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Friday, August 27, 2010

Free Classics from B&N (nook)


Barnes and Noble is continuing their free Classics in the B&N Free Library this week, with a new set of free classics, eleven of which have not be offered for free previously. This weeks theme is After Dark...
Tales to Read Under the Covers
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  1. Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  2. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  3. Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
  4. The Inferno by  Dante Alighieri
  5. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  6. Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  7. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
  8. Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction by Joseph Conrad
  9. Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
  10. Time Machine and The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
  11. Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings by Washington Irving
  12. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
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.