Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon Jane Austen (Author) Series:
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25 Jan 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497154 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-715-4 ISBN10: 1847497152 x Description: The epistolary novel Lady Susan is the darkly humorous tale of the amatory schemes and machinations of an ambitious and unprincipled coquette. The Watsons is the story of the refined and well-educated Emma Watson, forced by the second marriage of her aunt to return to the house of her impecunious father and face the marital plots and intrigues of her sisters. Begun by the author in the last few months of her life, Sanditon, set in a fast-growing former fi shing village, swiftly becoming a fashionable resort, pokes fun at the inhabitants of the new coastal town, with all their hypochondria, witlessness and self-obsession. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Agnes Grey Anne Bronte (Author) Series:
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25 Jan 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497147 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-714-7 ISBN10: 1847497144 x Description: The well-educated daughter of a penniless clergyman, Agnes Grey is treated like a child by her own family and so sets out to prove herself by seeking employment as a governess. Soon, however, her idealistic notions regarding the education and care of her wards are dashed as she battles to control the wild Bloomfi eld children in her fi rst situation, and is then held in low regard by the superior Murray household. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Eternal Husband Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Series:
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25 Jan 2018
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847496560 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-656-0 ISBN10: 1847496563 x Description: During a stifling St Petersburg summer, the rich landowner Velchaninov is haunted by the figure of a man he keeps glimpsing in the street. When he receives a surprise visit from him late at night, he realizes he is an old friend, Trusotsky, whose late wife, Natalya, was his secret lover. As the two men renew their acquaintance, Velchaninov becomes aware that Trusotsky's child is, in fact, his own daughter. From then on, the destinies of the two old friends become intertwined as they engage - at turns repelled and attracted by each other - in a dangerous game of cat and mouse that will lead to a final dramatic confrontation. Compelling, gripping, darkly humorous, The Eternal Husband - composed by the author at the peak of his writing powers, between The Idiot and Devils, and described by Dostoevsky's biographer Joseph Frank as "a small masterpiece" - shows Dostoevsky at his best as a ruthless dissector of the quirks and foibles of the human character. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Humorous Tales Rudyard Kipling (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847496720 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-672-0 ISBN10: 1847496725 x Description: First published in 1921, this volume collects some of the most comical stories Kipling published throughout his writing career. These tales derive their humour from absurd situations - a drunken Irish soldier waking up to find himself worshipped as a god in the Indian holy city of Benares, a monkey let loose in an English village - and from lampooning the attitudes and discourses of the time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lyrics: Volume 1 (1813-17): 1 Alexander Pushkin (Author) Series:
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18 Jan 2018
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 448pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497314 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-731-4 ISBN10: 1847497314 x Description: The founding father of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted - through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, his plays, his short stories and his narrative poetry - a long-lasting influence well beyond the borders of his motherland. A slightly lesser-known, but by no mean less important aspect of his writing is his vast production of shorter verse, a genre at which he excelled and arguably still remains unsurpassed. This volume, part of Alma's series of the complete poetic works of Alexander Pushkin, collects the poems Pushkin wrote while still a young student at the mperial Lyceum in Tsarkoe Selo and includes such early gems as `The Tear', `The Singer' and `Note on a Hospital Wall', each presented in a verse translation opposite the original Russian text. Enriched with notes, pictures and an appendix on Pushkin's life and works, this will be essential reading for anyone wishing to delve deeper into the Russian bard's genius. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Series:
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25 Mar 2018
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 448pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497826 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-782-6 ISBN10: 1847497829 This Product Replaces: 9781847492425 x Description: Russia's literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman - a professor of black magic - arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre retinue of servants. It soon becomes clear that he is the Devil himself, come to wreak havoc among the cultural elite of a disbelieving capital. But the Devil's mission quickly becomes entangled with the fate of the Master - a man who has turned his back on his former life and taken refuge in a lunatic asylum - and his past lover, Margarita. Both a satirical romp and a daring analysis of the nature of good and evil, innocence and guilt, The Master and Margarita is the crowning achievement
of one of the greatest Russian writers of the twentieth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Professor Charlotte Bronte (Author) Series:
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22 Feb 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497178 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-717-8 ISBN10: 1847497179 x Description: When the orphaned William refuses his uncles' proposal to become a clergyman and rejects an offer from his brother Edward to work as his clerk, he decides to accept a position as an English teacher at a boys' school in Belgium. When his career leads him to take up another post at a girls' school nearby, William becomes emotionally involved with the manipulative headmistress of the establishment, Mademoiselle Reuter. The tangle of feelings produced by this relationship and his love for a younger pupil sets the young teacher on a downward spiral towards disaster. Based on Charlotte Bronte's own autobiographical experience in Brussels as a teacher, and later reworked into the much-expanded Villette and only published posthumously, The Professor was Charlotte Bronte's fi rst attempt at full-length fiction and bears all the hallmarks of her future work, with touches of genius and an unparalleled sharpness of style. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Crack-up F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
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22 Feb 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497185 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-718-5 ISBN10: 1847497187 x Description: Compiled and published after Fitzgerald's death by his friend, the prominent critic and editor Edmund Wilson, The Crack-Up is a collection of personal essays, notes and letters that chronicle the late author's state of mind in his darkest moments. In turns philosophical and personal, these musings lay bare the anguish and turmoil of a life falling apart, yet manifest a degree of hope for the future and a determination to hang on. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
North and South Elizabeth Gaskell (Author) Series:
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22 Feb 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 480pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497161 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-716-1 ISBN10: 1847497160 x Description: Having grown up in London and rural southern England, Margaret Hale moves with her father to the northern industrial city of Milton. She is shocked by the poverty she encounters and dismayed by the unsympathetic attitude of the textile-mill owner John Thornton, whose factory workers are engaged in an acrimonious strike. Against this backdrop of social unrest, the relationship between the two is tumultuous, and it takes further upheaval and tragedy for them to see each other in a different light.
First serialized in Dickens's magazine Household Words in the same period as Hard Times, North and South shares its famous counterpart's concern with the inequality and hardship generated by the Industrial Revolution in northern England, while at the same time creating one of the nineteenth century's most memorable and engaging female protagonists in Margaret Hale. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lyrics: Volume 2 (1817-24) Alexander Pushkin (Author) Series:
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22 Nov 2018
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 448pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497321 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-732-1 ISBN10: 1847497322 x Description: The founding father of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted - through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, his plays, his short stories and his narrative poetry - a long-lasting influence well beyond the borders of his motherland. A slightly lesser-known, but by no mean less important aspect of his writing is his vast production of shorter verse, a genre at which he excelled and arguably still remains unsurpassed. This volume, part of Alma's series of the complete poetic works of Alexander Pushkin, collects the poems Pushkin wrote during his time in St Petersburg as a young intellectual and his subsequent stay in the Caucasus and the Crimea, and includes many signifi cant poems of his early maturity, such as `My Homeland', `Something or Nothing?' and `A Storm', each presented in a verse translation opposite the original Russian text. Enriched with notes, pictures and an appendix on Pushkin's life and works, this will be essential reading for anyone wishing to delve deeper into the Russian bard's genius. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Forged Coupon Leo Tolstoy (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Series:
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22 Feb 2018
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847496676 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-667-6 ISBN10: 1847496679 x Description: In order to repay a small debt, the young student Mitya is persuaded by a friend to falsify a bank bond and cash it in. Little does he suspect that this small misdemeanour will have a profound impact on the lives of many other people around him - indirectly even leading to the gravest of crimes. This in turn sets off a long journey towards redemption and rehabilitation. Presented here in a brand-new translation, The Forged Coupon examines the deep, unpredictable consequences of every human act, revealing the Russian master's moral preoccupations in the last years of his life, as well as his rejection of Christianity's simplistic division between good and evil. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Art of Poetry / Lutrin Nicolas Boileau (Author) Sir William Soames (Translated by) John Ozell (Translated by) Series:
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26 Apr 2018
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 250pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847496935 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-693-5 ISBN10: 1847496938 EAN: 9781847496935 This Product Replaces: 9781847492937 x Description: Following in the footsteps of Horace's Ars Poetica, Boileau's Art of Poetry lays down, in four entertaining books dealing with all forms and genres of poetry, the codes and rules for good versification. This beautiful translation proved to have a lasting influence on the future shape of English literature. Among others, it was imitated by Pope in his Essay on Criticism, who also took Lutrin - included in this volume - as a model for his own masterpiece, The Rape of the Lock. Now reprinted for the first time in more than a century, with the original French text on facing pages, Sir William Soames's 1683 verse translation of Boileau's poetical masterpiece was revised by the great poet John Dryden. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
100 Poems without a Country Erich Fried (Author) Stuart Hood (Author) Stuart Hood (Translated by) Series:
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01 Apr 1987
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 199pp h198mm x w128mm 197g ISBN13: 9780714538846 ISBN13: 978-0-7145-3884-6 ISBN10: 0714538841 EAN: 9780714538846 x Description: Erich Fried here writes about politics, people, poetry and his own observations of the world. This reprint of his poems, originally published in 1978, was the first collection to appear in English, despite a reputation as one of the major German-language poets of the twentieth-century. This volume was published as a result of Fried winning the first International Publishers' Prize awarded by literary publishers from seven countries. Erich Fried's passionate cries for justice, compassion, tolerance and a better world are nowhere better expressed. Millions have read him in German, but internationally he is now almost as famous, and his British and American readers are increasingly numerous neccessitating further printings. Some German originals are included facing Stuart Hood's faithful and idiomatic translations. Born in 1921, he died in 1988. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome (Author) Series:
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29 Mar 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847496539 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-653-9 ISBN10: 1847496539
x Description: What could be better during the golden age of boating on the Thames than a relaxing row up the river? So think J., George and Harris not forgetting Montmorency the dog - but little do they suspect the mishaps, the scrapes and the japes that lie along the way. From becoming impossibly lost in the maze at Hampton Court to battles with tins of pineapple chunks, all the while attempting to limit the destruction wrought by the mischievous Montmorency, Jerome K. Jerome's classic novel of humorous misadventures and comedic authorial digressions is a paean to the banalities of everyday life and has entertained readers for more than a century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Trial Franz Kafka (Author) Series:
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29 Mar 2018
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Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497192 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-719-2 ISBN10: 1847497195 x Description: On his thirtieth birthday, the bank clerk Josef K. is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents for an unspecified crime. He is told that he will be set free, but must make regular appearances at a court in the attic of a tenement building while his trial proceeds. Although he never comes to know the particulars of his case, Josef K. finds his life taken over by the opaque bureaucratic procedures and is tormented by the psychological pressures exerted by his legal nightmare. Published the year after the author's death, but written ten years earlier, The Trial is the most acclaimed of Kafka's three novels, and is both a haunting meditation on freedom and the powerlessness of the individual in the face of state power, and an ominous pre-figuration of the totalitarian excesses of the twentieth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus Alexander Pope (Author) Series:
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29 Mar 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847491060 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-106-0 ISBN10: 1847491065 x Description: Alexander Pope was, at one time, the world's most celebrated poet. His trenchant satirical works - in which the foibles of all the critics, hacks and bad poets of his day are exploded - and his masterful heroi-comic poem The Rape of the Lock continue to inspire generations of writers and readers to this day. Alongside his more prominent poetical production, Pope engaged with some of the sharpest wits of his era - including Jonathan Swift and John Gay, the author of The Beggar's Opera - in writing a number of satirical prose works, of which Scriblerus is perhaps the greatest achievement. As he prepares to become father for the fi rst time, the scholar Cornelius is determined to settle on nothing less than a child of the "learned sex" - a boy - and give him the most thorough education so that he can become the greatest critic who ever lived. An account of the birth, the infancy, the schooling, the diet-planning, the unconventional love affairs and the attainments of this child prodigy,The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus is surely the funniest imaginary biography ever written. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
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25 Mar 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497383 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-738-3 ISBN10: 1847497381 x Description: While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star Rosemary Hoyt. Her arrival causes a stir in their social circle and exposes the cracks in their fragile marriage. As their relationship unravels, glimpses of their troubled past emerge, and a series of disturbing events unfolds. Peopled by an unforgettable cast of aristocrats and high-fliers, Tender Is the Night is at once a scathing critique of the materialism and hypocrisy of the Roaring Twenties and a poignant and sensitive account of personal tragedy and disillusionment. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Beautiful and Damned F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
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20 Apr 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497390 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-739-0 ISBN10: 184749739X x Description: The heir to his grandfather's considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations and distractions of the 1920s Jazz Age. His descent into dissolution and profligacy is accelerated by his marriage to the attractive but turbulent Gloria, and the couple soon discover the dangerous flip side of a life of glamour and debauchery. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Abyss and Other Stories Leonid Andreyev (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Series:
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26 Apr 2018
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497239 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-723-9 ISBN10: 1847497233 x Description: As the young Zinaida and her sweetheart, the student Nemovetsky, stroll through the idyllic Russian countryside, their memories, dreams and thoughts about life and the future mingle in the evening breeze. But when night falls, they hasten to retrace their steps back to town through a small wood, where they are accosted by three threatening drunkards, who knock Nemovetsky unconscious and start to chase the girl through the underwood. When the young student comes round, he is confronted with the horror of what has just happened. Haunting, disquieting, shocking, `The Abyss' - one of the most powerful short stories ever written - is accompanied in this volume by fifteen other stories, never translated into English before by Andreyev, including `Silence', `The Thief' and `Lazarus, some of them never translated before into English. Together, they provide a clear account of the lasting legacy of Russia's foremost man of letters of the early twentieth century.
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Poems from the Moor Emily Bronte (Author) Series:
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26 Apr 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497246 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-724-6 ISBN10: 1847497241 x Description: From the transcendent beauty of nature observed on the Yorkshire moors to fierce and forceful confrontations of mortality, Emily Bronte's poems are powerful and passionate works that eloquently elaborate upon her sister Charlotte's description of her as "a solitude-loving raven, no gentle dove". While only twenty-one of Emily Bronte's poems were published in her lifetime, her poetic oeuvre is rich and varied, and not only includes visionary poems such as `No Coward Soul Is Mine' and `Remembrance', but also features the poems that describe the imagined realm of Gondal and its inhabitants, which she created with her sister Anne. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Enchanted April Elizabeth von Arnim (Author) Series:
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26 Apr 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497215 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-721-5 ISBN10: 1847497217 x Description: Four women, with very different backgrounds and characters - the artless Lottie Wilkins, the pious Rose Arbuthnot, the cantankerous Mrs Fisher and the haughty Lady Caroline Dester - respond to an advertisement in The Times offering a medieval castle to rent in Italy that April. As their joint holiday begins, tensions fl are up between them, but they soon bond over their past misfortunes and rediscover hope and the pleasures of life in their tranquil surroundings. A huge best-seller when it was published in 1922, The Enchanted April has inspired generations of readers since and established Portofi no and the Italian Riviera as a mainstay of the tourist circuit. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tales of Unrest Joseph Conrad (Author) Series:
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31 May 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847496485 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-648-5 ISBN10: 1847496482 x Description: These five stories were collected and published as Tales of Unrest in 1898, shortly before Heart of Darkness, the first of Conrad's major novels. Ranging from the faraway and unfamiliar, where the acquisitiveness of colonial adventure is damningly exposed, to an ostensibly ordinary London household, these disparate tales display Conrad's ability to explore and lay bare human nature. Set in Central Africa, `An Outpost of Progress' is suffused with irony and represents a ruthlessly mocking view of European imperialism. `Karain' and `The Lagoon' are exotic tales of the Malay Archipelago, with the former telling of disharmony and discord between Western traders and the indigenous inhabitants. `The Return' recounts the story of, in the author's own words, "a desirable middle-class town residence which somehow manages to
produce a sinister effect". The collection also includes `The Idiots', the first of Conrad's short stories to be serialized in an English magazine. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The House of the Dead Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author) Series:
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31 May 2018
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847496669 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-666-9 ISBN10: 1847496660 x Description: Written in the form of a diary, The House of the Dead recounts the story of Alexander Goryanchikov, a gentleman who is condemned to ten years' hard labour for killing his wife in a fi t of rage. Initially the target of the other inmates' malice, he gradually settles in and becomes an avid observer of the new world around him - watching his fellow prisoners being brutally and cruelly punished by the guards, listening to their past stories of blood and murder and learning that even convicts are capable of acts of pure generosity, as when they sacrifice their own meal to feed a stray dog that wanders around the camp. Based on Dostoevsky's own autobiographical experiences during a four-year internment in a prison colony in Siberia, this genre-defying novel is not only an unflinching expose of the conditions of Russian prisoners during the Tsarist period, but also a call to see the human side in criminals and rediscover the values of forgiveness and brotherly love. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Rape of the Lock and A Key to the Lock Alexander Pope (Author) Series:
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31 May 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497260 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-726-0 ISBN10: 1847497268 x Description: When Lord Petre had the effrontery of cutting off a lock of Lady Arabella Fermor's hair, a veritable war erupted between the two noble families. A mutual friend, saddened by their estrangement, asked Alexander Pope, then a young poet, to write a poem about it, in order to make a joke of it and "laugh them together again". But the result - which in its ingenuity and poetical brilliance reaches peaks of epic sublime - concealed darker and more dangerous undertones that unleashed an even greater storm between the parties involved - and among the whole literary world of the time. As Belinda glides along the Thames admired for her beauty and the crafty Baron schemes to take his prize, a host of supernatural beings - elves, sylphs, gnomes - dance around them to avoid the impending doom, in what is Pope's crowning poetical achievement and perhaps the greatest satirical poem ever written. Included in this volume are the original two-canto version of The Rape of the Lock and Pope's hilarious mock-interpretation of the poem as a seditious work, A Key to the Lock. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Island of Dr Moreau H. G. Wells (Author) Series:
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31 May 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847496591 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-659-1 ISBN10: 1847496598
x Description: After the Lady Vain is shipwrecked, Edward Prendick is plucked from the waves by a passing ship and deposited on a remote island. Here he is the guest of Dr Moreau, whose notorious scientific methods had caused an uproar that left him with no choice but to flee London. Disquieted and appalled by the pained cries of suffering animals, Edward soon realizes that the Doctor is continuing and developing his depraved experiments, and that he too is in great danger. Shocking and suffused with contemporary fears regarding the morality of the latest advances in science and their possible implications for religion, The Island of Dr Moreau is both a ruthless social satire and an exploration of human nature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Bronte (Author) Series:
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28 Jun 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 512pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497277 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-727-7 ISBN10: 1847497276 x Description: Gilbert Markham is fascinated by Helen Graham, the beautiful and enigmatic woman who has recently moved into Wildfell Hall. He is swift to befriend her, but when local gossip calls Helen's character and behaviour into question, Gilbert begins to repent of his congeniality. It is only when Helen presents Gilbert with her diary and instructs him to read it that the shocking truth about the marriage she has escaped from becomes clear.
An instant success, the first edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall sold out in weeks, yet was mired in controversy for what many contemporary critics viewed as its shocking subject matter and fierce defence of women's rights. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Catastrophe and Other Stories Dino Buzzati (Author) Judith Landry (Translated by) Series:
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28 Jun 2018
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Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497369 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-736-9 ISBN10: 1847497365 x Description: This volume brings together twenty of the best stories written by Dino Buzzati - author of the celebrated novel The Tartar Steppe and one of the most original voices in twentieth-century literature - stories which show the Italian master's taste for the bizarre and the humorous, and for exploring the darker recesses of the human psyche. From `The Collapse of the Baliverna', where a man is racked with guilt at the thought that he might have been responsible for the loss of many lives, to `The Epidemic', which describes the spread of a "state influenza" contracted only by people who don't step into line with the government, and `Terror at the Scala', where the higher echelons of Milan society are gripped with the fear of an impending revolution - these stories show how strange and unexpected events can creep into everyday life and draw ordinary people towards mystery, disquiet and, ultimately, catastrophe. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Garden Party and Collected Short Stories Katherine Mansfield (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
28 Jun 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 480pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497291 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-729-1 ISBN10: 1847497292 x Description: When her wealthy family prepares to host a lavish summer party, the young, hitherto sheltered Laura Sheridan suddenly feels a kinship with the staff and the helpers hired to set up the venue for the festivities. As she learns of the death of one of their working-class neighbours, this burgeoning sense of class consciousness is heightened by a realization of her own mortality. Published in 1922, at the height of literary Modernism, `The Garden Party' is now considered one of the key texts of that movement. This volume, which also includes all of Katherine Mansfi eld's other published short stories, is an invaluable resource for anyone wishing to discover one of the early twentieth century's finest writers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Candide Voltaire (Author) Sander Berg (Translated by) Series:
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28 Jun 2018
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Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497284 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-728-4 ISBN10: 1847497284 x Description: Candide is an innocent young nobleman who leads an idyllic, sheltered life and has adopted the optimistic mindset promoted by his tutor Dr Pangloss. But after committing an indiscretion and being expelled from his family home, Candide finds himself on a journey that will take him to Portugal, Argentina, Britain and Turkey and expose him to torture, war, shipwreck and natural disasters, leading him to question whether he is really living in the "best of possible worlds". Published in 1759, when it became a best-seller and stirred up much controversy, Candide is an exhilarating picaresque romp and a biting satire by one of the Enlightenment's major figures that still resonates to this day. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Three Years Anton Chekhov (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Series:
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19 Jul 2018
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497666 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-766-6 ISBN10: 1847497667 x Description: On a visit to a provincial town to see his sister Nina who is suffering from cancer, Alexei Laptev, who works for his father's Moscow haberdashery business, falls in love with Yulia, the daughter of her doctor, and proposes to her. Although she does not reciprocate his feelings, she agrees to marry him and live with him in the capital, where the couple's relationship is marred by tensions: Yulia is filled with regrets about her choice and boredom with her new existence, while Alexei is nagged by the suspicion that she married him for his money alone. However, as time passes and
misfortune strikes, they both learn to reassess all of their assumptions. Chekhov's second-longest prose work after The Steppe, Three Years is, in the author's own words, " a novel of Moscow life" and an examination of its merchant classes. A powerful story of redemption and the nuances of human relationships, the novella helped cement Chekhov's reputation as a major figure in Russian literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Duel Giacomo Casanova (Author) J. G. Nichols (Translated by) Series:
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19 Jul 2018
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Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497659 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-765-9 ISBN10: 1847497659 x Description: 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 Italian ballerina, Casanova finds himself forced to challenge his rival to a duel, and the sequence of events and their aftermath are described with gusto by the narrator. A rollicking autobiographical account by one of the most iconic figures of eighteenth-century Europe, The Duel is presented here with an extract about the same event from Casanova's memoirs, written fifteen years later. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Author) Series:
Alma Classics Great Poets
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15 Jul 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497529 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-752-9 ISBN10: 1847497527 x Description: Described by his friend Charles Lamb as "an archangel slightly damaged", Coleridge was deemed a towering genius by many of his contemporaries, and one who, in conversation, had no equal. Fascinated by, among other subjects, psychology, philosophy and chemistry, his mind roamed extravagantly and without restraint, leading Hazlitt to opine that "there is no subject on which he has not touched, none on which he has rested". Yet, while this literary itinerancy left some to lament his refusal to devote himself to verse, Coleridge remains one of English literature's most enduringly popular poets. From sonnets and ballads to elegies and intimate blank verse, this collection brings together poetry written throughout Coleridge's life, particularly his prolific early years, which saw the composition of poems such as `Christabel', `The Eolian Harp' and `Frost at Midnight'. This volume also includes `The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', one of the most popular poems ever written in the English language, and `Kubla Khan', which highlight Coleridge's gift for suffusing his strange, haunting and captivating verse with unsurpassed musical and rhythmic qualities. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Boule de Suif Guy de Maupassant (Author) Andrew Brown (Translated by) Series:
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19 Jul 2018
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Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497642 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-764-2 ISBN10: 1847497640 x Description: A carriage transporting ten passengers fleeing from Rouen is stopped at a village inn by Prussian soldiers, who decide to detain them until one of their party, the prostitute Boule de Suif, consents to sleep with their officer. When Boule de Suif refuses to do so on account of her principles and patriotic sentiments, the solidarity initially manifested by her fellow travellers becomes increasingly tested as the deadlock continues, and the strained relationship between her and her "respectable" counterparts gradually worsens. A scathing satire of bourgeois prejudice and hypocrisy and a compelling snapshot of France during the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, `Boule de Suif' here presented with five other major stories on the lives of prostitutei - was declared a masterpiece by Flaubert and is widely considered to be Maupassant's finest short story. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Piazza Tales Herman Melville (Author) Series:
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19 Jul 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497222 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-722-2 ISBN10: 1847497225 x Description: This volume, first published in 1856, collects three of Melville's most important pieces of prose fiction. In `Bartleby, the Scrivener', a Wall Street lawyer hires a melancholy young clerk called Bartleby, whose sudden and mysterious refusal to work plunges the firm into disarray. `Benito Cereno' is a historical account of a mutiny on a slave ship, which has been seen as a critique of slavery and contemporary attitudes towards race. `The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles' is a series of travel sketches about the Galapagos Islands which was a huge success with the reading public and contains some of Melville's most celebrated prose. Also included in this volume are `The Lightning-Rod Man', `The Bell Tower' and a story written especially for the collection, `The Piazza'. Taken together, these tales, in their masterful use of irony and concision, show the author of Moby Dick in a different light. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
True History - Lucius, or The Ass Lucian of Samosata (Author) Paul Turner (Translated by) Series:
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19 Jul 2018
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Translated From: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497499 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-749-9 ISBN10: 1847497497 This Product Replaces: 9780714543284
x Description: True History, Lucian's best-known and most entertaining work, is a parody of the tall stories of fantastic journeys narrated by famous poets and historians. With his trademark wit and humour, Lucian informs his readers that he means to tell nothing but lies and impossibilities, and warns them not to believe a word he says. The result is a comical masterpiece that influenced Western literature throughout the centuries, and works such as Gulliver's Travels and The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Lucius, or the Ass, a satirical novel charting the adventures of a young man who has been transformed into a donkey, is usually attributed to Lucian and is thought to be a source of Apuleius's Golden Ass. Contains an introduction by Paul Turner and illustrations by Hellmuth Weissenborn _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Portrait of Mr W.H. Oscar Wilde (Author) Series:
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19 Jul 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497512 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-751-2 ISBN10: 1847497519 x Description: During a conversation about literary forgeries, Erskine tells his young guest that he has received - as a legacy from a friend, the Cambridge scholar Cyril Graham -what is purported to be an Elizabethan portrait. The painting depicts a beautiful young man in late-sixteenth-century costume, whom Graham believed to be Willie Hughes, a boy actor serving in Shakespeare's company. This revelation prompts Erskine's guest to delve deeper into the mystery surrounding the real identity of the dedicatee and the inspiration of Shakespeare's Sonnets, with unforeseen consequences. Far from being a dry exposition of a literary theory, The Portrait of Mr W.H. - which the author himself described as one of his "early masterpieces" - is an engaging and entertaining narrative exploring the intricate facets of trust and betrayal, historical truth and fiction, written with Wilde's trademark dialogical sharpness and stylistic perfection. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Frozen Deep Wilkie Collins (Author) Series:
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19 Jul 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497673 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-767-3 ISBN10: 1847497675 x Description: Frank Aldersley becomes engaged to Clara Burnham on the eve of his departure on a journey to discover the Northwest Passage. Unbeknownst to him, Richard Wardour, his spurned rival, joins the crew of another ship belonging to the same expedition. When the ships get trapped in the ice and the men are randomly drawn into the same search party, Richard finds himself torn between his desire for revenge and the need for solidarity in the face of adversity. Based on an actual doomed mission to the Arctic captained by Sir John Franklin, and initially written for the stage in collaboration with Dickens - who also acted in the play - The Frozen Deep is an action-packed tale of vengeance and sacrifice _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Eureka Edgar Allan Poe (Author) Series:
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23 Aug 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497703 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-770-3 ISBN10: 1847497705 x Description: Initially composed by Poe as a public lecture towards the end his career and considered by him the culmination of all his life's work, Eureka is an extended treatise about the creation, existence and the ultimate end of the world. An idiosyncratic blend of creative writing and scientific discourse, with unexpected forays into comedy and wordplay, this self-styled "prose poem" is a genre-defying masterpiece. Although it baffled the reading public of its time, Eureka found many prominent admirers, from Charles Baudelaire to W.H. Auden, and has since assembled an audience receptive to its unique appeal as a compendium of European thought that anticipated many current theories and discoveries while also pioneering many elements of science-fiction aesthetics. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Uncle's Dream Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Series:
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23 Aug 2018
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497680 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-768-0 ISBN10: 1847497683 x Description: The small town of Mordasov is all abuzz at the arrival of Prince K-, a wealthy, ageing landowner, after an absence of several years. Marya Alexandrovna Moskaleva, a local gossip and fearsome schemer, decides that he would be an advantageous match for her daughter Zina. But in her endeavours to make such a union come about, she must contend with rival matchmakers and Zina's existing suitors. The first book Dostoevsky wrote after serving his sentence in a Siberian prison camp - an experience that inspired his semi-autobiographical novel The House of the Dead - Uncle's Dream shares none of that work's gloomy tone or weighty subject matter: it is a humorous drawing-room novella, a satire of Russian society that can be enjoyed as a lighter counterpoint to the author's later works. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thoughts Giacomo Leopardi (Author) J. G. Nichols (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
27 Jul 2017
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Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 118pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497376 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-737-6 ISBN10: 1847497373 x Description: Admired for the poetical heights of his Canti, the gentle wit of his prose dialogues and the soul-searching questionings of his Zibaldone (Notebooks), Leopardi was also an acute social commentator and a sharp dissector of the human mind.
