Alma Books are celebrating winning the Bookseller's Independent Publisher of the Year 2013 and have just launched their classics 'Evergreens' series. The series is all about making great literature available to every reader at an affordable price of £4.99 without compromising on production and design.
The first four books that have been published in this series are pictured above, and are Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli and Praise of Folly by Erasmus.
Giveaway!
Alma are kindly offering a UK based reader of this blog the chance to win a set of all four of these lovely books (one copy of each).
Please leave a comment below to enter. I'd love to know which is/are your favourite classic novel(s), if you have one.
The giveaway is open until Thursday 26th September 2013 and is open to UK based entrants only as per the publisher.
The winner will be chosen at random and will need to reply within 48 hours of being contacted, otherwise another winner may be chosen.
Good luck!
*****THIS GIVEAWAY HAS NOW ENDED AND A WINNER CHOSEN AND CONTACTED*****
Great idea, and good design too - not that much less can be expected from Alma really. Though I have many problems with the labeling of books as classics or cannonical, Madame Bovary is one of the best novels I've read. I suppose in that way classics act like gateway drugs, as the love for Bovary has sent me to the heady heights of Zola and the dizzy viscosity of Proust.
ReplyDeleteThe only one of these I have read is Wuthering Heights but that was a long time ago. I like the Brontes and I am sure will do so second time around. I love all things Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy. I have enjoyed Charles Dickens, Herman Hesse and George Orwell but the one and only DH Lawrence I read left me cold.
ReplyDeleteThe only one I've read is Wuthering Heights. The Prince and Madame Bovary are on my wishlist. And Erasmus, I've never heard of!
ReplyDeleteFab giveaway. My fav classic is Lord of the Flies (is that a classic yet lol)
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I'd love to win! I've read Wuthering Heights & Madame Bovary already, both were wonderful reads. I really enjoy classics, and try to read at least one a month. Anna Karenina, Villette and Dracula are among my favourites.
ReplyDeleteWhat beautiful editions! Great giveaway.
ReplyDeleteI know the moment I hit publish I'm going to think of another one, but I'd say my favourite classics are The Moonstone and Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
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Oh, I love Wuthering Heights that and Persuasion are two of my favourite books that I have read over & over!!
ReplyDeleteThese would look fab on my bookshelf xx
The book covers look so contemporary - they will be great to attract the attention of younger audiences too! My favourite classic is A Room with a View by Foster. Loved Wuthering Heights too though and I'd like to re-read it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for giving us the chance to win these great books!
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What a wonderful giveaway! I'm a big fan of children's classics and titles such as The Secret Garden, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Heidi and Sans famille I've read over and over again. I always tell myself that I should more adult classics though and this would be the perfect opportunity to do so :)
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My favourite classic is Jane Eyre, without a doubt. It just has everything you could wish for in a book.
ReplyDeleteThis is a lovely collection. My favourite classic is Wuthering Heights. I have also read all of DH Lawrence's novels and most by Dickens. That's not to say I don't have a zillion other classics on my tbr shelf!
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This is a lovely collection. My favourite classic is Wuthering Heights. I have also read all of DH Lawrence's novels and most by Dickens. That's not to say I don't have a zillion other classics on my tbr shelf!
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Thank you everyone for your entries and recommendations so far!
ReplyDeleteI think I have one or two on my tbr, I read a few when I was younger but not read anything in years. Thanks for the giveaway.
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Favourite classic - hmm....Jane Eyre was my first and I have read it a few times so it has a special place in my mind but then Vilette was so different and so powerful that I have to love that too for entirely different reasons! I love the Brontes - Anne really doesn't get the recognition she deserves - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is in a different league. But then I adore Jane Austen's characters too and then there is E.M Forster and don't forget Gaskell - she's wonderful! Then the ones that get forgotten like Diary of a Nobody, Three Men in a Boat...favourite? I really can't say - but these book are awesome, I want to sniff and hold them!
ReplyDeleteWhat a brilliant idea! I love it when publishers try to make classics (or any books) accessible. Even more so when the designs are just so darn lovely.
ReplyDeleteIt's a bit of a toss up between two for my favourite classic. I completely adore Rebecca West's Return of the Soldier but I think The Woman in White would win every time.
My favourite classic has to be Pride and Prejudice. Darcy and Elizabeth's love story is just beautiful and I make time to re-read the story at least once a year.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the opportunity to win a set of these books - they look delicious !
Although I do love a bit of Bronte, my favourite is Pride and Prejudice. I know that it's a favourite of so many people, and therefore, is not exactly original, but it's a classic. It makes me smile. I can read the same passages again and again. Even when I'm reading it, I find my heart pacing at the anticipation of reading certain sections - such as when Darcy proposes to Lizzie for the first time, and her speech where she rejects him - wow! What a girl!! It's just an amazingly written book!
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