Exactly. They're actually very nice editions, and definitely worth the download, even if they use sometimes clunky old public domain translations for any originally foreign-language texts (except Beowulf).
This week's are "Romance and Passion" themed. Jane Austen (4 books, completing the set from last week's 2), Anna Karenina, Brontė (2 out of 3 sisters), Dangerous Liaisons, Elizabeth Gaskell, EM Forster, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton. Most of those seem to be dysfunctional relationships rather than loving ones, though maybe I've just got the wrong idea about what romance is really about.
Now I'm kind of curious how they're going to theme ensuing weeks. I think they've got enough selection for 12 Horror and Mystery, Philosophy and Science, Action/Adventure, Lost in Translation, but further obvious groupings escape me.
It's really too bad B&N decided to up the price of the non-free Classics from $1.99 to $2.99, just five days into the promo.
Here I'd calculated that at probably 8 weeks w/12 different books each, assuming no repeats from week to week but that they'd overlap with all the 21 books previously offered free as part of the "All-American" promo and the three you normally get just for signing up, then I'd have gotten at least 96 out of the 149 available e-booked Classics for free, and it would only cost me $106 to get the remaining 53 or fewer and complete the set.
As it is, I think if I'm going to put money into B&N's corporate coffers, it's going to be by buying some nice MultiFormat sf/fantasy at Fictionwise while they're still around.
I hope they put the prices back down once the promo's over. Or just keep giving more of them away free as time goes by.
But anyway, this is a really nice promo and I'm still (mostly) grateful that they've decided to do it.