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A Fantasy of Dr Ox by Jules Verne; Andrew Brown (Translator)
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)
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)
Category: Classic | 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
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
Category: 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
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)
Category: Classic | 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
Around the World in Eighty Days: New Translation with illustrations by Ross Collins by Jules Verne
Category: FICTION | Series: Alma Junior Classics Ser.
Having learnt that a new railway in India has made it theoretically possible to travel all the way around the globe in no more than eighty days, Phileas Fogg, a wealthy and fastidious London gentleman, makes a wager of 20,000 with his Reform Club associates that he can achieve this hitherto unheard-of f ...Show more
Arsene Lupin vs Sherlock Holmes by Maurice Leblanc
Category: Children's | 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
Category: Junior 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)
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.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Category: Classic | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens Ser.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS'sThe Great American Read A desperate young man plans the perfect crime-the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress mor ...Show more