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A Christmas Carol - Alma Classics by CHARLES DICKENS
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Category: Christmas | 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: Kids' 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
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
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: Classics | 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
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Beautiful Emma Rouault yearns for the life of wealth, passion and romance she has encountered in popular sentimental fiction, and when her doctor, the well-meaning but awkward and unremarkable Charles Bovary, begins to pay her attention, she imagines that she may be granted her wish. However, after thei ...Show more
Middlemarch by Eliot George
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens
The most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832, a time when modern methods were starting to challenge old orthodoxies. Eliot's sophisticated and acute characterization gives rich expression to e ...Show more
Moby Dick: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) by Herman Melville
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab's whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the fulfilment of his master's obsessive desire for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale who has already claimed countless human victims and destroyed many fleets. W ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is prim ...Show more
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits, and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in t ...Show more
Praise of Folly by Erasmus
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
The goddess Folly gives a speech, praising herself and explaining how much humanity benefits from her services, from politicians to philosophers, aristocrats, schoolteachers, poets, lawyers, theologians, monarchs and the clergy. At the same time, her discourse provides a satire of Erasmus's world, pokin ...Show more
Sonnets by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most lyrical and moving pieces of poetry in any language, abounding with examples of his genius for wordplay, rhythm and metaphor and dealing with the eternal themes of love, memory, beauty and the ravishes of time. First published in 1609, after Shakespeare had writt ...Show more