Paul Negri

This anthology presents over 170 poems by the major poets of the 19th century, including Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Edward FitzGerald, Matthew Arnold, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Rudyard Kipling, and many others. An introduction and brief biographical notes on the poets are included.

An Anthology

English Victorian Poetry

Featuring 19 of the finest works in the American short-story tradition, this compilation includes: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, plus stories by Hawthorne, Twain, Cather, and others.

Great American Short Stories

Outstanding anthology features more than 150 English and American masterpieces spanning over 400 years. "Death Be Not Proud," "The Tyger," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," plus works by Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, others. Includes 3 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Great Short Poems

A collection of twelve Russian short stories including "The Queen of Spades," "The Overcoat," "White Nights," "The Signal," and "The Lady with the Toy Dog."

Great Russian Short Stories

John Green

The world's finest composers take center stage in this singular collection of ready-to-color illustrations. Music appreciation and imagination go hand-in-hand with 30 images featuring Bach, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Debussy, Gershwin, and other musical masters.

Great Composers

Poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti crowns this outstanding collection: highlights include "The Blessed Damozel," "My Sister's Sleep," and selections from The House of Life. Also includes Christina Rossetti's "Remember," "Cousin Kate," and "Song," plus Swinburne, and more

Pre-Raphaelite Poetry

Features twelve classic tales, including "The Necklace" (Maupassant); "The Unknown Masterpiece" (Balzac); "The Attack on the Mill" (Zola); plus works by Gide, Daudet, and seven other authors.

Great French Short Stories

This outstanding collection of more than 30 brilliant short stories — each just six or fewer pages in length — features popular tales by Kafka, Poe, Dickens, O. Henry, Chekhov, Wilde, and many others. Includes two selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Quick Reads by Great Writers

Great Short Short Stories

Treasury of over 170 English and American sonnets by more than 70 poets, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Masterpieces by Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Blake, Swinburne, Yeats, Frost, Poe, many more. Includes two selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Great Sonnets

Offers a compilation of over 170 English and American sonnets by more than seventy poets from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.

Well-known scenes from "Hamlet," "King Lear," "Macbeth," "Romeo and Juliet," "Julius Caesar," and 15 other popular plays. Summaries, selections from the appropriate text, and captions accompany the illustrations. 30 black-and-white illustrations.

Great Scenes from Shakespeare's Plays

Saki's "Tobermory" tells the tale of a talking cat who's conversation turns toward the scandalous remarks he's overheard. Additional selections include Hardy's "The Fiddler of the Reels," Dickens' "The Haunted Hotel," Trollope, "The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne," Lawrence, "The Prussian Officer," Kipling, "The Phantom Rickshaw," Wells, "Under the Knife," and others.

Great English Short Stories

This outstanding collection of more than 30 brilliant short stories — each just six or fewer pages in length — includes such popular tales as Kafka's "A Country Doctor," Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," Chopin's "A Pair of Silk Stockings," plus works by Dickens, O. Henry, Chekhov, Wilde, and many others.

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