A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain, 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 ...
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good
fortune, must be in want of a wife. So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's classic novel of manners and mores in early nineteenth century ...
Published in 1909 and subtitled “The Poetry, Pathos, and Humour of the Sailor’s Life,” this
anthology combines art and scholarship to give an unrivaled view of the social aspects of the life of British seamen. Subjects covered include historical literature ...
Euclid's Elements is a fundamental landmark of mathematical achievement. Firstly, it is a compendium of
the principal mathematical work undertaken in classical Greece, for which in many cases no other source survives. Secondly, it is a model of organizational clarity ...
Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction, by Joseph Conrad, 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 ...
John Jorrocks—a “renowned sporting citizen”—is the first character created by English comic writer Robert Smith
Surtees. Jorrocks’s Jaunts and Jollities is one of the author’s most celebrated and entertaining novels. A humorous narrative of the hunting, shooting, racing, ...
British nobleman Robert Carr (1587-1645) was knighted by James I, and for a time practically
ran the kingdom. In 1613 he wed Frances Howard (Lady Essex) after the king nullified her existing marriage. This 1908 history gives us his rise, ...
Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman, 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. ...
