The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century. Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? It's something every child should experience and every child will love. From Tom's sly trickery with the whitewashed fence, when he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for him, to his and Becky Thatcher's calamities in Bat Cave, the...

Includes William Wordsworth best known poems, including I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud; I Travelled Among Unknown Men; My Heart Leaps up; and Tintern Abbey.

Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns (1759-1796), with works such as A Red, Red Rose; A Man's a Man for A' That; and the ubiquitous Auld Lang Syne.

Considered the bridge between romanticism and modernism, Matthew Arnold wrote verse that is simple, unadorned and straightforward. From the hypnotic and beautiful lines of Dover Beach, to the pastoral narrative of The Scholar Gipsy, Arnold cast a gaze at the main intellectual issues of the nineteenth century while giving a timeless insight into man and nature. This collection covers his major poetic works, including the narrative poems, sonnets and...