Thoughts - a collection of philosophical and critical observations put together for publication by Leopardi himself shortly before his death in 1837 shows a more light-hearted side to Leopardi's personality, and offers both those who are familiar with and those who are new to his works a fresh insight into the thought processes and the worldview of Italy's last great polymath. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Prophecies Leonardo da Vinci (Author) J. G. Nichols (Translated by) Series:
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23 Aug 2018
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Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497697 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-769-7 ISBN10: 1847497691 x Description: 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's fevered and troubled imagination and offer a glimpse into a world very similar to that depicted in his lost painting The Battle of Anghiari. This volume also contains a further selection of Leonardo da Vinci's fragmentary writings, in the form of fables and aphorisms. Taken together, these pieces provide an invaluable insight into the thought processes of one of the Renaissance's most productive minds. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Young Goodman Brown and Other Stories Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author) Series:
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23 Aug 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847496522 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-652-2 ISBN10: 1847496520 x Description: Rich in allegory and symbolism, and suffused with darkness and tragedy, satire and touching humour, these tales, written by a master of the short-story genre, delve into the conflict between good and evil, explore the concept of Original Sin and repeatedly invite the reader to make their own judgements concerning what they can and cannot trust. Described by Herman Melville as being "as deep as Dante", `Young Goodman Brown' is set during the Salem witch trials and features the sort of narrative ambiguities and troubling uncertainties over the reality of events that Hawthorne was known for, and which resurface in `Rappaccini's Daughter' - also included in this volume - leading the readers to ponder what they have read long after the last page has been turned. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Prelude and Other Poems William Wordsworth (Author) Series:
Alma Classics Great Poets
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15 Aug 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497505 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-750-5 ISBN10: 1847497500
x Description: William Wordsworth's verse was the embodiment of the Romantic age, with its evocation of a unifying spirit running through all things. This collection brings together a rich and diverse selection of his works, from the epic autobiographical masterpiece The Prelude to much-loved shorter poems such as `I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' and `She Was a Phantom of Delight'. Alongside his more personal and introspective compositions, poems such as `Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey', `She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways' and `The Idiot Boy' demonstrate, in an era of political and social ferment, the manner in which Wordsworth, together with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, forged a revolutionary new poetic style through the publication of Lyrical Ballads -one that embraced the vernacular and subjects previously deemed unworthy of poetry - and thus changed the literary landscape of England for ever. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Single Hound Emily Dickinson (Author) Series:
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20 Sep 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497727 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-772-7 ISBN10: 1847497721 x Description: When Emily Dickinson died in 1886, having published only a tiny selection of her verse anonymously in journals and newspapers, she left behind a chest containing almost 1,800 poems written on notebooks and loose sheets. Her family members, starting with her sister Lavinia, began editing and compiling them for publication, and one of the most celebrated collections, The Single Hound, was prepared by her niece Martha Dickinson Bianchi and published in 1914. This volume, containing some of Dickinson's most original and poignant pieces, helped cement her reputation as one of America's most important poets. Sparse and experimental, yet accessible and intimate, the compositions included in The Single Hound provide an ideal introduction to Dickinson's genius. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pantagruel and Gargantua Francois Rabelais (Author) Andrew Brown (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
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Translated From: French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600) Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497406 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-740-6 ISBN10: 1847497403 x Description: With his birth itself a monumental exploit in itself, it is clear that the giant Pantagruel is destined to great things, and the novel that bears his name chronicles his the remarkable life of the exuberant youth: from his voracious reading habits to his escapades with the knave Panurge and his prowess in battle. The second work in this volume deals with the history of his father Gargantua, whose biography is equally if not more outlandish and larger than life. But these bawdy and boisterous tales, with their fixation on food and faeces, are not just entertaining yarns, as Francois Rabelais, one of the foremost humanists of the sixteenth century, parodies medieval learning, lambasts the established church authority and develops his own ideal visions for the ordering of society. Translated by critically-acclaimed translator Andrew Brown, this edition contains a wealth of material which will make this edition ideal for students _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Life in the Country Giovanni Verga (Author) J. G. Nichols (Translated by) Series:
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20 Sep 2018
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Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497710 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-771-0 ISBN10: 1847497713 x Description: Published in 1880, one year before Verga's influential novel The Malavoglias, Life in the Country first marked his stylistic shift towards the verismo school of Italian realism. The collection's centrepiece, `Rustic Honour' (`Cavalleria rusticana') - which was famously adapted into a play by the author before becoming an opera by Mascagni - tells the tale of Turiddu, a poor young man who returns from military service and finds himself embroiled in adultery and a feud with a rival. Also including the well-known stories `She-Wolf' and `Foxfur', A Life in the Country captures, in an objective, non-judgemental prose, the difficult conditions and personal struggles of the peasant class in his native Sicily at the turn of the twentieth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Complete Poems John Keats (Author) Series:
Alma Classics Great Poets
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15 Sep 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497567 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-756-7 ISBN10: 184749756X x Description: Despite his tragically short life, John Keats, a self-confessed "rebel Angel", endures for many as a personification of the Romantic age. While contemporary critics mocked him as a "Cockney poet" and an uneducated lower-class "apothecary" who aspired to poetry, subsequent generations began to see and appreciate both the rich and impassioned sensuousness and the love of beauty and liberty that pervade his work. From Endymion and Hyperion to `The Eve of St Agnes', `La Belle Dame sans Merci' and the Odes, this collection, which presents Keats's oeuvre in chronological order, displays his rapid poetic growth, the development of his philosophical and spiritual beliefs and the voluptuous, silken nature of his verse." _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tobermory and Other Stories Saki (Author) Series:
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20 Sep 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497307 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-730-7 ISBN10: 1847497306 x Description: `Tobermory' - the title story of this collection - is widely considered one of Saki's finest pieces, in which a short-sighted dinner-party guest introduces a talking cat to the diners, inadvertently revealing gossip and pushing fickle characters into the limelight - in the process undermining the common perceptions of grandiose and genteel high society.
From some of his earliest successes, such as `Gabriel-Ernest', `The Bag' and the Clovis stories, about a young man with an impish sense of humour, to later tales such as `The Boar-Pig', which is as bizarre as it is hilarious, and `The Toys of Peace', which he was never able to see in print, this selection contains a wealth of well-known tales with vastly different themes - from reincarnation to psychological warfare - and bearing every trademark token of wit with which Saki has enthralled generations of eager readers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Triumph of Vice and Other Stories William S. Gilbert (Author) Series:
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20 Sep 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497543 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-754-3 ISBN10: 1847497543 x Description: Gilbert's libretti of the comic operas composed by Arthur Sullivan are hugely well known, and lines such as "let the punishment fit the crime" have entered the English lexicon - but his short stories also deserve to be rediscovered by the modern reader. This collection, carefully curated by the secretary of the W.S. Gilbert Society, brings together the best of these sharp, clever, comical tales - many of which are published here for the first time since their first appearance in ephemeral magazines - enriched with the author's own illustrations. The stories feature many of the powerful motifs so associated with his work - fairies, elixirs, magic - and a wide variety of characters - from burglars to barristers and shopkeepers to gentlemen. This volume is shot through with the observational wit which drove Gilbert and Sullivan's works to fame, and constitutes a hugely enjoyable companion for fans of the pair's theatrical oeuvre. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman (Author) Series:
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15 Sep 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497550 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-755-0 ISBN10: 1847497551 x Description: First published in 1855 and extended by the author over the course of more than three decades, Leaves of Grass embodies Walt Whitman's lifetime ambition to create a new voice that could capture the spirit and vibrancy of the young American nation, while celebrating at the same time "Nature without check with original energy". Famously written in free verse and brimming with sensuous imagery and an unbridled love of nature and life in all its forms, and containing celebrated poems such as the ebullient `Song of Myself' - described by Jay Parini as the greatest American poem ever written - and the elegiac `When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd', Leaves of Grass is not only the fi nest achievement of a highly unique poet, but a founding text for American literature and modern poetry. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
One Thousand and One Ghosts Alexandre Dumas (Author) Andrew Brown (Translated by) Series:
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25 Oct 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497574 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-757-4 ISBN10: 1847497578
x Description: Coming back into town after a hunting expedition, Alexandre Dumas witnesses an incredible scene: a man has come to hand himself in to the mayor after decapitating his wife, terrified by the fact that her severed head spoke to him to proclaim her innocence. This prompts the guests at a dinner Dumas attends later that evening to exchange stories of death and the supernatural, ranging from accounts of the guillotine during the Terror to the legend of the corpse of a French king taking revenge on grave-robbers and tales of vampires and fratricide in the Carpathians. One Thousand and One Ghosts - here presented in its first and only translation into English - is a gloriously macabre work by the celebrated author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, which also touches on the serious political issue of capital punishment. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Ghost-Seer Friedrich Schiller (Author) Andrew Brown (Translated by) Series:
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25 Oct 2018
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Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497581 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-758-1 ISBN10: 1847497586 x Description: The brooding, introverted Count von O- arrives in Venice during the carnival in order to escape from his duties and live incognito. But after encountering a enigmatic Armenian stranger who makes an uncanny pronouncement, a bizarre chain of events unfolds, involving a Jesuit secret society, a ghostly seance and a mysterious Sicilian magician - leading the Count to question his faith and morality. First serialized in 1787-89, this multilayered, fragmentary novel - which gave Friedrich Schiller a platform to expound his Enlightenment ideas on society and religion - has thrilled and engaged lovers of Gothic literature for over two centuries. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer (Author) Series:
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25 Oct 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497413 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-741-3 ISBN10: 1847497411 x Description: Assembling at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, twenty-nine pilgrims begin their journey to Canterbury Cathedral. To entertain themselves on their long road, their host suggests that they regale each other with stories, with the teller of the best tale set to earn a free supper. The pilgrims correspond to all sections of medieval society, from the crusading knight to the drunken cook, and their tales span a range of genres, including the comic ribaldry and deception of `The Miller's Tale' and the story of chivalry and courtly romance told by the Franklin. Unfinished at the time of his death, The Canterbury Tales are here presented in their original Middle-English. This edition contains a wealth of material and a substantial number of notes which will help all students of Chaucer's masterpiece. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Mill on the Floss George Eliot (Author) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 Oct 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497420 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-742-0 ISBN10: 184749742X x Description: Raised in the idyllic setting of Dorlcote Mill, the wild and wilful Maggie Tulliver adores her elder brother Tom and is forever trying to gain the approbation of her parents. Yet, as she grows older and the family struggle under the weight of severe pecuniary difficulties, she becomes increasingly caught between the divergent expectations of the four men in her life: a doting father, an obdurate and vengeful brother, a good-looking and frivolous suitor and an earnest old playmate who happens to be the son of her father and brother's sworn enemy. Tragic and affecting, and drawing heavily on George Eliot's own rural upbringing and relationship with her brother, The Mill on the Floss is one of literature's finest evocations of childhood and adolescence, and introduces, in Maggie Tulliver, one of the most beloved heroines in the English canon. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Colonel Chabert Honore de Balzac (Author) Andrew Brown (Translated by) Series:
101 Pages series - Alma Classics
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Pub Date:
25 Oct 2018
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Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497734 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-773-4 ISBN10: 184749773X x Description: 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 that his wife has married an aristocrat who has liquidated all his assets, Chabert enlists the help of Derville to recover both his name and his fortune. Part of Balzac's La Comedie humaine cycle, Colonel Chabert is a poignant tale about the pursuit of justice, as well as a portrait of France's transition from the Napoleonic Empire to the Restoration. Inspired by actual events, the novella has captured the imagination of generations of readers and has been adapted for the stage and screen numerous times. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole (Author) Series:
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25 Oct 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497598 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-759-8 ISBN10: 1847497594 x Description: When Conrad, son of Prince Manfred of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances on his wedding day, his father, fearing his line is at an end, declares that he will divorce his wife and marry his late son's intended bride. Soon, however, this planned union brings about a series of supernatural events, tragic misunderstandings and cold-blooded murder. Presented as the translation of a medieval Italian text from the time of the crusades, The Castle of Otranto was the first and most influential novel of the
eighteenth-century Gothic revival, and introduced several of what became its most recognizable tropes. This edition contains extra material about the author's life and works, notes and bibliographic information _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Ghostly Tales Washington Irving (Author) Series:
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25 Oct 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497604 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-760-4 ISBN10: 1847497608 x Description: Ichabod Crane is a young schoolmaster from Connecticut now living in Sleepy Hollow, a settlement in New York State notorious for rumours of ghostly visitations, especially from the infamous Headless Horseman. Considered an outsider by the local inhabitants, he falls in love with the eighteen-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, but has to contend with the loutish Brom Bones for her affections. Then one night Crane's mounting problems come to a head when he finally experiences the horrors of the supernatural first-hand... A classic tale of American Gothic, `The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' has found a central place in the collective imagination and inspired many adaptations. Also included in this volume is a selection of some of Irving's most celebrated ghostly tales, such as `The Phantom Island' and `The Devil and Tom Walker'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices Charles Dickens (Author) Wilkie Collins (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
22 Nov 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497741 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-774-1 ISBN10: 1847497748 x Description: Under the pseudonyms of Francis Goodchild and Thomas Idle, Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins set off on a walking tour of the northwest of England, reporting back on their adventures for Dickens's magazine Household Words. A unique insight into the friendship of two of the towering figures of Victorian literature, and featuring a pair of chilling ghost stories from the leading exponents of the genre, The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices is a charming evocation of the adventures they experienced on their trip and the gently mocking nature of their relationship. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Green Dwarf and Other Early Fiction Charlotte Bronte (Author) Series:
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22 Nov 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497611 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-761-1 ISBN10: 1847497616
x Description: Inspired by a box of wooden toy soldiers given as a present to her elder brother Branwell in 1826, Charlotte Bronte and her siblings created a series of tales centred originally upon the imaginary realm of Glass Town, and its capital Verdopolis, and then later on the land of Angria. In `The Green Dwarf', against the backdrop of war between the people of Verdopolis and Senegal, the arrogant aristocrat Colonel Percy and Mr Leslie, a low-born artist, are locked in a battle for the heart of the beautiful Lady Emily. Taking the form of a work written by the character Lord Charles Wellesley as an act of revenge, `The Spell' tells of the plight of the realms of Angria and Wellingtonsland after they are left without an heir due to the death of the Marquis of Almeida. This collection includes also "The Foundling", "The Secret" and "Tales of the Islanders". _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Book of Nonsense Edward Lear (Author) Series:
Alma Quirky Classics
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Pub Date:
22 Nov 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h150mm x w110mm ISBN13: 9781847497482 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-748-2 ISBN10: 1847497489 x Description: First published in 1846 under the pseudonym "Old Derry down Derry", A Book of Nonsense is a collection adapted from the limericks and illustrations Edward Lear created to amuse the grandchildren of Lord Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby, while he was staying with the family at Knowsley Hall.
