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Barnes & Noble began releasing adult literature classics around 1992 (according to copyright dates found in some of the books). The collection comprised 63 classics with two separate types of dustjackets: black and cream. The cream dustjacket collection appears to be exactly the same as the black dustjacket collection except with a few more included titles. This is due to the fact that cream colored dustjackets were produced first. In late 1997 or early 1998 the dustjackets were converted to the Black format.
For each black dustjacket hardcover you can expect the same type of characteristics. There is a picture of some sort overlapping a black diamond centered on the front of the book. The outside of the diamond in between the picture and the gold rectangle is a color. For each book the color can be different. The spine of the book features the title in gold lettering, and both the author and "Barnes & Noble" in white lettering. The back of the book is the same as the front, but without the picture. Instead, a passage from the book is included, and the ISBN/bar code is located at the bottom of the diamond overlapping the background.
During this same period of black and cream dustjackets, Barnes & Noble released a Children's Literature Classics series. Several of these titles overlapped from the Adult collection. It is important to note that these are no longer in print and are not in stock at Barnes & Noble. They can most often be found from Out of Print book stores or sites like Barnes & Noble BookQuest (from independent sellers) or from their "Sales Annex" section.
In 2003, Barnes & Noble released a completely new Classics collection but this time released them first in trade paperback and mass market paperback, and then finally hardcover. This collection included all previously published works plus expands on the amount of titles available each month as of October 2005.
[edit] Black dustjacket hardcover collection
[edit] Books in the black dustjacket collection by title
[edit] Cream dustjacket hardcover collection
Most books that have black Dustjackets were included in the cream dustjacket collection. The only two known exceptions that are not in Cream dustjackets are James Joyce's "Dubliners" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", which for some reason are black dustjacket only.
[edit] Additional cream dustjacket classics by title
[edit] Children's hardcover collection
[edit] Children's Classics by title
[edit] Modern Classics hardcover collection
[edit] Modern Classics by title
[edit] Current Classics collection
The Current Classics collection began with some of the same titles as the previous classics collections however the collection is very different in that there are updated/revised notes, new essays and introductions etc, a full list of titles through April 2007 is provided.
[edit] Books in the Current Classics collection by title
| Title |
Author |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Mark Twain |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
Mark Twain |
| The Aeneid |
Virgil |
| Aesop's Fables |
Aesop |
| The Age of Innocence |
Edith Wharton |
| Agnes Grey |
Anne Brontë |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass |
Lewis Carroll |
| The Ambassadors |
Henry James |
| Anna Karenina |
Leo Tolstoy |
| The Arabian Nights |
Anonymous |
| The Art of War |
Sun Tzu |
| The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man |
James Weldon Johnson |
| The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction |
Kate Chopin |
| Babbitt |
Sinclair Lewis |
| Barchester Towers |
Anthony Trollope |
| Beowulf |
Anonymous |
| The Beautiful and Damned |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales |
Herman Melville |
| Bleak House |
Charles Dickens |
| The Bostonians |
Henry James |
| The Brothers Karamazov |
Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Bulfinch's Mythology |
Thomas Bulfinch |
| The Call of the Wild and White Fang |
Jack London |
| Candide |
Voltaire |
| The Canterbury Tales |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
| A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and The Cricket on the Hearth |
Charles Dickens |
| The Collected Oscar Wilde |
Oscar Wilde |
| The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson |
