Great Expectations, Charles Dickens most acclaimed and popular novel, tells the story of Pip, a young orphan, who narrates the tale. Pip grows up in the marshlands of Kent, where...

The old wood-carver Geppetto decides to make a wonderful puppet which can dance and turn somersaults, but by chance he chooses an unusual piece of wood - and the finished...

Grimms' Fairy Tales are a captivating collection of classic stories passed down through generations Curated by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early 19th century, these tales are far more...

Jonathan Harker, an English solicitor, visits Transylvania, Romania, to help Dracula, a local count, buy a house in London. It does not take him long to find out that his...

Conan Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes in “The Final Problem” (1893), the last story in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. However, he succumbed to the public pressure and resurrected him after...

Published in 1927 The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes was the concluding volume of Sherlock Holmes adventures. It contains the last 12 of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written from 1921...

The stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes appeared in the Strand Magazine before their publication in book form in 1892. Having appeared in A Study in Scarlet (1887) and...

His Last Bow, the fourth volume of Sherlock Holmes short stories, was published in 1917. It contains 8 stories from his long illustrious career. He is long retired but the...

Sherlock Holmes receives a coded message. Unfortunately, he deciphers it much too late. It warned of a murder. A dead man now lies on the floor, at Birlstone House in...

One foggy afternoon, out of work Sherlock Holmes is busy revealing his philosophy of life to Dr. Watson and Mrs. Hudson, the land lady. They are interrupted by the arrival...

Published in 1894, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes was the second collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. It contains 11 stories all of which appeared in...

Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this bold edition...

Chiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the World s finest literature. Your favourite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details...

Born in a family in which no one else can read, Saman becomes a fearless writer, who knows that her words have the power to set paper ablaze. She picks...

Displeased with his mundane existence, Siddhartha, a young man from Kapilvastu, embarks, with his chum Govinda, on a spiritual journey to become a Samana. The journey leads them to Gotama...

On a fine spring day in the 1980s, Shahid Hussain is hosting two sides of his family to resolve an inheritance dispute. It quickly becomes clear that the dispute is...

After his plane crashed in the Sahara Desert the narrator met the "Little Prince." The prince, as he told the narrator, was a traveller from a tiny far-off planet roughly...

Readings Kids Colouring Books are among a host of children publication projects that are currently being carried out by Readings. Coming in a number of series these colouring books have...

Readings Kids Colouring Books are among a host of children publication projects that are currently being carried out by Readings. Coming in a number of series these colouring books have...

Readings Kids Colouring Books are among a host of children publication projects that are currently being carried out by Readings. Coming in a number of series these colouring books have...

My Pakistan: Coloring Book

Readings Kids Colouring Books are among a host of children publication projects that are currently being carried out by Readings. Coming in a number of series these colouring books have...

Military Aircraft: Coloring Book

Cars: Coloring Book

Colouring Books are among a host of children publication projects that are currently being carried out by Readings. Coming in a number of series these colouring books have been carefully...

Colouring Books are among a host of children publication projects that are currently being carried out by Readings. Coming in a number of series these colouring books have been carefully...

Colouring Books are among a host of children publication projects that are currently being carried out by Readings. Coming in a number of series these colouring books have been carefully...

Colouring Books are among a host of children publication projects that are currently being carried out by Readings. Coming in a number of series these colouring books have been carefully...

Birds: Coloring Book

Readings Kids Colouring Books are among a host of children publication projects that are currently being carried out by Readings. Coming in a number of series these colouring books have...

One of the most innovative authors and distinguished literary critics of the twentieth century, Virginia Woolf examines family dynamics and the tensions between men and women in her 1927 novel To...

Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. As she makes preparations she relives her life in a continuous monologue which reveals a disturbed and unhappy woman under the guise of a...

A Room of One s Own is a long feminist essay by Virginia Woolf which was first published in 1929. Woolf based her polemic on two lectures she delivered to...

Set in 19th-century England, The Mayor of Casterbridge centers on Michael Henchard, a man whose impulsive decision in a moment of drunken despair sets the course for a lifetime of...

Set against the hauntingly beautiful backdrop of Wessex, Tess of the d'Urbervilles traces the fate of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and wayward villager, who discovers a tenuous...

Katy Carr is not who she wants to be. She is a twelve-year-old tom boy who yearns to be a charming and beloved young lady when she grows up. It...

Henry Fleming, a young soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War, runs away from battle in fear. Ashamed of his actions, he wishes for a wound—a ‘red...

Do you ever wonder how the whale got its throat? The camel its hump? The rhino its skin? The leopard its spots? The elephant its trunk or how the alphabet...

