Books - Adult - History

Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series, this new translation contains pictures, notes and an extensive...

The Pat Hobby Stories provide a vivid account of Hollywood and its politics and hierarchies....

The beautiful Nell is a thirteen-year-old orphan who lives with her grandfather in a London...

Having crash-landed in the Sahara desert, a pilot comes across a young boy who introduces...

“I know every move of your game… It has been a duel between you and...

When the reporter Edward Malone is sent to interview the formidable Professor Challenger about his...

When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect,...

On a train journey, Pozdnyshev tells his story to a stranger: how his relationship with...

As Mabel Waring takes off her cloak and steps into the drawing room of Clarissa...

A poignant tale which touches on the themes of yearning and lost youth that are...

It is New Year's Eve, and Nellie, the pretty daughter of a landowning general, is...

The mysterious Griffin arrives at a picturesque English inn during a snowstorm, swaddled in bandages...

Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series at 4.99. Populated by an unforgettable cast of characters,...

Rising from humble beginnings as a foundling, Castruccio Castracani came to prominence as one of...

When the corpse of Sir Charles Baskerville is found on the grounds of his Dartmoor...

“In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven… two idle apprentices, exhausted by...

While at a party organized by the local landowner for the officers of his brigade,...

After the Lady Vain is shipwrecked, Edward Prendick is plucked from the waves by a...

Having moved into an abandoned haunted house, the narrator, undaunted by the warnings of the...

The House of the Dead recounts the story of Alexander Goryanchikov, a gentleman who is...

A classic collection of animal stories, here presented in its entirity with a beautiful cover...

This luxurious edition of Dante’s timeless classic belongs on every book lover’s bookshelf.The Inferno is...

Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young...

Discover and treasure one of the greatest war stories of all time with this luxurious...