100 Classic Book Collection

{{Short description|2008 e-book collection}}

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| title = 100 Classic Book Collection

| image = 100 Classic Book Collection.jpg

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| developer = Genius Sonority

| publisher = Nintendo

| director = Masayuki Kawamoto

| producer = Manabu Yamana

| designer = {{ubl|Koji Noguchi|Mizuho Ishiyama|Shuhei Matsubara}}

| artist = {{ubl|Ryo Koizumi|Harumi Mochizuki|Yasuo Inoue}}

| composer = {{ubl|Mitsuhiro Kaneda|Kimihiro Abe|Noriyuki Kamikura}}

| released = {{vgrelease|JP|October 18, 2007}}{{vgrelease|EU|December 26, 2008{{Cite web| author=Jenkins, David | date=January 6, 2009 |title=UK Charts: Wii Play Is 2009's First Chart Topper | url=http://gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21743 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090202112438/http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21743 | url-status=dead | archive-date=February 2, 2009 | work=Gamasutra.co | accessdate=2009-08-08}}|AUS|January 22, 2009{{Cite web | author=Kozanecki, James | date=January 19, 2009 | title=AU Shippin' Out January 19–23: Skate 2 | url=http://uk.gamespot.com/ds/puzzle/100classicbookcollection/news.html?sid=6203344&om_act=convert&om_clk=newsfeatures&tag=newsfeatures;title | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130123232728/http://uk.gamespot.com/ds/puzzle/100classicbookcollection/news.html?sid=6203344&om_act=convert&om_clk=newsfeatures&tag=newsfeatures;title | url-status=dead | archive-date=January 23, 2013 | work=GameSpot.com | accessdate=2009-08-09 }}}}{{vgrelease|NA|June 15, 2010{{Cite web| author=Cabral, Matt | date=February 24, 2010 | title=DSi XL Hits North America Next Month For $190 | url=http://kotaku.com/5479225/dsi-xl-hits-north-america-next-month-for-190 | work=Kotaku.com | accessdate=2010-02-24}}}}

| genre = Educational

| modes = Single-player

| platforms = Nintendo DS

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100 Classic Book Collection, known in North America as 100 Classic Books, is an e-book collection developed by Genius Sonority and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. First released in Europe in December 2008, it was later released in Australia in January 2009, and in North America in June 2010. The game includes one hundred public domain works of literature.

Genius Sonority had previously released a similar collection of books in Japan, under the title DS Bungaku Zenshuu, in October 2007.{{Cite web | author=Spencer | date=October 27, 2007 | title=Siliconera " Books on your DS? Hands on DS Bungaku Zenshuu | url=http://www.siliconera.com/2007/10/24/books-on-your-ds-hands-on-ds-bungaku-zenshuu/ | work=Siliconera.com | accessdate=2009-08-09}}{{Cite web | script-title=ja:DS文学全集 | url=https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/ybnj/index.html | work=Nintendo.co.jp | language=Japanese | accessdate=2009-08-09}} A smaller version of the collection consisting of 20 books, under the title Chotto DS Bungaku Zenshu: Sekai no Bungaku 20, was released in Japan as a downloadable DSiWare application in February 2009.{{Cite web | author=Spencer | date=February 20, 2009 | title=Here Is Your Nintendo DSiWare Line Up For February | url=http://www.siliconera.com/2009/02/20/here-is-your-nintendo-dsiware-line-up-for-february/ | work=Siliconera.com | accessdate=2009-08-09}}{{Cite web | title=ちょっとDS文学全集 世界の文学20 | url=https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/dsiware/kbgj/ | work=Nintendo.co.jp | language=Japanese | accessdate=2009-08-09}} French and German versions, under the titles of 100 Livres Classiques and Bibliothek der klassischen Bücher respectively were released in March 2010.{{Cite web |title=Test du jeu 100 Livres Classiques sur DS |url=https://www.jeuxvideo.com/articles/0001/00012433-100-livres-classiques-test.htm |access-date=2022-07-04 |website=Jeuxvideo.com |language=fr}}{{Cite web |title=Bibliothek der klassischen Bücher |url=https://www.nintendo.de/Spiele/Nintendo-DS/Bibliothek-der-klassischen-Bucher-270132.html |access-date=2022-07-04 |website=Nintendo of Europe GmbH |language=de-DE}}

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Features

100 Classic Book Collection features one hundred books stored in the DS cartridge. Several of the works included are Othello by William Shakespeare, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, and The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. Additional free books were available to download via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection until the discontinuation of the service on May 20, 2014.{{Cite web | author=Riley, Adam | date=December 28, 2008 | title=100 Classic Book Collection (DS Novel) at C3 Reviews | url=http://www.cubed3.com/review/663/ | work=Cubed3.com | accessdate=2009-08-09}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Support/Nintendo-DSi-XL-/Basic-setup-and-use/Termination-of-Nintendo-Wi-Fi-Connection/Titles-with-additional-downloadable-content/Titles-with-additional-downloadable-content-864190.html|title=Titles with additional downloadable content|publisher=Nintendo|accessdate=15 May 2014}}

The player is required to hold the DS like a book and can adjust the text size and change background music to listen to while reading. A bookmark feature allows the player to mark their place in the book, as well as resume from that point on restart of the game. The game offers a search feature for books in several different ways, including genre, author, and length. Players can access introductions for the books and read about the authors. An in-game quiz feature asks players personality-related questions and recommends certain novels depending on the answers given. Players can send "trial versions" of the game to other DS users via the local Wi-Fi.

