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The book is, quite simply, a line-by-line translation of Shakespeare's play The Tempest translated into modern English.

The courageous Redwall creatures band together as Vilaya, the evil Sable Quean, and her horde of vermin attempt to make off with the young animals of the Abbey.

The title story of this collection of short stories features the tale of the "most honest and upright" town of Hadleyburg, whose residents boast of their unsmirched moral character.

Tom's plan to become famous involves Huck Finn and his friend Jim in a crusade to the Holy Land by balloon ascension.

Ben and Ned, a boy and dog gifted with eternal youth and the ability to communicate with one another nonverbally, encounter pirates on the high seas and rescue a kidnapped prince from a band of gyp

The destinies of the badger lord dubbed Sunflash and his mortal enemy, the ferret warlord Swartt Sixclaw, are entwined with those of many creatures, particularly the inhabitants of Redwall Abbey.

Tom Sawyer is a high-spirited but basically good kid growing up on the Mississippi River, pining for Becky Thatcher and getting into run-of-the-mill trouble.

Huck Finn fakes his own death to escape a cushy life with a kind widow because he is sick of wearing shoes. Back on the river where he belongs, he teams up with an escaped slave named Jim.

Presents five dozen sonnets of Shakespeare, including some of the best known in all of English literature.

When a mulatto slave woman switches her own infant with the look-alike son of a wealthy merchant, it takes Pudd'nhead Wilson, the town eccentric, to put things right again.

Henry V is a study of kinship, patriotism, and heroic determination, tempered by tender comedy as Henry courts Katherine, Princess of France.

Othello, a Moorish general in the service of Venice, has married Desdemona, beautiful daughter of a Venetian Senator.

Julius Caesar has become the most powerful man in Rome. Does his power now threaten the very existence of the Republic itself?

A blow on the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D. where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom.

Twain grew up on the river, achieved his boyhood dream of being a river pilot, and then had the good sense to write about it.