Books in the Easy Classics series

When he wrote THE JUNGLE BOOKS in 1894, Kipling probably did not know that he was creating one of the most popular characters in fiction. The stories of Mowgli, the man-cub and his adventures with Bagheera the Panther, Baloo the Bear and Shere Khan the Tiger have captured the imagination of generations ever since. This volume contains a selection of the Mowgli stories together with the animal stories Rikki-tikki-tavi and The Undertaker. Kiplings stories combine adventure, humour and romance and reveal the authors political and philosophical concerns beneath his simple writing style.

Silas is the friendless miserly weaver who lives by himself in a small cottage near the village of Raveloe in the heart of the English countryside. Nobody in the village knows anything about his strange past. The very sight of him terrifies the local children. His life and those of his neighbours become entwined through a series of extraordinary events in which a small child plays a very central part.Silas Marner tells a story that has long been the favourite among George Eliots novels. A great trasure of beauty and humanity ... were the words with which Henry James described the work.

The story of the brave Robinson Crusoe who is shipwrecked on an island and has to learn how to survive on his own. With great realistic detail, Defoe describes the life and thoughts of Robinson Crusoe during the many years the waits to be rescued ...

This is Dickens' most famous story about the orphaned boy, Oliver Twist, who grows up in a workhouse unloved and abused. He runs away to London where he finds his first taste of happiness living with thieves. But will Oliver ever find someone who really takes care of him?

This is a moving account of the life of the black slave, Uncle Tom, and his struggle to find good in the face of enormous cruelty and suffering. It brought the harsh reality of slavery on the cotton plantations of the Deep South into the homes of all Americans. The book was the bestselling novel of the nineteenth century.