Series: Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection

Down the rabbit-hole and through the looking-glass! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories features all of the best-known works of Lewis Carroll, including the novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, with the classic illustrations of John Tenniel. This compilation also features Carroll's novels Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, his masterpiece of nonsense verse...

The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla is the definitive record of the pioneering work of one of the modern world's most groundbreaking inventors. During the early twentieth century, Tesla blazed the trail that electrical technology followed for decades afterward. Although he pioneered inventions like alternating current (AC), radio, wireless transmission, and X-rays, and worked with innovators like George...

War looms in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, and when Napoleon invades Russia in 1812, it forever changes those whose lives it engulfs. Although told on a panoramic scale, Tolstoy's epic novel focuses on the chaos of battle, the horror of death and bloodshed, and the expression of the noble virtues of love and valour through their impact on the...

The romance of the story, Beauty and the Beast—the triumph of love over looks—has fascinated readers for centuries and inspired numerous films and TV series. This anthology not only features the beloved tale, but also includes 100 enchanting stories chosen from The Blue Fairy Book and other collections by Andrew Lang: 50 stories devoted to beauties and another 50 from...

Chinese culture is rich with marvellous folklore, and this exquisitely designed collection draws on that magnificent historical repository. It features more than 200 fables and tales chosen from Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio and other classic compendiums. Here are legends of ancient demons, strange ghosts, magic swords, evil sorcerers, diabolical transformations, flying ogres, fairy foxes, powerful gods, and more....

This cornucopia of thrills and chills features 25 of the finest English-language tales of the uncanny and macabre. In addition to works by such stellar authors as Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Henry S. Whitehead, the book features three complete short novels: A Phantom Lover by Vernon Lee, Serapion...

Charles Dickens (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) brings together five of Charles Dickens' best-known novels: Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, and A Tale of Two Cities. Many readers know Victorian England through the writings of Charles Dickens. Not only did Dickens put a face to the era through his memorable characters, but he also...

This beautiful collectible edition presents three novels from one of the most beloved American authors: Louisa May Alcott. It includes her most famous and cherished classic, Little Women, about the lives of four sisters in Civil War-era America, as well as its sequels, Little Men and Jo's Boys.

No writer portrayed America's Jazz Age as vividly as F. Scott Fitzgerald. In his effervescent tales of ingenues on the prowl for husbands, Ivy League heirs en route to futures of idle entitlement, and endless alcohol-fuelled dance parties at ritzy country clubs, he limned a culture giddy with excess and as reckless as it was refined. Gifted with remarkable powers...

First published in 1878, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is the tragic story of aristocrat Anna Karenina and her ill-fated affair with the cavalry officer Count Vronsky. Although passionately in love, the couple finds their romance doomed by the sexual mores of their time and place, and the double standards that apply to men and women. The tale's panoramic sweep and...

Age range 9 to 12 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz / The Marvelous Land of Oz brings together the first two novels of L. Frank Baum's classic Oz series. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are transported by a powerful cyclone to Oz, where they team up with the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly...

No writer portrayed America's 'Roaring Twenties' as vividly as F. Scott Fitzgerald, and his stories seem as fresh today as they did nearly a century ago. F. Scott Fitzgerald: Classic Works features two novels - This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned - and 19 short stories, including the classics "Bernice Bobs Her Hair", "The Diamond as Big...