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A Christmas Carol - Alma Classics by CHARLES DICKENS
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Category: Classic Fiction | 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
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Evergreens
On his travels through the wild mountainous terrain of the Caucasus, the narrator of A Hero of Our Time chances upon the veteran soldier and storyteller Maxim Maximych, who relates to him the dubious exploits of his former comrade Pechorin. Engaging in various acts of duelling, contraband, abduction and ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Evergreens
As the Revolution is still raging in France, in London the barrister Sydney Carton and the exiled French nobleman Charles Darnay find themselves rivals for the affections of Lucie Manette, the daughter of a political prisoner who was released from the Bastille and moved to the English capital. Through a ...Show more
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Alma Classics by Mark Twain
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Category: Classic Fiction | 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
Agnes Grey: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) by Anne Bronte
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
The well-educated daughter of a penniless clergyman, Agnes Grey is treated like a child by her own family and so sets out to prove herself by seeking employment as a governess. Soon, however, her idealistic notions regarding the education and care of her wards are dashed as she battles to control the wi ...Show more
Anna Karenina (Alma Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classic Fiction | 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
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Dickens' supremely timeless work on ambition and self-improvement. 'I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.' Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder. ...Show more
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
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Category: Classic Fiction | 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: Classic Fiction | 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: Classic Fiction | 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
Dubliners (Alma Classics) by James Joyce
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Evergreens
James Joyce's first published book, which he wrote when he was still in his twenties, Dubliners is far removed from the bold experimentalism of his later work, but is essential for understanding the author's development as a writer, and endures as a masterly example of the short-story form.Although rang ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Emma is considered by many readers to be Jane Austen's crowning achievement, a timeless comedy of manners that lays bare the limits on women's autonomy in Regency England. The disparity between Emma Woodhouse's self-confidence and self-knowledge, and her determination to arrange marriages for her friend ...Show more