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4) Jane Eyre
Author
Series
Publisher
Udon Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
As an orphaned child, Jane Eyre is first cruelly abused by her aunt, then cast out and sent to a charity school. Though she meets with further abuse, she receives an education, and eventually takes a job as a governess at the estate of Edward Rochester. Jane and Rochester begin to bond, but his dark moods trouble her. When Jane uncovers the terrible secret Rochester has been hiding, she flees and finds temporary refuge at the home of St. John Rivers....
Author
Series
Publisher
Udon Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Adapted for stage and screen, loved by millions, Victor Hugo's classic novel of love & tragedy set in 19th century France is reborn in this fantastic new manga edition! Gorgeous and expressive art of brings to life the unforgettable stories of Jean Valjean, Inspector Javert, and the tragic Fantine, in this epic adaptation of Les Miserables!"-- cover page 4.
Author
Series
Publisher
Udon Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Elinor Dashwood's father dies, her family's finances are crippled. After the Dashwoods move to a cottage in Devonshire, Elinor's sister Marianne is torn between the handsome John Willoughby and the older Colonel Brandon. Meanwhile, Elinor's romantic hopes with Edward Ferrars are hindered due to his prior engagement. Both Elinor and Marianne strive for love while the circumstances in their lives constantly change.
Author
Series
Publisher
Manga Classics
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Chafed by the "sivilized" restrictions of his foster home, and weary of his drunkard father's brutality, 14 year-old Huck Finn fakes his own death and sets off on a raft down the Mississippi River. He is soon joined by Jim, an escaped slave. Together, they experience a series of rollicking adventures that have amused readers, young and old, for over a century. The fugitives become close friends as they weather storms together aboard the raft and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Udon Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
On the very day of his wedding to the beautiful Mercedes, a young merchant sailor named Edmond Dantès is falsely imprisoned for life, laying to waste his plans of marriage and hard-earned fortune. Following several long years in prison he has managed to escape and reinvent himself as the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo. It is the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Count has been plotting his revenge on the three men who had him falsely imprisoned....
Author
Series
Publisher
Udon Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Heavily influenced by his childhood in British-ruled India, Rudyard Kipling created some of the most well-read children's stories in western culture. Originally published as a series of short stories for magazines in the late 1800s, the Nobel Prize-winning Rudyard Kipling would eventually publish the classic The Jungle Book in 1894.
Author
Series
Publisher
Manga Classics
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe is a brilliant collection of some of his best-known stories: The Tell Tale Heart (a murder s haunting guilt), The Cask of Amontillado (a story of brilliant revenge), and The Fall of the House of Usher (an ancient house full of very dark secretes). Also included in this collection are The Mask of the Red Death (horrors of the Plague ), and the most famous of all his poems: The Raven (a lover s decline into madness)....
Author
Series
Publisher
Manga Classics
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"That rascal Tom Sawyer cant stay out of trouble for a single minute! In this tale full of childhood mischief, adventure, and trouble, Tom turns the Mississippi town of St. Petersburgh on its ear nearly every day but theres a darker side to this town as well. When his childish adventures take a deadly turn, Tom and his outcast friend, Huckleberry Finn, must find a way to rise to the challenge, or else&!
12) Macbeth
Author
Series
Publisher
Manga Classics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Macbeth, the Thane of Cawdor, is a loyal subject of Duncan, the King of Scotland. At least, he used to be. With tempting words and treacherous images, three witches and his own wife inspire Macbeth to a terrible act of treason and murder. As one murder follows another, Macbeth begins to lose his grip upon both his sanity and his hard-won kingdom but what could possibly unseat him from his bloody throne?
Author
Series
Manga classics volume MC-015
Publisher
Manga Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A Midsummer Night's Dream portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (the mechanicals), who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world."-- provided by publisher.
14) Romeo and Juliet
Author
Series
Publisher
Manga Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A classic Shakespearean tragedy, Romeo and Juliet is the tale of two star-crossed young lovers who dare to defy their feuding families, put aside all obstacles, and find happiness together but at a tremendous cost. This grimly beautiful tale, set in Renaissance Italy, follow Romeo and Juliet from their fateful first meeting to their last.
15) Dracula
Author
Series
Publisher
Manga Classics, UDON Entertainment Corporation
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An ancient evil lurks in the dark heart of Transylvania but it wont lurk there forever. Now Count Draculas immortal eyes look towards London, a new land full of opportunity and unsuspecting victims. A ragged band of survivors must stop him before it is too late&but how?
16) Hamlet
Author
Series
Publisher
Manga Classics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The dead still walk in Denmark. Already crushed by his fathers death and his mothers hasty remarriage, the young prince Hamlet is confronted by his fathers ghost, bearing terrible news: he didnt simply die. He was murdered. Now Hamlet lives only for his vengeance no matter how many other people must die for it.
Author
Series
Publisher
Manga Classics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert were planning to adopt an orphaned boy to help out around their farm, Green Gables - instead, they got Anne Shirley. A plucky redheaded girl with a vibrant imagination, Anne turns first Green Gables and then the rest of Prince Edward Island on its ear."-- cover page 4.
18) Frankenstein
Author
Series
Publisher
Manga Classics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Obsessed with natural philosophy, the young Victor Frankenstein succeeds in creating life from its basic elements - and abandons the newborn monstrosity in terror when he cannot bear to look at it. The rejected creature vanishes, and Victor attempts to forget what he has done... But the monster survives. It learns. Deprived of everything, fated to forever be alone, it has nothing left but revenge.
19) Othello
Author
Series
Publisher
UDON Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant general in the service of Venice, Othello is also the new husband of the adoring and young Desdemona, whose innocent hero worship has blossomed into love. But can a beautiful girl, so much younger than her husband, truly be faithful? Othello's trusted ensign Iago seems to think not. Can Othello trust him? Can Othello trust anyone?"-- cover page 4.
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