Reception

100 Classic Book Collection debuted on UK sales charts at number 17 during its week of release, and moved up to number 8 the following week.{{Cite web | author=Jenkins, David | date=January 13, 2009 | title=UK Charts: Wii Fit Sprints Back To Number One | url=http://gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21828 | work=Gamasutra.com | accessdate=2009-08-09 | archive-date=2009-02-02 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090202112710/http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21828 | url-status=dead }}

The content was well received, but critics felt the DS was not a suitable platform. Prior to the advent of Kindle, The Guardian newspaper reviewed the game as part of the "minority fad" of e-readers, declaring it bland and impersonal but good value for money.{{Cite news | author=Anderiesz, Mike | date=January 6, 2009 | title=Guardian review | url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jan/06/classic-book-collection-nintendo-ds | location=London | work=The Guardian}} Eurogamer magazine criticised Nintendo for only using texts that were out of copyright and for not spending the extra for modern classics. They also found the text difficult to read due to the size of the screen, with unhelpful hyphenations, a low word number per page and distracting animations.{{Cite news | author=Gibson, Ellie| date=February 9, 2009 | title=Eurogamer review | newspaper=Eurogamer.net | url=http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/100-classic-book-collection-review }} The Telegraph newspaper agreed that the game offered good value for money but also criticised the size of the screen.{{Cite news | author=Hoggins, Tom| date=January 6, 2009 | title=Telegraph review | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/4142077/100-Classic-Book-Collection-review.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph}}

Included books

= List of books included =

== Europe/Australia ==

class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"

!Title

!Author

Little Women

|Louisa May Alcott

Emma

|Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

|Jane Austen

Persuasion

|Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

|Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

|Jane Austen

Lorna Doone

|R. D. Blackmore

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

|Anne Brontë

Jane Eyre

|Charlotte Brontë

The Professor

|Charlotte Brontë

Shirley

|Charlotte Brontë

Villette

|Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights

|Emily Brontë

The Pilgrim's Progress

|John Bunyan

Little Lord Fauntleroy

|Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden

|Frances Hodgson Burnett

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

|Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass

|Lewis Carroll

The Moonstone

|Wilkie Collins

The Woman in White

|Wilkie Collins

The Adventures of Pinocchio

|Carlo Collodi

Lord Jim

|Joseph Conrad

What Katy Did

|Susan Coolidge

The Last of the Mohicans

|James Fenimore Cooper

Robinson Crusoe

|Daniel Defoe

Barnaby Rudge

|Charles Dickens

Bleak House

|Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol

|Charles Dickens

David Copperfield

|Charles Dickens

Dombey and Son

|Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

|Charles Dickens

Hard Times

|Charles Dickens

Martin Chuzzlewit

|Charles Dickens

Nicholas Nickleby

|Charles Dickens

The Old Curiosity Shop

|Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

|Charles Dickens

The Pickwick Papers

|Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities

|Charles Dickens

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

|Arthur Conan Doyle

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

|Arthur Conan Doyle

The Count of Monte Cristo

|Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers

|Alexandre Dumas

Adam Bede

|George Eliot

Middlemarch

|George Eliot

The Mill on the Floss

|George Eliot

King Solomon's Mines

|H. Rider Haggard

Far from the Madding Crowd

|Thomas Hardy

The Mayor of Casterbridge

|Thomas Hardy

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

|Thomas Hardy

Under the Greenwood Tree

|Thomas Hardy

The Scarlet Letter

|Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

|Victor Hugo

Les Misérables

|Victor Hugo

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

|Washington Irving

Westward Ho!

