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Born into a family of slaves, Frederick Douglass educated himself through sheer determination. His unconquered will to triumph over his circumstances makes his one of America’s best and most unlikely success stories. Douglass’ own account of his journey from slave to one of America’s great statesmen, writers, and orators is as fascinating as it is inspiring. This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader’s notes to help the modern reader contend with Douglass’ nineteenth-century style and vocabulary.

EVERYONE DREAMS OF FINDING BURIED TREASURE, and that is why Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is such an enduring classic. Treasure Island, published in 1883, gave Stevenson his first popular success, and it's easy to see why it remains a favorite of readers of all ages. The tale of young Jim Hawkins and his unlikely band of adventurers strikes at the very heart of our own desire to lose ourselves among hidden chests, cryptic maps, and treacherous companions. If you loved it when you read it earlier, you owe it to yourself to revisit the deceitful Long John Silver, the dull but reliable Dr. Livesey, and the pompously naïve Squire Trelawney. If this is your first visit to the high seas, find yourself a comfortable chair, because you won't be putting the book down until the last mutineer is brought to justice and last gold coin counted.This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic includes a glossary and notes to help readers unfamiliar with some of the vocabulary and nautical terms appreciate Stevenson's grand adventure.

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic™™ includes a glossary and reader’s notes to help the modern reader contend with Poe'’s allusions and complicated vocabulary. Edgar Allan Poe's name conjures up thoughts of hearts beating long after their owners are dead, of disease and plague amid wealth, of love that extends beyond the grave, and of black ravens who utter only one word. The richness of Poe’s writing, however, includes much more than horror, loss, and death. Alive with hypnotic sounds and mesmerizing rhythms, his poetry captures both the splendor and devastation of love, life, and death. His stories teem with irony and black humor, in addition to plot twists and surprise endings. Living by their own rules and charged with passion, Poe’s characters are instantly recognizable — —even though we may be appalled by their actions, we understand their motivations. The thirty-three selections in The Best of Poe highlight his unique qualities. Discover for yourself the mysterious allure and genius of Edgar Allan Poe, who remains one of America’s most popular and important authors, even more than 150 years after his death.

Formerly known as Vocabulary from Latin and Greek Roots Book IV. Help 10th-grade students develop the skills they need to decode thousands of English words with Vocabulary from Latin and Greek Roots Book IV. Students who are capable of determining the meanings of words they've never seen before have a distinct advantage on challenging reading assignments, whether in the classroom or on standardized tests. Vocabulary from Latin and Greek Roots helps you give your students this advantage. It shows students how thousands of words share common elements: roots, prefixes, and suffixes derived from Latin and Greek. If students understand what these common elements mean, they'll be better equipped to understand unfamiliar words at first sight. Exercises for each lesson require students to use each new word several times in different contexts, answer multiple-choice questions after reading short passages, use their knowledge of roots, prefixes, and suffixes to define new words from context, and much more. Why should you use Vocabulary from Latin and Greek Roots? -- It saves you dozens of hours spent creating vocabulary lessons on your own. -- You'll teach students the elements of thousands of words. -- You'll give students practice determining the meanings of words from their contexts. -- Your students will remember these words long after class is over. Note from the publisher: We offer a Teacher's Edition of this book, but we don't sell it to students. Call us at 800-932-4593 to order.

Originally written as a response to a challenge from Lord Byron‚ Frankenstein still haunts our minds with images of the dead brought back to hideous life. Mary Shelley’s nineteenth-century masterpiece begins with a fateful rescue in the Arctic and slowly evolves into a gripping story of horror—a contest of wills between Victor Frankenstein and the monster he creates. Wandering through Europe‚ the confused creature searches for a father figure in the tortured scientist who stitched him together with body parts stolen from the grave. Themes of revenge‚ the philosophical limits of science‚ and forbidden knowledge are deeply explored in the greatest Gothic novel ever written. This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader’s notes to help the modern reader contend with Shelley’s complex vocabulary and references.

Intended for 7th grade.In a few years, your students will be taking the SAT. Start preparing them now with Vocabulary Power Plus.Your students will score higher on the SAT once they've used Prestwick House's Vocabulary Power Plus for the New SAT, the only program that addresses all of the revisions in the test without compromising the vocabulary studies students need. Each unit alternates focusing on the critical reading and essay portions of the test with questions focusing on sentence completion, reading comprehension, inference, essay, root practice, and more. Review units ensure your students will remember what they've learned.Why should you use Vocabulary Power Plus?You'll save time because you won't have to write vocabulary lessons from scratch. Reading passages similar to those on the SAT* help students learn words by examining their contexts.Multiple exercises reinforce the meanings of words to students, fostering long-term knowledge.Your students will learn more than 200 new words in each book.You'll tackle vocabulary instruction and test prep with one resource.**SAT is a registered trademark of the College Board, which was not involved in the production of and does not endorse this product.Formerly Book G

