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A Christmas Carol - Alma Classics by CHARLES DICKENS
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Never out of print since its initial appearance in 1843, A Christmas Carol has been adapted countless times to the stage, radio, television, film and opera. The selfish miser Scrooge's name has become synonymous with greed and indifference to the welfare of others. His immortal Christmas eve visitations ...Show more
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Alma Classics by Mark Twain
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Mark Twain's great American masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the designMark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresqu ...Show more
Anna Karenina (Alma Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic story of its eponymous heroine. Anna is desperately pursuing a good, "moral" life, standing for honesty and sincerity. Passion drives her to adultery, and this flies in the face ...Show more
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town andproceeds to visit a succession of landowners, making each of them an unusual andsomewhat macabre proposition. He offers to buy the rights to the dead serfs who arestill registered on the landowner's estate, thus reducing ...Show more
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
In the summer of 1348, the plague ravages Florence, and ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death and corruption, featuring a host of colourful characters, from lascivious clergymen and mad kings to devious lovers and false miracle-ma ...Show more
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes; Tom Lathrop (trans)
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
When an ageing, impoverished nobleman decides to style himself “Don Quixote” and embarks upon a series of daring endeavours, it is clear that his ability to distinguish between reality and the fantasy world of literary romance has broken down. His exploits turn into comic misadventures, in which everyda ...Show more
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
When the world-weary dandy Eugene Onegin moves from St Petersburg to take up residence in the country estate he has inherited, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with his neighbour, the poet Vladimir Lensky. Coldly rejecting the amorous advances of Tatyana and cynically courting her sister Olga - Lens ...Show more
Fathers and Children by Ivan Turgenev
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
"Fathers and Children", arguably the first modern novel in the history of Russian literature, shocked readers when it was first published in 1862 - the controversial character of Bazarov, a self-proclaimed nihilist intent on rejecting all existing traditional values and institutions, providing a trencha ...Show more
Frankenstein (Alma Classics) by Mary Shelley
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Category: No Category | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley's seminal novel has generated countless print, stage and screen adaptations, but none has ever matched the power and philosophical resonance of the original. Composed as part of a challenge with Byron and Shelley to conjure up the most terrifying ghost ...Show more
Heart of Darkness and the Complete Congo Diary (Alma Classics) by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most remote outpost in central Africa, which brought him on the trail of the elusive Kurtz, a brilliant idealist gone rogue. His account relates not only the peri ...Show more
Inferno by Dante Alighieri; J. G. Nichols (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
On the evening of Good Friday in the year 1300, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood. The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan. On his journey deep into the underworld, Dante crosses paths with both old acquaintances and f ...Show more
Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
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Category: No Category | Series: Evergreens
Travelling to Italy on their honeymoon, Erszi and Mihaly are ready to take in all the beauties and pleasures of the country. But when they reach Venice, it is clear that Mihaly prefers to roam around the back alleys and the canals on his own, and as they continue their journey through the Bel Paese ther ...Show more