The books

About a hundred classics, chosen for strong stories that survive retelling. Every one can be read in about 80 languages, at five levels from A2 to the complete novel at C2: rewritten at your level, narrated, and explained word by word.

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Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883

Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne · 1872

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Jules Verne · 1864

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne · 1870

The Mysterious Island

Jules Verne · 1875

From the Earth to the Moon

Jules Verne · 1865

Five Weeks in a Balloon

Jules Verne · 1863

Michael Strogoff

Jules Verne · 1876

Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe · 1719

The Swiss Family Robinson

Johann David Wyss · 1812

Moonfleet

J. Meade Falkner · 1898

Captain Blood

Rafael Sabatini · 1922

The Sea-Wolf

Jack London · 1904

Captains Courageous

Rudyard Kipling · 1897

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville · 1851

King Solomon's Mines

H. Rider Haggard · 1885

The Prisoner of Zenda

Anthony Hope · 1894

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Orczy · 1905

The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan · 1915

The Riddle of the Sands

Erskine Childers · 1903

Ivanhoe

Walter Scott · 1819

The Last of the Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper · 1826

The Call of the Wild

Jack London · 1903

White Fang

Jack London · 1906

Tarzan of the Apes

Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1912

A Princess of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1912

The Lost World

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1912

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Howard Pyle · 1883

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights

Howard Pyle · 1903

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas · 1844

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas · 1844

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Victor Hugo · 1831

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo · 1862

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux · 1910

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Gaston Leroux · 1907

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1902

A Study in Scarlet

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887

The Sign of the Four

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1890

The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins · 1868

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins · 1859

The Innocence of Father Brown

G. K. Chesterton · 1911

The Man Who Was Thursday

G. K. Chesterton · 1908

The Amateur Cracksman

E. W. Hornung · 1899

Tales of Mystery and Terror

Edgar Allan Poe · 1845

The Time Machine

H. G. Wells · 1895

The War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells · 1898

The Invisible Man

H. G. Wells · 1897

The Island of Doctor Moreau

H. G. Wells · 1896

The First Men in the Moon

H. G. Wells · 1901

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley · 1818

Dracula

Bram Stoker · 1897

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde · 1890

Carmilla

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · 1872

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James · 1898

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving · 1820

The Canterville Ghost

Oscar Wilde · 1887

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka · 1915

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll · 1865

Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll · 1871

Peter Pan

J. M. Barrie · 1911

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum · 1900

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling · 1894

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame · 1908

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1911

A Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1905

Black Beauty

Anna Sewell · 1877

Heidi

Johanna Spyri · 1881

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Carlo Collodi · 1883

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain · 1876

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain · 1884

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain · 1881

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Mark Twain · 1889

The Railway Children

E. Nesbit · 1906

Five Children and It

E. Nesbit · 1902

The Princess and the Goblin

George MacDonald · 1872

Anne of Green Gables

L. M. Montgomery · 1908

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott · 1868

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen · 1813

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë · 1847

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë · 1847

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens · 1861

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens · 1838

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens · 1843

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens · 1859

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes · 1605

The Odyssey

Homer · c. 700 BC

The Arabian Nights

Andrew Lang (ed.) · 1898

Grimms' Fairy Tales

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm · 1812

Andersen's Fairy Tales

Hans Christian Andersen · 1835

Tales from Shakespeare

Charles and Mary Lamb · 1807

Beowulf

Anonymous · c. 1000