Embodying Lear's passion for nonsense, the limericks, each accompanied by one of Lear's beguiling original illustrations, are fun, lyrical, lively and hilarious, and have enchanted children and adults since their first appearance in the middle of the nineteenth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Perfect Hoax Italo Svevo (Author) J. G. Nichols (Translated by) Series:
101 Pages series - Alma Classics
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Pub Date:
22 Nov 2018
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Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497758 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-775-8 ISBN10: 1847497756 x Description: 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 his own expense forty years ago. This leads the old man to reach new heights of self-delusion, spurred on by Gaia's succession of ruses. In this tragicomic study of deception and disappointment, Italo Svevo - who himself was an undiscovered writer until his old age - parodies elements of his own life and offers an insightful psychological portrait of a person who has lost touch with reality. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Novellas Ivan Turgenev (Author) Michael Pursglove (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
20 Nov 2018
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497628 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-762-8 ISBN10: 1847497624 x Description: Driven to his deathbed by an incurable disease, the thirty-year-old impoverished gentleman Chulkaturin decides to write a diary looking back on his short life. After describing his youthful disillusionment and his family's fall from grace and loss of status, the narrative focuses on his love for Lisa, the daughter of a senior civil servant, his rivalry with the dashing Prince N- and his ensuing humiliation. These pages helped establish the archetype of the "superfluous man", a recurring figure in nineteenth-century Russian literature. First published in 1860, The Diary of a Superfluous Man was initially censored by the authorities as some of its passages were deemed too critical of Russian society. This volume also includes two other masterly novellas from the same period, also touching on the theme of disappointed love: Asya and First Love. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Modest Proposal and Polite Conversation Jonathan Swift (Author) Series:
Alma Quirky Classics
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Pub Date:
22 Nov 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h150mm x w110mm ISBN13: 9781847497475 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-747-5 ISBN10: 1847497470 x Description: In response to the dire economic conditions in eighteenth-century Ireland, A Modest Proposal ironically exhorts the poor to provide their offspring as food to the rich. Skilfully applying a wealth of classical rhetorical techniques, Swift's satirical tour de force takes a savage swipe at the selfishness of the ruling classes and the heartlessness of the various utilitarian solutions put forward by contemporary thinkers. In addition to this seminal essay, this volume includes A Polite Conversation, a mock handbook about conversational skills which lampoons the vacuousness of British upper-class discourse. Taken together, these humorous and polemical writings provide an invaluable introduction to Swift as a master satirist and pamphleteer. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings Thomas De Quincey (Author) Series:
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22 Nov 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497635 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-763-5 ISBN10: 1847497632 x Description: In an examination of his laudanum addiction, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the celestial pleasures and infernal lows of a life spent in dependence on "subtle and mighty opium". At once moving and rhapsodic, and suffused with a poetic and lyrical beauty, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater hauntingly evokes frightful visions and phantasmagorical night-time wanderings, while reality, dream and memory blur and intertwine in a
nebulous and protean haze. This edition also includes the classic `Suspiria de Profundis' and `The English Mail-Coach', both continuing De Quincey's exploration of the drug and its relationship with dreams and the events of childhood, and inspiring Virginia Woolf to declare that De Quincey's writing has "the effect of rings of sound which break into each other and widen out and out till the brain can hardly expand far enough to realize the last remote vibrations". _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Humiliated and Insulted Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author) Ignat Avsey (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
13 Dec 2018
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497802 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-780-2 ISBN10: 1847497802 x Description: Oscar Wilde claimed that Humiliated and Insulted is not "at all inferior to the other great masterpieces" and Friedrich Nietzsche is said to have wept over it. Its construction is that of an intricate detective novel, and the reader is plunged into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma and, above all, unrequited love and irreconcilable relationships. At the centre of the story are a young struggling author, an orphaned teenager and a depraved aristocrat, who not only foreshadows the great figures of evil in Dostoevsky's later fiction, but is a powerful literary presence in his own right. This new translation catches the verve and tumult of the original, which - in concept and execution - affords a refreshingly unfamiliar glimpse of the author. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Memoirs of a Mother-in-Law George R. Sims (Author) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
13 Dec 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497796 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-779-6 ISBN10: 1847497799 x Description: Jane Tressider has never been afraid of speaking her mind, even if she admits that she may have occasionally given offence by doing so. But as a busy mother of nine children, she cannot let such a small foible get in the way of her job, which is to keep her feckless husband on his toes while ensuring the perfect management not just of her own household but also of that of her married daughters and sons. Since mothers-in-law have always been misunderstood and no one has ever taken up their side of the argument properly, Jane is determined to set the record straight and plead the cause of the most maligned race on the face of the earth. The result is a hilarious comedy of manners and a gentle satire of Edwardian mores and attitudes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Waves Virginia Woolf (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
13 Dec 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497819 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-781-9 ISBN10: 1847497810 x
Description: A commercial and critical success when it was first published in 1931, and now considered by some to be Virginia Woolf's most ambitious novel. This new edition includes pictures and a section on Virginia Woolf's life and works. Through a series of connected monologues, The Waves tells the story of six very different friends - Bernard, Louis, Neville, Jinny, Susan and Rhoda - as they progress from childhood to middle age. Interspersed with evocative descriptions of the seaside at different times of day, the poignant personal histories coalesce into a poetic tapestry of human experience. A commercial and critical success when it was first published in 1931, and now considered by some to be Virginia Woolf's most ambitious novel, showcasing her Modernist narrative techniques at their finest, The Waves casts a visionary and lyrical light on everyday life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Three-Cornered Hat Pedro Antonio de Alarcon (Author) H. F. Turner (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
15 May 2015
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Language: English Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 120pp h198mm x w128mm 150g ISBN13: 9781847494825 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-482-5 ISBN10: 184749482X EAN: 9781847494825 This Product Replaces: 9781847490834 x Description: Based on a famous Spanish folk tale and set in rural Andalusia, "The Three-Cornered Hat" recounts the tribulations of a lecherous local magistrate as he attempts to have his way with the miller's beautiful but devoted wife, with unforeseen and hilarious consequences. Alarcon's astute blend of slapstick and comedy of manners provides both timeless entertainment and a sharp satire on the corruption of rural officials and the politics of lust and seduction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Inferno Dante Alighieri (Author) J. G. Nichols (Translated by) Series:
Evergreens
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
16 Jan 2014
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 396pp h198mm x w128mm 337g ISBN13: 9781847493408 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-340-8 ISBN10: 1847493408 EAN: 9781847493408 x Description: Dante's dramatic journey through the circles of hell in search of redemption - and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of some of the greatest sinners who ever walked on earth - is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, the summit of medieval thinking and arguably the highest poetic achievement of all time. Inferno, the first part of Dante's Comedy, is presented here in a new verse translation by acclaimed poet and prize-winning translator J.G. Nichols, together with the original text facing, extensive notes, illustrations and a critical apparatus focusing on the author's life and works. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Love Poems Dante Alighieri (Author) J. G. Nichols (Translated by) Anthony Mortimer (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Feb 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w128mm 211g ISBN13: 9781847496881 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-688-1 ISBN10: 1847496881 EAN: 9781847496881 This Product Replaces: 9781847493453 x Description: Dante is known to most readers outside Italy for his gritty descriptions of the Inferno, but there is another, gentler side to his poetry, which found expression throughout his career in verses that made him, together with his friend Guido Cavalcanti, the leading love poet of his generation. From the ballads and rime of his youth to the heart-rending lyrics written on the death of Beatrice and the more sober, philosophical canzoni of his later years, this volume provides the only English edition of the great Florentine's complete love poems, in brilliant verse translations by Dante specialists J.G. Nichols and Anthony Mortimer. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Paradise Series:
Evergreens
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 May 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w128mm 342g ISBN13: 9781847496478 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-647-8 ISBN10: 1847496474 EAN: 9781847496478 x Description: In the third and final part of The Divine Comedy, Dante recounts his journey through heaven, after the travails and torments of Hell and the arduous ascent of Mount Purgatory, creating a cosmology of the highest realm of creation which is astonishing in its complexity. In Dante's imagining, Paradise is formed out of concentric spheres surrounding the Earth, beginning with the Moon and ending with the Empyrean. Dante must traverse these ethereal regions guided by his beloved Beatrice, as a means of attaining wisdom, revelation and beatitude. Containing some of Dante's finest poetry, Dante's Paradise is an enduring vision of grace and a powerful allegory for the struggle for redemption. This dual-text edition completes J.G. Nichols's masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Purgatory Dante Alighieri (Author) J. G. Nichols (Translated by) Series:
Evergreens
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Oct 2016
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 396pp h198mm x w128mm 337g ISBN13: 9781847496119 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-611-9 ISBN10: 1847496113 EAN: 9781847496119 x Description: Describing Dante's second stage in his arduous journey to redemption, Purgatory features a host of unforgettable scenes and characters, and arguably some of the best poetry to be found in the Divine Comedy. The gloom, torments and evils of Hell have been left behind, but Dante's ascent of Mount Purgatory towards Paradise remains fraught with obstacles, not least the burden of his own mortality and his human passions. Purgatory is presented here in a new verse translation by acclaimed poet and prize-winning translator J.G. Nichols. Also included are the original Italian text, extensive notes and a critical apparatus focusing on Dante's life and works. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Rime Dante Alighieri (Author) Anthony Mortimer (Translated by) J. G. Nichols (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Mar 2015
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Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 228pp ISBN13: 9781847494627 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-462-7 ISBN10: 1847494625 This Product Replaces: 9781847490773 x Description: This collection of Dante Alighieri's "Canzoniere", translated for the first time in its entirety into English, charts his poetic evolution and displays the ground on which his "Vita Nova" and "Divine Comedy" developed.Inspired in his early poems by troubadour love poetry, Dante would later come to master all the genres of the time, such as the canzone, the sonnet and the ballad. At the same time deeply personal - dealing with themes of love, death and exile - and imbued with the poetic and political context of the period, "Dante's Rime", presented in dual Italian and English text and rendered by prize-winning translators Anthony Mortimer and J.G. Nichols, offers a fascinating glimpse into the imagination of arguably the greatest writer of all time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri (Author) J. G. Nichols (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2013
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 576pp h198mm x w128mm 525g ISBN13: 9781847493200 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-320-0 ISBN10: 1847493203 EAN: 9781847493200 x Description: Dante's dramatic journey down the circles of Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory and through the spheres of Heaven in search of redemption - and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of sinners and saints - is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, the summit of medieval thinking and arguably the highest poetic achievement of all time. The Divine Comedy is presented here in a new verse translation by acclaimed poet and prize-winning translator J.G. Nichols, together with extensive notes, illustrations and a critical apparatus focusing on the author's life and works. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Vita Nuova Dante Alighieri (Author) Anthony Mortimer (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Feb 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 144pp h198mm x w128mm 281g ISBN13: 9781847496959 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-695-9 ISBN10: 1847496954 EAN: 9781847496959 This Product Replaces: 9781847493583 x Description: The Vita Nuova, with its unusual blend of prose and poetry, is universally recognized as Dante's early masterpiece and provides an indispensable prequel to The Divine Comedy. Set in thirteenth-century Florence, part autobiography and part religious allegory, it traces Dante's quest to find a poetic idiom worthy of Beatrice, whom he had loved since boyhood. Her premature death plunges him into an emotional turmoil that finds release only through his faith in her continuing spiritual influence and through his determination "to write of her what has never been written of any woman". The Vita Nuova remains a central document in European culture's examination of love and the self. It is a hundred and fifty years since Dante Gabriel Rossetti's groundbreaking version of the Vita Nuova. Now Anthony Mortimer, already acclaimed as translator of Cavalcanti, Petrarch and Michelangelo, produces a verse translation that avoids Rossetti's disturbing archaisms but preserves a lyric immediacy worthy of the original. This is a Vita Nuova for the twenty-first century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson (Author) Series:
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13 Apr 2012
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 198pp h198mm x w128mm x s23mm 313g ill ISBN13: 9781847492166 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-216-6 ISBN10: 1847492169
x Description: Portraying the characters and events of a small Midwestern town at the end of the nineteenth century, Winesburg, Ohio is a chronological cycle of stories which reads like an episodic novel. Centring on George Willard, a young local reporter with big-city aspirations, and his conversations with fellow inhabitants, the book gives voice to a disparate cast of figures and lays bare the constraints and struggles of life in a small community. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sonnets Cecco Angiolieri (Author) C. H. M. D. Scott (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
15 Mar 2015
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 270pp h198mm x w128mm 344g ISBN13: 9781847494634 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-463-4 ISBN10: 1847494633 EAN: 9781847494634 This Product Replaces: 9781847490438 x Description: Cecco Angiolieri, the enfant terrible of Italian literature, loved women, gambling, food and wine. It is said that he found comfort for his bad luck with the dice and Becchina, his unreciprocating lover, only by pouring venomous scorn upon his miserly parents. Cecco's outbursts of rage against his fate and his earthly view of the world - diametrically opposed to the Stil Novo of Cavalcanti and Dante, the target of some of his fiercest sonnets are perfectly encapsulated in his poetry, which is presented here with the facing Italian text in C.H. Scott's beautiful verse translation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dirty Limericks Series:
Quirky Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
22 May 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 168pp h150mm x w110mm 123g ISBN13: 9781847497093 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-709-3 ISBN10: 1847497098 EAN: 9781847497093 x Description: Inside these covers you will find a collection of licentious limericks which have been handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth, some of them for over a hundred years. Until quite recently, few of these verses had ever appeared in print for public consumption, although many had been privately printed and circulated from time to time. This definitive collection of the world's rudest, lewdest limericks will perhaps finally bestow respectability upon stanzas long venerated in oral tradition. Most of them are bawdy, some are wickedly clever - all are guaranteed to raise a laugh. There was a young man from Kildare, Who was having his girl on the stair; On the forty-fourth stroke, The banister broke And he finished her off in mid-air. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Theatre and its Double Antonin Artaud (Author) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
13 Feb 2013
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w128mm 185g ISBN13: 9781847493323 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-332-3 ISBN10: 1847493327 EAN: 9781847493323 x Description: First published in 1938, The Theatre and Its Double is a collection of essays detailing Antonin Artaud's radical theories on drama and theatre, which he saw as being stifled by conservatism and lack of experimentation. Containing the famous manifestos of the `Theatre of Cruelty', the collection analyses the underlying impulses of performance, provides some suggestions on a physical-training method for actors and actresses, and features a long appreciation of the expressive values of Eastern dance drama. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Emma Jane Austen (Author) Series:
Evergreens
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Apr 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 416pp h198mm x w128mm 336g ISBN13: 9781847494139 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-413-9 ISBN10: 1847494137 EAN: 9781847494139 This Product Replaces: 9781847490087 x Description: Emma is considered by many readers to be Jane Austen's crowning achievement, a timeless comedy of manners that lays bare the limits on women's autonomy in Regency England. The disparity between Emma Woodhouse's self-confidence and self-knowledge, and her determination to arrange marriages for her friends while avoiding one for herself, leads to a painful series of misunderstandings for everyone who suffers from her wellmeaning altruism - and with Mr Knightley being the only person of her acquaintance who has the good sense to challenge her, Emma must eventually recognize her match in every sense. Long praised for its rich detail and perfect craftsmanship, Emma is one of those classic masterpieces that readers go back to again and again for its inexhaustible fund of humanity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Love and Friendship Jane Austen (Author) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Jan 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w128mm 274g ISBN13: 9781847496331 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-633-1 ISBN10: 1847496334 EAN: 9781847496331 x Description: These inventive and entertaining pieces display the early sparkles of wit and imagination of Jane Austen's mature fiction. Written when she was only in her teens, they are by turns amusing, acerbic and occasionally downright silly. `Love and Friendship' and `Lesley Castle' provide parodies of the gentry and the fashionable idea of sensibility of the time. `A History of England'
supplies us with a lively chronicle of English monarchic history. Also included in this collection are `The Three Sisters', `Catharine', the series of vignettes known as `A Collection of Letters' and `Lady Susan', an epistolary story which was recently adapted for the cinema. Taken together, these pieces display all the wry humour, shrewd observation and satirical insight of Emma or Pride and Prejudice. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mansfield Park Jane Austen (Author) Series:
Evergreens
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
22 Sep 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 448pp h198mm x w128mm 338g ISBN13: 9781847495983 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-598-3 ISBN10: 1847495982 EAN: 9781847495983 x Description: Born into a poor family, Fanny Price is raised amid the daunting splendour of Mansfield Park by her rich uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram. Treated as an inferior by most of the family, Fanny forms a close attachment to her cousin Edmund, the only person to show her kindness. With the departure of her uncle to the West Indies and the arrival from London of the fashionable Henry and Mary Crawford, flirtation and romantic intrigue abound. As Fanny becomes increasingly uncomfortable with the conduct of her companions, she finds herself isolated and forced to face the conflict between her sense of integrity and social expectation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen (Author) Series:
Evergreens
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Jan 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm 230g ISBN13: 9781847496249 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-624-9 ISBN10: 1847496245 EAN: 9781847496249 x Description: While enjoying a six weeks' stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. Thanks to a new literary diet of the sensational and the macabre, Catherine travels to Northanger Abbey fully expecting to become embroiled in a Gothic adventure of intrigue and suspense - and, once there, soon begins to form the most gruesome and improbable theories about the exploits of its occupants. An early work, but published posthumously, Northanger Abbey is a parody of the Gothic genre typified by the novels of Ann Radcliffe, as well as a witty comedy of manners in the style of Jane Austen's later novels and, ultimately, an enchanting love story. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Persuasion Series:
Evergreens
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 240pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847495709 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-570-9 ISBN10: 1847495702 This Product Replaces: 9781847490797 x
Description: Persuasion narrates the emotional journey of its protagonist Anne Elliot, who chances upon Captain Wentworth, a suitor she was persuaded to reject seven years earlier, and whose reappearance causes her to reflect on her past decisions and contemplate her marital future.Vividly depicting the society holiday towns of Lyme Regis and Bath and infused with its author's trademark wit, Austen's last completed novel, set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, is an entertaining and enduring account of the dilemmas facing young women in the early nineteenth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen (Author) Series:
Evergreens
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Jul 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w128mm 288g ISBN13: 9781847493699 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-369-9 ISBN10: 1847493696 EAN: 9781847493699 x Description: The pride of high-ranking Mr Darcy and the prejudice of middle-class Elizabeth Bennet conduct an absorbing dance through the rigid social hierarchies of early-nineteenth-century England, with the passion of the two unlikely lovers growing as their union seems ever more improbable. One of the most cherished love stories in English literature, Jane Austen's 1813 masterpiece has a lasting effect on everyone who reads it. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen (Author) Series:
Alma Classics Evergreens Edition:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Jul 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 368pp ISBN13: 9781847494849 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-484-9 ISBN10: 1847494846 This Product Replaces: 9781847490469 x Description: "Sense and Sensibility" is famously characterised as the story of two Dashwood sisters who embody the conflict between the oppressive nature of 'civilised' society and the human desire for romantic passion. However, there is far more to this story of two daughters made homeless by the death of their father. Elinor, 19, and Marianne, 17, initially project the opposing roles with Elinor cautious and unassuming about romantic matters, while Marianne is wild and passionate when she falls hopelessly in love with the libertine Mr Willoughby. But the lessons in love and life see the two characters develop and change with sense and sensibility needing to be compromised as a matter of survival.Written when Austen was just nineteen, this story has been read as a biographical reflection of her relationship with her own sister Cassandra, with the younger Jane being the victim of 'sensibility.' However, the novel is far more than a simple case of passion versus manners, and depicts the romantic complications of two women made highly vulnerable by the loss of their father and estate. With a raw and intense quality Austen creates a romantic masterpiece on the backdrop of a fragile social context. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Paris Spleen and on Wine and Hashish Charles Baudelaire (Author) Sir Martin Sorrell (Translated by) Maurice Stang (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Aug 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp ISBN13: 9781847494931 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-493-1 ISBN10: 1847494935
x Description: Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city with all its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art and women. Published posthumously in 1869, Paris Spleen was a landmark publication in the development of the genre of prose poetry - a form which Baudelaire saw as particularly suited for expressing the feelings of uncertainty, flux and freedom of his age and one of the founding texts of literary modernism. This volume also includes Baudelaire's 1851 essay 'Wine and Hashish'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Flowers of Evil Charles Baudelaire (Author) Anthony Mortimer (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2016
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Language: French Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847495747 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-574-7 ISBN10: 1847495745 x Description: Judicially condemned in 1857 as offensive to public morality, The Flowers of Evil is now regarded as the most influential volume of poetry published in the nineteenth century. Torn between intense sensuality and profound spiritual yearning, racked by debt and disease, Baudelaire transformed his own experience of Parisian life into a work of universal significance. With his unflinching examination of the dark aspects and unconventional manifestations of sexuality, his pioneering portrayal of life in agreat metropolis and his daring combination of the lyrical and the prosaic, Baudelaire inaugurated a new epoch in poetry and created a founding text of modernism.Anthony Mortimer, already praised for his virtuoso translations of Petrarch, Dante and Villon, has produced a new version that not only respects the sense and the form of the original French, but also makes powerful English poetry in its own right. Presented here in a dual-language edition, with extra material, notes and bibliography. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hashish, Wine, Opium Charles Baudelaire (Author) Theophile Gautier (Author) Maurice Stang (Translated by) Series:
Oneworld Classics
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Imprint:
Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
14 Mar 2012
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 200pp h198mm x w128mm 152g ISBN13: 9781847492876 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-287-6 ISBN10: 1847492878 EAN: 9781847492876 This Product Replaces: 9781847490933 x Description: Among the earliest artistic description of the hallucinogenic experience in European literature, the four pieces in this volume document Gautier's and Baudelaire's own involvement in the Club of Assassins, who met under the auspices of Dr Moreau to investigate the mindenhancing effects of hashish, wine and opium. As well as providing an absorbing account of nineteenthcentury drug use, Hashish, Wine, Opium captures the spirit of French Romanticism in its struggle to free the mind from the shackles of the humdrum and the conventional, and serves as a fascinating prologue to the psychedelic literature of the following centuries. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sonnets Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (Author) Mike Stocks (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Mar 2015
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 200pp h198mm x w128mm 215g ISBN13: 9781847494641 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-464-1 ISBN10: 1847494641 EAN: 9781847494641 This Product Replaces: 9781847490117 x Description: Writing clandestine sonnets in local dialect for over fifteen years whilst leading a respectably conformist life of letters and bureaucracy, Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli erected a lasting poetical monument to the people of nineteenth-century Rome. Set against the chequered background of the city of the six Ps - Pope, priests, princes, prostitutes, parasites and the poor - Belli's sometimes scandalous sonnets deal with life's elementals: love, death, sex, food, money, family, religion and politics. In his immense oeuvre, sampled here in a sizeable and varied selection of the best poems, people from every course and manner of life have their say - housewives, mothers, beggars, lovers, businessmen, popes, whores, doctors, thieves, lawyers, priests, penpushers, actresses, gossips and many more. Their voices and preoccupations are brilliantly and accurately rendered in this volume by Mike Stocks, one of the finest sonneteers of our day. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs Simone Benmussa (Author) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Aug 2012
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 100pp h198mm x w128mm 127g ISBN13: 9781847495532 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-553-2 ISBN10: 1847495532 EAN: 9781847495532 x Description: Set in a big Dublin hotel of the mid-nineteenth century, The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs is a total theatre creation. In it, we discover that Albert, the perfect waiter - who never drinks, smokes or flirts with the chambermaids - is in fact a woman who once dressed as a man to avoid poverty and is now trapped in the role. Based on a short story by George Moore, which was recently adapted into a major Hollywood film starring Glenn Close, Benmussa's story releases a string of disturbing questions about the nature of women and society, and is one of the most powerful and groundbreaking plays of the 1970s. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter Ambrose Bierce (Author) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
13 Mar 2012
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 176pp h198mm x w128mm 118g ISBN13: 9781847492753 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-275-3 ISBN10: 1847492754 EAN: 9781847492753 This Product Replaces: 9781847490704
x Description: Arriving at a rural monastery, the monk Ambrosius meets a young girl called Benedicta, shunned by the local community for being the daughter of the local hangman. Ambrosius is drawn into a dangerous friendship with her and, in defiance of the community and his superiors, he starts spending time alone with her. But when her virtue is corrupted by an impetuous young man, the stage is set for a battle between body and spirit, the sins of the past and the desire for redemption. Allegedly a rewriting from a lost German original, Ambrose Bierce's 1892 novel reads as a seamless, almost folk-tale-like masterpiece. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio (Author) J. G. Nichols (Translated by) Series:
Alma Classics Evergreens Edition:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Apr 2015
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Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 672pp ISBN13: 9781847494122 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-412-2 ISBN10: 1847494129 This Product Replaces: 9781847490575 x Description: 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-makers. Named after the Greek for "ten days", Boccaccio's book of stories draws on ancient mythology, contemporary events and everyday life, leaving an indelible mark on the works of future writers such as Chaucer and Shakespeare. J.G. Nichols's new translation stays as faithful to the original as possible while being written in a clear and eminently modern English, capturing the timeless humour of one of the great classics of world literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Life of Dante Dante Alighieri (Author) Wick Steed (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Feb 2009
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Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847496638 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-663-8 ISBN10: 1847496636 This Product Replaces: 9781847490919 x Description: "Life of Dante" brings together the earliest accounts of Dante available, putting the celebratory essay of literary genius Giovanni Boccaccio together with the historical analysis of leading humanist Leonardo Bruni. Their writings, along with the other sources included in this volume, provide a wealth of insight and information into Dante's unique character and life, from his susceptibility to the torments of passionate love, his involvement in politics, scholastic enthusiasms and military experience, to the stories behind the greatest heights of his poetic achievements.Not only are these accounts invaluable for their subject matter, they are also seminal examples of early biographical writing. Also included in this volume is a biography of Boccaccio, perhaps as great an influence on world literature as Dante himself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Aphorisms Napoleon Bonaparte (Author) Series:
Quirky Classics
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Dec 2016
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Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h150mm x w110mm 98g ISBN13: 9781847496782 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-678-2 ISBN10: 1847496784 EAN: 9781847496782 This Product Replaces: 9781847490322 x Description: Spurred by a lifelong fascination with the great emperor, French novelist Honore de Balzac set himself the pains-taking task of collecting a selection of Napoleon's aphorisms from his public speeches and the gazettes of the time. Arranged into four themes (covering social life, the military arts, the exercise of power and the teachings of experience and misfortune), Napoleon's pithy pills of wisdom - often Machiavellian, cynical, dry and sometimes cruel - offer a unique insight into the mind of a man who prided himself on preferring action over thought and the sword over the pen, and conjure up one of the most eminent and influential historical figures of all time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte (Author) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
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04 Jul 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 610pp illustrations ISBN13: 9781847493736 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-373-6 ISBN10: 1847493734 This Product Replaces: 9781847490001 x Description: A novel of high romance and great intensity, Jane Eyre has enjoyed popular success and critical acclaim ever since its publication in 1847. Jane's journey from a troubled childhood to independence - and her turbulent love affair with the enigmatic Mr Rochester - electrified Victorian readers with its narrative power. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte (Author) Series:
Evergreens
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
12 Sep 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w128mm 307g ISBN13: 9781847493217 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-321-7 ISBN10: 1847493211 EAN: 9781847493217 x Description: The tale of Heathcliff and Cathy's ungovernable love and suffering, and the havoc that their passion wreaks on the families of the Earnshaws and the Lintons, shocked the book's first readers, with even Emily's sister Charlotte wondering whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff . Replete with unforgettable characters and situations that have seared themselves into our literary consciousness, Emily Bronte's intense masterpiece is one of the most haunting love stories in the canon of English literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Thirty-Nine Steps Charles Buchan (Author) Series:
Evergreens
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
23 Feb 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h198mm x w128mm 161g ISBN13: 9781847496454 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-645-4 ISBN10: 1847496458 EAN: 9781847496454 x Description: When Richard Hannay finds the corpse of freelance spy Franklin P. Scudder in his London flat, he goes on the run, fearing that his life is in danger. Scudder had previously revealed that he was investigating a ring of German spies, who were conspiring to sabotage Britain's war capability. Hannay becomes both hunter and hunted as he struggles to unravel the tangled threads of this plot while staying one step ahead of his pursuers, who will stop at nothing to keep their nefarious secrets. First published in 1915, John Buchan's definitive spy novel was the first in a long line of espionage thrillers to delve into the underbelly of the British establishment. Over a hundred years later, The Thirty-Nine Steps remains resonant, and the various film, television and theatre adaptations of this classic - most notably Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 version - are a testament to its capacity to thrill. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lenz Georg Buchner (Author) Michael Hamburger (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Feb 2015
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 98pp h198mm x w128mm 81g ISBN13: 9781847494498 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-449-8 ISBN10: 1847494498 EAN: 9781847494498 This Product Replaces: 9781847490858 x Description: Set against the strikingly beautiful backdrop of the Vosges mountains, Lenz tells the tale of the real-life writer J.M.R. Lenz's nineteen-day stay in Waldersbach in 1778, describing his wanderings around the mountainous surroundings and his worsening fits of madness, eventually culminating in his removal, under guard, to Strasbourg.Valued both as a chillingly convincing exploration of the reality of paranoid schizophrenia and an influential forerunner of literary modernism, this existential drama boasts a prose style startlingly ahead of its time and is a truly original work of literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Dog's Heart Mikhail Bulgakov (Author) Antonina W. Bouis (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2016
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 176pp h198mm x w128mm 198g ISBN13: 9781847495686 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-568-6 ISBN10: 1847495680 EAN: 9781847495686 This Product Replaces: 9781847492289
x Description: "There is absolutely no necessity to learn how to read; meat smells a mile off, anyway. Nevertheless, if you live in Moscow and have a brain in your head, you'll pick up reading willy-nilly, and without attending any courses. Out of the forty thousand or so Moscow dogs, only a total idiot won't know how to read the word `sausage'." When a stray dog dying on the streets of Moscow is taken in by a wealthy professor, he is subjected to medical experiments in which he receives various transplants of human organs. As he begins to transform into a rowdy, unkempt human by the name of Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov, his actions distress the professor and those surrounding him, although he finds himself accepted into the ranks of the Soviet state. A parodic reworking of the Frankenstein myth and a vicious satire of the Communist revolution and the concept of the New Soviet man, A Dog's Heart was banned by the censors in 1925 and circulated only in samizdat form. Nowadays this hugely entertaining tale has become very popular in Russia, and has inspired many adaptations across the world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Young Doctor's Notebook Mikhail Bulgakov (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Jul 2012
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 208pp h198mm x w128mm 202g ISBN13: 9781847492869 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-286-9 ISBN10: 184749286X EAN: 9781847492869 This Product Replaces: 9781847491770 x Description: In this collection of short stories, drawing heavily from the author's own experiences as a medical graduate on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Bulgakov describes a young doctor's turbulent and often brutal introduction to his practice in the backward village of Muryovo. 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 and insightful observations on youth, isolation and progress. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Black Snow Mikhail Bulgakov (Author) Roger Cockrell (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Jun 2014
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm 245g ISBN13: 9781847493538 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-353-8 ISBN10: 184749353X EAN: 9781847493538 x Description: After being saved from a suicide attempt by the appearance of a literary editor, the journalist and failed novelist Sergei Maxudov has a book suddenly accepted for stage adaptation at a prestigious venue and finds himself propelled into Moscow's theatrical world. In a cut-throat environment tainted by Soviet politics, censorship and egomania - epitomized by the arrogant and tyrannical director Ivan Vasilyevich - mayhem gradually gives way to absurdity. Unpublished in Bulgakov's own lifetime, Black Snow is peppered with darkly comic set pieces and draws on its author's own bitter experience as a playwright with the Moscow Arts Theatre, showcasing his inimitable gift for shrewd observation and razor-sharp satire.
