Core Classics Collection

This Core Classics® volume presents one of Shakespeare’s funniest comedies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, first as a short story, and then as the script for a play, perfect for readers’ theater or classroom performance, in a specially adapted, condensed version using Shakespeare’s original language.

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Long ago in ancient Greece, as Homer recited the Iliad and the Odyssey, his listeners thrilled to these tales of adventure and heroism, monsters and magic, husbands and wives, and fathers and sons. This Core Classics® adaptation, with background material and helpful notes, makes these stories come alive for young readers today.

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“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”—and hear the story of the brilliant and ambitious Roman leader Julius Caesar, whose quest for power drove his enemies—and even his friend, Marcus Brutus—to assassinate him.  This Core Classics® version presents a shortened version of Shakespeare’s powerful play, with historical background and helpful notes.

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Asleep and dreaming, Robert Louis Stevenson cried out in horror—and from his feverish nightmare came Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. An immediate success when first published in 1886, Jekyll and Hyde has been turned into a stage play, movies, and even cartoons. This Core Classics® edition of Stevenson's tale of “man’s double being” is presented in abridged form, adapted for young readers.

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One of Shakespeare’s last plays, The Tempest mixes the fantasy of fairy tales—magic, monsters, and spirits—with real human drama in a tale of revenge and forgiveness, cruelty and mercy, loss and reunion. This Core Classics® volume presents a shortened version of Shakespeare’s play, with background information about Shakespeare and the Globe theater, as well as point-of-use definitions of challenging vocabulary on facing pages and helpful notes.

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In this first novel from “the father of science fiction,” H. G. Wells takes us hundreds of thousands of years into the future. The main character, the Time Traveler, encounters a green and peaceful world where all the needs of the people seem to be mysteriously taken care of—but the mystery reveals a dark vision of the possible destiny of humankind. This Core Classics® version presents the novel in abridged form, adapted for young readers.

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