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Reader's Digest Condensed Books was a series of hardcover anthology collections, published by the American general interest monthly family magazine Reader's Digest and distributed by direct mail. Most volumes contained five (although a considerable minority consisted of three, four, or six) current best-selling novels and nonfiction books which ...
The Reader's Digest Select Editions [1] are a series of hardcover fiction anthology books, published bi-monthly and available by subscription, from Reader's Digest.Each volume consists of four or five current bestselling novels selected by Digest editors and abridged (or "condensed") to shorter form to accommodate the anthology format.
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. [1] [2] The series is owned, published, and sold by Waldman Publishing Corporation under the Baronet Books ...
World's Best Reading is a series of classic books published by Reader's Digest beginning in 1982. The series is distributed as a mail order membership club. In addition some individual volumes are available for sale directly through the Reader's Digest website.
A popular book is sometimes re-issued under the imprint of a book club. Often it is a new setting and with cheaper paper and binding. Any photographic illustrations in the original are either absent or reduced in number. Book club editions are sold to members at a good discount compared with the original issue price.
An omnibus edition or omnibus is a book containing multiple creative works by the same or, more rarely, different authors.Commonly two or more of the works have been previously published as books, but a collection of shorter works, or shorter works collected with one previous book, may also be known as an omnibus.
One of the issues of Classics Illustrated Junior was a condensed version of The Wizard of Oz. The comic book series Oz Squad features an adult Dorothy and her original companions from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a covert operations group protecting Oz from threats both within its borders and from the "real world".
A condensed version of the story was adapted in 1982 as a short comic book titled Przeobrażenie (The Transformation), by Polish illustrator Marek Szyszko, with Stefan Weinfeld. In 1983 Szyszko and Weinfeld adapted the story once again, this time as a full-length comic book Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde , which closely followed Stevenson's complete story ...