Books

Famous English Literature Books

  • Romeo & Juliet

    Romeo & Juliet
    An age-old vendetta between two powerful families erupts into bloodshed. A young lovesick Romeo Montague falls in love with Juliet Capulet. In a desperate attempt to be reunited with Romeo, Juliet follows the Friar’s plot and fakes her own death. The message fails to reach Romeo, and believing Juliet dead, he takes his life in her tomb. Juliet wakes to find Romeo’s corpse beside her and kills herself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8haT788Z5k
  • Gulliver's travels

    Gulliver's travels
    Gulliver's Travels is the story of Lemuel Gulliver, a surgeon who takes to the seas. He completes many voyages without incident, but his final four journeys take him to some of the strangest lands on the planet, where he discovers the virtues and flaws in his own culture by comparing it with others.
    MOVIE:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4vsBLtiTh4
  • Frankenstein

    Frankenstein
    Frankenstein is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797–1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. It is one of the great works of modern literature. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published when she was 20.
    https://topeuropix.com/svop/movsrn?search=dk1IM2FZK09BTmUrVzA0ZDdqRUd0UT09
  • Oliver Twist

    Oliver Twist
    Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial from 1837 to 1839.The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets the "Artful Dodger", a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin.
    MOVIE:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvX0vYqLXfY
  • Moby Dick

    Moby Dick
    Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee.
    MOVIE:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYlBtGTOsrU
  • Treasure Island

    Treasure Island
    Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson tells the story of Jim, a young boy who watches over an inn in an English seaside town with his mother and his gravely ill father. A new guest at the inn, Bill, terrifies everyone at the inn with his raunchy sea songs and threats of violence. Bill falls ill and dies. Jim finds out that there is a treasure map hidden in the pouch.
    Movie:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seldedZGYoI
  • The Portrait of Dorian Gray

    The Portrait of Dorian Gray
    The Picture of Dorian Gray, moral fantasy novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, published in an early form in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in 1890. The novel, the only one written by Wilde, had six additional chapters when it was released as a book in 1891. The work, an archetypal tale of a young man who purchases eternal youth at the expense of his soul, was a romantic exposition of Wilde’s own Aestheticism.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC5Bbhm16WA
  • Sherlock Holmes

    Sherlock Holmes
    Sherlock Holmes is a private detective who has keen powers of observation. He lives at 221b Baker Street in London. He notices things that others simply don't and then he draws accurate conclusions about what he sees. He experiences strong mood swings, plays the violin, and is a master of deductive reasoning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEQZRZZOhjE
  • The Jungle Book

    The Jungle Book
    In The Jungle Book, a young boy named Mowgli becomes a member of the Seeonee Wolf Pack. A cruel tiger named Shere Khan plots against Mowgli and the leader of his pack, Akela. When Mowgli grows up, he realizes that he must rejoin the ranks of men.
    AUDIOBOOK:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDdWSlYt2JM
  • Harry Potter

    Harry Potter
    Ten-year-old Harry Potter is an orphan who lives in London suburb of Little Whinging, Surrey, with the Dursleys. One day Harry is astonished to receive a letter addressed to him in the cupboard under the stairs. On Harry’s 11th birthday, a giant named Hagrid arrives and reveals that Harry is a wizard and has been accepted at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
    https://www5.series9.to/film/harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone-bed/watching.html?ep=1