Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
In the summer of 1348, the plague ravages Florence, and ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death and corruption, featuring a host of colourful characters, from lascivious clergymen and mad kings to devious lovers and false miracle-ma ...Show more
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
When Rachel Verinder's legacy of a priceless Indian diamond is stolen, all the evidence indicates that it is her beloved, Franklin Blake, who is guilty. Around this central axis of crime and thwarted love, Collins constructs an ingenious plot of teasing twists and surprises, and an elaborate multi-voice ...Show more
The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Junior Classics Ser.
When the Americans Mr and Mrs Otis and their four children move into Canterville Chase, its previous occupant Lord Canterville warns them that the ghost of his ancestor still haunts the house. Their disbelief is soon shattered by the nightly sound of rattling chains in the hallways and the appearance of ...Show more
Selected Poems: Blake by William Blake
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Category: Classic Fiction
Blake occupies a very special place in the pantheon of English Romanticism- just as innovative and brilliant in the figurative arts as in the field of poetry, his works are often difficult to categorize and, while constantly harking back to a classical and biblical past, they also look forward to the fu ...Show more
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Category: Classic Fiction
When Sara Crewe is brought from India to attend Miss Minchin's boarding school for girls in London, she arrives looking rather like a princess, with trunks full of the finest clothes. Yet, despite having her own pony and carriage, private room and personal maid, Sara is never a snob to her fellow pupils ...Show more
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
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Category: Classic Fiction
Initial reception of the book versions was mixed. In the decades following, however, the stature of The Devil's Dictionary increased. It has been widely quoted, frequently translated, and often imitated, earning a global reputation. In the 1970s, The Devil's Dictionary was named as one of "The 100 Great ...Show more
The Monk - A Romance by Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Category: Classic Fiction
A masterpiece of the Gothic genre, The Monk tells the story of the Capuchin friar Ambrosio and his fall from grace through desire, greed and lust. Published anonymously and favourably reviewed at first, the novel was later so widely and raucously denounced for its perceived licentiousness, blasphemy and ...Show more
The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol
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Category: Classic Fiction
The corrupt officials of a small Russian town, headed by the Mayor, react with terror to the news that an incognito inspector (the revizor) will soon be arriving in their town to investigate them. The flurry of activity to cover up their considerable misdeeds is interrupted by the report that a suspicio ...Show more
Manon Lescaut by Antoine François Prévost
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Category: Classic Fiction
When the young nobleman Des Grieux lays eyes on the beautiful and charming lower-class Manon Lescaut, he immediately falls in love with her and runs away with her to Paris, incurring the wrath of his family and forfeiting his inheritance. However, he struggles to satisfy her taste for luxury, frittering ...Show more
Moll Flanders by Daniel Dafoe
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Evergreens Ser.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders Who was born in Newgate, and during a life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Years a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her brother) Twelve Years a Thief, Eight Years a Transported Felon in Virgini ...Show more
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
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Category: Classic Fiction | 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
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Classic Fiction
Kipling's masterpiece is perhaps the most remarkable literary product of British India. The story of a half-caste boy, part Indian part Irish who journeys throughout the subcontinent with an aged lama in search of religious enlightenment, the nominal plot revolves around the Great Game- the struggle bet ...Show more