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The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
The Idiot is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868-9. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince a young man whose goodness and open-hearted simplicity lead many of th ...Show more
The Island of Dr Moreau by H. G. Wells
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Evergreens Ser.
After the Lady Vain is shipwrecked, Edward Prendick is plucked from the waves by a passing ship and deposited on a remote island. Here he is the guest of Dr Moreau, whose notorious scientific methods had caused an uproar that left him with no choice but to flee London. Disquieted and appalled by the pa ...Show more
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
The second of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, this is the one which has consistently captured the imagination of generations since it was first published in 1826. Its success lies partly in the historical role Cooper gives to his Indian characters, against the grain of accumulated racial hostility, ...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 Master and Margarita (Alma Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov; Hugh Aplin (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Russia's literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman - a professor of black magic - arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre retinue of servants. It soon becomes clear that he is the Devil himself, come to wreak havoc among the cultural elite of a disbelieving capital. But ...Show more
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
The Mill on the FlossBy George EliotThe novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the fictional river Floss near the fictional village of St. Oggs, after the Napoleonic Wars but prior to the first Reform Bill in 1832. Spanning the years from Tom and Maggie's ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits, and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in t ...Show more
The Plays: The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters, The Seagull and Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
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Category: Plays | Series: Evergreens
The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and world theatre, with plays that were remarkable not just for their dialogue but their atmosphere and the tensions expressed between the lines. Collected in this volume are Chekh ...Show more
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens
Having travelled from her native New York to London to meet her relatives, Isabel Archer, a young, independently minded young woman, rejects the marriage proposals of two suitors in her determination to stay in control of her destiny. When she suddenly comes into a large legacy, Isabel believes that thi ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
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 Prophet: Annotated Edition with illustrations by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: Religion | Series: Evergreens Ser.
"Work is love made visible." - Khalil Gibran Filled with wisdom, written in simple, poetic language, The Prophet is a book for all ages, which remains amazingly relevant to our times. After living in the city of Orphalese for 12 years, a prophet is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He i ...Show more
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
'Spookily topical' Guardian Read the world's first political thriller. London is under threat. It has become a haven for political exiles and anarchists. Frequent bomb threats and disturbances interrupt the lives of the city's inhabitants, who live in fear of the terrorists in their midst. One such te ...Show more