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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: Classics | 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
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.
Flush by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Fiction | 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: Classics | 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
Prophecies by Leonardo da Vinci; J. G. Nichols (Translator)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | 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
The Four Little Girls and Desire Caught by the Tail by Pablo Picasso; Roland Penrose (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
In the 1940s, Picasso wrote two plays in French: the first, Desire Caught by the Tail, was conceived during the German occupation of Paris and features a cast of grotesque allegorical characters such as the Onion, Silence or Fat Anxiety discussing the crucial wartime themes of hunger, cold and love; the ...Show more
The Frozen Deep by Wilkie Collins
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
The Frozen DeepBy Wilkie CollinsThe date is between twenty and thirty years ago. The place is an English sea-port. The time is night. And the business of the moment is-dancing. The Mayor and Corporation of the town are giving a grand ball, in celebration of the departure of an Arctic expedition from the ...Show more
The Jew's Beech by Annette Von Droste-Hulshoff; Lionel Thomas (Translator); Doris Thomas (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
Based on a true story, The Jew's Beech centres on two brutal murders in rural Westphalia - the first of a local forester and the second of a Jewish moneylender near a beech tree - and the impact these events have on the life of Friedrich Mergel, a local herdsman with a turbulent family history. A proto ...Show more
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens; Wilkie Collins
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
The Lazy Tour Of Two Idle Apprentices By Charles Dickens In autumn 1857, Charles Dickens embarked on a sightseeing trip to Cumberland with his friend, the rising star of literature Wilkie Collins. Writing together, they reported their adventures for Dickens' periodical Household Words, producing a showc ...Show more
The Life of Castruccio Castracani by Niccolo Machiavelli; J. G. Nichols (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
Rising from humble beginnings as a foundling, Castruccio Castracani came to prominence as one of the most powerful and shrewd warlords in Italy. Indeed, Machiavelli argues, so great was his vigour and charisma that o had he not been prevented by his untimely death o he might have surpassed in fame the g ...Show more