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Diaboliad and Other Stories Mikhail Bulgakov (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Apr 2015
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 164pp h198mm x w128mm 157g ISBN13: 9781847494726 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-472-6 ISBN10: 1847494722 EAN: 9781847494726 This Product Replaces: 9781847491534 x Description: In Bulgakov's `Diaboliad', the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the Main Central Depot of Match Materials, and tries to seek out his newly assigned superior, responsible for his dismissal. His quest through the labyrinth of Soviet bureaucracy takes on the increasingly surreal dimensions of a nightmare. This early satirical story, reminiscent of Gogol and Dostoevsky, was first published in 1924 and incurred the wrath of pro-Soviet critics. Along with the three other stories in this volume, which also explore the themes of the absurd and bizarre, it provides a fascinating glimpse into the artistic development of the author of The Master and Margarita. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Diaries and Selected Letters Mikhail Bulgakov (Author) Roger Cockrell (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Oct 2016
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 273g ISBN13: 9781847496058 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-605-8 ISBN10: 1847496059 EAN: 9781847496058 x Description: The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature - was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful struggle against state censorship. This suppression did not only apply to his art: in 1926 his personal diary was seized by the authorities. From then on he confined his thoughts to letters to his friends and family, as well as to public figures such as Stalin and his fellow Soviet writer Gorky, while also encouraging his wife Yelena to keep a diary, with many entries influenced or even dictated by him. This ample selection from the diaries and letters of the Bulgakovs, mostly translated for the first time into English, provides an insightful glimpse into a fascinating period of Russian history and literature, telling the tragic tale of the fate of an artist under a totalitarian regime. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Notes on a Cuff and Other Stories Mikhail Bulgakov (Author) Roger Cockrell (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
19 Nov 2014
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w128mm 220g ISBN13: 9781847493873 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-387-3 ISBN10: 1847493874 EAN: 9781847493873 x Description: Begun in 1920 while Bulgakov was employed in a hospital in the remote Caucasian outpost of Vladikavkaz, and continued when he started working for a government literary department in Moscow, Notes on a Cuff is a series of journalistic sketches which show the young doctor trying to embark on a literary career among the chaos of war, disease, politics and bureaucracy. Stylistically brilliant and brimming with humour and literary allusion, Notes on a Cuff is presented here in a new translation, along with a collection of other short pieces by Bulgakov, many of them - such as `The Cockroach' and `A Dissolute Man' - published for the first time in the English language. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Fatal Eggs Mikhail Bulgakov (Author) Roger Cockrell (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
17 Jul 2014
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w128mm 158g ISBN13: 9781847493712 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-371-2 ISBN10: 1847493718 EAN: 9781847493712 x Description: Professor Persikov, an eccentric zoologist, stumbles upon a new light ray that accelerates growth and reproduction rates in living organisms. In the wake of a plague that has decimated the country's poultry stocks, Persikov's discovery is exploited as a means to correct the problem. As foreign agents, the state and the Soviet media all seize upon the red ray, matters get out of hand... Set in 1928 but written four years earlier, during Stalin's rise to power, The Fatal Eggs is both an early piece of science fiction reminiscent of H.G. Wells and a biting, brilliant satire on the consequences of the abuse of power and knowledge. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Life of Monsieur de Moliere Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov (Author) Mira Ginsburg (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
10 May 2017
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 150pp ISBN13: 9781847494733 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-473-3 ISBN10: 1847494730 This Product Replaces: 9781847491275 x Description: Completed in 1933, but not published until 1962, over twenty years after its author's death, "The Life of Monsieur de Moliere" charts the life of the French playwright, from humble beginnings to later theatrical triumphs and political controversies. The work was met with disapproval by the Soviet authorities, who detected parallels between the lives of Moliere and Bulgakov, and viewed the work as a veiled critique of their own times. With a dazzling blend of biography and novelistic imagination, Bulgakov's eccentric and satirical take on the life of a fellow writer energetically captures the genius of Moliere, while revealing another aspect of his own self. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The White Guard Mikhail Bulgakov (Author) Roger Cockrell (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 Aug 2016
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 264g ISBN13: 9781847496201 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-620-1 ISBN10: 1847496202 EAN: 9781847496201 x Description: Set in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during the chaotic winter of 1918-19, The White Guard, Bulgakov's first full-length novel, tells the story of a Russian-speaking family trapped in circumstances that threaten to destroy them. As in Tolstoy's War and Peace, the narrative centres on the stark contrast between the cosy domesticity of family life on the one hand, and wide-ranging and destructive historical events on the other. The result is a disturbing, often shocking story, illuminated, however, by shafts of light that testify to people's resilience, humanity and ability to love in even the most adverse circumstances. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dark Avenues Ivan Bunin (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Nov 2015
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 350pp h196mm x w127mm x s28mm 272g ISBN13: 9781847494740 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-474-0 ISBN10: 1847494749 This Product Replaces: 9781847490476
x Description: Considered one of the most influential authors of twentieth century Russian Literature, Ivan Bunin's "Dark Avenues" is the culmination of a life's work which unrelentingly questioned of the political doxa whilst taking his poetic mastery of language to dark new heights. Written between 1938 and 1944 and set in the context of a disintegrating Russian culture, this collection of short fiction centres around dark, erotic liaisons told with a rich, elegaic poetics which probes the artistic limits of depicting desire.A prolific writer and fierce political activist, Bunin became the first Russian to win the Nobel prize for Literature in 1933 and was highly influential on his contemporary Russian emigres, Checkov and Nabokov. The "Dark Avenues" is the zenith of his work and one of the most important Russian texts to come out of the twentieth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Village Ivan Bunin (Author) Galya Aplin (Translated by) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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22 Nov 2012
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 176pp h198mm x w128mm 169g ISBN13: 9781847492838 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-283-8 ISBN10: 1847492835 EAN: 9781847492838 This Product Replaces: 9781847491046 x Description: The Village, Ivan Bunin's first full-length novel, is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia. Set at the time of the 1905 Revolution and centring on episodes in the lives of a landowner and his self-educated peasant brother, the book follows characters sunk so far below the average of intelligence as to be scarcely human. A triumph of bitter realism, Bunin's cruel, lyrical prose reveals the pettiness, violence and ignorance of life on the land, foreshadowing the turbulences of Russia in the twentieth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Alice's Adventures Under Ground Lewis Carroll (Author) Series:
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01 Dec 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 112pp h198mm x w128mm A facsimilie of Lewis Carroll's orginial manuscript, complete with his original illustrations ISBN13: 9781847497772 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-777-2 ISBN10: 1847497772 x Description: In 1864, Lewis Carroll sent Alice's Adventures Under Ground, a handwritten and illustrated manuscript, as a gift to Alice Liddell, the daughter of his Oxford dean. This formed the basis for Carroll's Alice in Wonderland - introducing timeless characters such as Alice, the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts and the Gryphon - although it differs considerably from the later work, with the author himself approving its publication in 1886. Alice's Adventures Under Ground provides an enchanting glimpse into Carroll's imaginative process, and deserves to be ranked as a classic for all ages in its own right. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Complete Poems Guido Cavalcanti (Author) Anthony Mortimer (Translated by) Series:
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14 Mar 2012
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w128mm 217g ISBN13: 9781847492944 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-294-4 ISBN10: 1847492940 EAN: 9781847492944 This Product Replaces: 9781847491404 x Description: Dante's best friend and a major exponent of the dolce stil novo, Guido Cavalcanti has had a lasting influence upon Italian poetry and is best known to English readers through the essays, translations and adaptations of Ezra Pound. Born from the cultural ferment of thirteenth- century Florence, Cavalcanti's poetry is an extraordinary blend of unorthodox philosophy, sharp psychological insight and dazzling formal mastery. Anthony Mortimer, acclaimed for his versions of Petrarch and Michelangelo, provides a new verse translation complete with notes, critical comment and biographical material: following in the footsteps of Rossetti and Pound, he presents a Cavalcanti who speaks for his own time and to ours. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Death on Credit Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Author) Ralph Manheim (Translated by) Series:
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26 Jan 2017
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 580pp h198mm x w128mm 414g ISBN13: 9781847496348 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-634-8 ISBN10: 1847496342 EAN: 9781847496348 x Description: When Celine's first novel, Journey to the End of the Night was first published in 1932, it created an instant scandal, being extravagantly praised by its supporters and savagely attacked by its horrified opponents. Four years later came the sequel, Death on Credit. Both were a new kind of novel, frank about the author's thoughts and actions in ways that readers had never encountered, ultra-realistic - and full of incidents that could not possibly be true to life - and characters that stretched the imagination. In Death on Credit, Ferdinand Bardamu, Celine's alter ego, is a doctor in Paris, treating the poor who seldom pay him but who take every advantage of his availability. The action is not continuous but goes back in time to earlier memories and often moves into fantasy, especially in Bardamu's sexual escapades; the style becomes deliberately rougher and sentences disintegrate to catch the flavour of the teeming world of everyday Parisian tragedies, the struggle to make a living, illness, venereal disease, the sordid stories of families whose destiny is governed by their own stupidity, malice, lust and greed. This fascinating book by one of the greatest twentieth-century novelists is an unforgettable experience for the reader. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Guignol's Band Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Author) Series:
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29 Mar 2012
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w128mm 242g ISBN13: 9781847491992 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-199-2 ISBN10: 1847491995 EAN: 9781847491992 x Description: Celine's third novel, first published in 1944 but dealing with events taking place during the First World War, Guignol's Band follows the narrator's meanderings through London after he has been demobilized due to a war injury. The result is a frank, uncompromising, yet grotesquely funny portrayal of the English capital's seedy underworld, peopled by prostitutes, pimps and schemers. Often considered to be Celine's funniest work, Guignol's Band showcases its author's idiosyncratic style at its finest, frantically blending slang, invective, onomatopoeia with literary language, and bridging the gap between gritty realism and absurd mysticism. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Author) Ralph Manheim (Translated by) Series:
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29 Sep 2012
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 432pp h198mm x w128mm 351g ISBN13: 9781847492401 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-240-1 ISBN10: 1847492401 EAN: 9781847492401 This Product Replaces: 9781847491183 x Description: First published in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in French literature. Told in the first person by Celine's fictional alter ego Bardamu, the novel is loosely based on the author's own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa, in the USA and, later, as a young doctor in a working-class suburb in Paris. Celine's disgust with human folly, malice, greed and the chaotic state in which man has left society lies behind the bitterness that distinguishes his idiosyncratic, colloquial and visionary writing and gives it its force. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
London Bridge Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Author) Dominic Di Bernardi (Translated by) Series:
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22 Nov 2012
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Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 400pp h200mm x w121mm x s30mm ISBN13: 9781847492449 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-244-9 ISBN10: 1847492444 x Description: A major work by one of France's most important authors of the twentieth century, London Bridge is a riotous novel about the London underworld during the First World War.
Picking up where its predecessor Guignol's Band left off, Celine's narrator recounts his disastrous partnership with an eccentric Frenchman intent on financing a trip to Tibet by winning a gas-mask competition; his uneasy relationship with London's pimps and whores and their common nemesis, Inspector Matthew of Scotland Yard; and, most scandalous of all, his affair with a colonel's daughter. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes (Author) Tom Lathrop (Translated by) Series:
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18 Sep 2014
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Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 992pp illustrations ISBN13: 9781847493774 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-377-4 ISBN10: 1847493777 This Product Replaces: 9781847491466 x Description: When an ageing, impoverished nobleman decides to style himself "Don Quixote" and embarks upon a series of daring endeavours, it is clear that his ability to distinguish between reality and the fantasy world of literary romance has broken down. His exploits turn into comic misadventures, in which everyday objects are transformed into the accoutrements of chivalry, peasant girls become princesses and windmills are mistaken for formidable giants, leading the hero and his squire Sancho Panza into the realms of absurdity and humiliation. Renowned for its comical set pieces, Don Quixote is a profound meditation on the relationship between truth and fiction and the morality of deception, as well as the foundation stone of the modern novel. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Peter Schlemihl Adelbert von Chamisso (Author) Leopold von Loewenstein -Wertheim (Translated by) Series:
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15 Feb 2015
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 120pp h198mm x w128mm 151g ISBN13: 9781847494504 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-450-4 ISBN10: 1847494501 EAN: 9781847494504 This Product Replaces: 9781847490803 x Description: Unsuccessful in his ambitions, the young and naive Peter Schlemihl seals a pact with the Devil in which he exchanges his shadow for the purse of Fortunatus, thereby gaining everlasting riches. But when he is ridiculed, persecuted and hated for being different from other men, he realizes that poverty is easier to bear than the loss of his peace of mind. Originally written as a cautionary tale for the children of Chamisso's patron, "Peter Schlemihl" was hailed by contemporaries as a masterpiece with a wide adult appeal, and continues to capture imaginations today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Atala - Rene Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand (Author) Rayner Heppenstall (Translated by) Series:
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15 Mar 2012
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 119pp h198mm x w128mm 153g ISBN13: 9781847492609 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-260-9 ISBN10: 1847492606 EAN: 9781847492609 This Product Replaces: 9781847491541 x Description: `Atala', published in 1801, tells the tragic tale of the eponymous heroine, the mixed-race Christian daughter of a Native American chief, who saves the captured Chactas and tragically falls in love with him. `Rene', published the following year, is the seminal portrait of the sensitive and world-weary young Romantic hero who attempts to flee civilization and pursue a life in the wilderness of Louisiana. Referred to by their author as his passionate twins and intended to provide an illustration of the original, primitive virtues of Christianity, the two novellas were hugely successful in their time, thanks to their vivid depictions of exotic locations and their attunement to the emotional sensitivities of the age. They also helped shape European Romantic archetypes which would bear resonance throughout the nineteenth century and profoundly mark its literature and art. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Death of a Civil Servant Anton Chekhov (Author) Series:
Quirky Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
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14 Dec 2016
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h150mm x w110mm 98g ISBN13: 9781847496867 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-686-7 ISBN10: 1847496865 EAN: 9781847496867 This Product Replaces: 9781847492043 x Description: In `The Death of a Civil Servant', an administrative clerk accidentally sneezes on a hierarchical superior at the opera, which results in great embarrassment and hilarious and futile attempts at atonement. The other short stories included in this volume, `A Calculated Marriage', `The Culprit', `The Exclamation Mark', `The Speech-Maker', `Who Is to Blame?' and `A Defenceless Creature' are in the same absurdly comical vein. This short collection shows Chekhov in an amusing, playful light, poking fun at the greed, sycophancy and ignorance of his characters, with the moral detachment that also characterizes his major, serious works. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In the Twilight Anton Chekhov (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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15 Oct 2014
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 218g ISBN13: 9781847493835 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-383-5 ISBN10: 1847493831 EAN: 9781847493835 x Description: In the Twilight, the third collection of short stories compiled by Anton Chekhov himself, was his first major success and won him the prestigious Pushkin Prize when it was published in 1888. This volume represents a clear milestone in the writer's passage from the youthful Antosha Chekhonte, author of slight comic sketches, to the mature master of the short-story genre. This edition presents the sixteen tales of the original collection - ranging from well-known and acknowledged gems such as `Agafya' and `On the Road' to others which will be fresh even to many seasoned readers of Chekhov - in a brand-new translation by Hugh Aplin, providing an invaluable glimpse into a pivotal moment in the writer's literary career. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Plays: The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, The Seagull and Uncle Vanya Anton Chekhov (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Series:
Evergreens
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Alma Books Ltd
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26 Oct 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847496683 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-668-3 ISBN10: 1847496687 x Description: The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and world theatre, with plays that were remarkable not just for their dialogue but their atmosphere and the tensions expressed between the lines. Collected in this volume are Chekhov's four most celebrated plays - The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard - in a brand-new translation by Hugh Aplin. In these personal stories of unfulfilled love, failed ambition and existential ennui, set against a background of unsettling social and economical change, the reader can appreciate the groundbreaking qualities of Chekhov's theatrical genius. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sakhalin Island Anton Chekhov (Author) Brian Reeve (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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17 Jan 2013
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 528pp h198mm x w128mm 425g ISBN13: 9781847492913 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-291-3 ISBN10: 1847492916 EAN: 9781847492913 This Product Replaces: 9781847492074 x Description: In 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on the island of Sakhalin. Now collected here in one volume are the fully annotated translations of his impressions of his trip through Siberia and the account of his three-month sojourn on Sakhalin Island, together with his notes and extracts from his letters to relatives and associates. Highly valuable both as a detailed depiction of the Tsarist system of penal servitude and as an insight into Chekhov's motivations and objectives for visiting the colony and writing the expose, Sakhalin Island is a haunting work which had a huge impact both on Chekhov's career and on Russian society. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Kiss and Other Stories Anton Chekhov (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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25 Jun 2016
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w128mm 240g ISBN13: 9781847494191 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-419-1 ISBN10: 1847494196 EAN: 9781847494191 x Description: While at a party organized by the local landowner for the officers of his brigade, the shy and awkward Ryabovich is suddenly kissed by an unknown woman in a dark room. This unexpected, electrifying encounter, which he relives in his mind day after day, marks a turning point for Ryabovich, showing him that everything in life - joy, sorrow, hope - is equally pointless and subject to chance. One of Chekhov's most admired stories, `The Kiss' is joined in this volume by six other celebrated tales in a brand-new translation by Hugh Aplin: `The Lady with the Little Dog', `Ward Six', `The Black Monk', `The House with a Mezzanine', `The Bishop' and `Peasants' - making this an indispensable collection for those wanting to discover Chekhov at his creative best. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Story of a Nobody Anton Chekhov (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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19 Jul 2012
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w128mm 146g ISBN13: 9781846882784 ISBN13: 978-1-84688-278-4 ISBN10: 1846882788 EAN: 9781846882784 This Product Replaces: 9781847492784 x Description: A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official's son, with a view to spying on the father and, ultimately, assassinating him. But the young man entrusted with the task - an ailing, world-weary "nobody" - seized with the purposelessness of life and a sense of his own impending death, gradually becomes disillusioned with his mission, and decides to embark on a new path which will lead him to tragedy. Combining psychological detail with a strong sense of place and time, The Story of a Nobody bears all the hallmarks of Chekhov's genius, and perfectly captures the political and social tensions of its day. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Woman in the Case and Other Stories Anton Chekhov (Author) April Fitzlyon (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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01 Feb 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm 247g b/w ISBN13: 9781847494757 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-475-7 ISBN10: 1847494757 EAN: 9781847494757 This Product Replaces: 9781847490810 x Description: This collection of lesser-known early short fiction - ranging from absurd humorous sketches to psychological dramas and tragic tales demonstrates Anton Chekhov's mastery of the genre, with stories about marital infidelity, betrayal, deception and love in its various forms. Although varying in tone and purpose, what these tales have in common is a profound and subtle understanding of the human condition, in its farcical and melancholy aspects, couched in Chekhov's trademark minimalist style. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Dream Woman Wilkie Collins (Author) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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15 Mar 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 144pp h198mm x w128mm 146g ISBN13: 9781847494061 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-406-1 ISBN10: 1847494064 EAN: 9781847494061 x
Description: When Francis Raven is roused from his sleep on the eve of his birthday and confronted by the sight of a woman trying to stab him, he is unsure whether she is real or an apparition. Years later, against the wishes of his mother, he marries Alicia, a woman with a strange resemblance to the mysterious visitor, who ends up attacking him on his birthday, before vanishing from his life. Is Francis's wife a ghost, a demon or a living human being? And will the prophecy of the night-time visitation be fulfilled one day? Originally published in Household Words in 1855 as `The Ostler', but recast and expanded two decades later, The Dream Woman is a powerfully dark and suspenseful multi-narrative novella from the master of the mystery genre and the author of some of the most enduringly popular novels of the Victorian era. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins (Author) Series:
Evergreens
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Alma Books Ltd
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15 Jun 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 512pp h198mm x w128mm 419g ISBN13: 9781847494221 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-422-1 ISBN10: 1847494226 EAN: 9781847494221 This Product Replaces: 9781847490094 x Description: 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-voiced narrative that sustains the tension all the way to its stunning ending. Described by T.S. Eliot as the first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novels, Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone is an important precursor of the modern mystery and suspense genres. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins (Author) Series:
Evergreens
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Alma Books Ltd
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01 Jan 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 640pp h198mm x w128mm 509g ISBN13: 9781847495716 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-571-6 ISBN10: 1847495710 EAN: 9781847495716 This Product Replaces: 9781847491244 x Description: "She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steeled his heart against her." In love with the beautiful heiress Laura Fairlie, the impoverished art teacher Walter Hartright finds his romantic desires thwarted by her previous engagement to Sir Percival Glyde. But all is not as it seems with Sir Percival, as becomes clear when he arrives with his eccentric friend Count Fosco. The mystery and intrigue are further deepened by the ghostly appearances of a woman in white, apparently harbouring a secret that concerns Sir Percival's past. A tale of love, madness, deceit and redemption, boasting sublime Gothic settings and pulse-quickening suspense, The Woman in White was the first best-selling Victorian sensation novel, sparking off a huge trend in the fiction of the time with its compulsive, fascinating narrative. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tales of Adventures and Medical Life Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) Series:
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15 Oct 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 250g ISBN13: 9781847494207 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-420-7 ISBN10: 184749420X EAN: 9781847494207 x Description: Tales of Adventure and Medical Life, one of the collections Arthur Conan Doyle published at the end of his career, anthologizes some of his best short fiction outside of the Sherlock Holmes canon. As well as various tales of escapades in Egypt, London and the far-flung regions of northern Scotland, he included stories which deal with a subject that, as a physician himself, he had a unique perspective on: the medical profession. London surgeons and country doctors, male and female, are described as they deal with business and sentimental issues and encounter incredible situations - both comic and tragic. Conan Doyle displays his dazzling storytelling talents while providing a fascinating glimpse into his profession and times. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tales of Long Ago Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) Series:
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15 Apr 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp ISBN13: 9781847494108 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-410-8 ISBN10: 1847494102 x Description: Although he is best-known to the public as the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories and other pioneering works of detective fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle successfully contributed to other genres, such as historical fiction, as demonstrated by this collection which he compiled in 1922. These vivid and enthralling stories - many of them dealing with ancient Romans, with others featuring Tyrians, Carthaginians, Huns or Scottish clansmen - showcase the author's knack for bringing to life diverse times and places and crafting timeless narratives. Tales of Long Ago is an entertaining and invaluable read for all those interested in this lesser-known facet of Conan Doyle's writing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tales of Terror and Mystery Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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15 Oct 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm 247g ISBN13: 9781847493842 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-384-2 ISBN10: 184749384X EAN: 9781847493842 x Description: While he is now mostly associated with his Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle was also celebrated for the many masterful tales he wrote outside of that cycle. In this collection, first published in 1922, he compiled various pieces of short fiction which fall into the categories of horror and detective fiction, two genres for which he has become a byword. These eclectic, captivating tales - dealing with topics such as mysterious jungles in the sky, seventeenth-century torture techniques, a bloodthirsty Brazilian cat and a train mysteriously disappearing between two stations - showcase Arthur Conan Doyle at his creative best.
