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Dubliners (Alma Classics) by James Joyce
Category: Classic | 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
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
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
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
Fathers and Children by Ivan Turgenev
Category: Fiction | 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
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
Heart of Darkness and the Complete Congo Diary (Alma Classics) by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classic 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 Nichols
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
Jane Eyre (Alma Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
Category: Classic | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Orphaned at an early age, Jane Eyre, leads a lonely life until she finds a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. There she meets the mysterious Mr. Rochester and sees a ghostly woman who roams the halls at night. What is the sinister secret that threatens Jane and her new found happiness? Step int ...Show more
Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
Category: Fiction | 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