Summary Divided into six chapters, the book catalogues some of the wonders of our world. We learn about the location, physical dimensions, history and uses of man-made ancient and modern constructions, and also about the spectacular sights that nature herself...
Summary Mary Lennox is born in India to English parents. Her mother isn’t interested in her and she is looked after by an Indian servant. Mary is a spoilt, ill-tempered and unhealthy child. When she is nine, her parents die...
Summary The Snow Goose Part 1: This story is set in England in 1930. Philip Rhayader is a hunchback whose physical deformity has isolated him from other people. He now lives alone in an abandoned lighthouse on the southeast coast...
Summary New York, 1933: Ann Darrow, an unemployed actor, meets movie director, Carl Denham. He asks Ann to sail with him and star in his new movie. Jack Driscoll, the screenwriter, is unhappy about using Ann because she is an...
Summary A Mexican Indian pearl diver called Kino finds a very valuable pearl that can change his life and his family’s life for good. As soon as the priest, the doctor, and the pearl buyers hear of Kino’s extraordinary find,...
Summary The Crown is a ghost story. There is a magic crown under the ground in Seaburgh. It protects England – and William Agers protects the crown. Paxton is on holiday in Seaburgh and finds the crown. One night he...
Summary Gabriel goes to Silvia Delgado’s flat to take her to the cinema, but she has arranged to go to a restaurant with a rich man called Marco. Gabriel goes to the cinema alone and Marco and Silvia go to...
Summary Each chapter in the book deals with the different topics and issues related to water. The importance of water, the contamination of water, the history of how water was transported, the current sources, new ways of transporting water and...
Summary This is a story of a priest’s journey to India to collect the Scriptures and take them back to China. He is accompanied by three pilgrims and they face great adversity on the way. It is overflowing with magic,...
Summary Odysseus has been missing for twenty years and his family are tormented by a group of evil men intent on marrying his wife. Odysseus’s son Telemachus sets out to find him. Odysseus is not dead, but is being held...
