Manga Classics Series

Manga Classics: Great Expectations Softcover.

A conspiracy and a miscarriage of justice turn the gentle Edmond Dantaes into an implacable agent of fate. Obsessed by vengeance and empowered by providence, the Count avenges himself on those who have wronged him-- but is this justice, or is this hubris? In the end, does even the Count know?--Back cover.

A collection of twenty-four illustrated stories by the nineteenth-century American writer best known for his tales of horror.

Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves. Publicly disgraced and ostracized, Hester Prynne draws on her inner strength and certainty of spirit to emerge as the first true heroine of American fiction. Arthur Dimmesdale stands as a classic study of a seld divided; trapped by the rules of society, he suppresses his passion and disavows his lover, Hester, and their daughter, Pearl. As Nina Baym writes in her Introduction, The Scarlet Letter was not written as realistic, historical fiction, but as a "romance", a creation of the imagination that discloses the truth of the human heart.

This book is formatted in the traditional Japanese manga style, reading from right to left.