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:
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
- Odyssey by Homer
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners by James Joyce
- Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction by Kate Chopin
- The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
- Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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:
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.
- 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