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Praise of Folly by Erasmus
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
The goddess Folly gives a speech, praising herself and explaining how much humanity benefits from her services, from politicians to philosophers, aristocrats, schoolteachers, poets, lawyers, theologians, monarchs and the clergy. At the same time, her discourse provides a satire of Erasmus's world, pokin ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice (Alma Classics) by Jane Austen
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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.
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
"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. However, there is far more to this story of two daughters made homeless by the death of their fat ...Show more
Sonnets by William Shakespeare
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Category: 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
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde an 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
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Tom Sawyer Detective by Mark Twain
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer charts the escapades of a thirteen-year-old boy growing up on the banks of the Mississippi. Testing the patience of his aunt Polly, the bold and sharp-witted Tom Sawyer frequently skips school in search of excitement, and the scrapes he gets into with his friend Huckleberry ...Show more
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
The heir to his grandfather's considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations of the 1920s Jazz Age. His descent into dissolution and profligacy is accelerated by his marriage to the attractive but turbulent Gloria, and the couple soon discover th ...Show more
The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Constantly rebuffed from the social circles he aspires to frequent, the timid clerk Golyadkin is confronted by the sudden appearance of his double, a more brazen, confident and socially successful version of himself, who abuses and victimizes the original. As he is increasingly persecuted, Golyadkin fi ...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 Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Purporting to be an autobiography of the antihero Tristram Shandy, Lawrence Sterne's novel is a comic masterpiece of digression, egoism and sensationalism, as its hilarious asides, explanations and host of memorable secondary characters - such as Uncle Toby, Dr Slop, Parson Yorick and Widow Wadman - tak ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
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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 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Category: Classics | 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