Calico Illustrated Classics

Earliest Publication Date

2011

2) Aesop's fables

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3) A journey to the center of the earth

Earliest Publication Date

2012

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Verne, Jules, 1828-1905

Earliest Publication Date

1906

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4) A journey to the center of the earth

Geologist Otto Lidenbrock is perusing an ancient Icelandic manuscript when he discovers a mysterious encrypted note. The message reveals the account of a sixteenth-century explorer who claims to have found a passageway to the center of the earth. In his quest to penetrate the planet's primordial secrets, the impetuous professor, together with his quaking nephew, Axel, and their devoted guide, Hans, sets off immediately for Iceland. Descending through...

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Lay, Kathryn

Earliest Publication Date

2011

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5) Alexandre Dumas's The man in the iron mask

An illustrated retelling of Jules Verne's classic tale in which Professor Von Hardwigg, his nephew Harry, and their guide Hans explore a volcanic crater in Iceland that leads them to the center of the Earth and to incredible and horrifying discoveries.

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Earliest Publication Date

2011

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6) Alexandre Dumas's The three musketeers

In their final adventure, the four Musketeers plot to replace King Louis XIV of France with the mysterious, masked prisoner in the Bastille believed to be Louis' falsely imprisoned twin brother and the true king.

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Earliest Publication Date

2011

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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

In seventeenth-century France, young d'Artagnan initially quarrels with, then befriends, three musketeers and joins them in trying to outwit the enemies of the king and queen.

7) A tale of two cities

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Earliest Publication Date

1859

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A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens's great historical novel, set against the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author's novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores...

8) Charles Dickens's A Christmas carol

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Earliest Publication Date

2011

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9) Charles Dickens's A tale of two cities

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

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Earliest Publication Date

2010

10) Charles Dickens's David Copperfield

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Earliest Publication Date

2011

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An illustrated adaptation of Charles Dickens' "David Copperfield, " the story of a young boy in nineteenth-century London who runs away from an unhappy home, finds employment in a wine factory, and becomes acquainted with a wide variety of characters in the city streets.

11) Charles Dickens's Great expectations

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Earliest Publication Date

2010

12) Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

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13) Daniel Defoe's The adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Earliest Publication Date

2012

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Earliest Publication Date

2010

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In 1659, after becoming the sole survivor of a shipwreck, Englishman Robinson Crusoe lives on a deserted island for more than twenty-eight years.

14) Dracula

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Earliest Publication Date

2011

15) Gaston Leroux's The phantom of the opera

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Earliest Publication Date

2011

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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

Under the Paris Opera House lives a disfigured musical genius who uses music to win the love of a beautiful opera singer.

16) Great expectations

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Earliest Publication Date

1939

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Great Expectations is among the most masterful of Charles Dickens's novels. Displaying extraordinary tragicomic range, Dickens blends an atmosphere of brooding violence and guilt with sharp and often disturbing humor to create a drama charged with the thrilling intensity of a detective story and the poignancy of a spiritual autobiography. Much of the novel's power comes from Dickens's unequaled skill at making even the most wildly eccentric of characters...

17) Grimm's fairy tales

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Earliest Publication Date

2011

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Presents adaptations of ten fairy tales originally preserved by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.

18) Herman Melville's Moby Dick

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Earliest Publication Date

2010

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19) Howard Pyle's King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

Illustrated retelling of Herman Melville's classic story of Ishmael, a young seaman who joins the crew of the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.

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Earliest Publication Date

2010

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An illustrated retelling of the adventures and exploits of King Arthur and his knights at the court of Camelot and elsewhere in the land of the Britons.

20) J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan

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Earliest Publication Date

2010

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