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GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens. The classic tale of Pip, a poor orphan who befriends an escaped convict and who grows up in the company of a bitter old woman.

Problems of ecological destruction, Third World poverty, resource depletion, conflict and social breakdown are caused by consumer-capitalist society and cannot be solved unless we move to simpler, more self-sufficient and cooperative lifestyles.

Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen. At 10, Fanny Price, a poor relation, goes to live at Mansfield Park, the estate of her aunt's husband, Sir Thomas.

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. A disfigured man, known as the Phantom who loves to strike fear in the minds of the Paris Opera House staff, comes to a young singer, Christine Daae, and tutors her voice.

Hounds of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle The recent death of Sir Charles Baskerville stirs up a dangerous business. For the "luminous, ghastly, and spectral" hound of the family legend has been seen roaming the moors at night.

The Lost World, by Arthur Conan Doyle. Two rivaling professors, a journalist, a young wealthy woman and a teenage boy travel through Africa in search of "The Lost World": a place where dinosaurs still roam.

The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs. In 1916 the US Montrose is fired on and sunken by a German U-boat. However the survivors manage to sneak aboard and capture the U-boat.

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew.

A Journey To The Center Of The Earth, by Jules Verne. Prof. Lindenbrook leads his intrepid party on an expedition to the centre of the earth, via a volcano in Iceland, encountering all manner of prehistoric monsters and life-threatening hazards.

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven.