Prince Hal, son of King Henry IV, seems to be squandering his life away with the fat knight Sir John Falstaff and the whores, boozers and petty rogues of Eastcheap. But beside these scenes of glorious misrule gathers a nationwide rebellion led by the Duke of Northumberland and his charismatic son, Hotspur. The first installment of Shakespeare's gripping account of the rise of Hal from idle barfly to monarch-in-waiting.

In graphic novel format, three classical stories adapted from the originals. A brief biography of each author is included at the end of each story.

Alexander: The story of Alexander the Great, who in 4th century BC conquered ninety percent of the known world of the time by defeating Greece, Persia, Afghanistan, and India in just eight years. Antony and Cleopatra: A dramatization of Shakespeare's famous play. The story concerns Marc Antony's attempts to rule Rome while maintaining a relationship with Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt, which began while Antony was still married. Now he is being forced...

Presents graphic adaptations of "The Hound of the Baskervilles," "Macbeth," and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

For this companion to her "New York Times"-bestselling collection "A Family of Poems," Kennedy has hand-selected more than 100 of her favorite poems that lend themselves to memorization.