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]

Sources[edit]

• Collector's Library. New York: Barnes & Noble Books. 2005.