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Victor Tavares

    The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde : [based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson]
    Beauty and the Beast
    Frankenstein
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    Pollyanna
    • The Count of Monte Cristo

      • 152 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      A young sailor, Edmond Dantes, is unfairly imprisoned because his enemies are jealous of him. Torn away from the girl he wants to marry, he spends many bitter years in the grim island prison of the Chateau d'If. A fellow prisoner, the Abbe Faria, tells him the secret of the treasure hidden on the island of Monte Cristo. Now, if only he can escape from the fortress, he can become rich - and be revenged on the people who betrayed him all those years ago...The Count of Monte Cristo has been abridged and simplified by Beatrice Conway

      The Count of Monte Cristo2010
      4.3
    • Pollyanna

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      As soon as Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her strict and dutiful maiden aunt, she begins to brighten up everybody's life. The 'glad game' she plays, of finding a silver lining in every cloud, transforms the sick, the lonely and the plain miserable - until one day something so terrible happens that even Pollyanna doesn't know how to feel glad about it.

      Pollyanna2010
      4.5
    • Victor Frankenstein is a young scientist who creates a hideous living person from the parts of dead bodies. At first the monster looks for love and wants to be kind. But soon his experiences teach him to hate. Will the monster finally destroy his creator? Frankenstein is probably the most famous horror story of all. Mary Shelley wrote it in 1816 when she was only nineteen years old.

      Frankenstein2008
      4.1
    • Beauty and the Beast

      • 24 pages
      • 1 hour of reading

      When Beauty's father steals a rose from the garden of an enchanted castle, he makes a fearsome enemy. Only Beauty can save her father from certain death. But what fate lies in store for her at the castle of the monstrous Beast?

      Beauty and the Beast2007
      3.9