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Tales of Twilight and the Unseen Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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21 Nov 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp ISBN13: 9781847493309 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-330-9 ISBN10: 1847493300 x Description: A master of many literary genres, Arthur Conan Doyle excelled particularly in the short-story form, and was acclaimed in his day as much for his detective stories as for his thrilling tales of mystery and the supernatural. While the adventures of Sherlock Holmes have become part of our collective imagination, these stories - concerned with ghosts, obscure scientific experiments and other unexplained phenomena - are now unjustly neglected. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lost World Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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27 Jul 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w128mm 244g ISBN13: 9781847496508 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-650-8 ISBN10: 1847496504 EAN: 9781847496508 x Description: When the reporter Edward Malone is sent to interview the formidable Professor Challenger about his accounts of strange prehistoric beasts on a remote plateau in South America, he expects to be given short shrift by the researcher, notorious for man handling nosy enquirers. But Challenger, impressed by the young journalist's thirst for adventure, invites Malone along on his next expedition, plunging him into a mysterious and dangerous world populated by dinosaurs and murderous ape men. Having already written seminal works of detective fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle became a pioneer of early science fiction with The Lost World. This classic novel helped establish the genre and has inspired, since its first publication in 1912, countless stories, novels and films. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Tragedy of the Korosko Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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15 Jan 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w128mm 154g ISBN13: 9781847494351 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-435-1 ISBN10: 1847494358 EAN: 9781847494351 x Description: As a group of Western tourists travel down the Nile on the steamer Korosko towards the historical sites near Egypt's southern border, they are kidnapped by a marauding band of dervishes who demand their conversion to Islam. Cut off from the world, deprived of the comforts of civilized society and shaken in their beliefs, they will have to overcome the most arduous obstacles to regain their freedom and safety. Written towards the end of the Victorian era and permeated with a sense of fear and uncertainty, The Tragedy of the Korosko calls into question the moral authority of Europe's presence in the Arab peninsula and the cultural supremacy of British colonialism, all the while demonstrating Conan Doyle's unparalleled ability as a storyteller.
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Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad (Author) Series:
Evergreens
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Alma Books Ltd
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15 Jan 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w128mm 144g ISBN13: 9781847494016 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-401-6 ISBN10: 1847494013 EAN: 9781847494016 This Product Replaces: 9781847490896 x Description: On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most remote outpost in central Africa, which brought him on the trail of the elusive Kurtz, a brilliant idealist gone rogue. His account relates not only the perils he encounters on his quest, but also the deterioration of his state of mind as he is confronted with a world that is hostile and alien to him. Renowned for its stylistic boldness and dramatic descriptions, Heart of Darkness is a stark yet subtle examination of the powers of the subconscious and the workings of western imperialism. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Red Notebook Benjamin Constant (Author) Douglas Parmee (Translated by) Series:
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13 Mar 2012
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Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 96pp h198mm x w128mm 110g ISBN13: 9781847492760 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-276-0 ISBN10: 1847492762 EAN: 9781847492760 This Product Replaces: 9781847491640 x Description: Published posthumously, The Red Notebook is an account of the youth of the author of the seminal Romantic novel Adolphe, relating Constant's eccentric and peripatetic education, his introduction to European high society and the kindling of his literary ambitions - as well as his often comic and calamitous early experiences with the opposite sex and the development of his ruinous gambling habit. Part picaresque romp and part Bildungsroman, this is a spirited look at life and Romantic sensibilities on the eve of the nineteenth century and a fine example of early autobiographical writing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Four Plays Copi (Author) Anni Lee Taylor (Translated by) Series:
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01 Jan 2012
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Language: English Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h198mm x w128mm 150g ISBN13: 9781847492302 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-230-2 ISBN10: 1847492304 EAN: 9781847492302
x Description: This collection brings together four of Copi's best-known works for stage: Eva Peron, The Homosexual, The Four Twins and Loretta Strong. Set on the borderline of reality and delirium, and featuring such charismatic icons as Eva Peron and Greta Garbo, they are imbued with Copi's trademark racy wit and manic pace, intended at once to shock the bien-pensant and to open up radically new insights. The product of one of the most talked-about dramatists in the French language since Arrabal and the advent of the theatre of panic, Copi's works continue to shock and challenge all they come into contact with. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Constantinople Edmondo De Amicis (Author) Stephen Parkin (Translated by) Series:
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01 Jun 2012
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h198mm x w128mm 260g ISBN13: 9781847492661 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-266-1 ISBN10: 1847492665 EAN: 9781847492661 This Product Replaces: 9781847491589 x Description: A remarkable nineteenth-century account of Istanbul - which begins with a dazzling description of the city gradually appearing through the fog as the author's ship approaches the harbour - Constantinople expertly combines personal anecdote, breathtaking visual observation and entertaining historical information. An invaluable record of the metropolis as it used to be - a fascinating crossroads between Eastern and Western civilization and one of the most cosmopolitan cities of its time - as well as a vivid example of a European tourist's reaction to it - part delight, part incomprehension - this book will provide an enriching read for lovers of history or those planning to visit Istanbul themselves. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Memories of London Edmondo De Amicis (Author) Stephen Parkin (Translated by) Series:
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15 Apr 2014
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 160pp h204mm x w130mm 302g ISBN13: 9781847493262 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-326-2 ISBN10: 1847493262 EAN: 9781847493262 x Description: As a first-time visitor to London, De Amicis was awestruck by the bustle and magnificence of the Victorian metropolis and wrote a number of sketches in his trademark witty, observational style, which made him one of the best-selling travel writers of his age. Originally conceived as a series of newspaper articles and later published in volume form, De Amici's 'Memories of London' brings back to life all the bygone charm of the capital of the British Empire. De Amici's impressions are paired here with a piece written by one of his contemporaries, the French writer Louis Laurent Simonin, which leaves the city's opulence and granduer behind and offers an uncompromising look at the poverty and squalor of its most deprived areas. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder James De Mille (Author) Series:
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15 Jul 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 208pp h198mm x w128mm 202g ISBN13: 9781847494344 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-434-4 ISBN10: 184749434X EAN: 9781847494344 This Product Replaces: 9781847491312 x Description: Four sailors discover a copper cylinder containing a manuscript written by the adventurer Adam More, who was shipwrecked in the southern hemisphere. They read its contents out to one another, and the incredible story unfolds of his journey to a lost world which survives at the foot of a volcano. This strange utopian society, in which humans coexist with prehistoric animals, is the antithesis of Victorian England, as poverty is preferred to wealth and darkness to light. At once a timeless satire and a pioneering work of science fiction, A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder will enthral readers of today and revive James De Mille's reputation as a writer ahead of his time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts Thomas De Quincey (Author) Series:
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14 Dec 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h150mm x w110mm 93g ISBN13: 9781847496850 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-685-0 ISBN10: 1847496857 EAN: 9781847496850 This Product Replaces: 9781847491336 x Description: In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey's innovative, idio-syncratic artistic vision found space for gruesome reportage, satire, aesthetic and literary criticism, in a work strewn with examples ranging from antiquity to his own time, including the urban serial-killer John Williams. De Quincey's seminal 1827 work was greatly influential on such writers as Poe, Baudelaire and Borges, and the trace of its impact can still be found today in modern satire, black humour and crime and detective fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens (Author) Series:
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22 Sep 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 112pp h198mm x w128mm 377g ISBN13: 9781847496171 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-617-1 ISBN10: 1847496172 EAN: 9781847496171 x Description: Ebenezer Scrooge is a lonely, miserly old man who hates Christmas, which he dismisses as "humbug". One Christmas Eve, however, he is visited by a series of ghosts who reveal to him the innocence he has lost, the wretchedness of his future and the poverty of the present, which he has so far ignored. This experience teaches Scrooge the true meaning of the holiday and leaves him a transformed man. With its memorable cast of characters such as Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol is the most heart-warming of seasonal tales, a timeless classic that continues to enchant readers around the world and a
lesson in charity and hopefulness that is as powerful today as when it was first written in 1843. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens (Author) Series:
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27 Jul 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 448pp h198mm x w128mm 372g ISBN13: 9781847496607 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-660-7 ISBN10: 1847496601 EAN: 9781847496607 x Description: Against the backdrop of growing discontent in Paris, Doctor Manette is released from the Bastille after eighteen years of unjust imprisonment and begins a new life in England with his devoted daughter Lucie. There, the gifted but dissolute lawyer Sydney Carton and the exiled French nobleman Charles Darnay find their lives increasingly intertwined with those of the Manettes. Yet soon both men are drawn ineluctably from the peaceful English capital to the horror and bloodshed of the Paris Terror and the looming threat of the guillotine. Representing a departure from the social satire of most of his other novels and deemed by Dickens himself to be "the best story I have written", A Tale of Two Cities is a powerful historical novel about the repercussions of epochal events on the personal lives of people on both sides of the Channel. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
George Silverman's Explanation Charles Dickens (Author) Series:
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15 Feb 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 144pp h198mm x w128mm 159g ISBN13: 9781847494023 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-402-3 ISBN10: 1847494021 EAN: 9781847494023 x Description: After a traumatic early childhood spent living in poverty in a Preston cellar, the suddenly orphaned George Silverman grows up convinced that he is at fault for all the misfortunes in his life. Hoodwinked by hypocritical clergymen and exploited by his employer, he finds himself forsaking love and facing professional ruin. One of Dickens's very last writings, `George Silverman's Explanation' is a dark and psychologically insightful investigation of failure and guilt. This volume also includes two other lesser-known pieces of fiction by Dickens: the novella for children `Holiday Romance' and the detective story `Hunted Down'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Great Expectations Charles Dickens (Author) Series:
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15 Oct 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w128mm 388g ISBN13: 9781847493811 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-381-1 ISBN10: 1847493815 EAN: 9781847493811 This Product Replaces: 9781847490049 x Description: One of Dickens's finest novels, Great Expectations chronicles the fortunes of its young protagonist Pip as he is unexpectedly endowed by a mysterious benefactor with the life of a gentleman, enabling him to escape to London from the prospect of a humble blacksmith's career in rural Kent.
In the bustling, unforgiving capital he must learn for himself the pitfalls of love and wealth, and how to sort his friends from his enemies. Through the lives of its unforgettable and iconic characters - such as Magwitch, Miss Havisham and Estella - Great Expectations charts the course of an England undergoing rapid social and economic change, and tells a tale that is among the foremost classics of the English language. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hard Times Charles Dickens (Author) Series:
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15 Aug 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h198mm x w128mm 276g ISBN13: 9781847494887 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-488-7 ISBN10: 1847494889 EAN: 9781847494887 This Product Replaces: 9781847491411 x Description: In Hard Times, Dickens illustrates the condition of England through the fictional city of Coketown. Among its inhabitants are Thomas Gradgrind, the utilitarian headmaster who attempts to impose his rigid worldview on his family circle, and the uncaring businessman Mr Bounderby. Their materialist philosophies, as opposed to the world of fancy or imagination, are tested throughout the novel, which also explores workers' conditions, trade unions and the spurious use of statistics. Perhaps the most polemical of his novels - in which hard-biting satire, moving drama and exuberant comedy find a very succinct and powerful expression - Hard Times is the ideal introduction to the world of Dickens. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens (Author) Series:
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18 Sep 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 448pp h200mm x w128mm x s33mm 426g illustrations ISBN13: 9781847493767 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-376-7 ISBN10: 1847493769 This Product Replaces: 9781847491978 x Description: 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 and the brutal Bill Sikes, Oliver Twist combines dark humour, elements of melodrama and social polemic. At once a ferocious indictment of the author's era and a timeless story of coming of age, this classic has enthralled readers and inspired countless adaptations and imitations since it was first published in 1838. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Poems Charles Dickens (Author) Series:
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01 Feb 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 144pp h198mm x w128mm 164g ISBN13: 9781847496904 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-690-4 ISBN10: 1847496903 EAN: 9781847496904 This Product Replaces: 9781847493026 x
Description: While Charles Dickens is best known and celebrated for his prolific journalistic output and novelistic creations, he also devoted some of his creative energies to verse. At turns sentimental, melancholy, playful, humorous and satirical, and ranging considerably in tone and format - from songs to narrative prologues for novels and squibs for newspapers - the poems in this collection highlight Dickens's gift for language and his unfailing power to touch. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sketches of Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen and Young Couples Charles Dickens (Author) Series:
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15 Jul 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w128mm 217g ISBN13: 9781847494917 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-491-7 ISBN10: 1847494919 EAN: 9781847494917 x Description: When the publishers of the Pickwick Papers, Chapman & Hall, brought out the anonymous `Sketches of Young Ladies' in 1837, their resounding success prompted the twenty-six-year old Dickens to write, the following year, a companion piece, the `Sketches of Young Gentlemen', followed two years later - to coincide with the engagement of Princess Victoria and Prince Albert - by the `Sketches of Young Couples'. First published in a single volume in 1843, and including the iconic original engravings by Phiz, these satirical portraits not only reveal the dazzling brilliance of young Dickens's genius, but also offer a humorous glimpse into Victorian mores and attitudes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Supernatural Short Stories Charles Dickens (Author) Series:
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25 Oct 2012
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w128mm 186g ISBN13: 9781847492272 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-227-2 ISBN10: 1847492274 EAN: 9781847492272 This Product Replaces: 9780714543338 x Description: 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 provides an invaluable insight into the author's storytelling apprenticeship and his steady growth towards excellence. As well as offering a further dimension to the world of his better-known masterpieces, these tales - from `The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton' to the celebrated `The Signalman' - illustrate Dickens's well-known love of a spooky story told around a blazing fire, the pastime of a bygone age to be rediscovered for our own delight. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Haunted House Charles Dickens (Author) Series:
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15 Sep 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w128mm 160g ISBN13: 9781847494337 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-433-7 ISBN10: 1847494331 EAN: 9781847494337 This Product Replaces: 9781847491015 x
Description: Having moved into an abandoned haunted house, the narrator, undaunted by the warnings of the locals, invites a party of friends over; on Twelfth Night he and his guests gather together, and relate the supernatural experiences they have had. The resulting ghost stories thrill, shock and amuse by turns. For this work, commissioned for his periodical All the Year Round, Dickens enlisted some of the era's most famous writers, including Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, to collaborate with him on this Victorian supernatural classic. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Life of Our Lord Charles Dickens (Author) Series:
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14 Dec 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 96pp h150mm x w110mm 76g ISBN13: 9781847496843 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-684-3 ISBN10: 1847496849 EAN: 9781847496843 This Product Replaces: 9781847491664 x Description: Never published in its author's lifetime and intended solely for his own children, to whom he read it every Christmas, The Life of Our Lord is an accessible and gently humorous take on the life of Jesus Christ and his teachings. Far removed from the sharp satire and social dimension of his more famous writings, but showcasing his characteristic humanity and genius for storytelling, this is both an essential work for those wanting to see a different, more intimate side to Dickens and a timeless retelling for children and adults alike. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Mudfog Papers Charles Dickens (Author) Series:
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13 Mar 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w128mm 184g ISBN13: 9781847493484 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-348-4 ISBN10: 1847493483 EAN: 9781847493484 x Description: The Mudfog Papers, a collection of sketches by Dickens published in Bentley's Miscellany between 1837 and 1838, describes the local politics of the fictional town of Mudfog - such as the delusions of grandeur of its mayor Nicholas Tulrumble and his disastrous attempts at putting on a public show - and the meetings of its Society for the Advancement of Everything, during which the town is overrun by illustrious scientists and professors conducting ostensibly pointless research. Written at the same time as Oliver Twist - indeed the serialized version of the novel referred to Mudfog as the protagonist's home town - The Mudfog Papers lampoons all manner of journalistic and scientific writing of the time and showcases the young Dickens at his satirical best. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Devils Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author) Roger Cockrell (Translated by) Series:
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01 Jul 2017
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 768pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847496416 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-641-6 ISBN10: 1847496415 x Description: As ideological ferment grips Russia, a small group of revolutionaries, led by Pyotr Verkhovensky and inspired by Nikolai Stavrogin, plan to spread destruction and anarchy throughout the country. Morally bankrupt, they are prepared to use whatever means necessary to achieve their goal, including murder and incitement to suicide. But when they are forced to test the limits of their doctrine and kill one of their own to secure the secrecy of their mission, the ragtag group breaks up in mutual recrimination.Devils is at once a compelling political statement and a study of atheism and its calamitous effect on a country that is teetering on the edge of an abyss. Seen as Dostoevsky's most powerful indictment of man's propensity to violence, this darkly humorous work, shot through with grotesque comedy, is presented here in Roger Cockrell's masterful new translation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Humiliated and Insulted: From the Notes of an Unsuccessful Author Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author) Ignat Avsey (Translated by) Series:
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26 Jul 2012
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 416pp h198mm x w128mm 342g ISBN13: 9781847492692 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-269-2 ISBN10: 184749269X EAN: 9781847492692 This Product Replaces: 9781847490452 x Description: First published in 1861, Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, unrequited love and irreconcilable relationships. At the centre of the story are a young struggling author, an orphaned teenager and a depraved aristocrat, who not only foreshadows the great figures of evil in Dostoevsky's later fiction, but is a powerful and original presence in his own right. This new translation catches the verve and tumult of the original, which - in concept and execution - affords a refreshingly unfamiliar glimpse of the author. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Notes from Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author) Kyril Zinovieff (Translated by) Jenny Hughes (Translated by) Series:
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21 Aug 2014
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w128mm 160g ISBN13: 9781847493743 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-374-3 ISBN10: 1847493742 EAN: 9781847493743 This Product Replaces: 9781847491619
x Description: The unnamed narrator of the novel, a former government official, has decided to retire from the world and lead a life of inactivity and contemplation. His fiercely bitter, cynical and witty monologue ranges from general observations and philosophical musings to memorable scenes from his own life, including his obsessive plans to exact revenge on an officer who has shown him disrespect and a dramatic encounter with a prostitute. Seen by many as the first existentialist novel and showcasing the best of Dostoevsky's dry humour, Notes from Underground was a pivotal moment in the development of modern literature and has inspired countless novelists, thinkers and film-makers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Poor People Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Series:
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20 Nov 2012
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm 215g ISBN13: 9781847493125 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-312-5 ISBN10: 1847493122 EAN: 9781847493125 x Description: Presented as a series of letters between the humble copying clerk Devushkin and a distant relative of his, the young Varenka, Poor People brings to the fore the underclass of St Petersburg, who live at the margins of society in the most appalling conditions and abject poverty. As Devushkin tries to help Varenka improve her plight by selling anything he can, he is reduced to even more desperate circumstances and seeks refuge in alcohol, looking on helplessly as the object of his impossible love is taken away from him. Introducing the first in a long line of underground characters, Poor People, Dostoevsky's first full-length work of fiction, is a poignant, tragi-comic tale which foreshadows the greatness of his later novels. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Adolescent Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author) Dora O'Brien (Translated by) Series:
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25 Jun 2016
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 528pp h198mm x w128mm 546g ISBN13: 9781847494993 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-499-3 ISBN10: 1847494994 EAN: 9781847494993 x Description: Among Dostoevsky's later novels, The Adolescent occupies a very special place: published three years after The Devils and five years before his final masterpiece, The Karamazov Brothers, the novel charts the story of nineteen-year-old Arkady - the illegitimate son of the landowner Versilov and the maid Sofia Andreyevna - as he struggles to find his place in society and "become a Rothschild" against the background of 1870s Russia, a nation still tethered to its old systems and values but shaken up by the new ideological currents of socialism and nihilism. Both a Bildungsroman and a novel of ideas, dealing with themes such as the relationship between fathers and sons and the role of money in modern society, The Adolescent - here presented in a brand-new translation by Dora O'Brien - shows Dostoevsky at his finest as a social commentator and observer of the workings of a young man's mind. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Crocodile Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author) Series:
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15 Dec 2016
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h150mm x w110mm 98g ISBN13: 9781847496812 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-681-2 ISBN10: 1847496814 EAN: 9781847496812 This Product Replaces: 9781847492036 x Description: The civil servant Ivan Matveich and his wife Yelena 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 crocodile and excessive desire for compensation, the civil servant gradually comes to appreciate his new environment, while his wife begins to enjoy her new-found freedom. Inspired by Gogol's surreal tales, Dostoevsky's hilarious story has been interpreted by some as a vitriolic piece of social criticism and a veiled attack on the revolutionary philosopher Nikolai Chernyshevsky. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Double Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Series:
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25 Aug 2016
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w128mm 189g ISBN13: 9781847496034 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-603-4 ISBN10: 1847496032 EAN: 9781847496034 x Description: Constantly rebuffed from the social circles he aspires to frequent, the timid clerk Golyadkin is confronted by the sudden appearance of his double, a more brazen, confident and socially successful version of himself, who abuses and victimizes the original. As he is increasingly persecuted, Golyadkin finds his social, romantic and professional life unravelling, in a spiral that leads to a catastrophic denouement. The Double, Dostoevsky's second published work of fiction, which foreshadows in its themes many of his mature novels, is the surreal and hallucinatory tale of an unfortunate anti-hero, at once chilling in its depiction of the dark sides of human nature and exuberantly comical. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Gambler Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Series:
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15 Oct 2014
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm 255g ISBN13: 9781847493828 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-382-8 ISBN10: 1847493823 EAN: 9781847493828 This Product Replaces: 9781847492067 x Description: Inspired by Dostoevsky's own gambling addiction and written under pressure in order to pay off his creditors and retain his rights to his literary legacy, The Gambler is set in the casino of the fictional German spa town of Roulettenburg and follows the misfortunes of the young tutor Alexei Ivanovich. As he succumbs to the temptations of the roulette table, he finds himself engaged in a battle of wills with Polina, the woman he unrequitedly loves. With an unforgettable cast of fellow gamblers and figures from European high society, this darkly comic novel of greed and self-destruction reveals Dostoevsky at his satirical and psychological best. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author) Ignat Avsey (Translated by) Series:
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15 Apr 2014
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 704pp h198mm x w128mm 569g ISBN13: 9781847493439 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-343-9 ISBN10: 1847493432 EAN: 9781847493439 x Description: After spending several years in a sanatorium recovering from an illness that caused him to lose his memory and ability to reason, Prince Myshkin arrives in St Petersburg and is at once confronted with the stark realities of life in the Russian capital - from greed, murder and nihilism to passion, vanity and love. Mocked for his childlike naivety yet valued for his openness and understanding, Prince Myshkin finds himself entangled with two women in a position he cannot bring himself to resolve. Dostoevsky, who wrote that in the character of Prince Myshkin he hoped to portray a "wholly virtuous man", shows the workings of the human mind and our relationships with others in all their complex and contradictory nature. Populated by an unforgettable cast of characters, from the beautiful, self-destructive Nastasya Filippovna to the dangerously obsessed Rogozhin and the radical student Ippolit, The Idiot is one of Dostoevsky's most personal and intense works of fiction presented here in a new translation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author) Kyril FitzLyon (Translated by) Series:
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17 Nov 2016
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w128mm 160g ISBN13: 9781847496188 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-618-8 ISBN10: 1847496180 EAN: 9781847496188 x Description: In June 1862, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, he also wished to see firsthand the source of the Western ideas he believed were corrupting Russia. Over the course of his journey he visited a number of major cities, including Berlin, Paris, London, Florence, Milan, and Vienna. His impressions on what he saw, "Winter Notes on Summer Impressions", were first published in the February 1863 issue of Vremya (Time), the periodical he edited. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pushkin Hills Sergei Dovlatov (Author) Katherine Dovlatov (Illustrated by) Series:
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03 Sep 2013
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w128mm 127g ISBN13: 9781847492210 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-221-0 ISBN10: 1847492215 EAN: 9781847492210 x Description: An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov is running out of money and has recently divorced from his wife Tatyana, who intends to emigrate to the West with their daughter Masha. The prospect of a summer job as a tourist guide at the Pushkin Hills preserve offers him hope of bringing back some balance into his existence, but during his stay in the rural estate of Mikhaylovskoye, Alikhanov's life continues to unravel. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Suitcase Sergei Dovlatov (Author) Antonina W. Bouis (Translated by) Series:
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17 Jan 2013
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 144pp h198mm x w128mm 142g ISBN13: 9781847492791 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-279-1 ISBN10: 1847492797 EAN: 9781847492791 This Product Replaces: 9781847491787
x Description: Several years after emigrating from the USSR, the author discovers the battered suitcase he had brought with him gathering dust at the back of a wardrobe. As he opens the suitcase, the items he finds inside take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he acquired them. A poplin shirt evokes a story of courtship and marriage, a pair of boots calls up the hilarious conclusion to an official banquet, two pea-green crepe socks bring back memories of his attempt to become a black-market racketeer, while a double-breasted suit reminds him of when he was approached by the KGB to spy on a Swedish writer. Imbued with a comic nostalgia and overlaid with Dovlatov's characteristically dark-edged humour and wry power of observation, The Suitcase is a profoundly human, delightfully ironic novel from one of the finest satirists of the twentieth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Zone Sergei Dovlatov (Author) Anne Frydman (Translated by) Series:
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24 Oct 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 176pp h198mm x w128mm 185g ISBN13: 9781847493576 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-357-6 ISBN10: 1847493572 EAN: 9781847493576 x Description: Based on Dovlatov's actual experience of being a prison guard in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, and full of comic and humane detail, The Zone depicts the absurd day-to- day life of a camp in an insightful and unusual way, challenging commonly held perceptions of the relations between incarcerators and the incarcerated. A priceless chronicle of its time which highlights universal themes, Dovlatov's genre-defying novel also provides moments of high entertainment and humour, rendered in his characteristically sharp, concise and sardonic style. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Jew's Beech Annette Von Droste-Hulshoff (Author) Series:
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18 Sep 2013
