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Pride and Prejudice (Alma Classics) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
The pride of high-ranking Mr Darcy and the prejudice of middle-class Elizabeth Bennet conduct an absorbing dance through the rigid social hierarchies of early-nineteenth-century England, with the passion of the two unlikely lovers growing as their union seems ever more improbable.
Purgatory by Dante Alighieri
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens | Reading Level: General Adult
Describing Dante's second stage in his arduous journey to redemption, Purgatory features a host of unforgettable scenes and characters, and arguably some of the best poetry to be found in the Divine Comedy. The gloom, torments and evils of Hell have been left behind, but Dante's ascent of Mount Purgator ...Show more
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
One of Stevenson's most famous and enduringly popular works, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde describes the mysterious relationship between a respectable and affable doctor and his brutal associate. Set in the grimy streets of Victorian London, this tale of murder, split personality and obscure sci ...Show more
Tales of Horror (Alma Classics) by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of noblemen during the time of the plague, a grieving lover awakens to find himself clutching a box of his beloved blood-stained teeth, a man is obsessed with the fear of being buried ...Show more
Tender is the Night by Scott F. Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star Rosemary Hoyt. Her arrival causes a stir in their social circle and exposes the cracks in their fragile marriage. As their relationship unravels, the glimpses of their troubled p ...Show more
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hugh Aplin (Translated by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Inspired by Dostoevsky's own gambling addiction and written under pressure in order to pay off his creditors and retain his rights to his literary legacy, The Gambler is set in the casino of the fictional German spa town of Roulettenburg and follows the misfortunes of the young tutor Alexei Ivanovich. A ...Show more
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
The Good Soldier tells the stories of two outwardly happy couples who meet at a health spa in Germany just before the start of the First World War, and whose loveless, adultery-ridden relationships are strained and gradually disintegrate, with tragic consequences. Drawing inspiration from his personal l ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Idiot is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868-9. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince a young man whose goodness and open-hearted simplicity lead many of th ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits, and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in t ...Show more
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens
Having travelled from her native New York to London to meet her relatives, Isabel Archer, a young, independently minded young woman, rejects the marriage proposals of two suitors in her determination to stay in control of her destiny. When she suddenly comes into a large legacy, Isabel believes that thi ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
With notes and an apparatus, a new translation of Hegel's essay "Machiavelli's The Prince and Italy," and the first pages of The Prince in the original Italian At the end of an industrious political career in conflict-riven Italy, the Florentine diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli composed his masterpiece The ...Show more
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens
Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, & international intrigue.