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A Christmas Carol - Alma Classics by CHARLES DICKENS
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
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Alma Classics by Mark Twain
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
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Category: Classic | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens Ser.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS'sThe Great American Read A desperate young man plans the perfect crime-the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress mor ...Show more
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Category: Classic | 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
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Bathsheba Everdene is a headstrong young woman who attracts the attentions of a succession of ill-matched suitors: a quiet sheep farmer, a handsome soldier and an older, wealthy landowner. As the men vie for her affections, she struggles to retain her independence of spirit in the face of their declarat ...Show more
Frankenstein (Alma Classics) by Mary Shelley
Category: Classic Fiction | 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
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens Ser.
Gone with the Wind is the story of Scarlett O'Hara, a spoiled Southern belle who uses her wits and her wiles to lift herself and her family out of the ashes left by Sherman's March to the Sea during the American Civil War, only to learn the true meaning of love and friendship as she loses those who have ...Show more
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Evergreens Ser.
In "Hard Times", Dickens illustrates the condition of England through his depiction of the fictional northern city of Coketown. Among its inhabitants are Thomas Gradgrind, the utilitarian headmaster who attempts to impose his rigid worldview on his family circle, and the uncaring businessman Mr Bounderb ...Show more
Inferno by Dante Alighieri; J. G. Nichols (Translator)
Category: Classic | 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
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Jude Fawley, an intelligent and sensitive young Wessex schoolboy, dreams of studying at the famous university in Christminster, Hardy's fictional representation of Oxford. He embarks on years of private study, but his plans are thrown into disarray when he is deceived into marriage and then deserted by ...Show more
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens Ser.
A pre-cursor to his more famous works of Animal Farm and 1984, Keep the Aspidistra Flying is Orwell's social commentary on capitalism's constraints. Orwell captures the struggles of an aspiring writer with almost pitch-perfect attention to psychological detail, exploring the gulf between art and life.G ...Show more
Moby Dick: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) by Herman Melville
Category: Classic Fiction | 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