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Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 112pp h198mm x w128mm 116g ISBN13: 9781847493552 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-355-2 ISBN10: 1847493556 EAN: 9781847493552 This Product Replaces: 9781847490742 x Description: Based on a true story, The Jew's Beech centres on two brutal murders in rural Westphalia - 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 local herdsman with a turbulent family history. A prototype of the murder mystery and a thoughtful examination of village society, this intriguing novella contains hints of the Gothic and the uncanny ominous thunderstorms, mysterious disappearances, eerie doppelgangers and grisly discoveries in the depths of the forest - as well as a famously ambiguous climax. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing Joseph von Eichendorff (Author) Ronald Taylor (Translated by) Series:
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15 Feb 2015
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 120pp h198mm x w128mm 150g ISBN13: 9781847494511 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-451-1 ISBN10: 184749451X EAN: 9781847494511 This Product Replaces: 9781847490827 x Description: Eichendorff's prose masterpiece - a picaresque account of the wanderings of a young man who leaves home after a row with his father, and who eventually finds love with the girl of his dreams - is one of the best-known classics of German literature. Deeply imbued with the style and sentiment of German Romanticism, and philosophical and poetic in its approach to nature and existence, "Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing" is at once an exhilarating romp and an exemplary distillation of nineteenth-century thought. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Middlemarch George Eliot (Author) Series:
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26 Jan 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 752pp h198mm x w128mm 593g ISBN13: 9781847496041 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-604-1 ISBN10: 1847496040 EAN: 9781847496041 x Description: The most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832, a time when modern methods were starting to challenge old orthodoxies. Eliot's sophisticated and acute characterization gives rich expression to every nuance of feeling, and vividly brings to life the town's inhabitants - including the young idealist Dorothea Brooke, the dry scholar Casaubon, the young, passionate reformist doctor Lydgate, the flighty young beauty Rosamond and the old, secretive banker Bulstrode - as they move in counterpoint to each other. Art, religion, politics, society, science, human relationships in all their complexity, nothing is left unexamined under the narrator's microscope. One of the greatest novels written in the English language, Middlemarch is a literary landmark in its groundbreaking approach, as well as a priceless document of its age. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Praise of Folly Erasmus (Author) Roger Clarke (Translated by) Series:
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12 Sep 2013
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Language: English Translated From: Latin Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w128mm 260g ISBN13: 9781847493248 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-324-8 ISBN10: 1847493246 EAN: 9781847493248
x Description: The goddess Folly gives a speech, praising herself and explaining how much humanity benefits from her services, from politicians to philosophers, aristocrats, schoolteachers, poets, lawyers, theologians, monarchs and the clergy. At the same time, her discourse provides a satire of Erasmus's world, poking fun at false pedantry and the aberrations of Christianity. Woven throughout her monologue, a thread of irony calls into question the goddess's own words, in which ambiguities, allusions and interpretations collide in a way that makes Praise of Folly enduringly fascinating. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
All The Sad Young Men F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
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28 Mar 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm 225g ISBN13: 9781847493040 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-304-0 ISBN10: 1847493041 EAN: 9781847493040 x Description: Published a year after The Great Gatsby, this short-story collection showcases many of the celebrated novel's themes, as well as its unique writing style. Two of the most famous tales, the beautifully elegiac `The Rich Boy' and `Winter Dreams', deal with wealthy protagonists - the oldmoney Anson Hunter and the self-made man Dexter Green - as they come to terms with lost love, while `Absolution', in which a boy confesses to a priest, was initially written as a background piece to The Great Gatsby. Also containing `The Baby Party', `Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les', `The Adjuster', `Hot and Cold Blood', `The Sensible Thing' and `Gretchen's Forty Winks' - all of which describe in various ways the 1920s society that Fitzgerald himself inhabited - All the Sad Young Men is a masterpiece of twentieth-century American fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories Scott F. Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
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18 Sep 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w128mm 282g ISBN13: 9781847493804 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-380-4 ISBN10: 1847493807 EAN: 9781847493804 x Description: Set in the year after the 1929 crash and incorporating many autobiographical elements, `Babylon Revisited' tells the story of the widower Charlie Wales, a reformed alcoholic and successful businessman returning to Paris to convince his in-laws to give him back the daughter he abandoned. As the old haunts of the city he used to carouse in seem more and more alien to him, he finds himself assailed by feelings of guilt and regret. Considered one of Fitzgerald's finest and most poignant pieces of short fiction, 'Babylon Revisited' is presented here with a selection of other tales published in the same period, such as `Crazy Sunday' - an account of alcoholism and infidelity in Hollywood - which showcase the author at his creative best. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Basil and Josephine F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
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16 Jan 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 267g ISBN13: 9781847493422 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-342-2 ISBN10: 1847493424 EAN: 9781847493422 x Description: Basil and Josephine charts the coming of age of two privileged youths from quiet Midwestern towns, Basil Duke Lee and Josephine Perry - based on Fitzgerald himself and a combination of his first love Ginevra King and his wife Zelda. As one struggles to gain the acceptance of his peers and becomes consumed by ambition, the other finds herself obsessed by teenage crushes and has to confront the pitfalls of popularity. Written for the Saturday Evening Post while the author was working on Tender Is the Night, these stories form a realistic and entertaining portrait of two young adults in the 1910s, fascinating both for the autobiographical insights they provide and the timeless satire that Fitzgerald's fiction has become synonymous with. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Flappers and Philosophers Scott F. Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
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15 Feb 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 244pp h198mm x w128mm 226g ISBN13: 9781847493460 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-346-0 ISBN10: 1847493467 EAN: 9781847493460 x Description: Published soon after Fitzgerald's debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the author's first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in newspapers and magazines. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing: in `Bernice Bobs Her Hair' the fashionable Marjorie attempts to turn her dowdy cousin into a debutante, before betraying her out of jealousy, while `The Ice Palace' features a Southern belle whose engagement to a Northerner finds her confronted with a cultural clash between tradition and modernity. Also containing `The Offshore Pirate', `Head and Shoulders', `The Cut-Glass Bowl', `Benediction', `Dalyrimple Goes Wrong' and `The Four Fists', this volume of stories illustrates the early stages of Fitzgerald's development as a writer and provides an entertaining chronicle of America in the 1910s. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Image on the Heart and Other Stories Scott F. Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Jul 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 224g ISBN13: 9781847495655 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-565-5 ISBN10: 1847495656 EAN: 9781847495655 x Description: When Tudy's first husband tragically dies, she takes up the offer of Tom, a family friend, to pay for her to go to study in France. After she and her benefactor become close, she agrees to marry him in Provence later that year. But as the wedding approaches, Tom discovers that his fiancee has become involved with Riccard, a dashing French pilot and his near-double.
A tale of broken trust and infidelity based on Zelda Fitzgerald's own dalliance with a French pilot, `Image on the Heart' is here presented with other lesser-known stories written by Fitzgerald in the late 1920s and early 1930s, which develop many of the themes found in his novels and his more famous works of short fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tales of the Jazz Age F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
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28 Mar 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 284g ISBN13: 9781847493095 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-309-5 ISBN10: 1847493092 EAN: 9781847493095 x Description: A collection of early short stories which helped make Fitzgerald's name, Tales of the Jazz Age combines period pieces - the most notable of which is the novella-length `May Day' - with more fanciful creations, such as the fantastical `The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', recently made into a Hollywood film. Also containing the now classic story `The Diamond as Big as the Ritz', as well as lesser-known sketches and tales, this diverse selection, compiled by Fitzgerald himself from material published in newspapers and magazines, showcases both the variety of his writing and early examples of the themes and characters which would find their way into his later novels. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
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17 Aug 2012
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w128mm 285g ISBN13: 9781847492593 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-259-3 ISBN10: 1847492592 EAN: 9781847492593 x Description: While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star Rosemary Hoyt. Her arrival causes a stir in their social circle and exposes the cracks in their fragile marriage. As their relationship unravels, glimpses of their troubled past emerge, and a series of disturbing events unfolds. Peopled by an unforgettable cast of aristocrats and high-fliers, Tender Is the Night is at once a scathing critique of the materialism and hypocrisy of the Roaring Twenties and a poignant and sensitive account of personal tragedy and disillusionment. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Beautiful and Damned F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
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17 Aug 2012
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 365pp h198mm x w128mm Illustrations ISBN13: 9781847492128 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-212-8 ISBN10: 1847492126 x Description: The heir to his grandfather's considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations and distractions of the 1920s Jazz Age. His descent into dissolution and profligacy is accelerated by his marriage to the attractive but turbulent Gloria, and the couple soon discover the dangerous flip side of a life of glamour and debauchery. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
Evergreens
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Alma Books Ltd
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20 Oct 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w128mm 216g ISBN13: 9781847496140 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-614-0 ISBN10: 1847496148 EAN: 9781847496140 x Description: Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship, details of Gatsby's impossible love for a married woman emerge, until events spiral into tragedy. Regarded as Fitzgerald's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Great Gatsby is a vivid chronicle of the excesses and decadence of the "Jazz Age", as well as a timeless cautionary critique of the American dream. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
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04 Jul 2012
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm 260g ISBN13: 9781847492586 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-258-6 ISBN10: 1847492584 EAN: 9781847492586 This Product Replaces: 9781847491749 x Description: Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship, details of Gatsby's impossible love for amarried woman emerge, until events spiral into tragedy. Regarded as Fitzgerald's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Great Gatsby is a vivid chronicle of the excesses and decadence of the Jazz Age, as well as a timeless cautionary critique of the American dream. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Intimate Strangers and Other Stories Scott F. Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
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15 Jul 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 276g ISBN13: 9781847495662 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-566-2 ISBN10: 1847495664 EAN: 9781847495662 x Description: Sara, the American wife of a French aristocrat, has had two encounters with her compatriot Cedric Killian, one a youthful idyll in North Carolina and the other during the First World War, when he was a soldier about to go to battle. When, years later and after the death of her husband, Cedric contacts her out of the blue, Sara finds herself eager to see him again - against the wishes of her in-laws - and to find out the secret of this man she loves yet knows so little about. A poignant tale of thwarted love, `The Intimate Strangers' explores many of Fitzgerald's favourite themes, such as the constraints of society on romance and the American fascination for Old Europe. This volume also includes other lesser-known stories he wrote from the mid-1930s until the end
of his life, revealing new facets to the author of The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Last of the Belles Scott F. Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
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15 Mar 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 285g ISBN13: 9781847494054 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-405-4 ISBN10: 1847494056 EAN: 9781847494054 x Description: Inspired by Fitzgerald's own courtship of his future wife Zelda, `The Last of the Belles' centres on the Southern beauty Ailie Calhoun from Tarleton, Georgia, who finds herself the object of attention of all the officers at a nearby army base, including the narrator, Andy. A wistful and melancholy exploration of unfulfilled dreams and lost youth, the story is considered one of Fitzgerald's finest pieces of short fiction. This volume also includes other acclaimed stories - such as `Jacob's Ladder', `The Swimmers' and `The Bridal Party' - written by Fitzgerald between 1927 and 1931, during the prolonged period in which he was struggling to compose Tender Is the Night. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Last Tycoon F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 May 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm 213g ISBN13: 9781847493187 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-318-7 ISBN10: 1847493181 EAN: 9781847493187 x Description: Monroe Stahr is a film producer at the height of his career, revered by the industry and in control of every aspect of his business empire. In his ruthless rise to the top, the young widower has had little time for sentiment, until he mets the beguiling Kathleen Moore and the two embark on an intense but ill-fated relationship. Told in parts from the perspective of Cecelia Brady, the witty and perceptive daughter of Stahr's business partner, The Last Tycoon is a sophisticated, gripping tale of love and intrigue in the Golden Age of Hollywood, containing what many critics have claimed are Fitzgerald's most modern and engaging chracters. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Love Boat and Other Stories Scott F. Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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15 Jul 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 267g ISBN13: 9781847494146 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-414-6 ISBN10: 1847494145 EAN: 9781847494146 x Description: A young Harvard graduate with bright prospects, Bill Frothington is invited on board a steamer hosting a high-school dance, where he meets and falls in love with the seventeen-year-old Mae. As the match is not considered socially advantageous enough, Bill moves on, marries and has a career, but he remains painfully nostalgic for that episode on the river. A poignant tale which touches on the themes of yearning and lost youth that are central to many of Fitzgerald's novels and stories, `The Love Boat' is
here presented with other lesser-known pieces which he wrote in the 1920s and explore the many facets of his creative talents. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Pat Hobby Stories Scott F. Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
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19 Nov 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w128mm 198g ISBN13: 9781847493859 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-385-9 ISBN10: 1847493858 EAN: 9781847493859 x Description: A Hollywood hack who has fallen on hard times since the end of the Silent Era, Pat Hobby spends his time hanging out in the studio lot attempting to devise schemes - such as pressing his secretary for blackmail material against a studio executive - to get more work and earn on-screen credits. Oblivious to his own shortcomings and filled with feelings of self-importance, he embarks on a course towards ever-increasing humiliation, suffering setbacks on both the professional and romantic fronts. A vivid account of Hollywood and its politics and hierarchies, these stories - which draw from Fitzgerald's own travails as a screenwriter - were first printed in Esquire, although they were written with a view to being published as a cohesive volume. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
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27 Sep 2012
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 283g ISBN13: 9781847492227 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-222-7 ISBN10: 1847492223 EAN: 9781847492227 x Description: 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 love and in his career, Blaine finds his youthful enthusiasm gradually giving way to disillusionment, cynicism and a life of dissolution. A critical account of its own era, introducing many themes which would be developed in later works, Fitzgerald's first novel was an instant critical and commercial success, propelling him into the limelight as a literary celebrity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert (Author) Christopher Moncrieff (Translated by) Series:
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12 Sep 2013
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Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 300pp ISBN13: 9781847493224 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-322-4 ISBN10: 184749322X x Description: Beautiful Emma Rouault yearns for the life of wealth, passion and romance she has encountered in popular sentimental fiction, and when her doctor, the well-meaning but awkward and unremarkable Charles Bovary, begins to pay her attention, she imagines that she may be granted her wish. However, after their marriage, Emma soon becomes frustrated with the boredom of provincial life and finds herself seeking escape and
contemplating adultery. As Emma's efforts to make a reality of her fantasies become more dangerous, both she and those around her must face the shattering consequences of her actions. Causing widespread scandal when it was published in 1857, Madame Bovary is Gustave Flaubert's masterpiece and one of the landmark works of nineteenth-century realist fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Memoirs of a Madman and November Gustave Flaubert (Author) Andrew Brown (Translated by) Series:
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24 Oct 2013
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w128mm 214g ISBN13: 9781847493255 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-325-5 ISBN10: 1847493254 EAN: 9781847493255 x Description: One of Flaubert's earliest writings, but published only after his death, 'Memoirs of a Madman' presents us with a oung man as he reflects - alternating between musings on the present and memories of the past - on the years that have brought him to madness, recalling the innocence of his boyhood, the first stirrings of sexual awakening and his abrupt initiation into the adult world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dictionary of Received Ideas Gustave Flaubert (Author) Series:
Quirky Classics
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14 Dec 2016
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Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h150mm x w110mm 99g ISBN13: 9781847496836 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-683-6 ISBN10: 1847496830 EAN: 9781847496836 This Product Replaces: 9781847491657 x Description: A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, the Dictionary of Received Ideas sees Flaubert at his witty and satirical best. Perhaps intended as a companion to his final, unfinished novel Bouvard and Pecuchet, this compilation was the result of a lifetime of collecting the absurd and the cliched with darkly humorous explanations. A playful look at nineteenth-century values and talking points, this dictionary will provide enduring entertainment and prove relevant even today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford (Author) Series:
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15 Sep 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w128mm 188g ISBN13: 9781847494955 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-495-5 ISBN10: 1847494951 EAN: 9781847494955 This Product Replaces: 9781847491381
x Description: The Good Soldier tells the stories of two outwardly happy couples who meet at a health spa in Germany just before the start of the First World War, and whose loveless, adultery-ridden relationships are strained and gradually disintegrate, with tragic consequences. Drawing inspiration from his personal life, Ford Madox Ford innovatively used non-chronological flashbacks as well as an unreliable narrator to reveal the scandalous affairs, lies and betrayals behind the facade of respectability, and craft a masterly work of fiction and a subtle investigation of the notions of truth and deception. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sepulchres and Other Poems Ugo Foscolo (Author) J. G. Nichols (Translated by) Series:
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15 Apr 2015
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 120pp h198mm x w128mm 116g ISBN13: 9781847494665 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-466-5 ISBN10: 1847494668 EAN: 9781847494665 This Product Replaces: 9781847490971 x Description: Expressing the author's political, civic and sentimental concerns, these poems will surprise the English reader with their immediacy and intimacy. "On Sepulchres", Foscolo's masterpiece, as well as being one of the pinnacles of European neoclassical literature, is still one of the most widely studied poems in Italy. Foscolo's poetry reveals the inner recesses of a passionate, restless and surprisingly modern mind. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Gods Want Blood Anatole France (Author) Douglas Parmee (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Aug 2013
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 274g ISBN13: 9781847493194 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-319-4 ISBN10: 184749319X EAN: 9781847493194 x Description: Set in Paris during the years of the Reign of Terror, 'The Gods Want Blood' centres on the rise to power of Jacobin sympathizer Evariste Gamelin, a young painter who becomes a juror on a local Revolutionary tribunal. Caught up in the bloodthirsty madness surrounding him, he helps to dispense cruel justice in the name of his ideals, while at the same time succumbing to his own petty instincts of revenge when he jealously pursues a rival for the affections of his lover Elodie. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Love Poems Erich Fried (Author) Stuart Hood (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
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21 Jun 2012
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w128mm 313g ISBN13: 9781847492951 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-295-1 ISBN10: 1847492959 EAN: 9781847492951 This Product Replaces: 9781847491961 x Description: This collection contains some of the most important works by one of the twentieth century's most popular and influential poets. The appeal of Fried's verse lies in its simplicity and directness, whether he is writing - with his customary humanity, honesty and perception - about love, about political and moral issues, or about the problems brought on by illness, bereavement, ageing and death. This bilingual edition - with English translations by Stuart Hood, his long-term friend and colleague at the BBC - enables the reader to get a flavour of the original of these immensely enjoyable and enlightening poems. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Elective Affinities Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Author) H. M. Waidson (Translated by) Series:
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15 Feb 2015
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 220pp h198mm x w128mm 242g ISBN13: 9781847494528 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-452-8 ISBN10: 1847494528 EAN: 9781847494528 This Product Replaces: 9781847490988 x Description: Baron Eduard and his second wife Charlotte enjoy a quiet, humdrum existence in their opulent castle, but when he invites his friend the Captain and she invites her niece Ottilie to stay with them, their lives are turned inside out as both hosts begin to feel attracted to their guests. Using one of the chemistry theories of the time as a metaphor throughout the novel, Goethe juxtaposes social interactions with scientific principles, while illustrating the typically Romantic concern of the individual coming to terms with society. Controversial when first published and still much critically debated today, Goethe's Elective Affinities is an early model for the modern novel. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Author) Bayard Quincy Morgan (Translated by) Series:
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15 Feb 2015
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Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 144pp h198mm x w128mm x s12mm 154g ISBN13: 9781847494047 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-404-7 ISBN10: 1847494048 This Product Replaces: 9781847492777 x Description: Presented as a collection of confessional letters written by the eponymous protagonist, The Sorrows of Young Werther charts the emotional journey of a young man who, during a stay in a picturesque German village, falls in love with Lotte, a local woman engaged to another man. As he realizes that his passion is doomed to failure and constant pain, Werther contemplates taking the most drastic measures. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wilhelm Meister Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Author) H. M. Waidson (Translated by) Series:
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17 Jan 2013
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 880pp h198mm x w128mm 636g ISBN13: 9781847492852 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-285-2 ISBN10: 1847492851 EAN: 9781847492852 This Product Replaces: 9781847490513 x Description: Seduced by the world of the theatre and taking upon himself the grand aspiration of becoming a successful performer and dramatist, the merchant's son Wilhelm Meister embarks on a tumultuous quest of self-fulfilment, in which he finds himself having to negotiate love, ambition and the need to accommodate freedom with the constraints of society. As he faces the obstacles on his way and encounters many remarkable characters, his objectives gradually widen from personal education and development to the betterment of society as a whole. A landmark in the history of European literature, Goethe's novel in two parts - Wilhelm Meister's Years of Apprenticeship and Wilhelm Meister's Years of Travel - is not only one of the key works of Weimar Classicism and a prototype for the Bildungsroman genre, but also a timeless tale of coming into one's own and a fascinating portrayal of the transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dead Souls Donald Rayfield (Translated by) Nikolai Gogol (Author) Series:
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25 May 2017
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 368pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847496287 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-628-7 ISBN10: 1847496288 x
Description: A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town and proceeds to visit a succession of landowners, making each of them an unusual and somewhat macabre proposition. He offers to buy the rights to the dead serfs who are still registered on the landowner's estate, thus reducing their liability for taxes. It is not clear what Chichikov's intentions are with the dead serfs he is purchasing, and despite his attempts to ingratiate himself, his strange behaviour arouses the suspicions of everyone in the town.A biting satire of social pretensions and pomposity, Dead Souls has been revered since its original publication in 1842 as one of the funniest and most brilliant novels of nineteenth-century Russia. Its unflinching and remorseless depiction of venality in Russian society is a lasting tribute to Gogol's comic genius. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How the Two Ivans Quarrelled: and Other Russian Comic Stories Nikolai Gogol (Author) Guy Daniels (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
21 Feb 2011
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w128mm 199g ISBN13: 9781847496645 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-664-5 ISBN10: 1847496644 EAN: 9781847496645 This Product Replaces: 9781847491732 x Description: The first story in this volume, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, is an amusing portrayal of two exceptionally close friends, the mortal insult that drives them apart, and the ensuing chaos that occurs. This is Gogol's humour at its best, where the most irrelevant-seeming details and turns of phrase take on a bizarre life of their own. Ivan Krylov's Panegyric in Memory of My Grandfather has an ingenuous narrator praise the nobility and modesty of a landowner whose actions prove him to be otherwise. The two tales by Mikhail Saltykov are satirical attacks on civil servants and Russia's autocracy. The final piece, Tolstoy's Ivan the Fool, is a playful and allegorical critique of contemporary Russian society. Together, they represent some of Russia's finest comic writing before the twentieth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Petersburg Tales Nikolai Gogol (Author) Dora O'Brien (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
15 Mar 2014
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h193mm x w127mm x s18mm 181g illustrations ISBN13: 9781847493491 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-349-1 ISBN10: 1847493491 x Description: Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant facade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become a state councillor ('The Nose'), a painter and a lieutenant whose romantic pursuits meet with contrasting degrees of success ('Nevsky Prospect') and a lowly civil servant whose existence desperately unravels when he loses his prized new coat ('The Overcoat'). Also including the 'Diary of Madman', this new translation of Petersburg Tales paint a critical yet hilarious portrait of a city riddled with pomposity and self-importance, masterfully juxtaposing nineteenth-century realism with madcap surrealism, and combining absurdist farce with biting satire. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Oblomov Ivan Goncharov (Author) Stephen Pearl (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
20 Apr 2014
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 540pp h198mm x w128mm 490g ISBN13: 9781847493446 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-344-6 ISBN10: 1847493440 EAN: 9781847493446 x Description: New, award-winning translation of Goncharov's popular masterpiece. First published in 1859, Oblomov is an indisputable classic of Russian literature, comparable in its stature to such masterpieces as Gogol's Dead Souls, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov. The book centres on the figure of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a member of the dying class of the landed gentry, who spends most of his time lying in bed gazing at life in an apathetic daze, encouraged by his equally lazy servant Zakhar and routinely swindled by his acquaintances. But this torpid existence comes to an end when, spurred on by his crumbling finances, the love of a woman and the reproaches of his friend, the hard-working Stoltz, Oblomov finds that he must engage with the real world and face up to his commitments. Rich in situational comedy, psychological complexity and social satire, Oblomov - here presented in Stephen Pearl's award-winning translation, the first major English-language version of the novel in more than fifty years - is a timeless novel and a monument to human idleness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Same Old Story Ivan Goncharov (Author) Stephen Pearl (Translated by) Series:
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15 Oct 2015
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w128mm 330g ISBN13: 9781847495624 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-562-4 ISBN10: 1847495621 EAN: 9781847495624 x Description: Filled with dreams of pursuing a career as a poet, the young Alexander Aduev moves from the country to St Petersburg, where he takes up lodgings next to his uncle Pyotr, a shrewd and world-weary businessman. As his ideals are challenged by disappointment in the fields of love, friendship and poetical ambition, Alexander must decide whether to return to the homely values he has left behind or adapt to the ruthless rules and morals of city life. Told in the author's trademark humorous style and presented in a sparkling new translation by Stephen Pearl, The Same Old Story - Goncharov's first novel, preceding his masterpiece Oblomov by twelve years - is a study of lost illusions and rude spiritual awakening in the modern world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Collected Poems Sydney Goodsir Smith (Author) Series:
Calder Collection
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Alma Books Ltd
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01 Mar 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9780714543376 ISBN13: 978-0-7145-4337-6 ISBN10: 0714543373 This Product Replaces: 9780714535111 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Mother Maxim Gorky (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Series:
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15 Nov 2015
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w128mm 313g ISBN13: 9781847495648 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-564-8 ISBN10: 1847495648 EAN: 9781847495648 x Description: Inspired by real events and centring on the figure of Pelageya Vlasova - the mother of the title - and her son Pavel, Gorky's masterpiece describes the brutal life of ordinary Russian factory workers in the years leading to the 1905 Revolution and explores the rise of the proletariat, the role of women in society and the lower classes' struggle for self-affirmation. A book of the utmost importance, in the words of Lenin, and a landmark in Russian literature, The Mother - here presented in a brilliant new version by Hugh Aplin, the first English translation in almost a century - will enchant modern readers both for its historical significance and its intrinsic value as a work of art. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Black Spider Jeremias Gotthelf (Author) H. M. Waidson (Translated by) Series:
