It was the best of times, it was the worst of times – the iconic opening line from “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens. Well, now you can definitely enjoy the best of times with Mr Dickens and scores of his fellow writers with the 100 Classic Book Collection on Nintendo DS!
Turn your Nintendo DS into a pocket-sized library with 100 timeless novels from some of the greatest writers in history. Enjoy the exciting escapades of the swashbuckling Long John Silver in “Treasure Island”, marvel at the redoubtable skills of the most famous detective of all time in “the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, or run the course of true love with Elizabeth Bennet in “Pride and Prejudice” – the choice is yours!
Entering this world of words couldn’t be easier – simply hold your DS like a book and use the stylus to effortlessly turn the pages. You can adjust the text size to whatever suits you best and a bookmark feature means dog-eared pages are a thing of the past. Can’t decide what you’re in the mood for? The 100 Classic Book Collection allows you to search for books in a number of different ways, such as subject matter and length, meaning you can find a suitable story in seconds. As well as the novels, you can access book introductions and find out more on the authors themselves – there are also additional books that you can download via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection!
Immerse yourself in the great works with the 100 Classic Book Collection on Nintendo DS.
100 Classic Books for Nintendo DS Features:
- 100 classic books available in their original versions
- Includes works by William Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, Jules Verne and Jane Austen
- Custom recommendations from the Book Guide
- Download extra content via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection
Some of the books featured are:
- Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
- Jane Austen - Emma
- Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
- Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
- Harriet Beecher - Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin
- R.D. Blackmore - Lorna Doone
- Anne Bronte - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
- Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
- John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress
- Frances Burnett - Little Lord Fauntleroy
- Frances Burnett - The Secret Garden
- Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White
- Carlo Collodi - The Adventures of Pinocchio
- Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Arthur Conan Doyle - The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
- Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim
- Susan Coolidge - What Katy Did
- James Fenimore - Cooper Last of the Mohicans
- Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
- Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
- Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
- Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
- Charles Dickens - Martin Chuzzlewit
- Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickleby
- Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
- Charles Dickens - The Pickwick Papers
- Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers
- George Eliot - Adam Bede
- Henry Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines
- Thomas Hardy - Far From The Madding Crowd
- Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
- Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Victor Hugo - Les Miserables
- Washington Irving - The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
- Charles Kingsley - Westward Ho!
- D.H. Lawrence - Sons And Lovers
- Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
- Jack London - The Call of the Wild
- Jack London - White Fang
- Herman Melville - Moby Dick
- Edgar Allen Poe - Tales of Mystery and Imagination
- Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe
- Sir Walter Scott - Rob Roy
- Sir Walter Scott - Waverley
- Anna Sewell - Black Beauty
- William Shakespeare - The Comedy of Errors
- William Shakespeare - Hamlet
- William Shakespeare - King Lear
- William Shakespeare - Macbeth
- William Shakespeare - A Midsummer-Night's Dream
- William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing
- William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
- William Shakespeare - Titus Andronicus
- William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night
- Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Mark Twain - Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Jules Verne - Round the World in Eighty Days
- Jules Verne - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest