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A Fantasy of Dr Ox by Jules Verne; Andrew Brown (Translator)
Category: No Category | 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)
Category: No Category | 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 Voyage to the Moon by Cyrano de Bergerac; Andrew Brown (Translator)
Category: No Category | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
In A Voyage to the Moon, the narrator (called, like the author, Cyrano de Bergerac), after a failed first attempt to reach the moon using vials of dewdrops, finally makes it into space and to his desired destination using the more scientific means of a rocket-powered craft. After landing, he discovers f ...Show more
Apology for a Murder by Lorenzino de' Medici; Andrew Brown (Translator)
Category: No Category | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
Famed for having killed his cousin Alessandro, the Duke of Florence, in 1537, but also for writing accomplished literary works, including a comedy and several poems, Lorenzino de' Medici remains one of the most enigmatic figures of Italian literature. In his masterpiece,Apology for a Murder, he reveals ...Show more
Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant; Andrew Brown (Translator)
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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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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
Category: No Category | 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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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)
Category: No Category | 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
Mademoiselle de Scudéri by E. T. A. Hoffmann; Andrew Brown (Translator)
Category: No Category | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
As Paris is shaken by a gang of murderous thieves, the aristocratic Mademoiselle de Scuderi pens a poem to poke fun at the cowardly lovers who now fear to go out at night to see their mistresses. But when she receives an unexpected visit from a young man, who gives her a box of jewels with a note thanki ...Show more
Prophecies by Leonardo da Vinci; J. G. Nichols (Translator)
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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 Duel by J. G. Nichols (Translator)
Category: No Category | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
The notorious adventurer and seducer Giacomo Casanova tells of his travels on the run from the authorities of his native Venice around northern Europe, poking fun at the ruling classes he encounters there, before focusing on a pivotal incident that occurs in Warsaw. Insulted by a Polish count over an It ...Show more