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15 Feb 2015
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h198mm x w128mm 149g ISBN13: 9781847494535 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-453-5 ISBN10: 1847494536 EAN: 9781847494535 This Product Replaces: 9781847491084 x Description: Using a complex narrative structure, Gotthelf's cautionary novella shrewdly dissects the iniquitous social dynamics of rural life.First published in 1842, "The Black Spider" displays its author's talent for dark satire and realism, as well as the visionary powers of his imagination. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Simplicius Simplicissimus H. J. C. von Grimmelshausen (Author) Hellmuth Weissenborn (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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01 Apr 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9780714543581 ISBN13: 978-0-7145-4358-1 ISBN10: 0714543586 This Product Replaces: 9780714539102 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Far From the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy (Author) Series:
Evergreens
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22 Jun 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w128mm 343g ISBN13: 9781847496300 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-630-0 ISBN10: 184749630X EAN: 9781847496300 x Description: Bathsheba Everdene is a headstrong young woman who attracts the attentions of a succession of ill-matched suitors: a quiet sheep farmer, a handsome soldier and an older, wealthy landowner. As the men vie for her affections, she struggles to retain her independence of spirit in the face of their declarations. Introducing readers to the fictional county of Wessex, Thomas Hardy's fourth work of fiction was one of his greatest triumphs, both commercially and critically. Its tale of passion, jealousy and unrequited love is now regarded as one of the finest novels of the nineteenth century, and one of the greatest love stories of all time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tess of the d'Ubervilles Thomas Hardy (Author) Series:
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15 Sep 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 520pp h198mm x w128mm 437g ISBN13: 9781847494948 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-494-8 ISBN10: 1847494943 EAN: 9781847494948 x Description: After an accident, Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of impoverished peasants, decides to call on the aristocratic d'Urbervilles, as she believes that she is also descended from their ancient Norman lineage and that they can rescue her family from indigence. Unfortunately she is taken under the wing of the immoral libertine scion Alec d'Urberville, who seduces and scorns her. While she attempts to rebuild her life, she falls in love with the virtuous farmer Angel Clare and must find a way to defeat the demons of her past. Controversial when it was first published for challenging Victorian morals, Tess of the d'Urbervilles has become Thomas Hardy's most popular novel, catching the imaginations of generations of readers with its high drama, endearing heroine and powerful evocations of the southern English countryside. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author) Series:
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15 Jun 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 240pp h198mm x w128mm 229g ISBN13: 9781847494214 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-421-4 ISBN10: 1847494218 EAN: 9781847494214 This Product Replaces: 9781847490582 x Description: Having been found guilty of adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter A as a punishment for her sin. While her vengeful husband embarks on a quest to discover the identity of her lover, she is left to face the consequences of her infidelity and find a place for herself and her illegitimate child in the hostile environment of seventeenth-century Puritan Boston. Nathaniel Hawthorne's tense narrative astonished readers with its unparalleled psychological depth when it first appeared, and the novel now stands as one of America's literary landmarks. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Three Drops of Blood and Other Stories Sadegh Hedayat (Author) Deborah Miller Mostaghel (Translated by) Series:
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25 Oct 2012
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Language: English Translated From: Persian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h198mm x w128mm 126g ISBN13: 9781847492821 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-282-1 ISBN10: 1847492827 EAN: 9781847492821 This Product Replaces: 9781847490551 x Description: This collection, previously unpublished in English, displays all the evocative force of Hedayat's writing, and confirms his place in the literary canon. The title story follows the protagonist's increasingly unstable mental state through the repeated occurrence of three drops of blood, while `Hajji Morad' depicts an almost Joycean epiphany in classically understated terms, as a man mistakes another woman for his wife. Written before the revolution of 1979, Hedayat's stories were banned by the Tehran authorities in 2006. Addressing themes such as marriage and divorce customs and the displacement of Iran's ancient Zoroastrian faith, they have acquired a new relevance in recent decades. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Devil's Elixirs E. T. A. Hoffmann (Author) Ronald Taylor (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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10 May 2017
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 276pp h198mm x w128mm 315g ISBN13: 9781847496737 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-673-7 ISBN10: 1847496733 EAN: 9781847496737 This Product Replaces: 9781847490841
x Description: "The Devil's Elixirs is a macabre masterpiece of German literature, and is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the Romantic movement, or the genres of fantasy and horror which it spawned. The son of a heinous sinner, Medardus is brought up in a monastery to atone for his father's wicked ways. However, after succumbing to temptation, Medardus himself is lured into a life of sin. A labyrinthine plot sees him embarking on a fantastical journey into the world, meeting his doppelganger, involving himself in a game of double impersonation, and becoming embroiled in murderous intrigues at the Vatican, before the mysterious curse hanging over him and his family is finally explained. First published in 1815, ""The Devil's Elixirs"" is a macabre masterpiece of German literature, and is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the Romantic movement, or the genres of fantasy and horror which it spawned." _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The King's Bride E. T. A. Hoffman (Author) Paul Turner (Translated by) Series:
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15 Feb 2015
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 120pp h198mm x w128mm 151g ISBN13: 9781847494542 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-454-2 ISBN10: 1847494544 EAN: 9781847494542 This Product Replaces: 9781847490995 x Description: Happily engaged to the poet Amandus, Fraulein Anna is horrified to discover that a beautiful ring, mysteriously deposited upon her finger whilst tending her kitchen garden, forces her into marriage with the gnome Corduanspitz. Can Anna find any way of removing the ring? Will her poet lover shake off his passive demeanour and come to her aid? And has Corduanspitz truly relinquished all ties to his gnome heritage, as he so proudly claims?Around a love story very much of its time, Hoffman arranges a narrative that brings to mind the most successful elements of contemporary magical realism and surreal comedy. Always entertaining, yet capable of a focused though subtle morality, "The King's Bride" brings disparate elements into a masterful harmony. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Sandman E. T. A. Hoffmann (Author) Christopher Moncrieff (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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24 Oct 2013
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w128mm 113g ISBN13: 9781847493279 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-327-9 ISBN10: 1847493270 EAN: 9781847493279 x Description: 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 those sessions - was none other than the Sandman, a mythical figure who was said to steal the eyes of children who refused to go to sleep. When a mysterious Italian salesman with a beautiful daughter moves into town, Nathanael's suspicions are reawakened, pushing him to the brink of madness as extraordinary events unfold. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Last Day of a Condemned Man Victor Hugo (Author) Christopher Moncrieff (Translated by) Series:
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14 Dec 2013
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 150pp h198mm x w128mm 143g ISBN13: 9781847493613 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-361-3 ISBN10: 1847493610 EAN: 9781847493613 This Product Replaces: 9781847491176 x Description: A first-person diary of a prisoner's final day before being executed for an unspecified crime, Victor Hugo's poignant tale vividly conveys the mental anguish of a man confronted with the intransigent mechanism of justice, as his mind seeks refuge in recollections from his past and philosophical musings on his inevitable fate. As relevant today as when it was first published in 1829, The Last Day of a Condemned Man is an eloquent plea for compassion and a masterpiece of realist fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Portrait of a Lady Henry James (Author) Series:
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24 Mar 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp h198mm x w128mm 495g ISBN13: 9781847495754 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-575-4 ISBN10: 1847495753 EAN: 9781847495754 x Description: 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 this windfall will finally ensure the freedom that she yearns for and embarks on an exhilarating journey through France and Italy, only to find her endeavours thwarted by the sinister plotting of some of her acquaintances. Considered by many to be Henry James's finest novel, The Portrait of a Lady is a subtle examination of Victorian society and power relations, providing a groundbreaking psychological study of its protagonist. This volume is based on the authoritative New York Edition, and includes the author's seminal preface. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
After-Supper Ghost Stories Jerome K. Jerome (Author) Series:
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22 Sep 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 264pp h198mm x w128mm 164g ISBN13: 9781847496225 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-622-5 ISBN10: 1847496229 EAN: 9781847496225
x Description: As they relax after dinner on Christmas Eve, the members of a family and their guests turn to telling ghost stories. These ghoulish accounts range from the melancholy to the macabre, and get increasingly bizarre as the ghosts leap out of the tales and make an appearance in the family's home. Fact and fiction, the real and unreal collide, until the reader is not sure who is haunting whom. A masterful work of comic horror, Jerome K. Jerome's After-Supper Ghost Stories is a witty look at why Christmas Eve is so perfect for ghost stories and why ghosts love the Yuletide season. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce James (Author) Series:
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19 Nov 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 320pp h196mm x w127mm x s25mm 295g ISBN13: 9781847493866 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-386-6 ISBN10: 1847493866 x Description: 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 forays as a young artist. Dedalus's thoughts and epiphanies reveal the tensions, insecurities and feelings of guilt that are the product of living in a country and period so deeply divided along religious and political lines. Pioneering an innovative stream-of-consciousness technique characteristic of early Modernism, and often resorting to mythical, historical and literary allusion which would find fuller expression in Ulysses, Joyce's groundbreaking work shocked the readers of its day and continues to challenge analysis and interpretation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chamber Music and Other Poems Joyce James (Author) John Calder (Introduction by) Series:
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01 Dec 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 120pp h198mm x w128mm 146g ISBN13: 9781847495853 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-585-3 ISBN10: 1847495850 EAN: 9781847495853 x Description: Universally known for his groundbreaking prose - especially for the monumental novel Ulysses and its depictions of Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century - James Joyce started off as a writer of lyrical poetry, a genre which he never abandoned in his lifetime and which informs and enriches the rest of his literary production. This volume, which includes Joyce's first published book, Chamber Music, as well as his later collection Pomes Penyeach and several other uncollected poems, reveals a lesser-known facet of the great modernist's artistic career and a glimpse into his poetical sensibility. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dubliners James Joyce (Author) Series:
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22 Jun 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w128mm 245g ISBN13: 9781847496317 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-631-7 ISBN10: 1847496318 EAN: 9781847496317 x Description: James Joyce's first published book, which he wrote when he was still in his twenties, Dubliners is far removed from the bold experimentalism of his later work, but is essential for understanding the author's development as a writer, and endures as a masterly example of the short-story form. Although ranging considerably in tone, mood and milieu, the fifteen short stories included in this collection all centre around the city of Dublin and its inhabitants at the beginning of the twentieth-century. From the unsettling adventure of two truant schoolboys to the crafty schemes of two con-men, from a young woman's refusal to abandon Ireland and elope with a sailor to a man's moment of clarity during an annual dance party, these stories offer a moving portrait of an entire world and era which has all but disappeared. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ulysses James Joyce (Author) Sam Slote (Edited by) Marc A. Mamigonian (Edited by) John Turner (Edited by) Series:
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07 Dec 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 832pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497765 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-776-5 ISBN10: 1847497764 This Product Replaces: 9781847493996 x Description: This third edition, newly revised and updated, includes comprehensive and all-new annotations (over 9,000 notes) by Joyce scholar Sam Slote, Trinity College, Dublin, and Marc A. Mamigonian and John Turner. A lively repository of literary allusion and colloquial realism, this dazzlingly innovative, ambitious novel is here presented in its 1939 version, which contains notable textual differences from the standard editions currently in print. Controversial, scandalous, erudite and funny, Ulysses is undisputedly a landmark of twentieth-century Modernism. It charts one day - 16th June 1904 in the lives of three inhabitants of Dublin, the advertising salesman Leopold Bloom, the artist Stephen Dedalus and Bloom's wife Molly. Their peregrinations, thoughts and encounters form the basis of the narrative, which becomes a celebration of all human experience through the lives of specific individuals in a specific place at a specific time. Ulysses is both an experimental novel and a book intimately concerned with the events of modern life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dearest Father Franz Kafka (Author) Hannah Stokes (Translated by) Series:
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01 Sep 2008
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x Description: Conflict between father and son is one of the oldest themes in literature, and in this open letter to his father - a letter which was never sent - Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obsessions of his troubled soul. Written as a long, tense and dramatic confession in which writer and man are gathered together in front of an ambivalent figure of authority, "Dearest Father" is a desperate attempt to retrace the origins of a turbulent and highly conflicted relationship between an unflinching parent and an extremely sensitive child. Both a merciless indictment of his father and an impassioned appeal to him, Kafka's inspired work is one of the most lucid and touching psychological documents of the twentieth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories Franz Kafka (Author) Christopher Moncrieff (Translated by) Series:
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15 Jun 2014
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w128mm 274g ISBN13: 9781847493521 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-352-1 ISBN10: 1847493521 EAN: 9781847493521 x Description: When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work and having to reveal his appearance to family and colleagues. Although over the following weeks he gradually becomes used to this new existence confined within the bounds of the apartment, and his parents and sister adapt to living with a grotesque bug, Gregor notices that their attitudes towards him are changing and he feels increasingly alienated. One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world literature, `The Metamorphosis' is accompanied in this volume by a selection of other classic tales and sketches by Kafka - such as `The Judgement', `In the Penal Colony' and `A Country Doctor' - all presented in a lively and meticulous new translation by Christopher Moncrieff. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Plays: Vol 1 Georg Kaiser (Author) B. J. Kenworthy (Translated by) Rex Last (Translated by) J. M. Ritchie (Translated by) Series:
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15 Mar 2015
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 250pp h198mm x w128mm 299g ISBN13: 9781847494559 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-455-9 ISBN10: 1847494552 EAN: 9781847494559 This Product Replaces: 9781847490728 x Description: In From Morning to Midnight the cashier, downtrodden victim of the capitalist system, turns bank robber in order to test the power, freedom and happiness that money can bring. The unique stage technique employed by Kaiser is as challenging today as it was when the play was first performed. The Burghers of Calais has always been considered Kaiser's greatest play and the 'classic' of Expressionist drama. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Plays: Vol 2 Georg Kaiser (Author) B. J. Kenworthy (Translated by) H. F. Garten (Translated by) Elizabeth Sprigge (Translated by) Series:
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15 Mar 2015
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 205pp h198mm x w128mm 235g ISBN13: 9781847494566 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-456-6 ISBN10: 1847494560 EAN: 9781847494566 This Product Replaces: 9781847491862 x Description: David and Goliath is set in Denmark and deals with the power of money over men. The President, set in France, is ironical in tone and revolves around a lottery and, once again, the power of money. The Flight to Venice was written at the height of the Expressionist movement in 1922, and is one of the principal plays of the period. One Day in October is highly complex, using 19th century French literary personalities to make points about literary creation and the relationship between art and life. The final play, The Raft of the Medusa, takes its title form Gericault's painting that concerns the regeneration of man overlaid with the pessimism of the European struggle. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Village Romeo and Juliet Gottfried Keller (Author) Ronald Taylor (Translated by) Series:
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15 Mar 2015
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h198mm x w128mm 149g ISBN13: 9781847494573 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-457-3 ISBN10: 1847494579 EAN: 9781847494573 This Product Replaces: 9781847490865 x Description: "A Village Romeo and Juliet" is a bitter-sweet tragedy telling the tale of two young lovers kept apart by a family feud. Inspired by the suicides of two real-life sweethearts and set in rural Switzerland, it evokes the overwhelming beauty of young love and nature, but is ultimately pessimistic about the possibility of such beauty surviving in the real world. Although it attracted controversy when it was first published in 1856, Keller's timeless story has now rightfully entered the canon of world literature and is widely considered as one of the finest examples of nineteenth-century poetic realism. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Green Henry Gottfried Keller (Author) A.M. Holt (Translated by) Series:
Calder Collection
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01 Mar 2010
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Martin Salander Gottfried Keller (Author) Kenneth Halwas (Translated by) Series:
Calder Collection
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01 Mar 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 272pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9780714543413 ISBN13: 978-0-7145-4341-3 ISBN10: 0714543411 This Product Replaces: 9780714503714 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dog Stories Rudyard Kipling (Author) Series:
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15 Jan 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 251g ISBN13: 9781847493972 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-397-2 ISBN10: 1847493971 EAN: 9781847493972 x Description: Throughout his life Rudyard Kipling was fond of dogs, and while they featured prominently in early tales such as `The Dog Hervey' and `Garm - a Hostage', he later came up with the innovative idea of writing a story from the perspective of a dog, resulting in the hugely successful `Thy Servant a Dog', narrated by an Aberdeen terrier named Boots. This collection, published in the author's lifetime, gathers Kipling's dog stories written throughout his career, providing a warm tribute to man's best friend and showcasing the lively storytelling talents of one of Britain's most enduringly popular writers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Seven Expressionist Plays J. M. Ritchie (Translated by) A.F. Garten (Translated by) Series:
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01 Mar 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 208pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9780714543437 ISBN13: 978-0-7145-4343-7 ISBN10: 0714543438 This Product Replaces: 9780714505213 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Childhood Memories and Other Stories Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Author) Stephen Parkin (Translated by) Series:
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15 Jan 2015
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 220g ISBN13: 9781847493989 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-398-9 ISBN10: 184749398X EAN: 9781847493989 x Description: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the author of one of the most poignant and enduringly popular novels of the twentieth century, left only a few other pieces of fiction when he died prematurely at the age of sixty. Childhood Memories and Other Stories, here presented in a new translation by Stephen Parkin and including previously deleted passages and the unpublished fragment `Torretta', collects all of Lampedusa's extant shorter fiction and provides a revealing glimpse into the writer's workshop and the background to the composition of his masterpiece. From the atmospheric recollections of the Palazzo Lampedusa and the Palazzo Filangeri Cuto at the turn of the twentieth century in `Childhood Memories' to the delightful fable `The Siren', from the gently humorous, bitter-sweet tones of `Joy and the Law' to `The Blind Kittens' - the first chapter of what was intended to be a sequel to The Leopard - this volume showcases Lampedusa's unparalleled ob-ser-vational powers and narrative skills. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lady Chatterley's Lover D. H. Lawrence (Author) Series:
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01 Jan 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w128mm 310g ISBN13: 9781847494085 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-408-5 ISBN10: 1847494080 EAN: 9781847494085 x Description: Originally published in Italy in 1928, and unavailable in Britain until 1960, when it was the subject of an infamous obscenity trial, Lady Chatterley's Lover is now regarded as one of the pivotal novels of the twentieth century. Lawrence's determination to explore every aspect - sexual, social, psychological - of Lady Chatterley's adulterous liaison with the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors makes for a profound meditation on the human condition, the forces of nature and the social constraints that people struggle to overcome. Containing autobiographical elements and set in the author's native Nottinghamshire, Lawrence's final novel had a profound impact on twentiethcentury culture and sexual attitudes, while confirming his standing as one of the most eminent fiction writers that England has produced. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Fox D. H. Lawrence (Author) Series:
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01 Feb 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 112pp h198mm x w128mm 132g ISBN13: 9781847496942 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-694-2 ISBN10: 1847496946 EAN: 9781847496942 This Product Replaces: 9781847490964
x Description: Nellie March and Jill Banford manage an ailing Berkshire farm at the time of the First World War, a task which is made all the more complicated by the frequent rampages of a local fox through their chicken coop. When a young soldier turns up and begins to interfere with the farm and the lives of the two women, they must find ways to react to this new fox in their midst. A compelling study of the question of power, gender and sexuality, as well as a realistic portrayal of wartime rural England, The Fox showcases Lawrence's inimitable gift for psychological observation and dramatic description. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Canti: The Most Important Book of Modern Italian Poetry Giacomo Leopardi (Author) J. G. Nichols (Translated by) Series:
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01 Feb 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w128mm 373g ISBN13: 9781847494672 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-467-2 ISBN10: 1847494676 EAN: 9781847494672 This Product Replaces: 9781847490162 x Description: 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 present, Leopardi rejected both the easy allure of Catholic faith and the unbridled optimism proposed by science and the Enlightenment. His unflinching pessimism and existential resolve, here brilliantly rendered in verse by prize-winning translator J.G. Nichols, make him one of the most fascinating and best-loved Italian poets. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Moral Fables Giacomo Leopardy (Author) J. G. Nichols (Translated by) Series:
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01 Jul 2016
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 262g ISBN13: 9781847495808 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-580-8 ISBN10: 184749580X EAN: 9781847495808 x Description: Alongside his monumental Zibaldone (Notebooks) and the poems collected in Canti, which make him one of Italy's greatest and bestloved poets, Giacomo Leopardi penned a number of fictional pieces, mostly in the form of gently humorous dialogues, in which he dealt with philosophical ideas and many of the metaphysical questions that preoccupied his restless spirit. First published in 1827 and here presented in a new translation by J.G. Nichols along with Thoughts, Leopardi's own selected pearls of wisdom and gems of social observation, Moral Fables will enchant both those who are familiar with and those who are new to the works of Italy's last great polymath. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Hero of Our Time Mikhail Lermontov (Author) Neil Cornwell (Translated by) Martin Parker (Translated by) Series:
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17 Nov 2016
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 236pp h198mm x w128mm 228g ISBN13: 9781847495761 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-576-1 ISBN10: 1847495761 EAN: 9781847495761 This Product Replaces: 9781847491213 x Description: On his travels through the wild mountainous terrain of the Caucasus, the narrator of A Hero of Our Time chances upon the veteran soldier and storyteller Maxim Maximych, who relates to him the dubious exploits of his former comrade Pechorin. Engaging in various acts of duelling, contraband, abduction and seduction, Pechorin, an archetypal Byronic anti-hero, combines cynicism and arrogance with melancholy and sensitivity. Causing an uproar in Russia when it was first published in 1840, Lermontov's brilliant, seminal study of contemporary society and the nihilistic aspect of Romanticism - accompanied here by the unfinished novel Princess Ligovskaya - remains compelling to this day. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Rats in the Walls and Other Stories H. P. Lovecraft (Author) Series:
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15 May 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w128mm 312g ISBN13: 9781847494153 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-415-3 ISBN10: 1847494153 EAN: 9781847494153 x Description: When the descendant of an ancient aristocratic family moves from Massachusetts to Exham Priory, his ancestral home in the south of England, he is plagued by the constant noise of rats scurrying within its walls. As the sound begins to haunt his dreams, he investigates the house and discovers a horrific secret underneath, which will bring him to the point of madness. Considered one of the most accomplished examples of the horror genre, `The Rats in the Walls' is presented here alongside other quintessentially Lovecraftian tales - such as `The Dunwich Horror', `At the Mountains of Madness', `The Colour out of Space' and `The Horror at Red Hook' - in a brand-new collection which will delight new readers and those familiar with the blood-curdling imaginary worlds of the twentieth century's master of terror. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Whisperer in Darkness and Other Tales H. P. Lovecraft (Author) Series:
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15 Sep 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w128mm 409g ISBN13: 9781847494986 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-498-6 ISBN10: 1847494986 EAN: 9781847494986
x Description: When strange things are reported to be floating in rivers in rural Vermont after a flood, old myths about hill-dwelling monsters who abduct humans resurface in subsequent debates, much to the annoyance of local academic Albert N. Wilmarth. However, when he starts receiving letters from a man named Henry Wentworth Akeley about the supposed presence near his farmhouse of an extraterrestrial race worshipping ancient cosmic deities, Wilmarth finds himself drawn into an astonishing correspondence that leads to a harrowing discovery. A seminal early contribution to the horror and science-fiction genres, `The Whisperer in Darkness' is presented here, along with other classics from the Lovecraft canon - such as `The Call of Cthulhu', `The Shadow over Innsmouth', `The Music of Erich Zann' and `The Silver Key' - in a brand-new collection showcasing the finest tales from the twentieth century's foremost purveyor of terror. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli (Author) J. G. Nichols (Translated by) Series:
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12 Sep 2013
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h198mm x w128mm 130g ISBN13: 9781847493231 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-323-1 ISBN10: 1847493238 EAN: 9781847493231 x Description: At the end of an industrious political career in conflictriven Italy, the Florentine diplomat Niccolo Machiavelli composed his masterpiece The Prince, a classic study of power and politics, and a manual of ruthlessness for any ambitious ruler. Controversial in his own time, The Prince made Machiavelli's name a byword for manipulative scheming, and had an impact on such major figures as Napoleon and Frederick the Great. It contains principles as true today as when they were first written almost five centuries ago. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Journey Around My Room Xavier De Maistre (Author) Andrew Brown (Translated by) Series:
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23 May 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 300pp ISBN13: 9781847493088 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-308-8 ISBN10: 1847493084 x Description: Finding himself locked in his room for six weeks, a young officer uses his imagination to travel around his room, using the various objects it contains as inspiration for a delightful parody of contemporary travel-writing and exercise in Sternean picaresque, and humorously demonstrating what one can explore without having to travel to exotic locations. Contains a foreword by Alain de Botton _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Withering World Sandor Marai (Author) John Ridland (Translated by) Peter Szipowt (Translated by) Series:
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24 Oct 2013
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Language: English Translated From: Hungarian Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 256pp h220mm x w160mm 416g ISBN13: 9781847493316 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-331-6 ISBN10: 1847493319 EAN: 9781847493316 x Description: Although he is now mostly remembered as a novelist, it is as a poet and a translator of poetry that Sandor Marai - the acclaimed author of 'Embers' and 'Conversations in Bolzano' - first made his name in the literary world. This collection, the first and only edition of Marai's poems in the English language - here presented in John M. Rudland's and Peter V. Czipott's brilliant verse translation - offers a comprehensive selection spanning the author's whole career and exemplifying his mastery of what he considered to be the highest form of literary expression. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Moby Dick Herman Melville (Author) Series:
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01 Aug 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 704pp h198mm x w128mm 545g ISBN13: 9781847496447 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-644-7 ISBN10: 184749644X EAN: 9781847496447 x Description: When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab's whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the fulfilment of his master's obsessive desire for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale who has already claimed countless human victims and destroyed many fleets. With some sinister crew members in their midst and the hazardous conditions of the sea to contend with, the expedition becomes increasingly dangerous the closer it gets to its quarry. One of the great American novels, if not the greatest, Moby Dick epically combines rip-roaring adventure, a meticulously realistic portrayal of the whaling trade and a profound philosophical disquisition on the nature of good and evil. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Leonardo da Vinci: God's Resurgent Dmitry Merezhkovsky (Author) Ignat Avsey (Translated by) Series:
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15 Apr 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 300pp h196mm x w130mm x s41mm 544g ISBN13: 9781847493064 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-306-4 ISBN10: 1847493068 x Description: This evocative account of the life of the Renaissance's greatest figure traces Leonardo's early development as an artist and court figure to his final years in exile, portraying his loves and sufferings, as well as his intellectual curiosity and tireless loyalty to his ideals. But it is the background to his famous painting La Gioconda and his relationship with the mysterious Florentine woman who modelled for it that are at the heart of the novel here presented in a new translation - and will make for an engrossing and unforgettable read.