Emily Dickinson |
| Common Sense and Other Writings |
Thomas Paine |
| The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings |
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels |
| The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol. I |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol. II |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Confessions |
St. Augustine |
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
Mark Twain |
| The Count of Monte Cristo |
Alexandre Dumas |
| The Country of the Pointed Firs and Selected Short Fiction |
Sarah Orne Jewett |
| Crime and Punishment |
Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Cyrano de Bergerac |
Edmond Rostand |
| Daisy Miller and Washington Square |
Henry James |
| Daniel Deronda |
George Eliot |
| David Copperfield |
Charles Dickens |
| Dead Souls |
Nikolai Gogol |
| The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories |
Leo Tolstoy |
| The Deerslayer |
James Fenimore Cooper |
| Don Quixote |
Miguel de Cervantes |
| Dracula |
Bram Stoker |
| Emma |
Jane Austen |
| The Enchanted Castle and Five Children and It |
Edith Nesbit |
| Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Essential Dialogues of Plato |
Plato |
| Essential Fiction and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe |
Edgar Allan Poe |
| Ethan Frome and Selected Stories |
Edith Wharton |
| Fairy Tales |
Hans Christian Andersen |
| Far from the Madding Crowd |
Thomas Hardy |
| Fathers and Sons |
Ivan Turgenev |
| The Federalist |
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay |
| Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights |
Various Authors |
| The Four Feathers |
A. E. W. Mason |
| Frankenstein |
Mary Shelley |
| Germinal |
Emile Zola |
| The Good Soldier |
Ford Madox Ford |
| Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway |
Various Authors |
| The Great Escapes: Four Slave Narratives |
Various Authors |
| Great Expectations |
Charles Dickens |
| Grimm's Fairy Tales |
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm |
| Gulliver's Travels |
Jonathan Swift |
| Hard Times |
Charles Dickens |
| Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction |
Joseph Conrad |
| The Histories |
Herodotus |
| The History of the Peloponnesian War |
Thucydides |
| The House of Mirth |
Edith Wharton |
| The House of Seven Gables |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The House of the Dead and Poor Folk |
Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Howards End |
E. M. Forster |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
Victor Hugo |
| The Idiot |
Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| The Iliad |
Homer |
| The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays |
Oscar Wilde |
| Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl |
Harriet A. Jacobs |
| The Inferno |
Dante Alighieri |
| The Interpretation of Dreams |
Sigmund Freud |
| Ivanhoe |
Sir Walter Scott |
| Jane Eyre |
Charlotte Brontë |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth |
Jules Verne |
| Jude the Obscure |
Thomas Hardy |
| The Jungle |
Upton Sinclair |
| The Jungle Book |
Rudyard Kipling |
| Kim |
Rudyard Kipling |
| King Solomon's Mines |
H. Rider Haggard |
| Lady Chatterley's Lover |
D. H. Lawrence |
| The Last of the Mohicans |
James Fenimore Cooper |
| Leaves of Grass: First and "Death-Bed" Editions |
Walt Whitman |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings |
Washington Irving |
| Les Liaisons Dangereuses |
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos |
| Les Misérables (abridged) |
Victor Hugo |
| The Life of Charlotte Brontë |
Elizabeth Gaskell |
| Little Women |
Louisa May Alcott |
| Lord Jim |
Joseph Conrad |
| Lost Illusions |
Honoré de Balzac |
| Madame Bovary |
Gustave Flaubert |
| Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Writings about New York |
Stephen Crane |
| The Magnificent Ambersons |
Booth Tarkington |
| Main Street |
Sinclair Lewis |
| Man and Superman and Three Other Plays |
George Bernard Shaw |
| The Man in the Iron Mask |
Alexandre Dumas |
| Mansfield Park |
Jane Austen |
| The Mayor of Casterbridge |
Thomas Hardy |
| Metamorphoses |
Ovid |
| The Metamorphosis and Other Stories |
Franz Kafka |
| Middlemarch |
George Eliot |
| Moby-Dick |
Herman Melville |
