1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four
Ravaged by years of war and civil conflict, Britain has changed its name to Airstrip One and become part of Oceania – one of the three totalitarian...
View full detailsRavaged by years of war and civil conflict, Britain has changed its name to Airstrip One and become part of Oceania – one of the three totalitarian...
View full detailsEbenezer Scrooge is a lonely, miserly old man who hates Christmas, which he dismisses as "humbug". One Christmas Eve, however, he is visited by a s...
View full detailsAs the Revolution is still raging in France, in London the barrister Sydney Carton and the exiled French nobleman Charles Darnay find themselves ri...
View full detailsThe well-educated daughter of a penniless clergyman, Agnes Grey is treated like a child by her family and so sets out to prove herself by seeking e...
View full detailsUnder the feckless husbandry of Mr Jones, the Manor Farm has fallen into disrepair. Pushed into hardship, the animals decide to stage a revolt, and...
View full detailsIncludes an extensive section on Tolstoy's life and work. New translation. Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental...
View full detailsThe poem is presented here in a dual-text format with a new translation by multi-award-winning translator J.G. Nichols. The translator has mostly...
View full detailsOne of the most famous and celebrated Victorian coming-of-age novels, David Copperfield charts the adventures and vicissitudes of its eponymous ...
View full detailsIn the summer of 1348, the plague ravages Florence, and ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with ...
View full detailsNew translation with illustrations by Jack Davis. When an ageing, impoverished nobleman decides to style himself Don Quixote and embarks upon a ser...
View full detailsJames Joyce's first published book, which he wrote when he was still in his twenties, Dubliners is far removed from the bold experimentalism of his...
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View full detailsOne of Dickens's finest novels, Great Expectations chronicles the fortunes of its young protagonist Pip as he is unexpectedly endowed by a mysterio...
View full detailsShipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself surrounded by its six-inch-tall natives, the Lilliputians. But this is only...
View full detailsIn Hard Times, Dickens illustrates the condition of England through his depiction of the fictional northern city of Coketown. Among its inhabitants...
View full detailsPart of Alma Classics Evergreen series, this edition is published here with the complete Congo Diaries. On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tel...
View full detailsNew verse translation by prize-winning translator with facing Italian text, part of Alma Classics Evergreen series. Includes an extensive section o...
View full detailsFrom his childhood on the wild, windswept shores of Cornwall and his college days at Cambridge to his life as a lawyer in London and a fateful jour...
View full detailsJude Fawley, an intelligent and sensitive young Wessex schoolboy, is encouraged in his scholarly pursuits by the local schoolmaster, Mr Phillotson....
View full detailsPart of Alma Classics Evergreen series, this edition contains a wealth of material. Originally published in Italy in 1928, and unavailable in Brita...
View full detailsIn The Wave , a young man falls dangerously in love with the tenant downstairs, who is engaged to be married; in The Signorina , a flirtatious youn...
View full detailsPart of Alma Classics Evergreen series, this new translation of Madame Bovary includes pictures, notes and an extensive section on Flaubert's life ...
View full detailsThe most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bil...
View full detailsWhile enjoying a six weeks' stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. Than...
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