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A Fantasy of Dr Ox by Jules Verne; Andrew Brown (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | 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: Classic Fiction | 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)
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Category: Classic Fiction | 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
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
Animal Farm (Alma Classics) by George Orwell
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens Ser.
Under the feckless husbandry of Mr Jones, Manor Farm has fallen into disrepair. Pushed into hardship, the animals decide to stage a revolt, and led by two young pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, they overthrow Mr Jones and drive him away from the farm. In the subsequent struggle for power, it is Napoleon tha ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Junior Classics Ser.
Anne is an orphan with a penchant for daydreaming and distinctive flaming-red hair that catches the eye of everyone she meets. She is overjoyed to be sent to Green Gables, the Cuthberts' farm, which she imagines to be the home she has always dreamt of. When her new family, who had been expecting the arr ...Show more
Apology for a Murder by Lorenzino de' Medici; Andrew Brown (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | 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
Arsene Lupin vs Sherlock Holmes by Maurice Leblanc
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Junior Classics Ser.
This volume contains two adventures which pit the gentleman thief Arsene Lupin against Sherlock Holmes, the world's most famous detective. In 'The Blonde Lady', Holmes must discover the identity of a mysterious female thief who is linked to Lupin, while in 'The Jewish Lamp' he finds out that the theft o ...Show more
Belle and Sebastien: The Child of The Mountains by Cécile Aubry
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Junior Classics Ser.
The son of a gypsy woman, S#65533;bastien is found as a newborn baby in the Alps and brought up by C#65533;sar and his grandchildren Ang#65533;lina and Jean. Born on the same day, Belle is a beautiful white Pyrenean Mountain Dog who has been neglected and passed on from owner to owner, until one day she ...Show more
Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant; Andrew Brown (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | 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.
Dracula by Bram Stoker
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Junior Classics Ser.
"Awareness of Dracula" as a masterly gothic thriller has increased ever since its publication in 1897, and the novel is regarded as one of the most seminal horror stories of ever written, having inspired countless copycat tales and literary spin-offs. The tale of young Englishman Jonathan Harker's journ ...Show more
Eureka by Edgar Allen Poe
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
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