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By: George Orwell

ISBN: 9781847498571
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2021
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Arguably the greatest dystopian novel of all time and the most influential post-war work of fiction, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a riveting read and a groundbreaking exploration of mass surveillance, censorship and mind control, which has a deep resonance with the world we live in.


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By: George Orwell

ISBN: 9781847499097
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2023
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Perhaps the most experimental among his writings, A Clergyman's Daughter, first published in 1935, is Orwell's second work of fiction. Now presented in a new annotated edition.


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By: Leo Tolstoy

ISBN: 9781847493682
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
UK Publication Date: 16th July 2014
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series of classics at GBP4.99, Anna Karenina presents, here in a new translation, a poignant blend of realism and lyricism that makes it one of the most perfect, enduring novels of all time.


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By: Sinclair Lewis

ISBN: 9781847499134
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 22nd April 2024
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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New annotated edition of Arrowsmith, the third major novel by Sinclair Lewis, author of Main Street and Babbitt, and arguably his most ambitious work.


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By: Virginia Woolf

ISBN: 9781847498908
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 14th October 2022
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Highly symbolic, and dealing with many of the themes that were most dear to Virginia Woolf, such as the condition of the individual in the current of history, sexual ambiguity and the tension between life and art, Between the Acts was the author's final novel. This edition includes notes and extra material.


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By: Anna Sewell

ISBN: 9781847495860
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jan 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st January 2016
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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With stunning pictures by acclaimed illustrator Paul Howard, this edition of Black Beauty contains extra material for young readers.


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By: Charles Dickens

ISBN: 9781847496713
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 21st April 2021
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Part panoramic social satire and - with the introduction of the indefatigable police investigator Mr Bucket - part prototype of the detective genre, this dark, complex and intricately plotted book is considered by many to be both Dickens's greatest work and the finest novel of the Victorian age.


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By: John Keats

ISBN: 9781847497567
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 25th April 2019
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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From Endymion and Hyperion to `The Eve of St Agnes', `La Belle Dame sans Merci' and the Odes, this collection displays his rapid poetic growth, the development of his philosophical and spiritual beliefs and the voluptuous, silken nature of his verse.


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By: Mikhail Bulgakov

ISBN: 9781847494726
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st January 2016
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Featuring explorations of the absurd and bizarre, this title, here presented in a new translation, provides a glimpse into the artistic development of the author of "Master and Margarita".


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By: George Orwell

ISBN: 9781847499271
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2024
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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By: Bram Stoker

ISBN: 9781847494870
Readership/Audience: Young Adult
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 15th September 2015
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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This edition contains more than 27 illustrations and a wealth of extra material.


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By: James Joyce

ISBN: 9781847496317
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 22nd June 2017
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, this new edition of The Dubliners includes pictures and an extensive section on Joyce's life and works.


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By: Thomas Hardy

ISBN: 9781847496300
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 22nd June 2017
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Part of the Alma Classics Evergreens series, this new edition includes pictures and an extensive section on Hardy's life and works.


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By: Virginia Woolf

ISBN: 9781847498106
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 29th August 2019
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Flush is a genre-defying blend of biography and fantasy, and an accessible yet stylistically innovative jeu d'esprit.


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By: Mary Shelley

ISBN: 9781847493507
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 16th January 2014
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, this new edition of Frankenstein contains pictures and an extensive section on Shelley's life and works.


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By: Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN: 9781847498878
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 25th January 2023
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Published a quarter of a century after the first book of Holmes adventures, and including the famous titular story 'His Last Bow: The War Service of Sherlock Holmes', this collection shows the detective's powers of deduction at their most dazzling, proving that Conan Doyle's ability to entertain and surprise remain undiminished.


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By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN: 9781847495655
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 15th July 2015
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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A tale of broken trust and infidelity based on Zelda Fitzgerald's own dalliance with a French pilot, 'Image on the Heart' is here presented with other lesser-known stories written by Fitzgerald in the late 1920s and early 1930s, which develop many of the themes found in his novels and his more famous works of short fiction.


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By: Virginia Woolf

ISBN: 9781847498366
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 21st May 2020
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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An extraordinary departure from traditional forms of the novel, Jacobs Room is both an elegiac and experimental tale told in pieces and fragments, and one of Virginia Woolf s most poignant stories.


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By: Charlotte Bront

ISBN: 9781847493736
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 21st August 2014
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series at GBP4.99, this edition pictures and section on Bronte's life and works. With characters that are as unforgettable as the story they enact, and a striking use of language that amazed the readers of the day, Jane Eyre ranks among the most influential English novels ever written.


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By: Louis-Ferdinand Cline

ISBN: 9781847492401
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2012
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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First published in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in French literature. This edition contains a foreword by John Banville.


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By: George Orwell

ISBN: 9781847498632
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2021
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a tragically witty account of the struggle to escape from a materialistic existence. This edition is enriched by an extensive critical apparatus, notes and extra reading material.


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By: Giacomo Puccini

ISBN: 9780714548562
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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This edition of La boheme has over twenty photographs, a detailed thematic analysis and the original libretto with a facing literal translation by William Weaver. It contains also a bibliography and a discography


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By: D.H. Lawrence

ISBN: 9781847494085
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 15th March 2015
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Containing autobiographical elements and set in the author's native Nottinghamshire, Lawrence's final novel had a profound impact on twentieth-century culture and sexual attitudes, while confirming his standing as one of the most eminent fiction writers that England has produced.


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By: Louisa May Alcott

ISBN: 9781847495877
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2016
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Beautifully illustrated by Ella Bailey, this new edition includes some extra material for young readers.

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