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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Ten Twenty Free Books from B&N Classics Series (N)

Update: OK, I've taken Pinky's list and added direct links for the ones that B&N doesn't put on their own Classics list (instead, these are labeled as part of their Kickstart Program, but don't show up in searches).

B&N has made 10 of their Barnes & Noble Classics Series available for free, once again (if you've collected these in the past, you probably already have them all, as I do). The ones available for free are:
  1. Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  2. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  3. Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
  4. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
  5. House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
  6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  7. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
  8. Odyssey by Homer
  9. Paradise Lost by John Milton
  10. Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  11. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners by James Joyce
  12. Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  13. Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  14. Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  15. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
  16. The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction by Kate Chopin
  17. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
  18. Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
  19. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
  20. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
These are more than just scans of the classics, as B&N uses their own translations and illustrations and generally includes commentary and other notes from a scholar in the field.
Series Description
Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:

  • New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
  • Biographies of the authors
  • Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
  • Footnotes and endnotes
  • Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work
  • Comments by other famous authors
  • Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations
  • Bibliographies for further reading
  • Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.