Jekyll and Hyde is the story of good Dr Henry Jekyll, a man of great stature, who only wants to show his amicable side to the society. Torn between good...

David Balfour is a 17 year old boy whose parents have just died. Having been left alone in the world he turns for help to his uncle Ebenezer Balfour. Ebenezer...

The arabian Nights: Tales From One Thousand and One Nights

Enamoured by the beauty of Dorian Gray, the sensitive artist Basil Hallward paints in oil a full-length portrait of the protagonist. Sitting there Gray listens to the hedonistic worldviews of...

Ever thought a statue and a swallow could become friends? A fire cracker and a rocket could have a disagreement? That autumn wouldn t give fruit to a giant because...

A translation of the 16th century Spanish novel called Lazarillo de Tormes by an anonymous author

For over a century the horror of Frankenstein has captured readers imagination. It is a story of a Swiss scientist Victor Frankenstein and his ambition to create an intelligent living...

Tales from Shakespeare is a prose retelling of 20 Shakespearean plays for children and has been an ideal introduction to his works since its first publication in 1807. It includes...

We are in the 16th century England. Two identical boys. Edward and Tom, are born in London on the same day. Edward is the crown prince and Tom is a...

Having helped the authorities catch the murderer Injun Joe in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn may be a hero for everyone but he is nobody to his cruel...

The March sisters are all grown-up now. It is time they ventured into the twists and turns of life. Meg gets married, Jo comes to know that Laurie is in...

Classics with legible texts you can actually read at a fantastic price.

Sitting on the riverbank beside her elder sister, who is reading a book with no pictures or conversations, Alice is feeling extremely bored when suddenly, she spots a white rabbit....

When aging siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert request an orphanage through a friend to send them a boy to help on the farm, their message is totally misconstrued. Who they...

Mole had no idea that the Wild Wood would be a place full of friends. Well, not many but a few at least who he could frolic with! One day,...

The eccentric but intrepid German Professor Otto Lidenbrock discovers a parchment in an old manuscript of an Icelandic saga. It has a cipher written in runes on it which, when...

Heart of Darkness is an 1899 novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad in which the sailor Charles Marlow tells his listeners the story of his assignment as steamer captain for...

Following a shipwreck, Lemuel Gulliver, an Irish ship surgeon, lands in Lilliput and finds himself among a tiny people who are even smaller than the length of a human hand....

First published in 1667, Paradise Lost is a towering epic that explores the cosmic struggle between good and evil, the fall of humankind, and the complexities of free will, Written...

When their father dies and the estate goes to their half-brother, Dashwood sisters and their mother are on their own. Margaret is a child but Elinor and Marianne have come...

Anne Elliot is intelligent and fairly attractive. She is 27 and unmarried. She was once engaged to Frederick Wentworth, a naval officer without fortune, but the engagement was broken when...

Young and attractive Catherine Moreland has an active imagination. A voracious reader of gothic novels, she believes that their horror can unfold in real life. She but truly begins to...

Fanny Price is ten when her poor parents send her to live with Bertrams, their rich relatives at Mansfield Park. The new life, however, has its own disadvantages. Her cousins,...

When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr. Darcy she is repelled by his overbearing pride, and prejudice towards her family. But the Bennet girls are in need of financial security in the...

The Two Towers, the second book in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, continues the epic journey through Middle-earth. As the forces of darkness grow stronger, the Fellowship...

The Return of the King, the third and final volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, concludes the epic saga of Middle-earth. As the forces of darkness...

The Lord Of the Rings (3 Volume Box Set) The Fellowship Of The Ring: The Lord Of The Rings (Part 1) The Two Towers: The Lord Of The Rings (Part...

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien is the first novel in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, a landmark work in modern fantasy literature. Set in the richly...

One of the most revolutionary of Dostoyevsky’s novels, Notes from Underground was first published in 1864. Considered as one of the earliest existentialist novels, it explores the life of an...

Joseph K. is arrested on his thirtieth birthday. His crime is unknown to him, his captors unidentified. They briefly interrogate K. and let him go but he is told to...

Having overslept and still lying in his bed on a working day, Gregor Samsa is reflecting on his dreary job as a travelling salesman, when he discovers that he has...

The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway s first novel, originally appeared in 1926 and, since then, has become a classic of modern American fiction. Set in post-World War I Europe,...

Whom the Bell Tolls reveals the story of Robert Jordan, a young American dynamiter, who volunteered to fight in the International Brigades against Franco. Waiting for the right time to...

The Old Man and the Sea tells the story of Santiago, an aged fisherman, who has been unable to catch any fish lately. Called Santiago El Campeon in his heyday,...

Considered as the best American novel of the Great War A Farewell to Arms is the story of an American ambulance driver serving in the Italian army who falls for...

