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The Sunday of Life by Raymond Queneau
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Ser.
When shop-owner Julia Segovia decides that she's going to marry the handsome if exceedingly young and naive soldier Valentin Bru, he willingly goes along with her scheme. Little does he know that he will have to contend with disgruntled in-laws, eccentric locals, a vulgar and cunning wife, a shifty care ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps by Charles Buchan
$9.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
When Richard Hannay fi nds the corpse of freelance spy Franklin P. Scudder in his London flat, he goes on the run, fearing that his life is in danger. Scudder had previously revealed that he was investigating a ring of German spies, who were conspiring to sabotage Britain's war capability. Hannay become ...Show more
The Touchstone by Edith Wharton
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money. So when he becomes aware of the potential value of a series of passionate love letters written to him by the recently deceased author Margaret Aubyn, he sells them and marries the beautiful Alexa Trent. However, his shame and guilt at building a new life o ...Show more
The Zone by Sergei Dovlatov
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Ser.
Based on Dovlatov's actual experience of being a prison guard in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, and full of comic and humane detail, The Zone depicts the absurd day-to- day life of a camp in an insightful and unusual way, challenging commonly held perceptions of the relations between incarcerators and the ...Show more
Transformation by Mary Shelley
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
"Having frittered away his family's fortune in Paris, the profligate Guido il Cortese incurs the wrath of his future father-in-law and finds himself in exile from his native Genoa and harbouring plans for revenge. After a mighty storm, he sees a mysterious, misshapen creature emerging from the sea, with ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Ser.
Controversial, scandalous, erudite and funny, Ulysses is undisputedly a landmark of twentieth-century modernism. It charts one day - 16th June 1904 - in the lives of three inhabitants of Dublin, the advertising salesman Leopold Bloom, the artist Stephen Dedalus and Bloom's wife Molly. Their peregrinatio ...Show more
Utopia by Saint Thomas More
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
In Thomas More's hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy unprecedented social cohesion and justice. The book imagines a community in which laws, personal relations and professional ambition are based on reason, in contrast with the ...Show more