The orphaned Pip is serving as a blacksmith's apprentice when an unknown benefactor supplies the means for him to be educated in London as a gentleman of "great expectations."
When Algernon and Jack fall in love with two young ladies, they've done it under false pretenses, and confusion and mayhem threaten to break up the young lovers.
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.
Recounts the adventures of Robin Hood, who slew a deer on a wager, became an outlaw in Sherwood Forest, and collected around him a merry band, including Little John, Allan a Dale, Friar Tuck, and Will Stutely.
When Antonia arrives in Nebraska from the European province of Bohemia with her family, she is unprepared for the dangers and challenges she must face on the farm with its unproductive soil.
When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life.
Silas Marner is a grumpy weaver who is obsessed with making a lot of money. After he is accused of theft his fiancee leaves him, and he has little use for other human beings especially those who are religious. Later someone steals a large bag of cash he has kept in his home making his life more miserable. As the years pass, Silas adopts a young girl Eppie whose mother has died in a drunken stupor, and he becomes a compassionate human being again.
While going through the possessions of a decreased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune.
A young governess is sent to care for two beautiful orphans in a country house, but the spirits of the dead servants who had cared for the children previously, return to haunt them.