When private tutor Thomas Arnold becomes headmaster at an English preparatory school for boys, he puts into place a policy of strict punishment against unruliness and bullying. Arnold finds an ally in Tom Brown, a new student who is secretly subjected to abuse by a group of older boys. He eventually plucks up the courage to lead his fellow classmates in an underground rebellion against their tormentors.

In the summer of 2012 in a small town in the south of China, divorced shopkeeper Peng Yun makes the ...

In wartime England, railway official Ruben Roberts discovers that his wife was sexually abused as a ...

Set in the year 2060, it follows a love story as Tokyo's third Olympics draws near. Takeru Oosawa, w...

During World War II, young Rusty was sent to America for safety. It's now five years later and the s...

Under the USSR oppression a family breaks up and its members find themselves on opposite sides of th...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

Paul Clark and his children are still heartbroken a year after the death of Jane, Paul's wife. When ...

The teenage hero tries his best to meet the nomination limit for important races, but his coach's in...

Albrechtice near Jablonec. Sixteen-year-old Pavlínka Linková lives with her grandmother Barbara, a l...

This story from the time of the occupation tells how the students of the teachers' institute decided...

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower the...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frigh...

It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a m...

The King of Far Far Away has died and Shrek and Fiona are to become King & Queen. However, Shrek wan...

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author...