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Animal Farm (Alma Classics) by George Orwell
17.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens Ser.
Under the feckless husbandry of Mr Jones, 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 Napoleon tha ...Show more
Anna Karenina (Alma Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
17.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic story of its eponymous heroine. Anna is desperately pursuing a good, "moral" life, standing for honesty and sincerity. Passion drives her to adultery, and this flies in the face ...Show more
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes; Tom Lathrop (trans)
13.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
When an ageing, impoverished nobleman decides to style himself “Don Quixote” and embarks upon a series of daring endeavours, it is clear that his ability to distinguish between reality and the fantasy world of literary romance has broken down. His exploits turn into comic misadventures, in which everyda ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Emma is considered by many readers to be Jane Austen's crowning achievement, a timeless comedy of manners that lays bare the limits on women's autonomy in Regency England. The disparity between Emma Woodhouse's self-confidence and self-knowledge, and her determination to arrange marriages for her friend ...Show more
Heart of Darkness and the Complete Congo Diary (Alma Classics) by Joseph Conrad
13.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most remote outpost in central Africa, which brought him on the trail of the elusive Kurtz, a brilliant idealist gone rogue. His account relates not only the peri ...Show more
Jane Eyre (Alma Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Orphaned at an early age, Jane Eyre, leads a lonely life until she finds a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. There she meets the mysterious Mr. Rochester and sees a ghostly woman who roams the halls at night. What is the sinister secret that threatens Jane and her new found happiness? Step int ...Show more
Lady Chatterley's Lover Annotated Edition by D. H. Lawrence
17.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Originally published in Italy in 1928, and unavailable in Britain until 1960, when it was the subject of an infamous obscenity trial, Lady Chatterley's Lover is now regarded as one of the pivotal novels of the twentieth century. Lawrence's determination to explore every aspect - sexual, social, psycholo ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Beautiful Emma Rouault yearns for the life of wealth, passion and romance she has encountered in popular sentimental fiction, and when her doctor, the well-meaning but awkward and unremarkable Charles Bovary, begins to pay her attention, she imagines that she may be granted her wish. However, after thei ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
As Mrs Dalloway works on the preparations for a dinner party, her thoughts throughout the day wander from memories of the past to interrogations about the present and lead her to assess the choices she has made in life and love. Her monologue interweaves with the account of the distress, on that same da ...Show more
North and South: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) by Elizabeth Gaskell
11.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Having 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 unsympathetic attitude of the textile-mill owner John Thornton, whose factory workers are engaged in an ac ...Show more
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Includes pictures and section on Dostoevsky's life and works The unnamed narrator of the novel, a former government official, has decided to retire from the world and lead a life of inactivity and contemplation. His fiercely bitter, cynical, and witty monologue ranges from general observations and phi ...Show more
Praise of Folly by Erasmus
13.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
The goddess Folly gives a speech, praising herself and explaining how much humanity benefits from her services, from politicians to philosophers, aristocrats, schoolteachers, poets, lawyers, theologians, monarchs and the clergy. At the same time, her discourse provides a satire of Erasmus's world, pokin ...Show more