
- Wordsworth Classics
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781853261336
- Collation
- 254p; bw; ill; pbk
- Series Title
- Wordsworth Classics
- Call Number
- 398.20941 STE e
Bleak house (easy classics)
After surviving fourteen long years with her horrible aunt, and nothing but a doll and an old handkerchief for company, Esther Summerson's life is finally looking a little brighter. She's going to school and making friends, real friends! The only thing Esther's missing now is a mother. But long-lost parents don't just turn up out of the blue. Do they?
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781782264989
- Collation
- 96 p. ; ill. ; 19 cm
- Series Title
- The Charles Dickens Children's Collection
- Call Number
- F DIC b
Little Dorrit (easy classics)
Amy Dorrit's father has been in prison for as long as she can remember. That s totally normal, right? Just like doing chores for horrid Mrs Clennam, fixing her sister's dresses (without getting any thanks) and saving her own dinner to feed her father. But when Mrs Clennam's son returns from abroad, he brings with him a host of family secrets and turns Amy's normal life on its head.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781782264996
- Collation
- 96 p. ; ill. ; 19 cm
- Series Title
- The Charles Dickens Children's Collection
- Call Number
- F DIC l
Hard times (easy classics)
Coketown is no place for imagination. There are facts and figures and absolutely nothing else, or so Thomas Gradgrind thinks. When the circus appears in town, it brings Sissy Jupe with it. A young girl who has been abandoned by her father and is taken in by Thomas Gradgrind. Full of fun and energy, will Sissy save the Gradgrind children from a miserable life of facts and figures before it's too…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781782264866
- Collation
- 96 p. ; ill. ; 19 cm
- Series Title
- The Charles Dickens Children's Collection
- Call Number
- F DIC h
Great expectations (easy classics)
Pip's just your average boy. He has no parents, lives with his scary sister and once met an escaped criminal on Christmas Eve. Totally normal. And things get even stranger when a mysterious stranger starts paying him loads of money. Sure, Pip's loving his new life of luxury, but will he ever find out who's paying the bills, and what they want from him in return?
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781782264842
- Collation
- 96 p. ; ill. ; 19 cm
- Series Title
- The Charles Dickens Children's Collection
- Call Number
- F DIC g
Oliver Twist (easy classics)
Oliver Twist is poor. Always has been, always will be. Being born in a workhouse means that you'll probably always be treated like rubbish. Oliver does not want a life of hard work and measly meals, but he soon learns that it's never safe to ask for more. What Oliver really needs is a family. But is a family of thieves, kidnappers and killers really a family at all?
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781782264828
- Collation
- 96 p. ; ill. ; 19 cm
- Series Title
- The Charles Dickens Children's Collection
- Call Number
- F DIC o
A tale of two cities (easy classics)
With daily beheadings and famous buildings being burnt to the ground, Paris during the Revolution is not the safest place to be. When Dr Manette is released from prison and reunited with his daughter, everything seems to finally be getting better. But his daughter's fiancé is keeping some dangerous secrets that lead the family on a deadly adventure. How long can 'happy ever after' really l…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781782264873
- Collation
- 96 p. ; ill. ; 19 cm
- Series Title
- The Charles Dickens Children's Collection
- Call Number
- F DIC a
A christmas carol (easy classics)
Who can help a mean old man to love Christmas? How about a ghost? (…or three!) Scrooge’s heart is colder than snow, he’s richer than half the banks in England and meaner than, well, everyone. But when three seriously spooky ghosts turn up to take him on an adventure through time, he soon learns that being cold isn’t cool. Can he change his ways before it’s too late?
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781782264897
- Collation
- 96 p. ; ill. ; 19 cm
- Series Title
- The Charles Dickens Children's Collection
- Call Number
- F DIC a
Little Women
A book about growing up which has delighted generations of young readers. The illustrations by Ella Bailey are perfect for the modern audience. This edition includes extra material for young readers.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781847495877
- Collation
- 343 p.; 20 cm.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 813.4 ALC l
Persuasion
Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in December that year (but dated 1818). Persuasion is linked to Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together, but also because both stories are…
- Edition
- Cetakan Kelima
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9786020632018
- Collation
- 11 x 18;Pbk; Bw; 328p
- Series Title
- English classics
- Call Number
- 823.7 AUS p
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