Books Monthly May 2020 Alma Classics: King Solomon's Mines tops this month's Alma offerings...
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Alma Classics are the foremost publisher of classic literature both for children and for grownups right now. Their brilliantly stylised front cover art is second to none, and the books contain not only the original, unabridged text, but also additional material like annotated notes and biographies of the authors. Record magazines have regular articles on building a record library - this is my take, only on classic literature, continuing with four new releases from the foremost  publisher of classic literature in the UK!


H Rider Haggard: King Solomon's Mines

Published by Alma Classics Junior 23rd April 2020


When the adventurer Allan Quartermain is asked by Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good to help them find Sir Henry's missing brother, who was last seen trekking into the remote African interior in search of the fabled King Solomon's Mines, he reluctantly agrees, yet fears that there is little hope of coming back alive. Following a map drawn in blood, the men cross vast deserts and scale snow-covered mountain peaks, facing fearful dangers and hardships, until they reach Kukuanaland, where they meet their greatest peril yet...

ABOUT THE SERIES: ABOUT THE SERIES: Alma Classics Junior series of illustrated classics includes some of the greatest books ever written for younger readers and new translations of unjustly neglected international works. Our aim is to give our list an international feel and offer young readers to opportunity to connect with other cultures and literatures this applies not only to the titles we chose but also to the illustrators we commission so that we can bring a bit of novelty into the canon of British children s literature. All children s classics contain extra material for young readers, including a profile of the author, a section on the book, a list of characters, a glossary and a test-yourself quiz.


Virginia Woolf: Jacob's Room

Published by Alma Classics 23rd April 2020


From his childhood on the wild, windswept shores of Cornwall and his college days at Cambridge to his life as a lawyer in London and a fateful journey to the Mediterranean, Jacob Flanders's story is told by the women in his life, whether through his mother's correspondence, the conversations of a friend or the thoughts and remembrances of those who love him. An extraordinary departure from traditional forms of the novel, Jacob's Room is both an elegiac and experimental tale told in pieces and fragments and a paean to the slaughter and loss of the First World War.







Anthony Trollope: The Warden

Published by Alma Classics Evergreens 23rd April 2020


When the peaceful atmosphere of Barchester is destroyed by a scandal concerning the financial affairs of an almshouse, Septimus Harding, the kindly warden who devotes his life to the care of the establishment's twelve elderly residents, finds himself in conflict with his daughter's suitor, the zealous reformer Dr John Bold, who employs the full might of the press against his prospective father-in-law. The first in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series, The Warden is both a humorous satire of the Church of England and a poignant insight into the manner in which public matters impact private lives.







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