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By: Franz Kafka

ISBN: 9781847497192
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 29th March 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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This new edition of Kafka's The Trial includes a comprehensive selection of extra material, including notes on the text, pictures and a section on Kafka's life and works.


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By: Mark Twain

ISBN: 9781847496027
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 25th August 2016
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Widely considered one of the greatest American novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn tells the story of Huck Finn and his companion, the slave Jim, as they journey down the Mississippi river after running away from Huck's alcoholic father and Jim's owners.


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By: Kate Chopin

ISBN: 9781847498250
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
UK Publication Date: 12th March 2020
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Presented in a new annotated edition accompanied with extra material, The Awakening is widely seen as a landmark of early feminism and a precursor of American modernism.


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By: Charles Dickens

ISBN: 9781847496171
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol is the most heart-warming of seasonal tales, a timeless classic that continues to enchant readers around the world.


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By: Stefan Zweig

ISBN: 9781847495815
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2016
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, this new translation of The Game of Chess and Other Stories is here presented in a unique collection.


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By: Mikhail Lermontov

ISBN: 9781847495761
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 17th November 2016
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, this edition includes Princess Ligovskaya


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By: Charles Dickens

ISBN: 9781847497987
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 30th October 2019
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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A great addition to Alma Classics collection. This edi.on contains extensive notes on the text together with extra material on the author's life and works.


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By: Boccaccio

ISBN: 9781847494122
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
UK Publication Date: 15th April 2015
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Part of Alma Evergreen series, J.G. Nichols's new translation stays as faithful to the original as possible while being written in a clear and eminently modern English, capturing the timeless humour of one of the great classics of world literature.


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By: Charles Dickens

ISBN: 9781847494887
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
UK Publication Date: 15th August 2015
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Part of the Evergreen series, this new edition contains a wealth of material.


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By: Antal Szerb

ISBN: 9781847495822
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
UK Publication Date: 24th February 2016
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, Journey by Moonlight is here presented in a brilliant new translation by Peter V. Czipott.


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By: Thomas Hardy

ISBN: 9781847498076
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th September 2019
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Full of passion, anger, fatalism and tragedy, Jude the Obscure attacks the inequalities and hypocrisies inherent within Victorian society's attitudes towards marriage, social mobility, education and the role of women. This edition is fully annotated and contains extra material.


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By: Jane Austen

ISBN: 9781847495983
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 22nd September 2016
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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As Fanny becomes increasingly uncomfortable with the conduct of her companions, she finds herself isolated and forced to face the conflict between her sense of integrity and social expectation.


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By: Daniel Defoe

ISBN: 9781847498090
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
UK Publication Date: 27th November 2019
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Moll Flanders offers an irresistible and evocative insight into both the drawing rooms and seedy back alleys of seventeenth-century England. This new edition is here presented with notes and extra material.


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By: Elizabeth Gaskell

ISBN: 9781847497161
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, this edition of North and South is presented with extra material and notes to the text.


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By: Jane Austen

ISBN: 9781847496249
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2017
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series, this edition is thoroughly edited and extensively annotated and includes pictures and a comprehensive section on Austen's life and works.


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By: Franois Rabelais

ISBN: 9781847497406
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 20th September 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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These bawdy and boisterous tales, with their fixation on food and faeces, are not just entertaining yarns, as Francois Rabelais parodies medieval learning, lambasts the established church authority and develops his own ideal visions for the ordering of society.


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By: Dante Alighieri

ISBN: 9781847496478
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2017
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Verse translation by prize-winning translator with facing Italian text. Part of Alma Classics' collection of Dante's complete Italian works, this edition is fully annotated.


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By: Nikolai Gogol

ISBN: 9781847493491
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
UK Publication Date: 15th March 2014
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Also including the 'Diary of Madman', this new translation of Petersburg Tales paint a critical yet hilarious portrait of a city riddled with pomposity and self-importance, masterfully juxtaposing nineteenth-century realism with madcap surrealism, and combining absurdist farce with biting satire.


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By: Desiderius Erasmus

ISBN: 9781847493248
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
UK Publication Date: 12th September 2013
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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In addition to a new translation of Praise of Folly, this volume also includes other works by Erasmus: Pope Julius Barred from Heaven, Epigram against Pope Julius II and a selection of his Adages. Together with the extensive annotation of the texts, these help to set Erasmus's masterpiece.


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By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN: 9781847492593
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
UK Publication Date: 17th August 2012
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Peopled by an unforgettable cast of aristocrats and high-fliers, Tender is the Night is at once a scathing critique of the materialism and hypocrisy of the Roaring Twenties and a poignant and sensitive account of personal tragedy and disillusionment.


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By: Thomas Hardy

ISBN: 9781847494948
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 15th September 2015
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Controversial when it was first published for challenging Victorian morals, Tess of the d'Urbervilles is here presented in a thoroughly edited and extensively annotated edition.


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By: Mark Twain

ISBN: 9781847494900
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 15th July 2015
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Mark Twain's masterpiece is at the same time a highly entertaining romp which celebrates youth and freedom and a more profound investigation of his times, touching on themes such as race, revenge and slavery. This volume includes Tom Sawyer, Detective, a sequel and pastiche of the detective genre, first published in 1896.


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By: Edith Wharton

ISBN: 9781847497918
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 21st March 2019
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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An extraordinarily well-observed dissection of New York's high society in the 1870s - the world Edith Wharton grew up in - The Age of Innocence shines a critical light on the social mores and values of the old order." Here presented with extra material and annotations.


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By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN: 9781847492128
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
UK Publication Date: 17th August 2012
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Containing obvious parallels with F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's own lives, The Beautiful and Damned is a tragic examination of the pitfalls of greed and materialism and the transience of youth and beauty.

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