A Young Doctor's Notebook: New Translation: Newly Translated and Annotated by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Category: Classic Fiction | 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
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce James
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Category: Classic Fiction
James Joyce's first novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a Kunstlerroman which chronicles the emotional and intellectual development of Stephen Dedalus - a character partly based on the author himself - from his early childhood and his school and university days all the way to his first for ...Show more
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection
This Side of Paradise charts the life of Amory Blaine, an ambitious young man loosely based on Fitzgerald himself, as he moves from his well-heeled Midwest home to study at Princeton and then starts frequenting the circles of high society as an aspiring writer. Experiencing failure and frustration in lo ...Show more
Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classic Fiction
Over the last fifteen years of his life, Tolstoy collected and published the maxims of some of the world's greatest masters of philosophy, religion and literature, adding his own contributions to various questions that preoccupied him in old age, such as faith and existence, as well as matters of everyd ...Show more
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Evergreens
Having travelled from her native New York to London to meet her relatives, Isabel Archer, a young, independently minded young woman, rejects the marriage proposals of two suitors in her determination to stay in control of her destiny. When she suddenly comes into a large legacy, Isabel believes that thi ...Show more
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
Originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his children at bedtime, this compendium of witty tales imagines how animals came to be as they are now. Discover how the massive whale got a tiny throat by swallowing a mariner, how the lazy camel got a hump so that he had no excuse not to work, and why the leopard ...Show more
The Double Axe by Philip Womack
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Category: Classic Fiction
Dark forces are at work in the House of the Double Axe. Stephan, the thirteen-year-old son of King Minos of Crete, stumbles across a terrifying conspiracy. Is the Minotaur, a half man half bull who eats human flesh, real? Or is something even more dangerous threatening to engulf both the palace and the ...Show more
Isabel's Skin by Peter Benson
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Category: Classic Fiction
David Morris lives the quiet life of a book-valuer for a London auction house, travelling every day by omnibus to his office in the Strand. When he is asked to make a trip to rural Somerset to value the library of the recently deceased Lord Buff-Orpington, the sense of trepidation he feels as he heads i ...Show more
Remainder by Tom McCarthy
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Category: Classic Fiction
Traumatized by an accident which involves "something falling from the sky" and leaves him eight and a half million pounds richer but hopelessly estranged from the world around him, Remainder's hero spends his time and money obsessively reconstructing and re-enacting vaguely remembered scenes and situati ...Show more
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
In the summer of 1348, the plague ravages Florence, and ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death and corruption, featuring a host of colourful characters, from lascivious clergymen and mad kings to devious lovers and false miracle-ma ...Show more
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
When Rachel Verinder's legacy of a priceless Indian diamond is stolen, all the evidence indicates that it is her beloved, Franklin Blake, who is guilty. Around this central axis of crime and thwarted love, Collins constructs an ingenious plot of teasing twists and surprises, and an elaborate multi-voice ...Show more
The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Junior Classics Ser.
When the Americans Mr and Mrs Otis and their four children move into Canterville Chase, its previous occupant Lord Canterville warns them that the ghost of his ancestor still haunts the house. Their disbelief is soon shattered by the nightly sound of rattling chains in the hallways and the appearance of ...Show more