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A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
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Category: 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
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
Agnes Grey: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) by Anne Bronte
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Category: 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
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
Dubliners (Alma Classics) by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | 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: Classics | 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
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
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Category: Fiction | 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: Classics | 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: Fiction | 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: Fiction | 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