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Read the full story of the gallant Nutcracker Prince, and revel in the magic of a delightful Christmas tradition.The Nutcracker features the full text of Alexandre Dumas's "The History of a Nutcracker," the story that was adapted for Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet, The Nutcracker, in 1892. Lavishly illustrated with more than a hundred vintage drawings from the nineteenth century, this beautifully designed book kindles the spirit of the holidays through its account of an enchanted nutcracker made human one Christmas through the love of a young girl, and the couple’s magical journey through exotic lands of sweets and spices.The Nutcracker is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an elegantly designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging.

Never out of print since its first publication in 1923, Kahlil Gibran’s collection of prose poems is one of the best-loved volumes in world literature. Gibran’s transcendent verse cycle follows the prophet Almustafa as he boards a ship bearing him homeward and discusses life, love, and all aspects of the human condition with his fellow travelers.

This compact compendium contains the best work by the nineteenth-century British Romantic poets: William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats. It includes some of the greatest poems in the English language, among them Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” Shelley’s “Ozymandias,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” and Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan.”

Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.” With that undying line Edgar Allan Poe ensured his immortality in the annals of American letters. What student of literature or lover of poetry is not familiar with his poem “The Raven,” and the heartbreaking message implicit in its melancholy refrain? “The Raven” is by far Poe’s best-known poem and it is one of more than forty to be found in The Raven and Other Poems, a volume that collects the best of Poe’s exercises in verse. Here, readers are treated to such masterpieces as “Annabel Lee,” “The Haunted Palace,” “The Conqueror Worm,” “The City in the Sea,” “Lenore,” and many more. These poems are imbued with the somber seriousness that we associate with Poe’s macabre fiction, but also with his marvelous appraisals of the mysteries of our and other worlds, and his fervent belief in undying love.The Raven and Other Poems is one of Barnes & Noble’s Collectible Editions classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world’s greatest authors in an elegantly designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging.