The Literature reader series attempts to motivate students to read for pleasure by offering interesting texts for extended reading. They also help to develop the students analytical, inferential and deductive skills.

"Presents a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the poetry, drama, fiction, and literary and cultural criticism produced from the Restoration of the English monarchy to the onset of the French Revolution"--

This series surveys three centuries of keyboard music, including representative shorter works by: Bach, Handel, Scarlatti, C.P.E. Bach, Haydn, Clementi, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, and MacDowell. The student is helped to achieve stylistically correct performance through editing based on original sources, clear interpretation of ornaments, a glossary of musical terms and symbols for each book, and biographical material on composers, relating them to their period in music history.