Retold classics

Presents adaptations of eight American classics of fiction writing, including selections by Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, and others.

Relates the adventures of a young Englishman who gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.

Presents an abridged retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel "The Scarlet Letter," in which Hester Prynne, a wife and mother in seventeenth-century New England, is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet "A" after being judged guilty of adultery.

Presents adaptations of eight classic British stories, each with a vocabulary preview, and a profile of the author.

Presents retellings of eight classic American stories, including Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," and James Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.".

Presents adaptations of eight American classics of fiction writing, including selections by Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, and others.