Barnes and Noble has changed up their Free Fridays this summer and is offering a new set of free classics each week. These editions are not exactly the same as you would find at Gutenberg; Barnes and Noble Classic Series editions generally have been more carefully proofread and have introductions and scholarly notes inserted in the beginning to aid in understanding the text. If you are building a summer reading list for a student, stocking up for lit classes in college or just want to revisit the classics, these are a great (free) resource.These are DRM'd epubs, though, so will only be readable on a nook or one of the B&N reader apps.
Each Friday, you can find a new set of classics in the B&N Free Library. This week, it's:
- Beowulf by Anonymous, John McNamara
- Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, Peter Connor
- Emma by Jane Austen, Steven Marcus
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Radhika Jones
- Ivanhoe by Walter Scott, Gillen D'Arcy Wood
- Pygmalion and Three Other Plays by George Bernard Shaw, John A. Bertolini
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, Isabel Roche
- Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, Stephen Railton (previously offered free)
- Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, Isabel Roche
- Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Barbara T. Cooper
- War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, Alfred Mac Adam
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
