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When young Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map in a pirate's chest in his parents' inn, he is drawn into a world of danger and adventure.

Young Tom is a pauper, doomed to wander the streets begging for crusts.

Presents the original text of the Mark Twain story that relates the escapades of Tom Sawyer and his friends in a small, 19th-century town on the Mississippi River, and provides side notes, illustrations, and annotations that contain information on the history, geography, and social customs of the day.

In Transylvania there once lived a Count. His name and the name of his castle are the same: Dracula.

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.

In 1872 Phileas Fogg wins a bet by traveling around the world in seventy-nine days, twenty-three hours, and fifty-seven minutes.

Pip is a poor young orphan, living with his sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith.

Presents the classic adventure novel in which Sir Percy Blakeney defies French revolutionaries in order to save innocent men and women from being put to death in the guillotine, and includes background information, a chronology of the author's life and work, explanatory notes, critical analyses, and other study aids.

Presents Homer's epic in which Greek hero Odysseus makes his long and treacherous journey home from the Trojan War while his wife and son are forced to scheme to protect his throne; and includes an introduction, time line, outline of key themes, explanatory notes, critical analyses, and discussion questions.

In early nineteenth-century Yorkshire, the passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father causes tragedy for them and many others, even in the next generation.