Every work,
annotated.
You get the whole passage, in its own words, plus a note in the margin that explains what it's doing. Nothing is abridged.
See which of these became films →Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll · 1871
A poem made almost entirely of invented words — and you still follow it.
London
William Blake · 1794
A city where every institution is a lock, and every face is a record of it.
Huckleberry Finn — Opening
Mark Twain · 1884
A boy explaining himself in a grammar that is the whole novel.
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · 1868
Four sisters growing up while the money runs out.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain · 1876
A boy, a fence, a treasure, and a town that can be fooled.
Lord of the Flies
William Golding · 1954
Boys on an island discover what they have already been taught.
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger · 1951
Three days in a city with a boy who cannot stop noticing what is fake.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 1960
A trial seen from the height of a child's eyes.