1835–1910
Mark Twain
Humour, contradictions and humanity. Twain’s characters test their freedom against the expectations of the world around them.
Meet the author
Literature teaching materials for lower secondary and middle school teachers.
Read the classics. Understand the stories.
Literature opens up new worlds. This series connects accessible reading editions with coherent teaching sequences, helping young people find their own way into a work.
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Discover literary voices
Every work brings a world of its own. The teaching materials take its characters, its language and its questions seriously.
1819–1890
Gottfried Keller
Appearances, identity and other people’s judgements. Keller combines close observation with subtle irony and questions of recognition and responsibility.
Meet the authorNew to the series · Gottfried Keller
One novella. Four language editions.
Clothes Make the Man brings questions of appearance, identity, social judgement and personal responsibility to the series. Explore the developed materials in your language of teaching.
Concept
One work. A coherent teaching pathway.
Read the story as a whole. Look more closely at key passages. Support interpretations with evidence. Text, planning and tasks work together, with room for the needs of your class.
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Read
Complete stories in adapted editions, organised into manageable reading stages.
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Understand
Shared key passages, literary discussion and graduated support.
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Think further
Independent judgements, textual evidence and feedback that supports the next step.
The person behind the series
Edwin Zschaler
I’m Edwin Zschaler, teacher, author and editor. Literatur, die ankommt brings together my love of literature and thirty years of teaching experience in Swiss schools, with a particular focus on lower secondary education.
About me and the projectLiteratur, die ankommt
Responses to the project
Personal feedback on selected project materials reviewed by the contributors. Quoted with permission.
“I particularly like your emphasis on helping students develop independent interpretations, supported by evidence from the text.”
“I especially appreciate the emphasis your project places on supporting their learning to think and argue with literary texts.”
Publications
Reading a whole novel together
In a contribution to the National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) website, I introduce the teaching approach through Tom Sawyer and invite English teachers to offer feedback.
Read the article in EnglishUpdated: October 2026
Developed. Open to feedback.
Tom Sawyer and Clothes Make the Man have materials in four languages. Huckleberry Finn has a developed German edition and remains under review. Results from systematic classroom trials are not yet available.
Selected samples are available here. Access to the complete materials, the timeframe and conditions of use are arranged individually.
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