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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.

Presents James Joyce's 1914 work made up of fifteen short stories about strangers of various classes who all live in Dublin; and includes historical context, interpretive notes, excerpts of criticism, a chronology of Joyce's life and work, and questions for discussion.

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

National Theatre, direction Rapley Theatre Company, S.E. Cochran, manager, Max Gordon presents Pauline Lord in "Ethan Frome," a dramatization of Edith Wharton's novel, "Ethan Frome" by Owen Davis and Donald Davis, with Earle Larimore (suggested by a previous dramatization by Lowell Barrington), staged by Karl Nielsen.

This is a book I really enjoyed because of the discriptive words used to explain what is happening are used in a very good way.

"The second in the Leatherstocking tales "presents Chingachgook and his son Uncas as the last of the Iroquis aristocracy.

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.