Universals

Presents the text of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," a comedy in which two sets of lovers, lost in the woods, get caught up in a dispute between the fairy king and queen, along with a group of local thespians.

A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.

Unique Elements • About the Author • 'Historical Context • A BELOVED Literary Classic by JANE AUSTEN. Emma, a romance novel by British author JANE AUSTEN is a comedy of manners, a story of society and relationships, first published in 1815 in the United Kingdom. The novel is a TIMELESS and WELL-KNOWN classic filled with insight into the life of genteel women of the British landed gentry in the early 19th century. Sneak...

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.

Orphaned and sent to live with her strict Aunt Polly, young Pollyanna enters a world of rules and cold formality. But she is no ordinary child: she has a special gift for finding the good in every situation, no matter how difficult. With her famous "Glad Game," Pollyanna touches the lives of everyone around her-neighbors, the sick, the lonely-teaching them that even in the darkest moments, there is always something to be glad about. First published...

Illustrations by Arthur Rackham accompany this retelling of Irving's classic tale of a headless horseman.

The Satirical and Bitter Side of Mark Twain. "Man is made of dirt, I saw him made. I am not made of dirt. Man is a museum of diseases, a home of impurities, he comes today and is gone tomorrow, he begins as dirt and departs as stench. I am of the aristocracy of the Imperishables. And man has the Moral Sense. You understand? He has the Moral Sense. That would seem to be difference enough between us, all by itself." The Mysterious Stranger and Other...

Lawrence traces a circuitous journey through three generations--alternating voices of three generations of Brangwen women--from the Polish widow to her Brangwen husband, her daughter to another Brangwen, and eventually the "heiress" of Brangwen memories, Ursula. A novel about a journey towards the understanding of love.

A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James, is a psychological ghost story that masterfully blends ambiguity, suspense, and the supernatural. Set in a remote English country estate, the novella follows a governess who becomes convinced that the two children in her care are being haunted by malevolent spirits. As the narrative unfolds through her perspective, the reader is drawn into a tense and unsettling atmosphere where the boundaries between reality...