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A Fantasy of Dr Ox by Jules Verne; Andrew Brown (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
In the somnolent Flemish town of Quiquendone disagreements are unheard of, courtships might last a decade and not a ripple of activity can be seen at all. But when the mysterious Dr Ox is tasked with providing lighting for the town, strange things begin to happen: animals become aggressive, fruits grow ...Show more
A Perfect Hoax by Italo Svevo; J. G. Nichols (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
Travelling salesman Enrico Gaia decides to play a trick on the conceited ageing litterateur Mario Samigli: he dupes him into thinking that a representative of a prestigious Viennese publishing house wants to commission a German translation of a long-forgotten novel Samigli had written and published at h ...Show more
A Young Doctor's Notebook: New Translation: Newly Translated and Annotated by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Ser.
Using a sharply realistic and humorous style, Bulgakov reveals his doubts about his own competence and the immense burden of responsibility, as he deals with a superstitious and poorly educated people struggling to enter the modern age. This acclaimed collection contains some of Bulgakov's most personal ...Show more
Arsene Lupin vs Sherlock Holmes by Maurice Leblanc
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Alma Junior Classics Ser.
This volume contains two adventures which pit the gentleman thief Arsene Lupin against Sherlock Holmes, the world's most famous detective. In 'The Blonde Lady', Holmes must discover the identity of a mysterious female thief who is linked to Lupin, while in 'The Jewish Lamp' he finds out that the theft o ...Show more
Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant; Andrew Brown (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
Pendant plusieurs jours de suite des lambeaux d'arm e en d route avaient travers la ville. Ce n' tait point de la troupe, mais des hordes d band es.
Eureka by Edgar Allen Poe
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Category: Poetry | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
Eureka: A Prose Poem by Edgar Allan Poe Eureka by Edgar Allan Poe - also known as - An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe ia a text Edgar Adapted from a lecture he had presented describing Poe's intuitive conception of the nature of the universe. Edgar Allan Poe is one of the true greats, a ma ...Show more
Flush by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
'Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.' Virginia Woolf's delightful biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, which asks what it means to be human - and to be dog. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Li ...Show more
Le Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac; Andrew Brown (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
An old man arrives at the offices of the lawyer Derville, claiming to be Colonel Chabert, a hero of the Napoleonic Wars who was left for dead on the battlefield, but in fact managed to survive under a pile of corpses before spending years as a recovering amnesiac. Having returned to Paris and discovered ...Show more
Life in the Country by Giovanni Verga; J. G. Nichols (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
In this richly colorful collection of stories, a masterwork of Naturalistic writing, Giovanni Verga attempts to capture the very essence of Sicilian life. A licentious woman coerces her son-in-law into agreeing to an illicit affair; a young boy, forced to work down in a mine to make a living, is robbed ...Show more
Man at Leisure by Alexander Trocchi
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Category: Poetry | Series: Alma Classics Ser.
Published for the first time in 1972, this verse collection reveals lesser-known facets of the novelist Alexander Trocchi's writing. The poems included span a long period of time, and range from the lyricism of his early love poetry and reflections on his involvement in drug culture to the penetrating c ...Show more
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
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Category: Children's & YA | Series: Alma Junior Classics Ser.
The orphan girl Pollyanna moves in with her miserable aunt in New England. Despite being unwanted, Pollyanna's exuberance and positivity affect everyone who meets her, and she spreads joy and love wherever she goes. But when tragedy strikes, Pollyanna finds her optimistic attitude tested and she must le ...Show more
Prophecies by Leonardo da Vinci; J. G. Nichols (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
Found in the Codex Atlanticus of Leonardo da Vinci 's writings and drawings, The Prophecies ' are a collection of enigmatic divinatory pronouncements, some punning and playful, others dire and ominous. While the author 's intentions behind these utterances are unclear, they clearly attest to the artist ...Show more