The Collector's Library
Parent company | Pan Macmillan |
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Founded | 2003 |
Founder | Marcus Clapham, Clive Reynard and Ken Webb |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Headquarters location | London |
Publication types | Books |
Fiction genres | Classic literature |
Official website | www |
In September 2003, Barnes & Noble Books of New York began to publish The Collector's Library series of some of the world's most notable literary works. By October 2005, fifty-nine volumes had been printed. Each unabridged volume is book size octodecimo, or 4 x 6-1/2 inches, printed in hardback, on high-quality paper, bound in real cloth, and contains a dust jacket. In 2015, The Collector's Library was acquired by Pan Macmillan.[1]
The stories
[edit]Sorted by publication date, then alphabetical by author
[edit]- 21 Sep 2003: Emma by Jane Austen
- 21 Sep 2003: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- 21 Sep 2003: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- 21 Sep 2003: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- 21 Sep 2003: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- 21 Sep 2003: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- 21 Sep 2003: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- 21 Sep 2003: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- 21 Sep 2003: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- 21 Sep 2003: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 21 Sep 2003: Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe (ISBN 0-7607-5366-0)
- 21 Sep 2003: Dracula by Bram Stoker
- 21 Sep 2003: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- ?? Jan 2004: The Communist Manifesto (selections) by Karl Marx and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels
- 04 Mar 2004: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- 04 Mar 2004: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
- 04 Mar 2004: Persuasion by Jane Austen
- 04 Mar 2004: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- 04 Mar 2004: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
- 04 Mar 2004: The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories by Stephen Crane
- 04 Mar 2004: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 04 Mar 2004: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- 04 Mar 2004: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- 04 Mar 2004: The Iliad by Homer
- 04 Mar 2004: The Odyssey by Homer
- 04 Mar 2004: Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
- 04 Mar 2004: Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
- 04 Mar 2004: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (ISBN 978-1-904633-42-6)
- 04 Mar 2004: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- 04 Mar 2004: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- 04 Mar 2004: Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- 04 Mar 2004: Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- 04 Mar 2004: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- 04 Mar 2004: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- 30 Aug 2004: Grimms' Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm
- 30 Aug 2004: The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
- 30 Aug 2004: A Christmas Carol & and Other Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens
- 30 Aug 2004: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 30 Aug 2004: Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- 30 Aug 2004: Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
- 30 Aug 2004: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- 30 Aug 2004: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
- 30 Aug 2004: The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
- 30 Aug 2004: The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
- 30 Aug 2004: The Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London
- 30 Aug 2004: The Prince & The Art of War by Niccolò Machiavelli
- 30 Aug 2004: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- 30 Aug 2004: Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
- 30 Aug 2004: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- 30 Aug 2004: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- 30 Aug 2004: The Aeneid by Virgil
- 30 Aug 2004: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- 30 Aug 2004: Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
- 10 Oct 2005: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- 10 Oct 2005: Lady Chatterleys Lover by D. H. Lawrence
- 10 Oct 2005: Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
- 01 Sep 2007: The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
References
[edit]- ^ "Pan Mac buys Collector's Library | The Bookseller". Retrieved 2017-12-26.
Sources
[edit]- Collector's Library. New York: Barnes & Noble Books. 2005.