Classics for Boys (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) » (Special Value)

Transport children to a time when excitement seemed to lurk around every corner with these classic tales of action, adventure, and exploration.

• Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling
• Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
• The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

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, when appropriate

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.