| Moll Flanders |
Daniel Defoe |
| The Moonstone |
Wilkie Collins |
| My Antonia |
Willa Cather |
| My Bondage and My Freedom |
Frederick Douglass |
| Nana |
Émile Zola |
| Narrative of Sojourner Truth |
Sojourner Truth |
| Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave |
Frederick Douglass |
| Nicholas Nickleby |
Charles Dickens |
| Night and Day |
Virginia Woolf |
| Northanger Abbey |
Jane Austen |
| Nostromo |
Joseph Conrad |
| Notes from Underground, The Double, and Other Stories |
Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| The Odyssey |
Homer |
| Of Human Bondage |
W. Somerset Maugham |
| Oliver Twist |
Charles Dickens |
| O Pioneers! |
Willa Cather |
| The Origin of Species |
Charles Darwin |
| Paradise Lost |
John Milton |
| The Paradiso |
Dante Alighieri |
| Pere Goriot |
Honore de Balzac |
| Peter and Wendy |
J. M. Barrie |
| Persuasion |
Jane Austen |
| The Phantom of the Opera |
Gaston Leroux |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Oscar Wilde |
| The Pilgrim's Progress |
John Bunyan |
| Poetics and Rhetoric |
Aristotle |
| The Portrait of a Lady |
Henry James |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners |
James Joyce |
| The Possessed |
Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Pride and Prejudice |
Jane Austen |
| The Prince and Other Writings |
Niccolò Machiavelli |
| The Prince and the Pauper |
Mark Twain |
| Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins |
Mark Twain |
| Purgatorio |
Dante Alighieri |
| Pygmalion and Three Other Plays |
George Bernard Shaw |
| The Red and the Black |
Stendhal |
| The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction |
Stephen Crane |
| Republic |
Plato |
| The Return of the Native |
Thomas Hardy |
| The Rise of Silas Lapham |
William Dean Howells |
| Robinson Crusoe |
Daniel Defoe |
| A Room with a View |
E. M. Forster |
| Sailing Alone Around the World |
Joshua Slocum |
| Scaramouche |
Rafael Sabatini |
| The Scarlet Letter |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel |
Baroness Orczy |
| The Secret Agent |
Joseph Conrad |
| The Secret Garden |
Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| Selected Stories of O. Henry |
O. Henry |
| Sense and Sensibility |
Jane Austen |
| Sentimental Education |
Gustave Flaubert |
| Siddhartha |
Hermann Hesse |
| Silas Marner and Two Short Stories |
George Eliot |
| Sister Carrie |
Theodore Dreiser |
| Six Plays by Henrik Ibsen |
Henrik Ibsen |
| Sons and Lovers |
D. H. Lawrence |
| The Souls of Black Folk |
W. E. B. Du Bois |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Swann's Way |
Marcel Proust |
| A Tale of Two Cities |
Charles Dickens |
| Tao Te Ching |
Lao Tzu |
| Tarzan of the Apes |
Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
Thomas Hardy |
| This Side of Paradise |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Three Lives |
Gertrude Stein |
| The Three Musketeers |
Alexandre Dumas |
| Three Theban Plays |
Sophocles |
| Thus Spoke Zarathustra |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
| The Time Machine and The Invisible Man |
H. G. Wells |
| Tom Jones |
Henry Fielding |
| Treasure Island |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
| The Turn of the Screw, The Aspern Papers, and Two Stories |
Henry James |
| Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
Jules Verne |
| Two Years Before the Mast |
Richard Henry Dana, Jr. |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Utopia |
Thomas More |
| Vanity Fair |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
| The Varieties of Religious Experience |
William James |
| Villette |
Charlotte Brontë |
| The Virginian |
Owen Wister |
| The Voyage Out |
Virginia Woolf |
| Walden and Civil Disobedience |
Henry David Thoreau |
| War and Peace |
Leo Tolstoy |
| The War of the Worlds |
H. G. Wells |
| Ward No. 6 and Other Stories |
Anton Chekhov |
| The Waste Land and Other Poems |
T. S. Eliot |
| The Way We Live Now |
Anthony Trollope |
| The Wind in the Willows |
Kenneth Grahame |
| The Wings of the Dove |
Henry James |
| Wives and Daughters |
Elizabeth Gaskell |
| Women in Love |
D. H. Lawrence |
| The Woman in White |
Wilkie Collins |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
L. Frank Baum |
| Wuthering Heights |
Emily Brontë |
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