Barnes & Noble classics

Having discovered the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire. Includes an introduction by Brooke Allen as well as a chronology, notes, and discussion questions.

An anthology of short stories and poems by Edgar Allan Poe including "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Purloined Letter," "Annabel Lee," and "The Raven.".

Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster in Cokestown, a northern English village beset by industrialism, runs his family and his school with a rigid adherence to facts, but his daughter's loveless marriage, his son's involvement with gambling and robbery, and his encounters with a variety of characters, force him to recognize the value of the human heart.

Presents a series of stories featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes, including "A Study in Scarlet," "The Sign of Four," "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," "Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes," and "The Hound of the Baskervilles.".

Contains short fiction from the nineteenth-century American novelist, and features his unfinished novella entitled "Billy Budd, Sailor," along with the "Piazza Tales," which includes "Bartleby," "The Bell-Tower," and others; and includes a brief biography of the author.

Collects short stories from Fyodor Dostoyevsky, including "Notes from Underground," in which a man on the fringe of society monologues about reason and irrationality; and "The Double," where a sullen government clerk meets a future, more mean-spirited version of himself.

Collects five plays by nineteenth-century Irish writer Oscar Wilde, including the title selection in which Jack Worthing, needing a regular escape from his dull country routine, creates a fictitious brother Ernest who supposedly lives in London, but the lie backfires when he falls in love; and offers an introduction to the author.

Contains the play "Man and Superman," a comedy that portrays Don Juan as the quarry instead of the huntsman, and three other plays by Irish-born playwright George Bernard Shaw; and includes commentaries, chronologies, notes, and discussion questions.