Great Illustrated Classics
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The Great Illustrated Classics book series offers easy-to-read adaptations of well known literary classics, featuring large print and illustrations on every other page. The series is targeted at children. There are currently 66 titles.{{Cite web |title=Waldman Publishing Corp |url=http://www.familyequitypartners.com/wp_gic_list.html |access-date=2022-08-31 |website=www.familyequitypartners.com}}{{Cite web |title=Purchase Complete Series - All 66 Titles (Great Illustrated Classics) |url=https://www.greatillustratedclassics.com/product-p/all-in-1-bundle.htm |access-date=2022-08-31 |website=www.GreatIllustratedClassics.com}}
The series is owned, published, and sold by [http://www.waldmanbooks.com Waldman Publishing Corporation] under the Baronet Books imprint. As of 2022, each release is available for purchase directly from the publisher's website, including bundled volumes of certain titles.
Great Illustrated Classics
= Classic Stories =
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!Title !Code on spine !Publication date !Adapter !Original publication date !Original author !Notes |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
|C224-18 | rowspan="9" |1977 |Malvina G. Vogel |1870 | rowspan="2" |Jules Verne | |
| Around the World in 80 Days
|224-1 |Marian Leighton |1872 | |
| Black Beauty
|224-2 | rowspan="2" |Deidre S. Laiken |1877 | |
| Heidi
|B224-12 |1881 | |
| Kidnapped
|C224-20 |Deborah Kestel |1886 | |
| Little Women
|224-4 |Lucia Monfried |1868 | |
| The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
|C224-17 | rowspan="2" |Malvina G. Vogel |1719 |Originally Robinson Crusoe |
| The Three Musketeers
|B224-15 |1844 | |
| The Wizard of Oz
|224-8 |Deidre S. Laiken |1900 |Originally The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
| David Copperfield
|C224-23 | rowspan="12" |1979 |Malvina G. Vogel |1849 |Charles Dickens | |
| Moby Dick
|B224-16 |Shirley Bogart |1851 | |
| Oliver Twist
|224-5 |Marian Leighton |1837 |Charles Dickens | |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Case of The Hound of the Baskervilles
|I224-65 |Malvina G. Vogel |1901 |Originally The Hound of the Baskervilles |
| Tales of Mystery and Terror
|E224-33 |Marjorie P. Katz | |Anthology including The Cask of Amontillado, The Gold Bug, The Fall of The House of Usher, and The Tell-Tale Heart |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
|B224-14 | rowspan="2" |Deidre S. Laiken |1885 | rowspan="2" |Mark Twain | |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
|224-6 |1876 | |
| The Call of the Wild
|224-3 | rowspan="2" |Mitsu Yamamoto |1903 | |
| The Count of Monte Cristo
|D224-28 |1844 |Alexandre Dumas | |
| The Last of the Mohicans
|C224-24 |Eliza Gatewood Warren |1826 | |
| The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
|B224-13 | rowspan="2" |Deborah Kestel |1883 | |
| The Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty
|C224-19 |1932 |Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall |Originally The Mutiny on the Bounty |
| A Tale of Two Cities
|D224-26 | rowspan="8" |1983 |Marian Leighton |1859 |Charles Dickens | |
| Swiss Family Robinson
|B224-11 |Eliza Gatewood Warren |1812 | |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
|D224-25 |Malvina G. Vogel |1891 |Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| The Man in the Iron Mask
|I224-64 |Raymond H. Harris |1847 |Alexandre Dumas |Originally The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later |
| The Prince and the Pauper
|C224-22 |Shirley Bogart |1881 |Mark Twain | |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
|B224-10 |Mitsu Yamamoto |1886 |Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| The Time Machine
|D224-32 |Shirley Bogart |1895 | rowspan="2" |H.G. Wells | |
| The War of the Worlds
|G224-53 |Malvina G. Vogel |1898 | |
