British Literature — stories and articles

Everything on WonderBooks tagged British Literature: 0 articles and 14 illustrated stories, free to read with audio narration.

Illustrated stories

• A Christmas Carol
  The story of a miser, three Christmas ghosts, and a second chance
• A Tale of Two Cities
  London and Paris, a face mistaken for another man's, and the life one of them gives so the other can live
• Catriona
  A story of love, honour, and political danger in 18th-century Scotland
• David Copperfield
  A boy who loses almost everyone, and finds out, slowly, who was faithful all along
• Far from the Madding Crowd
  A shepherd, a farmer, and a soldier — and the one woman all three loved
• Great Expectations
  An orphan, a convict in a churchyard, and a fortune that comes from the last place he ever expects
• Jude the Obscure
  A stonemason's dream of scholarship, and the two women who defined his tragedy
• Oliver Twist
  The parish boy's progress from a workhouse to a home
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  A countrywoman wronged, a love that cannot forgive it, and a law that will not
• The Master of Ballantrae
  A feud between two brothers that crossed the world and ended in one grave
• The Mayor of Casterbridge
  A hay-trusser who sold his wife for five guineas, and everything he built and lost trying to live it down
• The Return of the Native
  A wild heath, a woman who longed for the world, and the man who returned to the home she longed to escape
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  A London lawyer, a locked door, and the one man who was also his own worst enemy
• Vanity Fair
  A clever, friendless girl claws her way up through London society — and the steady, honest people she leaves behind