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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.
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.