Set in 1938, against the backdrop of Gandhi’s rise to power, Water follows the life of eight-year-old Chuyia, abandoned at a widow’s ashram after the death of her elderly husband. There, she...

Faredoon (Freddy) Junglewalla is either the jewel of the Parsee community or a murdering scoundrel. Freddy s mother-in-law, Jerbanoo, thinks he is planning to do away with her, but for...

Travelling alone from the isolated mountain village where he was born, tribesman Qasim stumbles across a lost, orphaned child. Unable to abandon her to an inevitable fate, he names here...

Made into the film Earth-1947 by Canadian director Deepa Mehta, Bapsi Sidhwa s Ice-Candy Man takes the readers back to the partition of the subcontinent in 1947 as narrated by...

As An American Brat opens in Pakistan, the extended family of sixteen-year-old Feroza Ginwalla, a lively and temperamental young girl, agonises over the decision to send Feroza to America for...

Khadang-E-Jasta: Jab aankhein aahan Posh Huien (Urdu)

A book by Asad Muhammad Khan that includes some anecdotal writings, poems and some sketches.

اسد محمد خاں پاکستان سے تعلق رکھنے والے افسانہ نگار، ڈراما نویس اور شاعر ہیں۔ افسانوی دنیا میں ان کی شہرت پہلے مجموعے " کھڑکی بھر آسماں" سے ہوئی ۔...

اسد محمد خاں پاکستان سے تعلق رکھنے والے افسانہ نگار، ڈراما نویس اور شاعر ہیں۔ افسانوی دنیا میں ان کی شہرت پہلے مجموعے " کھڑکی بھر آسماں" سے ہوئی ۔...

اسد محمد خاں پاکستان سے تعلق رکھنے والے افسانہ نگار، ڈراما نویس اور شاعر ہیں جو جدیداردو افسانے میں اپنا منفرد مقام رکھتے ہیں۔ اسد محمد خان کے پاس متنوع...

اسد محمد خاں کا پہلا افسانوی مجموعہ۔

اسد محمد خاں پاکستان سے تعلق رکھنے والے افسانہ نگار، ڈراما نویس اور شاعر ہیں۔ افسانوی دنیا میں ان کی شہرت پہلے مجموعے " کھڑکی بھر آسماں" سے ہوئی ۔...

اسد محمد خان پاکستان کے ادیب ہیں۔شاعری اور فکشن کے علاوہ ٹی وی ڈرامے بھی تحریر کرتے رہے،ساتھ ہی ترجمہ نگاری اور افسانہ نگاری میں بھی اسد محمد خاں نے...

It is a perfect world. Or so they say. You have everything you could wish for; there is no violence; babies are made in laboratories; your daily dose of soma...

The Stranger is the story of an anti-hero. When he is tried for a crime in a court of law, he comes to know that his trial is more about...

Everyday life in Oran takes an ominous turn when dead rats begin to appear all of a sudden. Soon, their number becomes overwhelming and people start to die. Gradually, the...

Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a judge-penitent who can be found sitting humbly at a sailor’s bar in Amsterdam. It would be fair to say that it is an absolute delight to...

Exile and the Kingdom is a collection of six short stories in which Camus contends that humans are lonely at heart whether they live happy lives in their milieux. There...

Patras Ke Mazaameen (Urdu)

The Importance of Being Earnest is a three-act comedy of manners. The fun begins precisely at the beginning of the play when Jack pays his friend Algernon a visit at...

Urdu Translation of Three Sisters تین بہنیں روسی مصنف اور ڈرامہ نگار انتون چیخوف کا ایک ڈرامہ ہے۔ یہ 1900 میں لکھا گیا تھا اور پہلی بار 1901 میں ماسکو...

Urdu Translation of The Seagull دی سیگل روسی ڈرامہ نگار انتون چیخوف کا ایک ڈرامہ ہے جو 1895 میں لکھا گیا تھا اور پہلی بار 1896 میں تیار کیا گیا...

اردو کے بلند پایہ ناقد، دانشور، ادیب اور ڈرامہ نگار پروفیسر شمیم حنفی کی پیدائش ۱۷ مئی 1939 کو سلطان پور کے ایک معزز علمی گھرانے میں ہوئی۔ ان کے...

Critical study of quatrain, a form of poetry.

Haali Ki arabi Nazam-O-Nasar: aik Mutaaleaa (Urdu)

The Elements of Style is a most handy manual of American English usage. Originally written for one of Strunk’s courses at Cornell University in 1919 and later published by his...

The Secrets of Divine Love Journal is based on the award-winning book, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam. Through heart-centered reflections, insightful prompts, and...