Reading is a creative enterprise, and among the best ways to learn, explore and discover. Our 'world literature' section aims to make accessible famous passages from some of the globe's best writing, complete with notes and illustrations. Click a link below to start:

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (US)

Emma by Jane Austen (England)

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russia)

Around The World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (France)

The Raven and The Swan by Aesop (Greece)

The Kalevala by Elias Lonnrot (Finland) 

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Spain) 

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (Ireland) 

Mary Morison by Robert Burns (Scotland) 

The Mabinogion - Celtic Myths (Wales) 

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