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Great Novels: The Barnes & Noble Classics

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Overview

Sample the richness of Barnes & Noble Classics with this specially priced set of the world’s great novels -- timeless works like War and Peace and Don Quixote that epitomize the storyteller’s art and transport readers to richly imagined realms.

The Barnes & Noble Classics Great Novels Set contains:

  • Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
  • Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  • Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Barnes & Noble Classics series 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 areprinted 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.

Synopsis

Sample the richness of Barnes & Noble Classics with this specially priced set of the world s great novels -- timeless works like War and Peace and Don Quixote that epitomize the storyteller s art and transport readers to richly imagined realms.

The Barnes & Noble Classics Great Novels Set contains:

  • Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
  • Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  • Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Barnes & Noble Classics series 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 areprinted 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.

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Book Details

Published
May 1, 2008
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781400673872

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