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Agnes Grey: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) by Anne Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
The well-educated daughter of a penniless clergyman, Agnes Grey is treated like a child by her own family and so sets out to prove herself by seeking employment as a governess. Soon, however, her idealistic notions regarding the education and care of her wards are dashed as she battles to control the wi ...Show more
Animal Farm (Alma Classics) by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens Ser.
Under the feckless husbandry of Mr Jones, Manor Farm has fallen into disrepair. Pushed into hardship, the animals decide to stage a revolt, and led by two young pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, they overthrow Mr Jones and drive him away from the farm. In the subsequent struggle for power, it is Napoleon tha ...Show more
Anna Karenina (Alma Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic story of its eponymous heroine. Anna is desperately pursuing a good, "moral" life, standing for honesty and sincerity. Passion drives her to adultery, and this flies in the face ...Show more
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town andproceeds to visit a succession of landowners, making each of them an unusual andsomewhat macabre proposition. He offers to buy the rights to the dead serfs who arestill registered on the landowner's estate, thus reducing ...Show more
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes; Tom Lathrop (trans)
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
When an ageing, impoverished nobleman decides to style himself “Don Quixote” and embarks upon a series of daring endeavours, it is clear that his ability to distinguish between reality and the fantasy world of literary romance has broken down. His exploits turn into comic misadventures, in which everyda ...Show more
Dubliners (Alma Classics) by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | 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
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
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Category: Classics | 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
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Category: Classics | 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
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Category: Classics | 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
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Category: Classics | 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
Inferno by Nichols
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Category: Classics | 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
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Category: Classics | 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