20 Free Barnes & Noble Classics

koland · 08-25-2011, 01:18 AM

Barnes & Noble has updated a number of their B&N Classics Series books -- they are now in the EPUB format rather than PDB (ereader), which means they should work on all the nook ereaders, not just the original nook. Right now, 20 of the titles are free. These are annotated classics, not just scanned editions, which usually sell for $3-$4.

Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne
Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas
Good Soldier, by Ford M Ford
Awakening and Selected Short Fiction, by Kate Chopin
Art of War, by Sun Tzu
Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I, by Sir Arthur C Doyle
Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners, by James Joyce
Paradise Lost, by John Milton
Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton
Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift
Collected Poems, by Emily Dickinson
Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
Odyssey, by Homer

ATDrake · 08-25-2011, 02:41 AM

Awesomeness!

We can probably expect The Art of War, Awakening, Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, Complete Sherlock Holmes Vol. I, The Good Soldier, House of Mirth, Jude the Obscure, The Odyssey, Paradise Lost, and The Picture of Dorian Gray to stick around for a while, since those are now the free promo titles which replaced the original NookStudy 12 when B&N went and refreshed the College Kick-Start Kit to go with one of the app updates last week.

But now I'm wondering if they're meaning to add the 10 newer freebies to the College Kick-Start Kit page or they're planning another rotating promo like last summer's, hopefully*.

In any case, despite their problems, between this and the 60% off Fictionwise coupon I'm pretty happy with B&N right now.

* This batch now adds another 4+2 B&N Classics to the freebies offered so far. Only 72 more to go and I'll have the entire set!

colinsky · 08-25-2011, 02:46 AM

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Originally Posted by ATDrake

* This batch now adds another 4+2 B&N Classics to freebies offered so far. Only 72 more to go and I'll have the entire set!

I'm counting 77 missing! We may need to exchange lists...

ATDrake · 08-25-2011, 02:56 AM

My math may be slightly off due to subtracting from a total list which I'm pretty sure is just for the B&N Classics that made it to e-book editions last time I checked, not the full set of paper ones, which have a slightly higher count. Going from the "total" number found in search results on B&N's website can be deceptive for this reason, since they also count some duplicates, IIRC.

I do know that last time I looked, a number of B&N Classics hadn't been converted yet (Dante's Paradiso being the most glaring gap) but they'd also just added a new batch (including Herodotus' Histories) to the original 196 or so that were available digitally last year.

ETA: 74 more to go, according to the recount. Full list of not yet offered under the spoiler tag for the morbidly curious.

Spoiler:

colinsky · 08-25-2011, 04:35 AM

Thanks--your list helped bring me into shape. I think you are back down to 72, as "The Good Soldier" and "Paradise Lost" are on your spoiler list.

I'm at 72 now, with one discrepancy. You have "War and Peace", which I don't believe is available in a nook version. I instead have "Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway*Edited by Corinne Demas" which is marked in the catalog as a Barnes & Noble Classic, but doesn't match the design of the rest of the series.

Everything else I was wrong about turned out to be just a plain "Barnes & Noble Edition" (NON-CLASSIC) which apparently had shown up in my Classics search.

tubemonkey · 08-25-2011, 05:22 AM

How many ebooks are in the B&N Classics?

tubemonkey · 08-25-2011, 05:39 AM

13 of these titles are duplicates for me. Yet, B&N let me download them again, instead of telling me that I already had them.

What's with that?

GreenMonkey · 08-25-2011, 06:16 AM

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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

12 of these titles are duplicates for me. Yet, B&N let me download them again, instead of telling me that I already had them.

What's with that?

Different edition or something. I see the same thing - my old free copy of Tom Sawyer, for example, links to the 2009 ebook edition for $3.99.

Thanks for the freebies, OP!!

carpetmojo · 08-25-2011, 08:20 AM

Am I a bit dim
[yes, OK, I'll cop to that one, laying meself open etc...]
but is this not the greatest offer in the world ? More a soundbite in fact ?

Or are they fantastically formated and proofed etc.. versions - up to Harry's standards, for example ?

bgalbrecht · 08-25-2011, 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey

Different edition or something. I see the same thing - my old free copy of Tom Sawyer, for example, links to the 2009 ebook edition for $3.99.

They did that with some or all of the NookStudy freebies from last year, too. As near as I could tell, the two versions are identical except for the book ID information

And to answer carpetmojo, these are well formatted classics, and each one usually has very well written introductions and/or afterwards.

bookratt · 08-25-2011, 01:14 PM

THANKS!!!

Little_bear · 08-25-2011, 01:33 PM

Thank you. I already had five of them, I downloaded the rest.

lila55 · 08-25-2011, 01:52 PM

Thank you!

