Too bad
Most of what I value about what I have learned, I got from reading straight from the author who wrote it. Nothing compares.
I always think reading something that has gone through so many ‘hands’ before I see it...is JUST LIKE eating food that has been pre masticated, which is just as ridiculous and disgusting.
There are a series of books with the readings in the syllabus the course was based on. Today the teaching comes from wildly inflated price and and quality textbooks, often by the teacher.
But that was 50 years ago when there was little or no Leftist control of contents. We even had to read anti-Communist novels and other books in high school.