The book involves stories, poems, sonnets and quotations (some stories are adapted) that have aesthetic and educational significance. The stories and poems will be read with great pleasure as the content mainly corresponds to the students’ scope of interest and will promote the formulation of various values such as patriotism, humanism, honesty, etc. among the students. The manual includes not only programmatic works by American and English writers presented in the textbooks, but also works of other authors.