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White Nights and Other Stories: New Translation
$16.00 Read moreFeeling alone and abandoned by everyone, a young man and self-confessed dreamer decides to take to the streets of St Petersburg during one of its long summer nights. As he roams around the empty city,
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1847499317
- Language: English
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The Peter Rabbit Stories: Deluxe Edition with 77 New Colour Illustrations by Anna Currey: The Perfect Easter Gift (Alma Junior Classics)
$16.00 Add to cartThis collection brings together in a single volume the four books that feature the famous young rabbit with the blue jacket and a penchant for mischief and disobedience: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The
- Series: Alma Junior Classics
- Author: Potter, Beatrix
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1847499120
- Language: English
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Supernatural Short Stories: Tales of Murder and Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
$12.00 Read moreOne of the main forces in early nineteenth-century literature, Sir Walter Scott was not
only among the greatest novelists of his time, but influenced generations of writers,
including literary giants s- Author: Scott, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1847499309
- Language: English
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The Idiot: New Translation
$14.00 Add to cartIncludes pictures and an extensive section on Dostoevsky’s life and works After spending several years in a sanatorium recovering from an illness that caused him to lose his memory and ability to reas… [more below]
- Series: Evergreens
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1847493432
- Language: English
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The Haunted Hotel: Annotated Edition
$11.00 Read moreThe Haunted Hotel is a disturbing novella set in Venice which cleverly combines detective and ghost story genre. This edition is based on the most authoritative text and contains notes and extra mater
- Author: Collins, Wilkie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1847498396
- Language: English
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass and Alice’s Adventures Under Ground
$10.00 Read moreOriginally conceived by its author as an entertaining story for Alice Liddell, the daughter of an Oxford dean, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the fantastic tale of the young Alice’s encounters with
- Series: Alma Junior Classics
- Author: Carroll, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 1847494072
- Language: English
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The Mother
$14.00 Read moreInspired by real events and centring on the figure of Pelageya Vlasova – the mother of the title – and her son Pavel, Gorky’s masterpiece describes the brutal life of ordinary Russian factory workers
- Author: Gorky, Maxim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1847498531
- Language: English
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The Enchanted April
$10.00 Read moreFour 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 adve
- Series: Evergreens
- Author: Armin, Elizabeth Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1847497217
- Language: English
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Selected Poetry
$12.00 Read moreDuring his short and restless life, Percy Bysshe Shelley produced a great number of poems, three verse plays and numerous prose works, as well as many essays in which he propounded his philosophical v
- Author: Shelley, Percy Bysshe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1847498671
- Language: English
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The Looking Glass and Other Stories: New Translation of This Unique Edition of Thirty-Four Other Short Stories by Chekhov, Some of Them Never Translat
$12.00 Read moreIt is New Year’s Eve, and Nellie, the pretty daughter of a landowning general, is sitting in her room looking in the mirror. Although she is tired and her eyes are half closed, she is spellbound as th
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1847499015
- Language: English
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The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: Annotated Edition
$11.00 Read moreOnce again the eminent detective is presented with a series of seemingly impenetrable cases: an anonymous but illustrious client employs him to rescue the daughter of a famous personage from the clutc
- Series: Alma Junior Classics
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1847498825
- Language: English
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Sakhalin Island
$15.00 Read moreIn 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on the island of Sakhal
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1847497861
- Language: English
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Ethan Frome: Annotated Edition
$10.00 Read moreTrapped in a loveless marriage and weighed down by poverty, Ethan Frome’s days are enlivened by the presence of Mattie, his ailing wife Zeena’s youthful and charming cousin, who provides help to the h
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1847499066
- Language: English
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The Pickwick Papers: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)
$16.00 Read moreThe quintessentially English Don Quixote, here presented in a new edition based on the authoritative text and accompanied by notes and extra material to help the modern reader.
A rich and varied arra- Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1847498310
- Language: English
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The Turn of the Screw
$8.00 Read moreA new edition of a Gothic novella which has inspired many horror and psychological thrillers since its publication. This new edition of The Turn of the Screw offers students the definitive text and ex
- Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 1847498299
- Language: English
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Plays: New Translation: Newly Translated and Annotated: The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, the Seagull and Uncle Vanya
$12.00 Add to cartThe 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 dialogu
- Series: Evergreens
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1847496687
- Language: English
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The Prince
$11.00 Read moreAt the end of an industrious political career in conflictriven Italy, the Florentine diplomat Niccol Machiavelli composed his masterpiece The Prince, a classic study of power and politics, and a manu… [more below]
- Series: Evergreens
- Author: Machiavelli, Niccolò
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1847493238
- Language: English
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Burmese Days
$12.00 Read moreIn the Burmese provincial town of Kyauktada, the world-weary John Flory – a thirty-something English teak dealer – leads a life of quiet disillusionment, hardly mixing with the natives or the expat co
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1847498809
- Language: English
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The Story of Dr Dolittle: Presented with the Original Illustrations
$11.00 Read more“After a while, with the parrot’s help, the Doctor got to learn the language of the animals so well that he could talk to them himself and understand everything they said.”
John Dolittle is a highly r- Series: Alma Junior Classics
- Author: Lofting, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1847497454
- Language: English
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North and South
$12.00 Read moreHaving grown up in London and rural southern England, Margaret Hale moves with her father to the northern industrial city of Milton. She is shocked by the poverty she encounters and dismayed by the un
- Series: Evergreens
- Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1847497160
- Language: English
