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  Christmas Carol A - Christmas...

  Charles Dickens, English...

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  Charles Dickens' timeless classic, A Christmas Carol, is a heartwarming and transformative tale that captures the true spirit of Christmas. The story follows Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old man who despises the holiday season and dismisses it as a waste of time and money. However, on Christmas Eve, he receives an unexpected visit from the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, who warns him of the dire consequences of his selfish ways.Throughout the night, Scrooge is visited by three spirits — the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come — each revealing glimpses of his life and the impact of his actions. Through these visions, Scrooge confronts his own loneliness, regrets, and the missed opportunities for kindness. By morning, he emerges a changed man, filled with compassion and generosity, embracing the joy and warmth of the holiday season.A Christmas Carol is a moving story of redemption, a call for kindness and compassion, and a celebration of the human spirit. Dickens' powerful narrative and vivid characters have made this book a beloved holiday tradition that continues to inspire readers of all ages.

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  Anne of Avonlea

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

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  When twelve-year-old Anne Shirley came to Avonlea, she quickly won everyone's heart. Now, she's five years older, almost a woman, and about to embark on a new adventure: becoming the teacher in her old Avonlea school. It's an exciting year as Anne struggles to win over all her students, welcomes two new members to her family, and feels the first stirrings of love.

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  Emma - A classic retelling

  Jane Austen

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  Emma, is a novel about youthful hubris and romantic misunderstandings. It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls and Donwell Abbey, and involves the relationships among people from a small number of families. The novel was first published in December 1815, with its title page listing a publication date of 1816. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian–Regency England. Emma is a comedy of manners, and depicts issues of marriage, sex, age, and social status. 
   
  Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." In the first sentence, she introduces the title character as "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and a happy disposition... had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." Emma is spoiled, headstrong, and self-satisfied; she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities; she is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives; and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray. 
   
  Emma, written after Austen's move to Chawton, was her last novel to be published during her lifetime, while Persuasion, the last complete novel Austen wrote, was published posthumously. 
   
  The novel has been adapted for a number of films, television programmes and stage plays. 
   
  Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favorable social standing and economic security. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism.

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  The Man Within

  Graham Greene

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  "Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature . . ." —John le Carré 
   
   
    
  Graham Greene's first published novel tells the story of Andrews, a young man who has betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. Fleeing from them, with no hope of pity or salvation, he takes refuge in the house of a young woman, also alone in the world. Elizabeth persuades him to give evidence against his accomplices in court, but neither she nor Andrews is aware that to both criminals and authority, treachery is as great a crime as smuggling. The first step in a brilliant career, The Man Within offers a foretaste of Green's recurring themes of religion, the individual's struggles against cynicism, and the indifferent forces of a hostile world.

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  The Hound of the Baskervilles

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his apparent death in "The Final Problem", and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival.According to an old legend, a curse runs in the Baskerville family since the time of the English Civil War, when a Sir Hugo Baskerville abducted and murdered a woman in the mires of Dartmoor, only to be killed in turn by a huge demonic hound. Allegedly the same creature has been haunting the place ever since, causing the premature death of many Baskerville heirs. Sir Charles believed in the plague of the hound and so does Mortimer, who now fears for the next in line, Sir Henry Baskerville.Even though he dismisses the whole curse story as nonsense, Holmes agrees to meet Sir Henry in London as soon as Sir Henry arrives from Canada, where his branch of the family had moved in the past. He is a young and jovial good-looking fellow, sceptical toward the grim legend and eager to take possession of Baskerville Hall, even though he has just found an anonymous note in the mail, warning him to stay away from the moor. When someone tries to shoot Sir Henry while he is walking down a street, however, Holmes asks Watson to go with the young man and Mortimer to Dartmoor, in order to protect Sir Henry and search for any clue about who is menacing his life.Among the most significant works Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, The Field Bazaar, The Story of the Lost Special, How Watson Learned the Trick and many more.

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  The Mystery of the Blue Train

  Agatha Christie

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  In Agatha Christie's six installment of the Hercules Poirot series, our titular detective will once again showcase his brilliant investigative skills as he untangles the mystery of the blue train.A luxury train is headed to Nice with several well-to-do passengers on board. Most are living, breathing people with their own mysterious motivations, but the train will also deliver one silent victim. Somewhere along the route, Ruth Keeting was robbed and murdered, and it's up to Poirot to find her killer. Is it Ruth's estranged husband? Her French lover? Or someone else altogether . . . In this classic murder mystery filled with twists and turns, Poirot will stage a chilling reenactment of the fatal journey in order to expose hidden truths and bring the true culprit to justice.

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