When millions suffer under iron-fisted oppression, when anger and resentment boil into bloody insurrection, when
triumph leads to savage vengeance—does one individual life matter? In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens interweaves the intensely personal dramas of Lucie Manette, ...
Horror hides behind an attractive face in The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's tale
of a notorious Victorian libertine and his life of evil excesses. Though Dorian's hedonistic indulgences leave no blemish on his ageless features, the painted portrait ...
A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and The Cricket on the Hearth, by Charles Dickens, 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, ...
David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens, 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 ...
Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, 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 ...
Intended as a working handbook, this 1907 text for students and teachers—which the author calls
“a long journey from Beowulf to Kipling”—has been praised for its taste and balance, as well as its goal of bringing literature to younger readers. ...
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy, 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 ...
While waiting to begin his final sitting for artist Basil Hallward’s portrait of him, the
beautiful, young Dorian Gray has a conversation that changes the course of his life. Basil’s friend Lord Henry Wotton fills Dorian’s head with the idea ...