| A Journey to the Center of the Earth
|B224-9 | rowspan="3" |1990 |Howard J. Schwach |1864 |Jules Verne | |
| The Red Badge of Courage
|D224-27 |Malvina G. Vogel |1895 | |
| Treasure Island
|224-7 |Deidre S. Laiken |1883 |Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Captains Courageous
|D224-29 | rowspan="2" |1992 | rowspan="2" |Malvina G. Vogel |1897 | |
| Frankenstein
|D224-30 |1818 | |
| Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
|F224-48 | rowspan="6" |1994 |Eliza Gatewood Warren |1903 | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame
|E224-36 |Malvina G. Vogel |1831 | |
| The Jungle Book
|E224-37 |Dan Johnson |1894 |Rudyard Kipling | |
| The Secret Garden
|E224-38 | rowspan="3" |Malvina G. Vogel |1911 | |
| The Wind in the Willows
|E224-39 |1908 | |
| White Fang
|E224-34 |1906 |Jack London | |
| Gulliver’s Travels
|F224-41 | rowspan="6" |1995 |Saviour Pirotta |1726 | |
| Peter Pan
|F224-46 | rowspan="2" |Marian Leighton |1911 |Originally Peter and Wendy |
| Pollyanna
|F224-43 |1913 | |
| The Invisible Man
|F224-44 |Malvina G. Vogel |1897 |H.G. Wells | |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle
|F224-45 |Jack Kelly |1820 |Originally The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray
|F224-47 |Fern Siegel |1890 | |
| Dracula
|G224-51 | rowspan="2" |1996 | rowspan="2" |Jack Kelly |1897 | |
| King Solomon’s Mines
|G224-54 |1885 | |
| Pride and Prejudice
|G224-52 |1997 |Fern Siegel |1813 | |
| Aesop’s Fables
|H224-60 | rowspan="5" |2000 | rowspan="2" |Rochelle Larkin | |Original date(s) unknown |
| Beauty & The Beast and Other Stories
|H224-56 |1756 |Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont |Abridged version adapted from Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's 1740 works |
| King Arthur and The Knights of the Round Table
|D224-31 |Joshua E. Hanft |1903 | |
| Sleeping Beauty and Other Stories
|H224-59 | rowspan="2" |Rochelle Larkin | | |Unknown author(s); Originally The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods |
| The Little Mermaid and Other Stories
|H224-58 |1837 | |
| Jane Eyre
|I224-61 |2004 |Malvina G. Vogel |1847 | |
| A Little Princess
| | rowspan="6" |2005 |Eliza Gatewood Warren |1905 | |
| Cinderella and Other Stories
|H224-57 |Rochelle Larkin | rowspan="3" |1812 | rowspan="3" |Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm |Originally The Little Glass Slipper from Grimms' Fairy Tales |
| Grimm’s Fairy Tales
|G224-49 |Roy Nemerson | |
| Snow White and Other Stories
|H224-55 |Rochelle Larkin |Originally Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in Grimms' Fairy Tales |
| The House of the Seven Gables
| |Malvina G. Vogel |1851 | |
| The Phantom of the Opera
|I224-62 |Shannon Donnelly |1909 | |
| Alice in Wonderland
|G224-50 | rowspan="2" |2012 |Eliza Gatewood Warren |1865 |Originally Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| Hans Brinker
|E224-40 |Malvina G. Vogel |1865 | Originally Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates |
| Anne of Green Gables
|F224-42 | |Eliza Gatewood Warren |1908 | |
| Great Expectations
|C224-21 | |Mitsu Yamamoto |1860 |Charles Dickens | |
| Ivanhoe
|E224-35 | |Malvina G. Vogel |1820 | |
= Additional titles =
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!Title !Code on Spine !Publication Date !Adapter !Original Publication Date !Original Author !Notes |
| Christmas Bedtime Stories
|226-3 | rowspan="3" |1990 |Claudia Vurnakes | | |Anthology of Christmas stories |
| Stories from the Bible: Old and New Testament
|226-2 |Claudia Vurnakes, Mitsu Yamamoto | | |Anthology of selections from The Bible |
| A Christmas Carol
|226-1 |Malvina G. Vogel |1843 |Charles Dickens | |
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See also
{{Portal |Children's literature}}
References
External links
- [http://www.greatillustratedclassics.com Official website]
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