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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.

In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions.

Nine short stories, which must always be told "just so," in order that the sleepy child listening will not have to put back missing sentences.

Presents an adaptation of the classic novel in which Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and falls in love with her melancholy employer, Mr.

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.

Presents Upton Sinclair's classic novel, which depicts the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young Lithuanian immigrant struggling in early-twentieth-century America, and includes a historical time line, a theme and plot outline, critical analyses, and other study tools.

A poor, unwanted orphan, Jane Eyre seems destined to live a sad and ordinary life.

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.

"Harriet Beecher Stowe's timeless classic about slavery and redemption in the pre-Civil War South comes to life in this vivid and dramatic adaptation.