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Tender is the Night by Scott F. Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star Rosemary Hoyt. Her arrival causes a stir in their social circle and exposes the cracks in their fragile marriage. As their relationship unravels, the glimpses of their troubled p ...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 Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the 'eternal triangle' of lov ...Show more
The Awakening: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) by Kate Chopin
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Complete and unabridged paperback edition.The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and ...Show more
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | 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 Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
The heir to his grandfather's considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations and distractions 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 ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.In The Canterbury TalesChaucer created one of the great to ...Show more
The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
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 Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Armin
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Four women, with very different backgrounds and characters - the artless Lottie Wilkins, the pious Rose Arbuthnot, the cantankerous Mrs Fisher and the haughty Lady Caroline Dester - respond to an advertisement in The Times offering a medieval castle to rent in Italy that April. As their joint holiday be ...Show more
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Presented through an ingeniously overlapping and intertwining series of letters written by six very different characters, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker is the story of Squire Matthew Bramble and his family's journey across England and Scotland. From the gouty hypochondriac squire eager to take the w ...Show more
The Game of Chess and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens
Stefan Zweig's last and most famous story, 'The Game of Chess' was written in exile in Brazil and explores its author's anxieties about the situation in Europe following the rise of the Nazi regime. The tale is presented here in a brand-new translation, along with three of the master storyteller's most ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | 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