|Charles Kingsley

Sons and Lovers

|D. H. Lawrence

The Phantom Of The Opera

|Gaston Leroux

The Call of the Wild

|Jack London

White Fang

|Jack London

Moby-Dick

|Herman Melville

Tales of Mystery & Imagination

|Edgar Allan Poe

Ivanhoe

|Walter Scott

Rob Roy

|Walter Scott

Waverley

|Walter Scott

Black Beauty

|Anna Sewell

All's Well That Ends Well

|William Shakespeare

Antony and Cleopatra

|William Shakespeare

As You Like It

|William Shakespeare

The Comedy of Errors

|William Shakespeare

Hamlet

|William Shakespeare

Henry V

|William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar

|William Shakespeare

King Lear

|William Shakespeare

Love's Labour's Lost

|William Shakespeare

Macbeth

|William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice

|William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream

|William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing

|William Shakespeare

Othello

|William Shakespeare

Richard III

|William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet

|William Shakespeare

The Taming of the Shrew

|William Shakespeare

The Tempest

|William Shakespeare

Timon of Athens

|William Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus

|William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night

|William Shakespeare

The Winter's Tale

|William Shakespeare

Kidnapped

|Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

|Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island

|Robert Louis Stevenson

Uncle Tom's Cabin

|Harriet Beecher Stowe

Gulliver's Travels

|Jonathan Swift

Vanity Fair

|William Makepeace Thackeray

Barchester Towers

|Anthony Trollope

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

|Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

|Mark Twain

Around the World in Eighty Days

|Jules Verne

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

|Jules Verne

The Importance of Being Earnest

|Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

|Oscar Wilde

== North America ==

class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"

!Title

!Author

Little Women

|Louisa May Alcott

Emma

|Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

|Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

|Jane Austen

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

|L. Frank Baum

Lorna Doone

|R. D. Blackmore

Jane Eyre

|Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights

|Emily Brontë

Little Lord Fauntleroy

|Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden

|Frances Hodgson Burnett

Tales from the Arabian Nights

|Richard Francis Burton

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

|Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass

|Lewis Carroll

Don Quixote

|Miguel de Cervantes

The Man Who Was Thursday

|G. K. Chesterton

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

|G. K. Chesterton

The Awakening

|Kate Chopin

The Moonstone

|Wilkie Collins

The Woman in White

|Wilkie Collins

Heart of Darkness

|Joseph Conrad

Lord Jim

|Joseph Conrad

The Deerslayer

|James Fenimore Cooper

The Last of the Mohicans

|James Fenimore Cooper

The Red Badge of Courage

|Stephen Crane

Moll Flanders

|Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe

|Daniel Defoe

Bleak House

|Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol

|Charles Dickens

David Copperfield

|Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

|Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

|Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities

|Charles Dickens

The Brothers Karamazov

|Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

|Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

|Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles

|Arthur Conan Doyle

The Count of Monte Cristo

|Alexandre Dumas

The Man in the Iron Mask

|Alexandre Dumas

Middlemarch

|George Eliot

Silas Marner

|George Eliot

The Diary of a Nobody

|George and Weedon Grossmith

Allan Quatermain

|H. Rider Haggard

King Solomon's Mines

|H. Rider Haggard

Far from the Madding Crowd

|Thomas Hardy

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

|Thomas Hardy

The Scarlet Letter

|Nathaniel Hawthorne

Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys

|Nathaniel Hawthorne

A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys

|Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Four Million

|O. Henry

The Odyssey

|Homer

The Prisoner of Zenda

|Anthony Hope

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

|Victor Hugo

Les Misérables

|Victor Hugo

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

|Washington Irving

The Aspern Papers

|Henry James

The Turn of the Screw

|Henry James

The Jungle Book

|Rudyard Kipling

Kim

|Rudyard Kipling

The Man Who Would Be King

|Rudyard Kipling

The Phantom of the Opera

|Gaston Leroux

The Call of the Wild

|Jack London

White Fang

|Jack London

The Princess and Curdie

|George MacDonald

The Princess and the Goblin

|George MacDonald

The Prince

|Niccolò Machiavelli

Moby-Dick

|Herman Melville

Utopia

|Thomas More

Rights of Man

|Thomas Paine

Tales of Mystery & Imagination

|Edgar Allan Poe

Ivanhoe

|Walter Scott

Waverley

|Walter Scott

Black Beauty

|Anna Sewell

Hamlet

|William Shakespeare

King Lear

|William Shakespeare

Macbeth

|William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream

|William Shakespeare

Othello

|William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet

|William Shakespeare

The Taming of the Shrew

|William Shakespeare

The Tempest

|William Shakespeare

Frankenstein

|Mary Shelley

Kidnapped

|Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

|Robert Louis Stevenson

Dracula

|Bram Stoker

Uncle Tom's Cabin

|Harriet Beecher Stowe

Gulliver's Travels

|Jonathan Swift

Vanity Fair

|William Makepeace Thackeray

Walden

|Henry David Thoreau

Anna Karenina

|Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace

|Leo Tolstoy

Barchester Towers

|Anthony Trollope

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

|Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

|Mark Twain

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

|Mark Twain

Journey to the Center of the Earth

|Jules Verne

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

|Jules Verne

The Time Machine

|H. G. Wells

The Age of Innocence

|Edith Wharton

The Importance of Being Earnest

|Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

|Oscar Wilde

= List of additional downloadable books =

== Europe/Australia ==

== North America ==

== France ==

References

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