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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)

Oscar Wilde

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003

Beautiful and witty
This is a beautiful and witty tale about a depraved man. His ugly soul is mirrored by his ever-changing portrait while he retains his youthful visage. Suspenseful throughout. A classic.

Uncle Tom's Cabin (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003

Uncle Tom's Cabin: History Without the Textbook
Uncle Tom's Cabin, which is set between 1840 and 1850, is a novel that brought the cruelties of slavery into American homes. It unveils how slaves, like Uncle Tom and Eliza, were treated by slave owners, like Simon Legree. Throughout the novel there's a strong contrast ...

Pride and Prejudice (Barnes & Noble Classics)

Jane Austen

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004

It's all about the author
I can imagine that Elizabeth Bennet (Lizzy) is Jane Austen herself, couldn't you? Jane Austen is a wonderful writer. She deserves much praise. With extraordinary insight into feelings and actions of characters. She does a good job of making each character distinct ...

Mansfield Park (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

Jane Austen

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005

Excellent
I think this is my favorite Jane Austen book so far, although I still have Persuasion and Northanger Abbey to read. Most Austen fans would not count Mansfield Park as a favorite, though, at least from what I've heard. It's not that it's a profoundly different book ...

The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)

Edith Wharton

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004

Wharton's Masterpiece
Edith Wharton escapes from a tendency to melodrama (a problem of her era) to create her masterpiece novel "Age of Innocence." Set in post-Civil War New York, she deliniates the mores and customs of the New York Social List with care and depth. Newland Archer is the ...

Pride and Prejudice (Barnes & Noble Classics)

Jane Austen

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004

Classic
There isn't much else to say about this book that hasn't been said. One of the best novels ever written, for its humor, plot, and excellent insight into the quirky-but-real relationships of everyday people. Truly a classic.

Emma (Barnes & Noble Classics)

Jane Austen

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004

witty, enjoyable read
I can never decide whether Pride and Prejudice or Emma is my favourite book by Jane Austen. Emma has all the Jane Austen hallmarks - wit, exuberance, and laugh out loud moments, coupled with realistic, well drawn characters and a real feeling of being in the Regency ...

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (Barnes & Noble Classics Series): An ...

Frederick Douglass

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005

plantation chattel
This is one of the most violent books (an autobiography!) I ever read. It illustrates horrifyingly `that crime of crimes: making man the property of his fellow man.' It shows the horrendous `playing' field of blood and blasphemy, of flogging and callous skins, of ...

The Jungle (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics)

Upton Sinclair

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003

Great Book
It was kind of a dark book in that it seems like nothing goes right for Jurgis, but it keeps you captivated because you keep wanting something to go right for him so that he can obtain the American dream. One of my favorites.

The Scarlet Letter (Barnes & Noble Classics)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004

Good Book, Perfect Match
This book was well written by its author, Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is considered one of the classics, hence the reason that we read it in AP Lang. But I was most impressed with the price, quality, and speediness of the delivery and book. I was also very happy to see ...

Northanger Abbey (Barnes & Noble Classics)

Jane Austen

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2007

Not to be confused with a different B&N edition, this edition is sturdy and has added features.
Frankly I am puzzled by the criticisms leveled at this edition. There is another edition [also by Barnes and Noble] and it is cheaper, though the quality is very flimsy and I wonder if the other reviewers were confused with that edition? This edition of Northanger ...

A Tale of Two Cities (Barnes & Noble Classics)

Charles Dickens

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004

The most unforgettable opening and closing sentences ever found in a book!
I will never, the rest of my life forget these two sentences. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness...." and at closing "It is a far, far, better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a ...

Wuthering Heights (Barnes & Noble Classics)

Emily Bronte

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005

A bit of a letdown
Often held up as the standard of the classic gothic novel, Wuthering Heights is, for the most part, a showcase of emotional savagery and a dismal portrayal of the human heart. Not well received when first published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, Emily Bronte went to ...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics)

Mark J. Twain

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005

Loved it
I've read the book before but the Barnes and Noble version has all these extra info that help you understand and analyze the story better. Great buy.

The Souls of Black Folk (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)

W. E. B. Du Bois

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005

Speaks The Truth To Power
In 1903, two years after Booker T. Washington's autobiography, "Up from Slavery", W.E.B. Du Bois published "The Souls of Black Folk", a series of essays which today most consider a seminal work in African-American Sociology literature. Du Bois view of race relations ...