Poems by Antonia Pozzi; Peter Robinson (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction
After her tragic death in December 1938 at the early age of twenty-six, Antonia Pozzi's poems - which she had been secretly writing for years - were brought to light and became the object of great critical attention, going through several editions in Italy and being translated into all the major Europea ...Show more
Canti - The Most Important Book of Modern Italian Poetry by Giacomo Leopardi; J. G. Nichols (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction
First published in 1831, and here presented in a dual-language edition with annotations and additional reading material, Leopardi's poetical masterpiece is an unsurpassed anatomy of man's unhappiness on earth. Trapped between an admiration for the classical past and a disappointment in the impoverished ...Show more
The Jew's Beech by Annette Von Droste-Hulshoff
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Category: Classic Fiction
Based on a true story, this haunting tale centers on two brutal murders--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 herdsman with a turbulent family history. A prototype of the murder mystery ...Show more
The Sand Man by E. T. A. Hoffmann
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Category: Classic Fiction
The young student Nathanael remains haunted by his childhood fears: he is convinced that Coppelius, a strange night-time visitor who used to come to his house to conduct alchemical experiments with his father - the latter dying as a consequence of one of these sessions - was none other than the Sand ...Show more
The Village by Ivan Bunin
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Category: Classic Fiction
Ivan Bunin's first published work, The Village is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia. Set at the time of the 1905 Revolution and centering on episodes in the lives of two peasant brothers - "characters sunk so far below the average of intelligence as to be scarcely h ...Show more
Three Drops of Blood by Sadegh Hedayat
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Category: Classic Fiction
The title story, Three Drops of Blood, follows the protagonist's increasingly unstable mental state through the repeated occurrence of three drops of blood, while 'Hadji Murat' depicts an almost Joycean epiphany in classically understated terms, as a man mistakes another woman for his wife. These are st ...Show more
The Sunday of Life by Raymond Queneau
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Category: Classic Fiction | 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 Supernatural Short Stories of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classic Fiction
Charles Dickens wrote a number of supernatural and horror stories, some of which were included in his longer works, while others were published in magazines. This collection gathers them together in one volume, providing an invaluable insight into the author's storytelling apprenticeship and his steady ...Show more
Faust by Ivan Turgenev
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oneworld Classics Ser.
In a series of nine letters, the narrator tells his friend how he introduced Vera Nikolayevna, a married woman who had been forbidden as a child to read fiction and poetry, to the intellectual pleasures of Goethe's masterpiece. Opening up in front of Vera's eyes is not only the realm of imagination, but ...Show more
The Crocodile by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oneworld Classics Gift Editions Ser.
The civil servant Ivan Matveyich and his wife Elena Ivanovna are spectators of an exhibition – in a shopping arcade – of a crocodile owned by a German, when Ivan is suddenly swallowed alive by the animal. Unsuccessful in his attempts to be freed from his prison, due to the German’s concern for his croco ...Show more
BLAZE OF NOON by HEPPENSTALL RAYNER
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: ALMA Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
This is a story told in the first person by a blind man. His name is Louis Dunkel, and he is a masseur. The scene is Cornwall, where he is staying at the house of a patient, Mrs. Nance, whose niece, Sophie, falls in love with him. Their affair, momentarily broken by the strange intrusion of the far more ...Show more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oneworld Classics Ser.
Charles Dickens’s second novel is the tale of a young orphan who faces the gruelling conditions of a Victorian workhouse before finding himself sucked into the criminal underworld of London. Teeming with unforgettable characters such as the villainous Fagin, the virtuous Nancy or the brutal Bill Sikes, ...Show more