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Set in the Civil War, the story of Henry Fleming, a raw Union army recruit eager to confirm his patriotism and prove his manhood.

"Orson Welles' dark and moody screen version of the classic William Shakespeare tragedy about a presumptuous Scottish prince's quest for power through patricide - in keeping with both the play's spirit and Welles' vision.

Presents an adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," in which a scientist creates a monster that tries to learn about humanity and eventually resents his creator, and includes reader review questions.

An adaptation of 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.

An abridgement of the novel, set in an Ibo village in Nigeria, that recreates pre-Christian tribal life and shows how the coming the white man led to the breaking up of the old ways.

Presents adaptations of a selection of stories and poems by nineteenth-century American author Edgar Allan Poe, grouped under the categories of mystery, horror and fear, psychological, and humorous.

An adapted version of the autobiography of Frederick Douglass in which the abolitionist tells the story of his life and his journey from slavery to freedom.

Contains an adaptation of the autobiography of Helen Keller in which she tells of her early life, her relationship with her teacher Anne Sullivan, and her struggles to triumph over blindness and deafness; and includes selected letters.

An adaptation of Upton Sinclair's classic in which a young Lithuanian immigrant, hoping to create a good life for himself and his family in the early 1900s, is discouraged by the shocking conditions he encounters as a worker in the Chicago stockyards.

An adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy about Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, two young people from noble Veronese houses whose love for one another is doomed by the long-standing feud between their families.

Presents an adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy in which a Danish prince seeks vengeance for his father's murder after being visited by his ghost.