The mission of Selected Readings Editions is to give secondary school students the opportunity to experience some of the greatest works of literature ever written.

     Toward that end, we have created editions that contain a selection of representative readings from literary works that will provide students with a thoroughly rewarding reading experience. For the high school English curriculum we offer five such editions: “Don Quixote,” “Huckleberry Finn,” “The Scarlet Letter,” and verse and prose versions of “The Odyssey.” We also offer full-text versions of “Heart of Darkness” and “The Awakening.” For middle school English classes we offer Twain’s other masterpiece “Tom Sawyer,” edited to highlight the episodes with Huckleberry Finn, “Ulysses’ Voyage Home,” a version of “The Odyssey” that presents just the seagoing episodes, “Don Quixote and My Uncle Sal,” a novella that includes excerpts from Cervantes’ novel and can serve as a stimulating way to introduce students to “Don Quixote,” and the full-text version of “The First Voyage Around the World,” Antonio Pigafetta’s first-hand account of Ferdinand Magellan’s epochal circumnavigation of the Earth. Each book includes comprehension questions and enrichment sections to facilitate instruction. We also offer “A Short Anthology of Short Poetry,” a survey of the history of poetry from Sappho and Homer to Edna St. Vincent Millay and Langston Hughes.