Barnes & Noble Classics Arrive in Bookstores Everywhere; First 15 Titles Are Ready for Summer Reading.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2003 Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : BKS BKS Barracks BKS Best Kept Secret (gaming) BKS Bildung, Kultur Und Sport (German) BKS Brookside (city) BKS Bergen Kirurgiske Sykehus (Bergen, Norway) ), the world's largest bookseller, announced today that the first 15 titles in its BARNES & NOBLE CLASSICS series are now available in bookstores across the country and on Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com), just in time for summer reading. They are priced from $3.95 to $9.95. The next 50 titles in the series will roll out over the coming eight months, at the rate of about six per month, with 100 titles available by June 2004. "We're very excited about the arrival of the first 15 titles in the series. They look spectacular, and reflect the strength of the series overall," said Alan Kahn, president of Barnes & Noble Publishing. "We hope these new editions will entice readers of all ages to delve into the classics and see what makes them the best-sellers of all time." Barnes & Noble Classics are new, quality editions of the world's greatest books, from The Odyssey Odyssey (ŏd`ĭsē): see Homer. Odyssey Homer’s long, narrative poem centered on Odysseus. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey] See : Epic Odyssey to Jane Eyre This article is about the Victorian novel. For other uses, see Jane Eyre (disambiguation). Jane Eyre is a classic romance novel by Charlotte Brontë that was published in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Company, London. , Moby Dick Moby Dick pursued by Ahab and crew of Pequod. [Am. Lit.: Moby Dick] See : Quarry Moby Dick white whale pursued relentlessly by Captain Ahab; “It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me. and The Souls of Black Folk. Each book contains original, insightful scholarship, including newly commissioned introductions by leading experts; significant historical and biographical bi·o·graph·i·cal also bi·o·graph·ic adj. 1. Containing, consisting of, or relating to the facts or events in a person's life. 2. Of or relating to biography as a literary form. notes; footnotes and endnotes; unique sections, including one called "Inspired By" which lists notable sequels, poems, plays, films, and paintings inspired by the work; and original illustrations where appropriate. The series pays extraordinary attention to detail, including eye-catching cover designs and top-quality paper and binding. The first 15 titles are currently available in trade and mass-market paperback editions and will soon be available in hardcover. They are: Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction Jack London's The Call of the Wild and White Fang Bram Stoker's Dracula Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Charles Dickens' Great Expectations Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre Upton Sinclair's The Jungle George Eliot's Middlemarch Herman Melville's Moby-Dick Homer's The Odyssey Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk ABOUT BARNES & NOBLE, INC. Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) is the world's largest bookseller, operating 628 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 49 states. It also operates 258 B. Dalton Dalton, city (1990 pop. 21,761), seat of Whitfield co., extreme NW Ga., in the Appalachian valley; inc. 1847. It is a highly industrialized city in a farm area. Bookseller stores, primarily in regional shopping malls. The company offers titles from more than 50,000 publisher imprints, including thousands of small, independent publishers and university presses. It conducts its e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. business through Barnes & Noble.com (http://www.bn.com) in which it owns an approximate 38% interest. Barnes & Noble also has approximately a 60% interest in GameStop (NYSE: GME GME granulomatous meningoencephalitis. GME Graduate medical education, see there ), the nation's largest video-game and entertainment-software specialty retailer with 1,231 stores. General financial information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained on the Internet at the company's corporate Web site: http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com/financials. |
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