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Praise of Folly by Erasmus
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | 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
Pride and Prejudice (Alma Classics) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
The pride of high-ranking Mr Darcy and the prejudice of middle-class Elizabeth Bennet conduct an absorbing dance through the rigid social hierarchies of early-nineteenth-century England, with the passion of the two unlikely lovers growing as their union seems ever more improbable.
Sonnets by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry | 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
Tess of the D'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
"Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks..." After an accident, Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of impoverished peasants, decides to call on the aristocratic d'Urbervilles, as she believes that she is also descended from their ancient Norman lineage and ...Show more
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
The heir to his grandfather's considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations of the 1920s Jazz Age. His descent into dissolution and profligacy is accelerated by his marriage to the attractive but turbulent Gloria, and the couple soon discover th ...Show more
The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Constantly rebuffed from the social circles he aspires to frequent, the timid clerk Golyadkin is confronted by the sudden appearance of his double, a more brazen, confident and socially successful version of himself, who abuses and victimizes the original. As he is increasingly persecuted, Golyadkin fi ...Show more
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hugh Aplin (Translated by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Inspired by Dostoevsky's own gambling addiction and written under pressure in order to pay off his creditors and retain his rights to his literary legacy, The Gambler is set in the casino of the fictional German spa town of Roulettenburg and follows the misfortunes of the young tutor Alexei Ivanovich. A ...Show more
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
The Good Soldier tells the stories of two outwardly happy couples who meet at a health spa in Germany just before the start of the First World War, and whose loveless, adultery-ridden relationships are strained and gradually disintegrate, with tragic consequences. Drawing inspiration from his personal l ...Show more
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
The mysterious Griffi n arrives at a picturesque English inn during a snowstorm, swaddled in bandages which cover his face and with his eyes hidden behind dark glasses. His odd get-up and irascible behavior intrigue the locals, who believe him to be the victim of an accident. However, the true reason fo ...Show more
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Purporting to be an autobiography of the antihero Tristram Shandy, Lawrence Sterne's novel is a comic masterpiece of digression, egoism and sensationalism, as its hilarious asides, explanations and host of memorable secondary characters - such as Uncle Toby, Dr Slop, Parson Yorick and Widow Wadman - tak ...Show more
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
When Rachel Verinder's legacy of a priceless Indian diamond is stolen, all the evidence indicates that it is her beloved, Franklin Blake, who is guilty. Around this central axis of crime and thwarted love, Collins constructs an ingenious plot of teasing twists and surprises, and an elaborate multi-voice ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
With notes and an apparatus, a new translation of Hegel's essay "Machiavelli's The Prince and Italy," and the first pages of The Prince in the original Italian At the end of an industrious political career in conflict-riven Italy, the Florentine diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli composed his masterpiece The ...Show more