Alma Classics Evergreens – serie
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23 produkter
Art of War
Annotated Edition
Av Tzu Sun
Häftad, 2020
89 kr
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For two and a half thousand years The Art of War has been the core text of military strategy and planning, providing leaders with enduring insights into tactics, psychology, discipline and the nature of power.Favoured by countless great generals and military tacticians throughout history, over the …
Prophet
Häftad, 2020
98 kr
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Having lived in the city of Orphalese for twelve years, the revered Prophet is about to board a ship taking him back to the isle of his birth. Before he departs, a group of people gather round and ask him to share his wisdom. Written as a collection of poetic essays, and detailing such diverse and …
Gone with the Wind
Annotated Edition
Häftad, 2021
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
109 kr
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The pampered daughter of a wealthy Georgian plantation owner of Irish descent,sixteen-year-old Scarlett O’Hara soon realizes that young men can’t resist hercharms, despite her forthright manners and her refusal to embrace her mother’sladylike ways. Her romantic intrigues lead her to an early …
Animal Farm
Annotated Edition
Häftad, 2021
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
100 kr
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Under the feckless husbandry of Mr Jones, the Manor Farm has fallen into disrepair. Pushed into hardship, the animals decide to stage a revolt, and, led by two young pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, they overthrow Mr Jones and drive him away from the farm. In the subsequent struggle for power, it is …
1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four
New Annotated Edition from the Author of Animal Farm
Häftad, 2021
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
100 kr
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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 blocks dominating the world – ruled by a mysterious leader called Big Brother who keeps the population in thrall through strict surveillance and brutal …
Turn of the Screw
Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)
Av Henry James
Häftad, 2021
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
99 kr
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An unnamed young governess is sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Yet she is soon oppressed by a sense of foreboding and deep disquiet, becoming convinced that something dark is threatening her young charges. But are supernatural forces at work, or is the danger …
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)
Häftad, 2021
113 kr
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Despite hailing from a comfortable family background, budding poet Gordon Comstock decides to declare war on money and all the middle-class trappings that wealth can buy. Working in a small bookshop and living in a bedsit in London, he dreams of completing an ambitious poem in rhyme royal and …
Les Misérables
Edited and Annotated by Stephen Parkin
Av Victor Hugo
Häftad, 2027
152 kr
Kommande
According to its author, Les Misérables was to show “the progress from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsehood to truth, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from corruption to life”. Centring on the adventures and the tortuous path to redemption of former convict Jean …
Crime and Punishment
Newly Translated and Fully Annotated
Häftad, 2022
126 kr
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Poverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Petersburg. Having abandoned all hopes of sustaining himself through work, he now obsesses over the idea of changing his fortunes through an act of extreme …
Dead Fingers Talk
Häftad, 2020
179 kr
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Only edition in printFirst published in 1963 and representing Burroughs’s literary breakthrough in the UK, Dead Fingers Talk is, in the words of Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris, “a prophetic work of haunting power”, and is perhaps the most commercial and accessible of his works. Combining new …
Macbeth
Fully annotated edition with over 900 textual notes
Häftad, 2025
116 kr
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A tale of unbridled greed and an insatiable thirst for power set in eleventh-century Scotland, Macbeth has long been recognized as Shakespeare’s fastest-moving tragedy, combining relentless narrative momentum with a profound examination of how psychological coercion mixed with personal ambition can …
The Diary of a Nobody
New Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)
Av George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith
Häftad, 2026
126 kr
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Having just moved into a fine, six-roomed residence, “the Laurels”, the Pooters are ready to begin a new life. Charles, the paterfamilias, a lowly clerk in a City of London firm, begins to keep a diary, one that, over the next fifteen months, will provide a record of the small trials and …
Sons and Lovers
Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)
Häftad, 2021
100 kr
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As the sensitive and delicate Gertrude begins to shrink from her drunken and violent husband, their marriage becomes a battleground. Gertrude turns increasingly towards her two eldest sons, William and Paul, and determines that they will not grow up to be coalminers living in poverty like their …
Secret Agent
Häftad, 2020
98 kr
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The shop owner Adolf Verloc, member of an anarchist group and secret agent for a foreign government, is summoned to meet Mr Vladimir, the country’s ambassador, who asks him to carry out a terrorist attack at a famous London landmark. Verloc has misgivings, but Mr Vladimir knows how to make people …
Silas Marner
Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)
Av George Eliot
Häftad, 2021
100 kr
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Having been accused of theft and hounded out of a religious community many years previously, the weaver Silas Marner now lives alone in the village of Raveloe, hoarding the precious wealth he earns. But when Silas’s beloved gold is stolen, and an orphaned girl finds her way into his home, he is …
Pickwick Papers
Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)
Häftad, 2022
113 kr
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A rich and varied array of stories and vignettes, The Pickwick Papers is based around the investigations of the Corresponding Society of the Pickwick Club, consisting of its founder Mr Samuel Pickwick and Messrs Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle, who travel around the country …
Pygmalion: 1941 version with variants from the 1916 edition
Definitive 1941 version with footnotes indicating the textual variants
Häftad, 2021
100 kr
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When professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wagers with Colonel Pickering that he could teach even a gutter-mouthed flower seller how to speak like a duchess, little does he expect that his social experiment will be riddled with difficulties, and that behind her cockney parlance the girl in question, …
Babbitt
Fully annotated edition with over 300 notes (Alma Classics Evergreens)
Häftad, 2022
113 kr
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In the Midwestern city of Zenith, the middle-aged estate agent George F. Babbitt appears to have achieved the American dream to its fullest: he is successful at work, comfortably off, exceedingly well fed, has a wife and children, a motor car and a neat house with a neat yard, and is a proud member …
House of Mirth
Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)
Häftad, 2022
100 kr
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An impoverished member of the privileged high society of old New York, Lily Bart is beautiful and socially agreeable, but she is almost thirty and still unmarried. Now she is keen to secure a wealthy husband to confirm her status, but the debts she contracts at the card table, her reduced …
Women in Love
Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)
Häftad, 2023
113 kr
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First encountered in Lawrence’s novel The Rainbow, sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen are now grown-up women living in the English Midlands at the time of the First World War. Each becomes involved in a love affair: Ursula with the misanthropic intellectual Rupert Birkin, and Gudrun with Gerald …
Tom Jones
FULLY ANNOTATED EDITION (OVER 750 NOTES)
Häftad, 2024
139 kr
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Abandoned as an infant and of unknown parentage, Tom Jones is raised in the household of the irreproachable, altruistic Squire Allworthy. Growing up to be a high-spirited, lusty youth, Tom finds himself vulnerable to temptation in the form of a local wench, though his heart is ultimately claimed by …
Old Curiosity Shop
Annotated Edition
Häftad, 2024
126 kr
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The beautiful Nell is a thirteen-year-old orphan who lives with her grandfather in a London bric-a-brac shop. Worried about his charge’s future, the old man secretly gambles at night in order to provide an inheritance for her, but finally loses the little he has and is evicted from the shop by the …
Death in Venice
New Translation (Alma Classics Evergreens)
Av Thomas Mann
Häftad, 2026
113 kr
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As the ageing Gustav von Aschenbach, a famous author who has recently been ennobled in recognition of his literary achievements, arrives in Venice for a holiday and checks into his Lido hotel, he is struck by the arresting good looks of Tadzio, an aristocratic Polish youth of around fourteen who is …
