Gordon Griffin

The story of Alan Turing, the revolutionary inventor of computer science.

This classic novel takes place in Lantern Yard, a slum street in an unnamed city in Northern England, during the early 19th century. There, Silas Marner, a weaver and a member of a small Calvinist congregation, is falsely accused of stealing the congregation's funds while watching over their very ill deacon. Two pieces of evidence are against Silas: his possession of a pocket knife and the bag that formerly contained the money. Although there is also...

During one of his several adventurous voyages, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives nearly thirty years on a desert island before being rescued.