James Langton

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations

One of the most revered works in English literature, Great Expectations traces the coming of age of a young orphan, Pip, from a boy of shallow aspirations into a man of maturity. From the chilling opening confrontation with an escaped convict to the...

Greek Classics: Athena and the Naming of Athens (Easy Classics)

Greek Classics: Athena and the Naming of Athens (Easy Classics)

Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom, War and Craft, has her mother Metis’s intelligence and her father Zeus’s determination. She is the last being anyone should challenge to a competition – least of all a human. In a moment of carelessness, Arachne...

Greek Classics: Battle of the Titans (Easy Classics)

Greek Classics: Battle of the Titans (Easy Classics)

Twelve Titans plot to overthrow their father. Their father is Uranus, who rules the Heavens. Their mother is Gaia, who made the Earth. With Gaia’s help, Cronus becomes King of the Titans, but an alarming prophecy leads him to imprison his own six...

Greek Classics: Bellerophon and Pegasus (Easy Classics)

Greek Classics: Bellerophon and Pegasus (Easy Classics)

Bellerophon has everything he should need to be happy, but he wants even more. He wants to be the first to ride the flying horse Pegasus. With the help of the Goddess Athena, this dream comes true, and Bellerophon becomes a hero. But as his fame...

Greek Classics: Daedalus and Icarus (Easy Classics)

Greek Classics: Daedalus and Icarus (Easy Classics)

When King Minos needs a prison for a Minotaur – a monster that is half man, half bull – the inventor Daedalus builds an underground maze. Rather than being rewarded for his work, Daedalus and his son Icarus are locked up to keep it a secret. To...

Greek Classics: Eros and Psyche (Easy Classics)

Greek Classics: Eros and Psyche (Easy Classics)

Angry that her followers have begun worshipping someone else, Aphrodite, Goddess of Beauty, decides to punish the human Princess Psyche. She tells her son Eros, God of Love, to make Psyche fall in love with the ugliest, meanest creature on Earth. For...

Greek Classics: King Midas (Easy Classics)

Greek Classics: King Midas (Easy Classics)

King Midas loves three things: his roses, his daughter and GOLD. He wants to be the richest man in the world – and when he meets a satyr with powerful friends, he finally gets his wish. But satyrs are mischievous goat-men who cannot be trusted, and...

Greek Classics: Pandora's Box (Easy Classics)

Greek Classics: Pandora's Box (Easy Classics)

After punishing the Titan Prometheus for stealing fire for humans, Zeus is still angry. He commands the God Hephaestus to create Pandora, the first mortal woman. Then he gives Pandora a beautiful golden box … and tells her _never_ to open it....

Greek Classics: Persephone (Easy Classics)

Greek Classics: Persephone (Easy Classics)

Persephone, the Goddess of Spring Growth, has disappeared, and her mother, Demeter, is heartbroken. As the Goddess of the Harvest, Demeter’s job is to make sure that farm crops grow healthily. While searching for her daughter, however, she ignores her...

Greek Classics: Phaethon and the Sun Chariot (Easy Classics)

Greek Classics: Phaethon and the Sun Chariot (Easy Classics)

Helios, the Sun Titan, takes his job of bringing the sunrise and sunset very seriously. Every morning, he puts on his solar crown, fastens his winged horses to his chariot and flies the sun across the sky. But flying the chariot isn’t as easy as it...

Greek Classics: Prometheus (Easy Classics)

Greek Classics: Prometheus (Easy Classics)

The Gods have won the war against the Titans, but with terrible consequences for Earth. Gaia orders Zeus to create life anew, so the King of the Gods gives the task to two Titan brothers. Epimetheus quickly creates animals and gives each a gift to...