Tales of Adventure: The Barnes & Noble Classics

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The extraordinary breadth of the Barnes & Noble Classics series takes you to the edge in this round-up of timeless action-packed adventures crackling with mystery, intrigue, and excitement.

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Overview

The extraordinary breadth of the Barnes & Noble Classics series takes you to the edge in this round-up of timeless action-packed adventures crackling with mystery, intrigue, and excitement.

The Barnes & Noble Classics Tales of Adventure Set contains:

  • Arabian Nights by Anonymous
  • Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London
  • Four Feathers by A. E. W. Mason
  • Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
  • King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
  • Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
  • Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

The Barnes & Noble Classics series 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 today's top writers and scholars
  • Biographies of the authors
  • Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
  • Footnotes and endnotes
  • Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work
  • Comments by other famous authors
  • Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations
  • Bibliographies for further reading
  • Indices& Glossaries, whenappropriate
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781400673889
  • Publisher: Barnes & Noble
  • Publication date: 5/16/2008
  • Series: Barnes & Noble Classics Series
  • Edition description: Eight-volume set
  • Sales rank: 102,957
  • Product dimensions: 10.40 (w) x 12.90 (h) x 4.90 (d)
  • These items ship to U.S. addresses only.

Table of Contents

The Barnes & Noble Classics Tales of Adventure Set contains:
  • The Arabian Nights
  • The Call of the Wild & White Fang by Jack London
  • The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
  • King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
  • Tarzan of the Apes by Burroughs Edgar Rice
  • The Four Feathers by A. E. W. Mason
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
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  • Posted December 22, 2008

    Would have been better if...

    They wouldn't have sent me 2 King Solomon's Mines and left out 20,000 Leagues. Oh well, good price.

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    Posted May 15, 2013

    Prior to buying this collection I had never read The Four Feathe

    Prior to buying this collection I had never read The Four Feathers, but it has quickly become one of my favorite books.

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