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Your need to read a classic work of literature for class like Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart , but you don't know how to find it. We help students with that all the time, and now we have brand new tips just for you! Go to the Guide . Get our tips for finding the classics in print and online, like the eBook Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Tales where you can read stories like The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Read Death, and The Pit and the Pendulum . We even point you to some great sites where you can download free classics to keep!

When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations. In 1943, the War Department and the publishing industry stepped in with an extraordinary program: 120 million small, lightweight paperbacks, for troops to carry in their pockets and their rucksacks, in every theater of war. Comprising 1,200 different titles of every imaginable type, these paperbacks were beloved by the troops and are still fondly remembered today. Soldiers read them while waiting to land at Normandy; in hellish trenches in the midst of battles in the Pacific; in field hospitals; and on long bombing flights. They wrote to the authors, many of whom responded to every letter. They helped rescue The Great Gatsby from obscurity. They made Betty Smith, author of A Tree