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The book is, quite simply, a line-by-line translation of Shakespeare's play The Tempest translated into modern English.

Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home life, an eleven-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and is given an introduction to a whole new world.

The lovely Viola disguises herself as a young man and quickly falls in love with the Duke she serves. The Duke in turn sends the disguised Viola to woo his lady - the fiesty and impetuous Olivia.

After seeing the ghost of his murdered father, Hamlet realizes that his new stepfather was the killer and plots revenge and ponders the value of life.

Presents five dozen sonnets of Shakespeare, including some of the best known in all of English literature.

Having separated from the one-armed trapper who taught him how to survive in the wilderness of the Old West, fifteen-year-old Francis gets lost and continues to have adventures involving dangerous

When the camp van crashes into a raging river, Daniel has some tough choices to make.

Nikki Roberts feels very grown up when her parents leave her alone in their mountain lodge but her horseback ride to a nearby meadow leads to an encounter with deadly poachers and a forest fire.

In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild

In 1848, Francis Tucket was stolen from his family while they were travelling west along the Oregon Trail.

Henry V is a study of kinship, patriotism, and heroic determination, tempered by tender comedy as Henry courts Katherine, Princess of France.

Othello, a Moorish general in the service of Venice, has married Desdemona, beautiful daughter of a Venetian Senator.

Julius Caesar has become the most powerful man in Rome. Does his power now threaten the very existence of the Republic itself?

Believed to have been written in 1603, Shakespeare's Othello is a tragedy that puts the playwright's prodigious creative gifts on full display.

Shakespeare's comedy play Much Ado About Nothing pivots around the impediments to love for young betrothed Hero and Claudio when Hero is falsely accused of infidelity and the "lover'