" what is this quintessence of dust?" In Shakespeare’s most famous play, a young prince, alienated and betrayed, struggles to make a decision; in a court where every friend is a spy, and every loving act somehow leads to murder, the sanest person is he who pretends to be mad. A brilliantly controlled plot, complex and convincing characters, and, above all, wonderful poetry have won Hamlet a deserved place as Shakespeare’s most popular and frequently-performed play. Any young person who has been deceived or disappointed by an adult has been the young prince; anyone who has ever felt alone in the modern world has wandered the castle at Elsinore. Thus Hamlet, who asks, "Why am I here?" is a hero for our times, as well as his own. To make Hamlet more accessible for the modern reader, our Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary of the more difficult words, as well as convenient sidebar notes to enlighten the reader on aspects that may be confusing or overlooked. In doing this, it is our intention that the reader may more fully enjoy the beauty of the verse, the wisdom of the insights, and the impact of the play.

Formerly known as Vocabulary from Latin and Greek Roots Book II. Help 8th-grade students develop the skills they need to decode thousands of English words with Vocabulary from Latin and Greek Roots Book II. Students who are capable of determining the meanings of words they've never seen before have a distinct advantage on challenging reading assignments, whether in the classroom or on standardized tests. Vocabulary from Latin and Greek Roots helps you give your students this advantage. It shows students how thousands of words share common elements: roots, prefixes, and suffixes derived from Latin and Greek. If students understand what these common elements mean, they'll be better equipped to understand unfamiliar words at first sight. Exercises for each lesson require students to use each new word several times in different contexts, answer multiple-choice questions after reading short passages, use their knowledge of roots, prefixes, and suffixes to define new words from context, and much more. Why should you use Vocabulary from Latin and Greek Roots? -- It saves you dozens of hours spent creating vocabulary lessons on your own. -- You'll teach students the elements of thousands of words. -- You'll give students practice determining the meanings of words from their contexts. -- Your students will remember these words long after class is over. Note from the publisher: We offer a Teacher's Edition of this book, but we don't sell it to students. Call us at 800-932-4593 to order.

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition™ includes a glossary and reader’s notes to help the modern reader contend with Wilde’s many allusions and his complex approach to the human condition. Oscar Wilde’s only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, first appeared in 1891. Dorian Gray, a handsome young man, falls in with a group of “friends,” whose amoral philosophies he finds quite appealing. After he has his portrait painted, his frivolity and general demeanor degenerate into wickedness, but only the portrait bears the effects of his descent into decadence and serves as a powerful symbol of Gray’s internal ruin. Dorian himself, however, remains as young and unspoiled as the day he first sat for the painting. Wilde’s exploration of life without limits or consequences shocked its late-Victorian audience and remains highly un- settling to modern readers. We, like Dorian, are forced to reconsider whether total freedom and absolute knowledge are really worth their costs.

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader’s notes to help the reader fully appreciate the beauty and humor of Dickens’s work. In his "Ghostly little book," Charles Dickens invents the modern concept of Christmas Spirit and offers one of the world’s most adapted and imitated stories. We know Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, not only as fictional characters, but also as icons of the true meaning of Christmas in a world still plagued with avarice and cynicism.

This book, the 9th grade level of Vocabulary from Latin and Greek Roots, was formerly known as Vocabulary from Latin and Greek Roots - Level III. Help 9th-grade students develop the skills they need to decode thousands of English words with Vocabulary from Latin and Greek Roots Book III. Students who are capable of determining the meanings of words they've never seen before have a distinct advantage on challenging reading assignments, whether in the classroom or on standardized tests. Vocabulary from Latin and Greek Roots helps you give your students this advantage. It shows students how thousands of words share common elements: roots, prefixes, and suffixes derived from Latin and Greek. If students understand what these common elements mean, they'll be better equipped to understand unfamiliar words at first sight. Exercises for each lesson require students to use each new word several times in different contexts, answer multiple-choice questions after reading short passages, use their knowledge of roots, prefixes, and suffixes to define new words from context, and much more. Why should you use Vocabulary from Latin and Greek Roots? -- It saves you dozens of hours spent creating vocabulary lessons on your own. -- You'll teach students the elements of thousands of words. -- You'll give students practice determining the meanings of words from their contexts. -- Your students will remember these words long after class is over. Note from the publisher: We offer a Teacher's Edition of this book, but we don't sell it to students. Call us at 800-932-4593 to order.

In 2005, the SAT implemented major revisions, including: New reading sections Analogies removed Multiple-Choice Grammar and Usage Questions Modified Reading Questions. Vocabulary Power Plus for the New SAT addresses all of the revisions in the test without vocabulary studies. Students will benefit from: Focused prefix, suffix, and root practice Challenging inference exercises Detailed critical reading exercises New SAT-style writing and grammar exercises Recommended for grade 11. This book is a classroom student edition.