David Copperfield
By Charles Dickens
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens is a heart-warming story that traces the life of a young boy’s growth into maturity through various challenges, obstacles, and suffering. Balancing through the many vicissitudes of his challenging life, David ultimately finds solace by marrying his true love, Agnes. The novel unravels in the form of an autobiography, which lucidly describes the pathos in David’s life.
The Cabuliwallah and Other Stories
The Cabuliwallah and Other Stories is an eclectic collection of some of the gems of English literature. The stories open a whole new world of knowledge and wonder to young readers and induce the love of reading by poring over some of the world’s classics.
The Cabuliwallah by Rabindranath Tagore is a tale of an endearing and inexplicable bond between two people from contrasting backgrounds- Mini, a little girl hailing from a middle-class Bengali family and Rahamat, a formidable Cabuliwallah from Afghanistan.
O’Henry’s The Gift of the Magi is a celebrated short story of selfless love and gift-giving where a young couple sacrifice their most precious belongings for each other on Christmas Eve.
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde is a unique short story which mixes the macabre with comedy to produce a hilarious ghost story, challenging stereotypes.
H.G Wells’ The Magic Shop is a brilliant account of a young boy and his father’s sudden discovery of a ‘Genuine Magic Shop’ in London.
The Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle forms a gripping narrative wherein the famous detective Sherlock Holmes unravels the enigma of a ‘locked room mystery’.
The Necklace by Maupassant is a story about how an attractive yet dissatisfied woman struggles to accept reality and loses all her wealth and beauty for the sake of a lost necklace.
Saki’s Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger ironically describes the funny tale of Mrs. Packletide’s shikar expedition of a tiger.
D.H Lawrence’s tragic tale of The Rocking Horse, examines the shallow and loveless world of materialism where a young woman’s complains of ‘no luck’ forces her child to sacrifice his innocence, and ultimately, his life.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle unravels the mystery of the serial deaths of the Baskerville family environed by the enigma of a legendary and diabolical hound. The story originates from the legend of a supernatural hound which has supposedly cursed the Baskerville lineage supported by the several unnatural deaths in the family. At Dr. Mortimer’s request, Sherlock Holmes takes up the investigation and unties each knot to finally reveal the truth behind the mysterious hound.
