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By: Charles Dickens

ISBN: 9781847493811
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
UK Publication Date: 15th October 2014
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series at 4.99, this edition of Great Expectations includes pictures and a section on Dickens's life and works.


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By: Gottfried Keller

ISBN: 9781847498922
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2023
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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The story of young Henry, who struggles to fulfil his ambitions to become a successful painter and is torn between the gentle Anna and the proud and sensual Judith, is one of the most outstanding and personal Bildungsroman writ ten in the German language.


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By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

ISBN: 9781847497802
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 13th December 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Oscar Wilde claimed that Humiliated and Insulted is not "at all inferior to the other great masterpieces" and Friedrich Nietzsche is said to have wept over it. Its construction is that of an intricate detective novel, and the reader is plunged into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma and, above all, unrequited love.


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By: Dante Alighieri

ISBN: 9781847493408
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
UK Publication Date: 16th January 2014
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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New verse translation by prize-winning translator with facing Italian text, part of Alma Classics Evergreen series. Includes an extensive section on Dante's life and works.


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By: Alain Robbe-Grillet

ISBN: 9780714550503
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 22nd September 2022
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Unique edition of the film script of Last Year at Marienbad, one of the most iconic movies of the twentieth century. It contains an introduction by Alain Robbe-Grillet and 48 photographs from the film.


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By: Jane Austen

ISBN: 9781847496331
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2017
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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These inventive and entertaining pieces display the early sparkles of wit and imagination of Jane Austen's mature fiction. Written when she was only in her teens, they are by turns amusing, acerbic and occasionally downright silly.


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By: Virginia Woolf

ISBN: 9781847494009
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
UK Publication Date: 15th January 2015
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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One of Virginia Woolf's most famous novels, Mrs Dalloway is a triumph of experimentation, a cornerstone of Modernism and a subtle examination of love, freedom, mental illness and the female condition in society.


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By: Ivan Goncharov

ISBN: 9781847493446
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
UK Publication Date: 20th April 2014
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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New, award-winning translation of Goncharov's popular masterpiece Rich in situational comedy, psychological complexity and social satire, Oblomov - here presented in Stephen Pearl's award-winning translation, the first major English-language version of the novel in more than fifty years - is a timeless novel and a monument to human idleness.


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By: John Milton

ISBN: 9781847498038
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 20th June 2019
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Paradise Lost has been revered since its initial publication, inspiring writers from Mary Shelley to William Wordsworth, and is widely considered to be the greatest poem ever written in the English language." Based on the most authoritative text, this edition is well annotated and contains extra material for students


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By: Jane Austen

ISBN: 9781847495709
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st January 2016
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series, this edition of Persuasion is thoroughly edited and extensively annotated and includes pictures and an extensive section of Austen's life and works.


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By: Dylan Thomas

ISBN: 9781847499158
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2024
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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First published in 1940, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog has proven to be second only in popularity to the authors masterpiece, Under Milk Wood, demonstrating that Thomas was as much a master of prose as he was of poetry. Included in this volume is the complete body of fiction produced by the Welsh poet in his short and turbulent life.


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By: Dante Alighieri

ISBN: 9781847496119
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 20th October 2016
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Purgatory is presented here in a new verse translation by acclaimed poet and prize-winning translator J.G. Nichols. Also included are the original Italian text, extensive notes and a critical apparatus focusing on Dante's life and works.


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By: Daniel Defoe

ISBN: 9781847494856
Readership/Audience: Young Adult
Publication Date: Nov 2015
UK Publication Date: 15th November 2015
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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This new edition of Robinson Crusoe contains more than 21 illustrations by acclaimed illustrator Adam Stower and a wealth of extra material.


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By: Anton Chekhov

ISBN: 9781847497864
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 24th January 2019
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Highly valuable both as a detailed depiction of the Tsarist system of penal servitude and as an insight into Chekhov's motivations and objectives for visiting the colony and writing the expose, Sakhalin Island is a haunting work which had a huge impact both on Chekhov's career and on Russian society.


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By: Jane Austen

ISBN: 9781847494849
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 15th July 2015
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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"Sense and Sensibility" is famously characterised as the story of two Dashwood sisters who embody the conflict between the oppressive nature of 'civilised' society and the human desire for romantic passion.


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By: William Shakespeare

ISBN: 9781847496089
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2016
UK Publication Date: 22nd September 2016
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Presented here in an edition that makes them accessible to twentieth-century readers, these poems are worth returning to again and again.


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By: Carlo Collodi

ISBN: 9781847498892
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2022
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Here presented in a brand-new and lively translation by Stephen Parkin and illustrated beautifully by Peter Bailey, this edition of The Adventures of Pinocchio brings extra sparkle to one of the greatest and most celebrated works of children's literature.


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By: Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN: 9781847496164
Readership/Audience: Young Adult
Publication Date: Jan 2017
UK Publication Date: 20th October 2016
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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First appearing separately in the Strand Magazine, these stories were published together in 1892 in a volume that rapidly became one of the most popular Sherlock Holmes collections. This edition contains extra material for young readers.


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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: Jeremias Gotthelf

ISBN: 9781847499240
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 23rd August 2024
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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New edition of one of the most powerful novellas which Thomas Mann saw as foretelling the advent of Nazism. Now part of Alma 101-pages series of lesser-known classics.


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By: Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN: 9781847498823
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2023
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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The final collection of Holmes adventures, containing twelve brilliant, unpredictable stories, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes is a fitting conclusion to its protagonist's long career and a powerful send-off for Conan Doyle's greatest creation.


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By: J.M. Barrie

ISBN: 9781847495600
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Oct 2015
UK Publication Date: 15th October 2015
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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In addition to the famous 1911 novel Peter and Wendy, this volume contains the celebrated stage version on which Peter and Wendy is based, as well as Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. This edition is illustrated by Joel Stewart.


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By: Elizabeth von Armin

ISBN: 9781847497215
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Here presented in a new edition to include pictures and an extensive section on von Arnim's life and works, The Enchanted April has inspired generations of readers since and established Portofino and the Italian Riviera as a mainstay of the tourist circuit


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By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

ISBN: 9781847496669
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 31st May 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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The House of the Dead, here presented in a brand-new translation, is based on Dostoevsky's own autobiographical experiences during a four-year internment in a prison colony in Siberia.

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