News: 100 Classic Book Collection Heads To DS


Posted by Nathan Whincup - Nov 30th 2008 12:46


Nintendo have sneakily announced a new DS game set for the end of the year, featuring 100 books from classic authors such as Charles Dickens.

Nintendo slipped a mysterious title called 'DS Novel' on to their release schedule back in 2007, and it's just popped up again through an Amazon listing and as a game page on the official Nintendo of Europe website, and is due for a Boxing Day release at the end of next month.

100 Classic Book Collection features an initial 100 classic books to read from authors such as Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and William Shakespeare, with 10 additional books available for download from Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. A bookmark feature allows you to save your place in a book, and a suitability feature similar to Cooking Guide allows you to select a novel based on time constraints and subject matter.

Interestingly, Nintendo also claim that 100 Classic Book Collection requires no age rating whatsoever from the BBFC or PEGI and is suitable for all ages. Here's a list of all 100 books known to be available in the title. Brace yourselves!

  • Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
  • Jane Austen - Emma
  • Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
  • Jane Austen - Persuasion
  • 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
  • Charlotte Bronte - The Professor
  • Charlotte Bronte - Shirley
  • Charlotte Bronte - Villette
  • 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
  • Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking-Glass
  • Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone
  • 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 - 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
  • Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo
  • Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers
  • George Eliot - Adam Bede
  • George Eliot - Middlemarch
  • George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss
  • Henry Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines
  • Thomas Hardy - Far From The Madding Crowd
  • Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge
  • Thomas Hardy - Tess of The D'Urbervilles
  • Thomas Hardy - Under the Greenwood Tree
  • 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 - 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 - Julius Caesar
  • William Shakespeare - King Henry the Fifth
  • William Shakespeare - King Lear
  • William Shakespeare - King Richard the Third
  • 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, the Moor of Venice
  • 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
  • Robert Louis Stevenson - Kidnapped
  • Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
  • Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels
  • William Thackeray - Vanity Fair
  • Anthony Trollope - Barchester Towers
  • Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Mark Twain - Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  • Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days
  • Jules Verne - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  • Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
  • Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey (Wi-Fi Download)
  • Anne Brontė - Agnes Grey (Wi-Fi Download)
  • Susan Coolidge - What Katy Did At School (Wi-Fi Download)

You can begin your reading quest on the 26th of December (Boxing Day) - the game is available for preorder on Amazon for £17.99.



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Comments

Denmengnash Says:
November 30th, 2008 at 08:20 || Total Comments: 101
Aren't all of these books free to read online?
Darkflame Says:
November 30th, 2008 at 08:29 || Total Comments: 961
www.gutenberg.org for the win!

But, I guess those without homebrew/moonshell installed, this makes sense.

Stil..no HG Wells?
Ben229 Says:
November 30th, 2008 at 09:06 || Total Comments: 17
Off topic but does anyone have any spare VIP Points codes they want to swap? I have spare:

Links Crossbow training,
3 Wii Sports,
2 Wii Consoles,
2 Super Mario Sunshines.
Sumo73 Says:
November 30th, 2008 at 14:03 || Total Comments: 317
No doubt the books will be American English.
Llewdebkram Says:
November 30th, 2008 at 16:39 || Total Comments: 237
Ben229

Do like I do and create multiple accounts to get wii points with the stars.
If I hadn't done this I would have codes to swap.
Sariachan Says:
November 30th, 2008 at 17:25 || Total Comments: 326
Great, this way I will able to read many books I still haven't find time to read while travelling! :D
Darkflame Says:
November 30th, 2008 at 18:38 || Total Comments: 961
The books will be in the original form they were written in.
Mostly that will mean UK-English, not American English.

(And stuff like Shakesphere in the lingo of the time + The bards spelling errors).
Pod Says:
December 1st, 2008 at 04:35 || Total Comments: 1037
Suitable for all ages, eh?

Many of those stories contain violence, sex and harsh language.

Might at least need some descriptors on there. ;)

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100 Classic Book Collection

System:
Nintendo DS

Genre:
Reading

Developer:
Genius Sonority

Publisher:
Nintendo

Release Dates:
Out now
Out now
Out now
Out now

Memorycard:
N/A

Multiplayer:
No MP

Last updated on:
Feb 8th 2009