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The Turn of the Screw: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) by Henry James
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens Ser.
Soon to be adapted into the Netflix series The Haunting of Bly Manor Recently adapted into the major motion picture The Turning starring Finn Wolfhard Recently adapted into an opera in London's West End No, no--there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in ...Show more
The Zone by Sergei Dovlatov
Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Ser.
Based on Dovlatov's actual experience of being a prison guard in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, and full of comic and humane detail, The Zone depicts the absurd day-to- day life of a camp in an insightful and unusual way, challenging commonly held perceptions of the relations between incarcerators and the ...Show more
Transformation by Mary Shelley
Category: Classic | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
"Having frittered away his family's fortune in Paris, the profligate Guido il Cortese incurs the wrath of his future father-in-law and finds himself in exile from his native Genoa and harbouring plans for revenge. After a mighty storm, he sees a mysterious, misshapen creature emerging from the sea, with ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Ser.
Controversial, scandalous, erudite and funny, Ulysses is undisputedly a landmark of twentieth-century modernism. It charts one day - 16th June 1904 - in the lives of three inhabitants of Dublin, the advertising salesman Leopold Bloom, the artist Stephen Dedalus and Bloom's wife Molly. Their peregrinatio ...Show more
Uncle's Dream by Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
The small town of Mordasov is all abuzz at the arrival of Prince K-, a wealthy, ageing landowner, after an absence of several years. Maria Alexandrovna Moskalyova, a local gossip and fearsome schemer, decides that he would be an advantageous match for her daughter Zina. But in her endeavours to make suc ...Show more
White Fang by Jack London; Ian Beck (Illustrator)
Category: Children's | Series: Alma Junior Classics Ser.
White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876-1916) - and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story takes place in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold ...Show more