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Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
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Category: Fiction | 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: Fiction | 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
Sonnets by William Shakespeare
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Category: CH Poetry | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most lyrical and moving pieces of poetry in any language, abounding with examples of his genius for wordplay, rhythm and metaphor and dealing with the eternal themes of love, memory, beauty and the ravishes of time. First published in 1609, after Shakespeare had writt ...Show more
Tess of the D'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
"Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks..." After an accident, Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of impoverished peasants, decides to call on the aristocratic d'Urbervilles, as she believes that she is also descended from their ancient Norman lineage and ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald
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Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men s ...Show more
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
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Category: Science Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
The mysterious Griffi n arrives at a picturesque English inn during a snowstorm, swaddled in bandages which cover his face and with his eyes hidden behind dark glasses. His odd get-up and irascible behavior intrigue the locals, who believe him to be the victim of an accident. However, the true reason fo ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
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Category: Politics | 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 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Having been found guilty of adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter "A" as a punishment for her sin. While her vengeful husband embarks on a quest to discover the identity of her lover, she is left to face the consequences of her infidelity and find a place for herself an ...Show more
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Presented as a collection of confessional letters written by the eponymous protagonist, The Sorrows of Young Werther charts the emotional journey of a young man who, during a stay in a picturesque German village, falls in love with Lotte, a local woman engaged to another man. As he realizes that his pas ...Show more
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