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The Thirty-Nine Steps by Charles Buchan
Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
When Richard Hannay fi nds the corpse of freelance spy Franklin P. Scudder in his London flat, he goes on the run, fearing that his life is in danger. Scudder had previously revealed that he was investigating a ring of German spies, who were conspiring to sabotage Britain's war capability. Hannay become ...Show more
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Category: Classic | Series: Evergreens
A Victorian scientist and inventor creates a machine for propelling himself through time, and voyages to the year AD 802701, where he discovers a race of humanoids called the Eloi. Their gently indolent way of life, set in a decaying cityscape, leads thescientist to believe that they are the remnants of ...Show more
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Category: Classic | Series: Evergreens Ser.
On his thirtieth birthday, the bank clerk Josef K. is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents for an unspecified crime. He is told that he will be set free, but must make regular appearances at a court in the attic of a tenement building while his trial proceeds. Although he never comes to know the parti ...Show more
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 Warden by Anthony Trollope
Category: Fiction | Series: Evergreens Ser.
When the peaceful atmosphere of Barchester is destroyed by a scandal concerning the financial affairs of an almshouse, Septimus Harding, the kindly warden who devotes his life to the care of the establishment's twelve elderly residents, finds himself in conflict with his daughter's suitor, the zealous r ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classic | Series: Evergreens Ser.
The Waves Virginia Woolf One of Woolf's most experimental novels, The Waves presents six characters in monologue - from morning until night, from childhood into old age - against a background of the sea. The result is a glorious chorus of voices that exists not to remark on the passing of events but to ...Show more
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Category: Fiction | Series: Evergreens
Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, & international intrigue.
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but t ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Category: Fiction | Series: Evergreens
When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day, little does she know that this trip will only be completed ten years later by her husband, and that a gulf of war, grief and loss will have opened in the mean ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
Category: Classic | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entirety in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's 40th birthday. It is considered to be one of the m ...Show more
Utopia by Saint Thomas More
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
In Thomas More's hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy unprecedented social cohesion and justice. The book imagines a community in which laws, personal relations and professional ambition are based on reason, in contrast with the ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Evergreens Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull. Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic ...Show more