ATDrake · 08-25-2011, 01:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colinsky

I'm at 72 now, with one discrepancy. You have "War and Peace", which I don't believe is available in a nook version. I instead have "Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway*Edited by Corinne Demas" which is marked in the catalog as a Barnes & Noble Classic, but doesn't match the design of the rest of the series.

No, you're right. War and Peace in my original list has a ticky mark indicating it's one of the not-yet-converted ones, which failed to transfer over when I did the cut-and-paste.

As for the Demas anthology, it really is a B&N Classic (and one of the newer e-released ones that I stuck several spaces after the rest as "Various Authors" and forgot to C&P). It just shows a different cover because for some reason B&N's listing is defaulting to grouping them under the old hardcover editions, but when you go direct to the "Nook book" edition page, it's got the new-style cover.

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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

How many ebooks are in the B&N Classics?

I think we're up to 203 total right now, with 3 paper editions still MIA: Dante's Paradiso, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of Seven Gables.

Quote:

Originally Posted by carpetmojo

Or are they fantastically formated and proofed etc.. versions - up to Harry's standards, for example ?

The proofing could use a little work (occasional scannos and wrong-way curly quotes), but the formatting is pretty good and nicely standardized across the line.

But it's the extras which really make the series, with intro and background and "derivative works [i.e. movies] inspired by" essays and contemporary/historical criticism (see what Plato had to say about Homer! thrill at what Arthur Conan Doyle thought about Dracula!) and further reading bibliographies.

Plus many of the titles have helpful explanatory footnotes for culture and customs of the setting and writing period which can be a big help for some of the more distant works (Pride and Prejudice has an especially nice set of double footnotes explaining a lot of Regency-era stuff you might not pick up from context alone).

SensualPoet · 08-25-2011, 02:08 PM

And another reminder that B&N Nook Books are now being sold to Canadian residents including freebies like these. You can read them using the free Nook PC tool or, if you have acquired a Nook through some nefarious means (since B&N will not sell you one for shipment to Canada), or if some magic dust is sprinkled on them they may be readable on a Kobo.

08-25-2011, 01:18 AM	#1
koland Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,560 Karma: 8033155 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: TN, USA Device: kindle(all), nook, nookcolor, Sony, Kobo, epic, iphone, iPad, pc	20 Free Barnes & Noble Classics Barnes & Noble has updated a number of their B&N Classics Series books -- they are now in the EPUB format rather than PDB (ereader), which means they should work on all the nook ereaders, not just the original nook. Right now, 20 of the titles are free. These are annotated classics, not just scanned editions, which usually sell for $3-$4. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas Good Soldier, by Ford M Ford Awakening and Selected Short Fiction, by Kate Chopin Art of War, by Sun Tzu Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I, by Sir Arthur C Doyle Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners, by James Joyce Paradise Lost, by John Milton Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift Collected Poems, by Emily Dickinson Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde Odyssey, by Homer

08-25-2011, 02:41 AM	#2
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Awesomeness! We can probably expect The Art of War, Awakening, Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, Complete Sherlock Holmes Vol. I, The Good Soldier, House of Mirth, Jude the Obscure, The Odyssey, Paradise Lost, and The Picture of Dorian Gray to stick around for a while, since those are now the free promo titles which replaced the original NookStudy 12 when B&N went and refreshed the College Kick-Start Kit to go with one of the app updates last week. But now I'm wondering if they're meaning to add the 10 newer freebies to the College Kick-Start Kit page or they're planning another rotating promo like last summer's, hopefully. In any case, despite their problems, between this and the 60% off Fictionwise coupon I'm pretty happy with B&N right now. This batch now adds another 4+2 B&N Classics to the freebies offered so far. Only 72 more to go and I'll have the entire set! Last edited by ATDrake; 08-25-2011 at 02:46 AM. Reason: I look marginally less illiterate if I go back and fill in the missing definite articles.

