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Spurred on by her older sister, Amy works hard to overcome her nervousness so that she and her horse Lucky can compete in their first horse show.

Presents Charles Dickens's classic novel set in London and Paris during the French Revolution and includes explanatory notes, an author chronology, a historical time line, a theme and plot outline, contemporary and modern critical analyses, discussion questions, and a list of related books and films.

Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal, friends since serving together in World War II, deal with the problems of love, lust, and the other challenges of raising their families in 1970s London.

Will, a thirty-six-year-old London bachelor, undergoes a change in his outlook about marriage and children when he lies to join a single parents group in order to meet women, and becomes friends with a needy twelve-year-old named Marcus.

Henry Higgins attempts to turn Eliza Doolittle, a poor, young beggar, into a lady of society by teaching her proper language skills and better manners.

The daughter of a renowned archeologist and the well-preserved Imhotep IV, who has just woken up after a 3,000 year sleep, fall in love, but many things stand in their way, not the least of which is her father, whose plans for Imhotep include putting him on permanent display at the British museum.

As the only remaining member of the Volson clan, fifteen-year-old Sigurd takes a sword forged from a knife given to his father by the god Odin and embarks on a mission to reunite his country.

Presents the text to George Bernard Shaw's classic play "Pygmalion" about a professor of languages who sets out to transform a Cockney girl into a sophisticated lady, and contains explanatory and textual notes, chronology and background information on the author, and a critical analysis of Shaw's work.

During London's social season, Nicola Sparks falls in love with a viscount, but one of his enemies tries to undermine her opinion of his character.

Cain, the seventeen-year-old heir to the vast Hargreave fortune, continuing his quest to learn the truth about his father's apparent death, uncovers a life-changing secret and faces a devastating betrayal.

Josie, in her final term of school, is urged by her mother to leave London amid threats of an invasion by German troops, and though she is not expecting to like the countryside, Josie soon finds herself tangled in a web of romance along with the Patterson brothers, Jumbo and Chris.

Trying to bolster her relationship with her boyfriend Jack, Jill has booked a vacation to London to see his favorite rock band.

Linguist Henry Higgins bets Colonel Pickering that he can change flower seller Eliza Doolittle from a "draggle-tailed guttersnipe" to a "duchess" by improving her manners, speech, and clothes in just six months.

Tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, who bets his friend Colonel Pickering, that he can pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a society lady.

A manga adaptation of Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations," in which Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be educated and reared as a gentleman.