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” and “Heart of Darkness” along with editions that contain a selection of representative readings that will still provide students with a richly representative reading experience. In that group we offer “Don Quixote,” “Huckleberry Finn,” “The Scarlet Letter,” both verse and prose versions of “The Odyssey,” and “All Quiet on the Western Front.” For middle school English classes we offer “Ulysses’ Voyage Home,” which is a prose version of “The Odyssey” with just the seagoing episodes, 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. Each book includes comprehension questions and enrichment sections to facilitate instruction, and the teachers’ editions come with extensive annotations. 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 with an emphasis on the poems of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.