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A Tale of Two Cities
Alma Books LtdOriginal price R 160.00 - Original price R 160.00Original price R 160.00R 160.00R 160.00 - R 160.00Current price R 160.00Against the backdrop of growing discontent in Paris, Doctor Manette is released from the Bastille after eighteen years of unjust imprisonment and b...
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BURMESE DAYS PB
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Candide: New Translation
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Coming Up for Air
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Crime and Punishment
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His Last Bow
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Homage to Catalonia
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INCEST PB
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NIGHT AND DAY PB
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Pleasures and Days
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Small Fry and Other Stories
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Sons and Lovers
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The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
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The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Novellas: New Translation
Alma Books LtdOriginal price R 210.00Original price R 210.00 - Original price R 210.00Original price R 210.00Current price R 147.00R 147.00 - R 147.00Current price R 147.00Driven to his deathbed by an incurable disease, the thirty-year-old impoverished gentleman Chulkaturin decides to write a diary looking back on his...
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The Idiot: New Translation
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The Intimate Strangers and Other Stories
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The Looking Glass and Other Stories
Alma Books LtdOriginal price R 245.00 - Original price R 245.00Original price R 245.00R 245.00R 245.00 - R 245.00Current price R 245.00It 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 ...
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The Portrait of Mr W.H.
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The Rape of the Lock and A Key to the Lock
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The Raven and Other Poems: Fully Annotated Edition with over 400 notes. It contains Poe's complete poems and three essays on poetry
Alma Books LtdOriginal price R 215.00 - Original price R 215.00Original price R 215.00R 215.00R 215.00 - R 215.00Current price R 215.00The undisputed pioneer of the horror, detective and science-fiction genres, Edgar Allan Poe was just as influential as a poet as he is now a ce...
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The Red Badge of Courage
Alma Books LtdOriginal price R 118.00 - Original price R 118.00Original price R 118.00R 118.00R 118.00 - R 118.00Current price R 118.00On a cold morning, at daybreak, the 304th New York Regiment is waiting to engage with the Confederate army. Among the soldiers is young Henry Flemi...
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The Valley of Fear: Annotated Edition
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The Woman in White: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)
Alma Books LtdOriginal price R 220.00 - Original price R 220.00Original price R 220.00R 220.00R 220.00 - R 220.00Current price R 220.00"She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steeled his heart against her." In love with the b...
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VOYAGE OUT PB
Alma Books LtdOriginal price R 240.01 - Original price R 240.01Original price R 240.01R 240.01R 240.01 - R 240.01Current price R 240.01Helen and Ridley Ambrose are preparing to set off for an exotic resort off the coast of South America on the Euphrosyne, a ship belonging to Helen'...
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