In late eighteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of three of her four sisters.

Having discovered the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.

'It was the best of times, it was the the worst of times,' we are told at the outset, but it is mostly brutality on display in this richly-woven and moving tale, set against the bloody and fearsome events of the French Revolution. Two men, one a French aristocrat, one a dissipated English barrister, both love the same woman. Their rivalry takes them through cobblestone alleys thick with filth and violence, into the company of the revolution's most...

The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, is part of the 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 todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies...

Presents the well-known poem about an important Christmas visitor. On board pages. Presents the well-known poem about an important Christmas visitor.

Historical. Set in mid-17th century Boston, this tale of passion, puritanism and revenge is one of the foremost classics of American literature. Its heroine, Hester Prynne, is compelled by her own moral autonomy to wear the scarlet letter but she emerges as a woman with her integrity intact.

Based on the beloved classic children’s novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, this edition of The Secret Garden is a beautifully illustrated hardcover picture book adaptation that all children will treasure. Once upon a time…a walled garden bloomed under the summer skies in the north of England. But it was locked up and left all alone. And it stayed all alone, for many years. Until… When young Mary Lennox moves into Misselthwaite Manor, she hates...

A True classic of twentieth-century literature, this edition of The Great Gatsby has been updated by Fitzgerald scholar James L. W. West 3 to include the author's final revision and features a note on the composition and text, a personal foreword by Fitzgerald's granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan, and a new introduction by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. The Great Gatsby, F. Scoot Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement...

This classic manor-house mystery introduces Christie's much beloved character, the detective Hercule Poirot.