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Tom Sawyer, a spirited boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century, tries a new method for curing warts, witnesses a murder, runs away to an island and pretends to be a pirate, watches his own funeral, and falls for the new girl in the neighborhood.

Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be raised and educated as a gentleman. Includes a map of early nineteenth-century Kent, and notes on Dickens's working methods.

A young boy in nineteenth-century London runs away from an unhappy home, finds employment in a wine factory, and becomes acquainted with a wide variety of characters in the city streets.

Two sisters of opposing temperaments share the pangs of tragic love, and their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the two sisters, and true love finally triumphs.

In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.

When Professor Von Hardwigg and his nephew Henry discover a mysterious parchment, little do they know that it will change their lives forever.

After many hours of studying the manuscript, and a great deal of painstaking research, they finally decipher the hidden code. It dates back to the sixteenth century, and is written by an Icelandic philosopher, who claims to have found a passage to the centre of the Earth. Is it a hoax? Or is it the greatest

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Grimms Fairy Tales, by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, is part of the & 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 todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies...

Sprung from the shadowed recesses of Edgar Allan Poe's imagination, these nineteen tales of mystery and the macabre testify to the brilliance of their author's dark genius. Included are such enduring classics as "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Fall; of the House of Usher," "The Black Cat," "The Masque of the Red Death," and "The Cask of Amontillado." Each story is colorfully illustrated by the classic artwork of Harry Clarke, in whom Poe found one of...

H.P. Lovecraft's tales of cosmic horror, science fiction, and the fantastic are among the most classic in all literature. His writing challenges readers, scares them senseless, and explodes the boundaries of the known. This stunning collection, illustrated in color, brings to life some of his greatest, most profound works-including "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Haunter of the Dark," "The Dunwich Horror," "The Color Out of Space," "The Shadow Over Innsmouth,"...