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Alma Classics Stocklist Spring 2018 ALMA CLASSICS COMPLETE ENGLISH- LITERATURE STOCKLIST SPRING 2018 ENGLISH LITERATURE JAMES JOYCE ULYSSES A lively repository of literary allusion and colloquial realism, this dazzlingly innovative, ambitious novel is here presented in its 1939 Odyssey Press version, which is regarded as the most accurate text published in Joyce’s lifetime. This edition also includes over 9,000 notes by Joyce scholars Sam Slote, Marc A. Mamigonian and John Turner. ISBN 9781847497765 • 832pp • £5.99 ISBN 9781847493866 320pp • £6.99 ISBN 9781847495853 120pp • £7.99 ISBN 9781847496317 384pp • £4.99 A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST CHAMBER MUSIC DUBLINERS The most extensively annotated This collection includes This new edition of Dubliners edition available with almost Joyce’s first published book, contains a wealth of material and 1,000 notes by Marc A. Chamber Music, as well as is essential for understanding Mamigonian and John Turner. his later collection Pomes the author’s development as a This text is based on the Egoist Penyeach and several other writer. Press second edition of 1918. uncollected poems. alma classics • 2 ISBN 9781847494160 608pp • £5.99 ISBN 9781847497260 128pp • £7.99 ISBN 9781847494016 192pp • £4.99 TRISTRAM SHANDY THE RAPE OF THE LOCK HEART OF DARKNESS Laurence Sterne Alexander Pope Joseph Conrad An ambitious project; the fresh The Rape of the Lock is presented This edition includes the editorial and typographical here with an introduction, notes Complete Congo Diary, which approach is of the highest and extra material. Included in follows Conrad’s journey up to standard, and makes this this volume are the original two- Bangala. The text follows the timeless classic come alive. canto version of The Rape of detailed collation work by Hans It’s been newly annotated the Lock and Pope’s hilarious van Marle, and includes notes by in a thorough but accessible mock-interpretation of the poem Ugo Mursia. Conrad’s original style, and is offered at a very as a seditious work, A Key to the spelling and punctuation have reasonable price. Lock. been preserved. ENGLISH LITERATURE GREAT POETS ISBN 9781847497529 256pp • £7.99 ISBN 9781847497567 520pp • £9.99 ISBN 9781847496089 256pp • £4.99 COLERIDGE KEATS SHAKESPEARE From sonnets and ballads to elegies From Endymion and Hyperion A vital complement to the plays, and blank verse, this collection to ‘The Eve of St Agnes’, ‘La o ering clues to Shakespeare’s includes ‘Christabel’, ‘The Eolian Belle Dame sans Merci’ and the own biography. Presented here Harp’, ‘Frost at Midnight’, ‘The Odes, this collection presents in an edition that makes them Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and Keats’s oeuvre in chronological accessible to twentieth-century ‘Kubla Khan’. order. readers. Each volume is based on the most authoritative text, and refl ects Alma’s commitment to provide affordable editions with valuable insight into the great poets’ works. WHITMAN WORDSWORTH Famously written in free verse A diverse selection of Words- and brimming with sensuous worth’s works, from the auto- imagery, contains celebrated biographical masterpiece The poems such as ‘Song of Prelude to much-loved shorter Myself’ – described by Jay poems such as ‘I Wandered Parini as the greatest American Lonely as a Cloud’ and ‘She poem ever written – and the Was a Phantom of Delight’, elegiac ‘When Lilacs Last in alongside his more personal the Dooryard Bloom’d’. and introspective compositions. ISBN 9781847497550 ISBN 9781847497505 256pp • £8.99 320pp • £7.99 ALL EVERGREENS SERIES £5.99 OR LESS alma classics • 3 · All our classics offer students the definitive text and extensive appendices · All our editions contain detailed and comprehensive extra material about the author’s life and works · Each volume contains a carefully selected bibliography and extensive notes on the text · The text in each edition is faithful to the authoritative version, and punctuation and spelling have been modernized, to make it more accessible to the modern reader · All our books are presented in beautiful paperback editions and are accessibly priced alma classics • complete english literature list TITLE AUTHOR ISBN PRICE TITLE AUTHOR ISBN PRICE Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson 9781847492166 £8.99 North and South (Feb 18) Elizabeth Gaskell 9781847497161 £5.99 Emma Jane Austen 9781847494139 £4.99 The Triumph of Vice and Other Stories (Sep 18) W.S. Gilbert 9781847497543 £8.99 Lady Susan, Sanditon, The Watsons (Jan 18) Jane Austen 9781847497154 £7.99 Collected Poems Goodsir Smith, Sydney 9780714543376 £12.99 Love and Friendship Jane Austen 9781847496331 £7.99 Far From the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 9781847496300 £4.99 Mansfield Park Jane Austen 9781847495983 £4.99 Tess of the d'Ubervilles Thomas Hardy 9781847494948 £4.99 Northanger Abbey Jane Austen 9781847496249 £4.99 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 9781847494214 £4.99 Persuasion Jane Austen 9781847495709 £5.99 Young Goodman Brown and Other Stories Nathaniel Hawthorne 9781847496522 £7.99 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 9781847493699 £4.99 (Aug 18) Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 9781847494849 £5.99 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Ghostly