08-25-2011, 02:56 AM	#4
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	My math may be slightly off due to subtracting from a total list which I'm pretty sure is just for the B&N Classics that made it to e-book editions last time I checked, not the full set of paper ones, which have a slightly higher count. Going from the "total" number found in search results on B&N's website can be deceptive for this reason, since they also count some duplicates, IIRC. I do know that last time I looked, a number of B&N Classics hadn't been converted yet (Dante's Paradiso being the most glaring gap) but they'd also just added a new batch (including Herodotus' Histories) to the original 196 or so that were available digitally last year. ETA: 74 more to go, according to the recount. Full list of not yet offered under the spoiler tag for the morbidly curious. Spoiler: Dante Alighieri: Purgatorio Aristotle: Poetics and Rhetoric Saint Augustine: Confessions Honoré de Balzac: Père Goriot; Lost Illusions Thomas Bulfinch: Bulfinch's Mythology John Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress Anton Chekhov: Ward No. 6 & Other Stories Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim; Nostromo; Secret Agent Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe Charles Dickens: David Copperfield; Hard Times; Nicholas Nickleby Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov; House of the Dead & Poor Folk; The Idiot; Notes From Underground, The Double, & Other Stories; Possessed George Eliot: Daniel Deronda; Middlemarch; Silas Marner & Two Short Stories Henry Fielding: Tom Jones Ford Maddox Ford: The Good Soldier E.M. Forster: Howard's End Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams Nikolai Gogol: Dead Souls Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge; Return of the Native Herodotus: The Histories Herman Hesse: Siddhartha William D. Howells: The Rise of Silas Lapham Henrik Ibsen: Six Plays by Henrik Ibsen Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Henry James: The Ambassadors; Turn of the Screw, The Aspern Papers, & Two Short Stories William James: Varieties of Religious Experience Sarah Orne Jewett: The Country of the Pointed Firs & Selected Short Fiction James Weldon Johnson: Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man & Other Writings Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince & Other Writings A.E.W. Mason: The Four Feathers Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto & Other Writings W. Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage Guy de Maupassant: The Collected Stories of Guy de Maupassant Herman Melville: Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales John Milton: Paradise Lost Sir Thomas More: Utopia Baroness Emmuskay Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel Ovid: The Metamorphoses Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra Plato: Essential Dialogues of Plato Marcel Proust: Swann's Way Rafael Sabatini: Scaramouche George Bernard Shaw: Man and Superman & Three Other Plays Sophocles: Three Theban Plays George Stade: The Great Escapes: Four Slave Narratives Gertrude Stein: Three Lives Stendhal: The Red and the Black Booth Tarkington: The Magnificent Ambersons Thucydides: The History of the Peloponnesian War Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilych & Other Stories; War and Peace Anthony Trollope: Barchester Towers; The Way We Live Now Ivan Turgenev: Fathers and Sons Mark Twain: Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching Virgil: The Aeneid Oscar Wilde: The Collected Oscar Wilde; The Importance of Being Earnest & Four Other Plays Emile Zola: Germinal Last edited by ATDrake; 08-25-2011 at 03:17 AM. Reason: I know the difference between exception and omission, really.

08-25-2011, 04:35 AM	#5
colinsky Addict Posts: 240 Karma: 3500000 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: Sony PRS-300, PRS-T1, PRS-T3	Thanks--your list helped bring me into shape. I think you are back down to 72, as "The Good Soldier" and "Paradise Lost" are on your spoiler list. I'm at 72 now, with one discrepancy. You have "War and Peace", which I don't believe is available in a nook version. I instead have "Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to HemingwayEdited by Corinne Demas" which is marked in the catalog as a Barnes & Noble Classic, but doesn't match the design of the rest of the series. Everything else I was wrong about turned out to be just a plain "Barnes & Noble Edition" (NON-CLASSIC) which apparently had shown up in my Classics search. Last edited by colinsky; 08-25-2011 at 04:46 AM. Reason: I can spell but apparently not type.*

08-25-2011, 05:39 AM	#7
tubemonkey monkey on the fringe Posts: 45,746 Karma: 158575914 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Seattle Metro Device: Moto E6, Echo Show	13 of these titles are duplicates for me. Yet, B&N let me download them again, instead of telling me that I already had them. What's with that? Last edited by tubemonkey; 08-25-2011 at 05:38 PM. Reason: change quantity from 12 to 13

08-25-2011, 05:22 AM	#6
tubemonkey monkey on the fringe Posts: 45,746 Karma: 158575914 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Seattle Metro Device: Moto E6, Echo Show	How many ebooks are in the B&N Classics?

08-25-2011, 08:20 AM	#9
carpetmojo Wizard Posts: 3,117 Karma: 9269999 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: UK Device: Sony- T3, PRS650, 350, T1/2/3, Paperwhite, Fire 8.9,Samsung Tab S 10.5	Ay ???? Am I a bit dim [yes, OK, I'll cop to that one, laying meself open etc...] but is this not the greatest offer in the world ? More a soundbite in fact ? Or are they fantastically formated and proofed etc.. versions - up to Harry's standards, for example ?

08-25-2011, 01:14 PM	#11
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08-25-2011, 01:33 PM	#12
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08-25-2011, 01:52 PM	#13
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08-25-2011, 02:08 PM	#15
SensualPoet Wizard Posts: 2,302 Karma: 2607151 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Toronto Device: Kobo Aura HD, Kindle Paperwhite, Asus ZenPad 3, Kobo Glo	And another reminder that B&N Nook Books are now being sold to Canadian residents including freebies like these. You can read them using the free Nook PC tool or, if you have acquired a Nook through some nefarious means (since B&N will not sell you one for shipment to Canada), or if some magic dust is sprinkled on them they may be readable on a Kobo.

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