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The great British and Irish classics. Free to read, beautifully.

Reading for pleasure

Every book is set for the screen and remembers your place. The Reader's Companion keeps a spoiler-free recap of the last chapter, a list of who's who so far, and explains the old words as you meet them.

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Studying for exams

The GCSE set texts in full. Studying mode adds chapter summaries, key quotes and why they matter, and the themes examiners ask about, starting with Great Expectations.

GCSE set texts

Favourites

Great Expectations
Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen
Dracula
DraculaBram Stoker
Jane Eyre
Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens
Middlemarch
MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot

Reading lists

GCSE set textsGothic and ghostlyVictorian novelsDetective fictionIrish writersEarly science fictionCourtship and marriagePlaysPoetryThe RomanticsShort storiesSatire

GCSE English Literature

Set texts, in full and free

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens
Frankenstein
FrankensteinMary Shelley
Great Expectations
Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens
Jane Eyre
Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë
Macbeth
MacbethWilliam Shakespeare
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen
The Sign of the Four
The Sign of the FourArthur Conan Doyle
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson

Featured author

Charles Dickens

1812-1870

A journalist before he was a novelist, Dickens wrote in monthly parts that sold in the tens of thousands, and used them to put debtors' prisons, workhouses and the courts in front of readers who had never seen them.

His books