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

     Toward that end, we offer “The Great Gatsby,” “Ethan Frome,” and “Heart of Darkness,” along with editions that contain a selection of representative readings that will provide students with richly rewarding reading experiences. In that group we offer “Don Quixote,” “Huckleberry Finn,” “The Scarlet Letter,” “All Quiet on the Western Front,” and both verse and prose versions of “The Odyssey.” For middle school English classes we offer “Ulysses’ Voyage Home,” which is a prose version of just the seagoing episodes of “The Odyssey,” and “Don Quixote and My Uncle Sal,” a novella that includes paraphrased episodes from Cervantes’ novel and can serve as a stimulating way to introduce students to that masterpiece. Every book has numbered paragraphs and includes comprehension questions and enrichment sections to facilitate instruction. Just as importantly, the teachers’ editions come with extensive annotations. We also offer “A Short Anthology of Short Poems,” a survey of the history of poetry from Sappho and Homer to Edna St. Vincent Millay and Langston Hughes with an emphasis on the poems of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, and “A Short Anthology of Short Stories,” a compilation of twenty classic short stories.