Washington Irving 9781847497604 £7.99 Tales (Oct 18) The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter Ambrose Bierce 9781847492753 £8.99 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James 9781847495754 £4.99 Agnes Grey (Jan 18) Anne Brontë 9781847497147 £5.99 After-Supper Ghost Stories Jerome K. Jerome 9781847496225 £7.99 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Jun 18) Anne Brontë 9781847497277 £5.99 Three Men in a Boat (Mar 18) Jerome K. Jerome 9781847496539 £4.99 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 9781847493736 £5.99 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 9781847493866 £6.99 The Angria Tales (Nov 18) Charlotte Brontë 9781847497611 £7.99 Chamber Music and Other Poems James Joyce 9781847495853 £7.99 The Professor (Feb 18) Charlotte Brontë 9781847497178 £7.99 Dubliners James Joyce 9781847496317 £4.99 Poems from the Moor (Apr 18) Emily Brontë 9781847497246 £7.99 Ulysses James Joyce 9781847497765 £5.99 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 9781847493217 £4.99 Complete Poems (Sep 18) John Keats 9781847497567 £7.99 The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 9781847496454 £4.99 Dog Stories Rudyard Kipling 9781847493972 £7.99 Canterbury Tales (Oct 18) Geoffrey Chaucer 9781847497413 £5.99 Humorous Tales (Jan 18) Rudyard Kipling 9781847496720 £7.99 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9781847497529 £7.99 Poems (Jul 18) Lady Chatterley's Lover D.H. Lawrence 9781847494085 £4.99 The Dream Woman Wilkie Collins 9781847494061 £7.99 The Fox D.H. Lawrence 9781847496942 £7.99 The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 9781847494221 £4.99 The Rats in the Walls and Other Stories H.P. Lovecraft 9781847494153 £6.99 The Woman in White Wilkie Collins 9781847495716 £4.99 The Whisperer in Darkness and Other Tales H.P. Lovecraft 9781847494986 £7.99 Tales of Adventures and Medical Life Arthur Conan Doyle 9781847494207 £6.99 The Garden Party and Other Stories (Jun 18) Katherine Mansfield 9781847497291 £7.99 Tales of Long Ago Arthur Conan Doyle 9781847494108 £6.99 Moby Dick Herman Melville 9781847496447 £5.99 Tales of Terror and Mystery Arthur Conan Doyle 9781847493842 £6.99 The Piazza Tales (Jul 18) Herman Melville 9781847497222 £7.99 Tales of Twilight and the Unseen Arthur Conan Doyle 9781847493309 £6.99 The Fantastic Tales of Fitz-James O'Brien O'Brien, Fitz-James 9780714543369 £9.99 The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle 9781847496508 £4.99 Tales of Horror Edgar Allan Poe 9781847496096 £4.99 The Tragedy of the Korosko Arthur Conan Doyle 9781847494351 £7.99 Scriblerus (Mar 18) Alexander Pope 9781847491060 £7.99 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 9781847494016 £4.99 The Art of Sinking in Poetry Alexander Pope 9781847496928 £8.99 Tales of Unrest (May 18) Joseph Conrad 9781847496485 £7.99 The Rape of the Lock and Key to the Lock (May 18) Alexander Pope 9781847497260 £7.99 A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder James De Mille 9781847494344 £7.99 The Italian Ann Radcliffe 9781847497031 £8.99 Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Nov 18) Thomas De Quincey 9781847497635 £7.99 Tobermory and Other Stories (Sep 18) Saki 9781847497307 £7.99 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 9781847496171 £4.99 Supernatural Short Stories of Sir Walter Scott Scott, Sir Walter 9780714543635 £9.99 A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 9781847496607 £4.99 Sonnets William Shakespeare 9781847496089 £4.99 George Silverman's Explanation Charles Dickens 9781847494023 £7.99 The Intelligent Woman's Guide George Bernard Shaw 9781847493330 £8.99 Great Expectations Charles Dickens 9781847493811 £4.99 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 9781847493507 £4.99 Hard Times Charles Dickens 9781847494887 £4.99 Memoirs of a Mother in Law (Dec 18) George R. Sims 9781847497796 £7.99 Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 9781847493767 £5.99 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne 9781847494160 £5.99 Gentleman Poems Charles Dickens 9781847496904 £7.99 New Arabian Nights Robert Louis Stevenson 9781847494092 £6.99 Sketches of Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen and Charles Dickens 9781847494917 £7.99 Young Couples Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 9781847493781 £4.99 Supernatural Short Stories Charles Dickens 9781847492272 £6.99 Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 9781847495976 £4.99 The Haunted House Charles Dickens 9781847494337 £7.99 Man at Leisure Alexander Trocchi 9781847494399 £10.99 The Mudfog Papers Charles Dickens 9781847493484 £7.99 Diaries of Adam and Eve Mark Twain 9781847494382 £7.99 Middlemarch George Eliot 9781847496041 £5.99 Is Shakespeare Dead? Mark Twain 9781847495990 £7.99 The Mill on the Floss (Oct 18) George Eliot 9781847497420 £5.99 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 9781847496027 £4.99 All The Sad Young Men F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781847493040 £6.99 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain 9781847494900 £4.99 Detective Babylon Revisited and Other Stories F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781847493804 £6.99 The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg Mark Twain 9781847494030 £7.99 Basil and Josephine F.
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