Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extre...

Begins with a hold-up by highwaymen of a coach that numbers among its passengers one Samuel Pepys...

All over Athens the cocks were crowing, the sky was turning from dark-blue to oyster-grey, and th...

The year is 1290: sixteen year-old Robin of Westwood has been declared a leper, and must suffer t...

In the peaceful English countryside of 1859, fifteen-year-old Mark Apperley is bored of life with...