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A Slight Misunderstanding Prosper Merimee (Author) Douglas Parmee (Translated by) Series:
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15 Jan 2015
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 280pp h198mm x w128mm 150g ISBN13: 9781847494436 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-443-6 ISBN10: 1847494439 EAN: 9781847494436 This Product Replaces: 9781847490766 x Description: Trapped in an unhappy marriage with a boorish, inattentive, and socially ambitious husband, Julie de Chaverny enjoys a flirtatious dalliance with the elegant Major de Chateaufort. However, the sudden reappearance of an old admirer who has returned from Turkey--along with a tale of breathtaking derring-do and chivalry to add to his charms--reawakens in Julie a forgotten passion. She pursues a rash and dangerous course of action, one that will have tragic consequences. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Etruscan Vase and Other Stories Prosper Merimee (Author) Douglas Parmee (Translated by) Series:
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19 Jan 2012
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 112pp h198mm x w128mm 131g ISBN13: 9781847492098 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-209-8 ISBN10: 1847492096 EAN: 9781847492098 x Description: When the young and sensitive Auguste Saint-Clair notices an Etruscan vase on the mantelpiece of his beloved Mathilde, he becomes gradually consumed by jealousy at the thought that it could be the gift of another man, and the situation escalates dramatically as he demands proof from her that she loves only him. A classic piece of French short fiction, `The Etruscan Vase' is here presented alongside three other stories: `The Vision of Charles XI', a dark tale of premonition set in the Swedish royal palace, `Tamango', an account of a slave-ship revolt, and `The Blue Room', a supernatural farce and one of Merimee's final works; as well as two non-fiction pieces: `A Hanging', a description of a real-life public execution, and `H.B.', a tribute to Stendhal. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Utopia Saint Thomas More (Author) Series:
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25 May 2017
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Translated From: Latin Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847496256 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-625-6 ISBN10: 1847496253 x Description: In Thomas More's hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy unprecedented social cohesion and justice. The book imagines a community in which laws, personal relations and professional ambition are based on reason, in contrast with the tradition-bound superstitions of Europe, which were, in More's eyes, impediments to equality and peaceful coexistence.One of the indicators of the profound cultural and political influence of More's masterpiece is today's common use of the word "Utopia" - a term he invented. This extraordinary treatise on the values of rationality and reason - here presented in a sparkling new translation by Roger Clarke and accompanied by copious notes and additional texts - questions what a philosopher can do to enact change in society, and how idealized visions can inform political practice. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mozart's Journey to Prague Eduard Morike (Author) Leopold von Loewenstein-Wertheim (Translated by) Series:
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15 Mar 2015
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 280pp h198mm x w128mm 167g ISBN13: 9781847494580 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-458-0 ISBN10: 1847494587 EAN: 9781847494580 x Description: While on a journey to Prague with his wife for the opening night of Don Giovanni, Mozart is caught picking an orange on the grounds of a stately home. But when the resident family finds out who they are dealing with, they are delighted to be in the presence of the celebrated composer and invite him to their daughter's wedding. This vivid and imaginative depiction captures both the humorous and the more pensive side of the genius composer. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Undine F.H.K. de La Motte-Fouque (Author) Paul Turner (Translated by) Series:
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01 Apr 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9780714543550 ISBN13: 978-0-7145-4355-0 ISBN10: 0714543551 This Product Replaces: 9780714505916 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Confusions of Young Master Torless Robert Musil (Author) Christopher Moncrieff (Translated by) Series:
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20 Nov 2013
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Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 250pp h195mm x w132mm x s15mm ISBN13: 9781847493545 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-354-5 ISBN10: 1847493548 x Description: As the nineteenth century draws to an end, young Torless is sent to a military boarding school for the sons of the nobility on the eastern outreaches of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Far from his comfortable, free-thinking bourgeois home and left to his own devices, he experiences the joy, pain and self-doubt of adolescence. He is confronted with desire and love, but also his own cruelty, as he finds himself participating in his fellow pupils' bullying campaigns. A dark Bildungsroman which shocked its readership at the time, Robert Musil's first novel is a fresco of psychoanalysis, philosophy, eroticism, snobbery, sado-masochism and schoolboy humour, a hothouse of alternately repressed and unchained desires that prefigure the carnage of both World Wars. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Fantastic Tales of Fitz-James O'Brien Fitz-James O'Brien (Author) Series:
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01 Apr 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 152pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9780714543369 ISBN13: 978-0-7145-4336-9 ISBN10: 0714543365 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Secretum Francesco Petrarch (Author) J. G. Nichols (Translated by) Series:
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15 Apr 2015
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h198mm x w128mm 200g ISBN13: 9781847494689 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-468-9 ISBN10: 1847494684 EAN: 9781847494689 This Product Replaces: 9781847491596 x Description: By writing what he called a 'secret book' - taking the shape of a conversation between himself and St Augustine - Petrarch aimed to compose a cathartic text which would alleviate his spiritual crisis and help him make further inroads towards knowledge and fulfilment. At once an intimate repository of his most personal thoughts and emotions and a literary masterpiece dealing with universal issues, "Secretum" - Petrarch's bestknown work in Latin - is a fascinating and pioneering example of the autobiographical genre. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Satyricon Petronius Arbiter (Author) Andrew Brown (Translated by) Series:
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01 Nov 2009
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Plays: Vol 1 Luigi Pirandello (Author) Robert Rietti (Translated by) Series:
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15 Apr 2015
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 540pp h198mm x w128mm 532g ISBN13: 9781847494696 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-469-6 ISBN10: 1847494692 EAN: 9781847494696 This Product Replaces: 9781847491442 x Description: Preoccupied with the nature of truth and delusion, and treading danger- ously on the borderline between sanity and madness, Pirandello's plays are a daring exploration of human actions and the dark motives lying behind them, and the culmination of the naturalistic school of theatre inaugurated by authors such as Ibsen and Chekhov. This is the first of three volumes collecting the complete plays of Luigi Pirandello, one of the foremost playwrights and fiction writers of the twentieth century. This volume contains some of Pirandello's most famous plays, including 'Six Characters in Search of an Author', 'Henry IV' and 'The Life That I Gave Thee', as well as several of his lesser-known works for the stage, some of which are translated into English for the first time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tales of Horror Edgar Allan Poe (Author) Series:
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22 Sep 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w128mm 267g ISBN13: 9781847496096 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-609-6 ISBN10: 1847496091 EAN: 9781847496096 x Description: A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of noblemen during the time of the plague, a grieving lover awakens to find himself clutching a box of his beloved blood-stained teeth, a man is obsessed with the fear of being buried alive - these are only some of the memorable characters and stories included in this volume, which exemplify Poe's inventiveness
and natural talent as a storyteller. Immensely popular both during and after his lifetime, and a powerful influence on generations of writers and film-makers to this day, Edgar Allan Poe is still counted among the greatest short-story writers of all time and seen as one of the initiators of the detective, horror and science-fiction genres. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Art of Sinking in Poetry Alexander Pope (Author) Series:
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22 Jun 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 200pp h198mm x w128mm 149g ISBN13: 9781847496928 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-692-8 ISBN10: 184749692X EAN: 9781847496928 This Product Replaces: 9781847491053 x Description: Written in 1727, The Art of Sinking in Poetry was one of Alexander Pope's contributions to the literary output of the legendary Scriblerus club - a circle of writers dedicated to mocking what they perceived as a culture of mediocrity and false learning prevalent in the arts and sciences of their day. Taking the form of an ironic guide to writing bad verse, Pope's tongue-in-cheek essay is wickedly funny in its lampooning of various pompous poetasters, as well as being essential reading for any budding writer wishing to avoid sinking to the unintentionally ridiculous, and instead reach for the sublime. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Poems Antonia Pozzi (Author) Peter Robinson (Translated by) Series:
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15 Apr 2015
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 144pp h198mm x w128mm 247g ISBN13: 9781847494702 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-470-2 ISBN10: 1847494706 EAN: 9781847494702 This Product Replaces: 9781847491855 x Description: After her tragical 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 European languages. Since then, her reputation has risen steadily, and she is now considered one of the greatest Italian poets of the twentieth century. This new version by prize-winning poet and translator Peter Robinson perfectly renders the delicate undertones and that sense of longing which is such a distinctive feature of Pozzi's poetry. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pleasures and Days Marcel Proust (Author) Andrew Brown (Translated by) Series:
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18 Jul 2013
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w128mm 230g ISBN13: 9781847493170 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-317-0 ISBN10: 1847493173 EAN: 9781847493170 x Description: Proust's only other work of fiction published in his lifetime apart from the monumental novel cycle 'In Search of Lost Time, Pleasures and Days' takes the reader on a journey through the high-society circles of fin-de-siecle Paris, presenting the lives, loves and attitudes of a host of unforgettable characters. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Belkin's Stories Alexander Pushkin (Author) Roger Clarke (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 May 2014
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w128mm 189g ISBN13: 9781847493514 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-351-4 ISBN10: 1847493513 EAN: 9781847493514 x Description: First published in 1831, Belkin's Stories was the first completed work of fiction by the founding father of Russian literature. Through a series of interlinked stories purporting to have been told by various narrators to the recently deceased country squire Ivan Belkin, Pushkin offers his own variation on themes and genres that were popular in his day and provides a vivid portrayal of the Russian people. From the story of revenge served cold in `The Shot' to the havoc wreaked by a blizzard on the life of two young lovers, from the bittersweet tones of `The Station Master' to the supernatural atmosphere of `The Undertaker', this collection - presented here in a brand-new translation by Roger Clarke sparkles with humour and is a testament to the brilliance and versatility of Pushkin's mind. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Boris Godunov and Little Tragedies Alexander Pushkin (Author) Roger Clarke (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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15 Feb 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w128mm 362g b/w ISBN13: 9781847496911 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-691-1 ISBN10: 1847496911 EAN: 9781847496911 This Product Replaces: 9781847491473 x Description: A drama of ambition, murder, remorse and retribution, Boris Godunov charts the decline of a Russian statesman, whose dynastic aims were foiled by a guilty past and an audacious upstart. Based on history and inspired by Shakespeare, Alexander Pushkin's daring masterwork is presented here in its rarely published uncensored version of 1825. Set in Vienna, Flanders, Madrid and London, Pushkin's celebrated Little Tragedies - Mozart and Salieri, The Mean-Spirited Knight, The Stone Guest and A Feast during the Plague - each focus on a protagonist's driving obsession - with status, money, sex or risk-taking - and its devastating consequences. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Eugene Onegin Alexander Pushkin (Author) Roger Clarke (Translated by) Series:
Alma Classics Evergreens Edition:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 May 2015
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 424pp ISBN13: 9781847494177 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-417-7 ISBN10: 184749417X This Product Replaces: 9781847491602 x Description: When the world-weary dandy Eugene Onegin moves from St Petersburg to take up residence in the country estate he has inherited, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with his neighbour, the poet Vladimir Lensky. Coldly rejecting the amorous advances of Tatyana and cynically courting her sister Olga - Lensky's fiancee - Onegin finds himself dragged into a tragedy of his own making. Eugene Onegin - presented here in a sparkling translation by Roger Clarke, along with extensive notes and commentary - was the founding text of modern Russian literature, marking a clean break from the high-flown classical style of its predecessors and introducing the quintessentially Russian hero and heroine, which would remain the archetypes for novelists throughout the nineteenth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Love Poems Alexander Pushkin (Author) Roger Clarke (Volume editor) Roger Clarke (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Feb 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm 243g ISBN13: 9781847496898 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-689-8 ISBN10: 184749689X EAN: 9781847496898 This Product Replaces: 9781847493002 x Description: One of the many aspects of Alexander Pushkin's immense contribution to Russian language and literature, and perhaps the one he is most popular for, is his mastery of the love poem, a genre which he perfected like few others before or after him. This volume contains a selection of his most famous and enduring verse explorations of love, such as `I Loved You', `Night' and `I Well Recall a Wondrous Meeting', pieces which are crowning achievements of the European canon and still have the same timeless emotional resonance today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ruslan and Lyudmila Alexander Pushkin (Author) Roger Clarke (Translated by) Series:
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16 Aug 2012
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 240pp h198mm x w128mm 267g ISBN13: 9781847492968 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-296-8 ISBN10: 1847492967 EAN: 9781847492968 This Product Replaces: 9781847491305 x Description: In order to rescue his beloved Lyudmila, who has been abducted by the evil wizard Chernomor, the warrior Ruslan faces an epic and perilous quest, encoutering a multitude of fantastic and terrifying characters along the way. The basis for Glinka's famous opera of the same name, Ruslan and Lyudmila - Pushkin's second longest poetical work - is a dramatic and ingenious retelling of Russian folklore, full of humour and irony. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Captain's Daughter Alexander Pushkin (Author) Paul Debreczeny (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
18 Apr 2012
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w128mm 299g ISBN13: 9781847492159 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-215-9 ISBN10: 1847492150 EAN: 9781847492159 x Description: Set during the Pugachov rebellion against Catherine the Great, The Captain's Daughter was Pushkin's only completed novel and remains one of his most popular works. The inexperienced and impetuous young nobleman Pyotr Grinyev is sent on military service to a remote fortress, where he falls in love with Masha, Captain Mironov's daughter - but then the ruthless Cossack Pugachov lays siege to the stronghold, setting in motion a tragic train of events. This volume also contains another work by Pushkin on the same theme, A History of Pugachov, which presents an impartial, meticulously researched history of the revolt, but was regarded in aristocratic circles as subversive on its publication. Together, these two works provide a fascinating insight into the character of the peasant who tried to overthrow an empress, written with the clarity and insight of Russia's greatest poet. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories Alexander Pushkin (Author) Paul Debreczeny (Translated by) Series:
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16 May 2011
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w128mm 413g b/w ISBN13: 9781847494788 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-478-8 ISBN10: 1847494781 EAN: 9781847494788 This Product Replaces: 9781847491817 x Description: This collection of Pushkin's stories begins with `The Queen of Spades', perhaps the most celebrated short story in Russian literature. The young Hermann, while watching some friends gambling, hears a rumour of how an officer's grandmother is always able to predict the three winning cards in a game. He becomes obsessed with the woman and her seemingly mystical powers, and seeks to extract the secret from her at any cost. This volume, part of a new series of the complete works of Pushkin in English, also includes `Dubrovsky', the story of a man's desire to avenge himself after his land is unjustly taken from him by an aristocrat; `The Negro of Peter the Great', a tale inspired by Pushkin's maternal grandfather; and the unfinished story `Egyptian Nights', a meditation on poetry and the poet. Together, they represent some of the most striking and enduring pieces of Pushkin's prose fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Exercises in Style Raymond Queneau (Author) Barbara Wright (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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04 Sep 2013
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h198mm x w128mm 158g ISBN13: 9781847492418 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-241-8 ISBN10: 184749241X EAN: 9781847492418 This Product Replaces: 9781847490735 x Description: On a crowded bus at midday, the narrator observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated, the first man takes it. Later, in another part of town, the man is spotted again, while being advised by a friend to have another button sewn onto his overcoat. Exercises in Style retells this apparently unremarkable tale ninety-nine times, employing a variety of styles, ranging from sonnet to cockney to mathematical formula. Too funny to be merely a pedantic thesis, this virtuoso set of themes and variations is a linguistic rustremover, a guide to literary forms and a demonstration of imagery and inventiveness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Flight of Icarus Raymond Queneau (Author) Barbara Wright (Translated by) Series:
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04 Jul 2017
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Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Hardback (stationery) 120pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497116 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-711-6 ISBN10: 184749711X x Description: In late-nineteenth-century Paris, the writer Hubert is shocked to discover that Icarus, the protagonist of the new novel he's working on, has vanished. Looking for him among the manuscripts of his rivals does not solve the mystery, so a detective is hired to find the runaway character, who is now in Montparnasse, where he learns to drink absinthe and is picked up by a friendly prostitute. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Sunday of Life Raymond Queneau (Author) Barbara Wright (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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04 Jul 2017
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Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm 251g ISBN13: 9781847497109 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-710-9 ISBN10: 1847497101 EAN: 9781847497109 x Description: 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 cunning wife, a shifty
career in fortune-telling, the approaching threat of war with Germany and the mysteries of Parisian public transport. With a cast of eccentric characters, amusing incidents and an uplifting tone, The Sunday of Life - its title playfully alluding to Hegel's theory of history is a scintillating novel which showcases Queneau's trademark punning, sly wit and delight in the absurdity of people and situations. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
We Always Treat Women Too Well Raymond Queneau (Author) Barbara Wright (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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04 Jul 2017
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Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 164pp h198mm x w128mm 167g ISBN13: 9781847497123 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-712-3 ISBN10: 1847497128 EAN: 9781847497123 x Description: Published originally as the purported French translation of a novel by fictional Irish writer Sally Mara, We Always Treat Women Too Well is set in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising and tells the story of the siege of a small post office by a group of rebels, who discover to their embarrassment that a female postal clerk, Gertie Girdle, is still in the lavatory some time after they have shot or expelled the rest of the staff. The events that follow are not for prudish readers, forming a scintillating, linguistically delightful and hilarious narrative. By far Queneau's bawdiest work, We Always Treat Women Too Well contains all of its author's hallmarks: wit, stylistic innovation and formal playfulness - expertly rendered into English by Barbara Wright's classic translation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Italian Ann Radcliffe (Author) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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22 Jun 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 480pp h198mm x w128mm 517g ISBN13: 9781847497031 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-703-1 ISBN10: 1847497039 EAN: 9781847497031 x Description: First published in 1797, The Italian, with its archetypal villain Schedoni, its intense romance and its sublime depiction of landscape, is the masterpiece of Gothic fiction. Enlisted by the Marchesa di Vivaldi, the perfidious monk Schedoni casts a malevolent presence throughout the book as he tries to thwart the passion of the two young lovers Vincenzo di Vivaldi and Elena di Rosalba. Against the backdrop of the Catholic Inquisition and the unforgettable scenery of the Bay of Naples and the Apennines, The Italian celebrates the heroic struggle of love in the face of malice and deceit. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cheeks on Fire Raymond Radiguet (Author) Alan Stone (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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04 May 2012
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 112pp h198mm x w128mm 134g ISBN13: 9780714543734 ISBN13: 978-0-7145-4373-4 ISBN10: 071454373X EAN: 9780714543734 x Description: Shortly before his death at the age of twenty, the young literary sensation Raymond Radiguet compiled a volume of his poetry, composed between the ages of fourteen and eighteen. Presented here, this prodigious oeuvre is notable as much for its homage to classical style as it is for its risque and even licentious undertones: it is, by Radiguet's own admission, an interpretation of ""the birth of Venus"", a depiction of the awakening of the senses. Based on the authoritative 1925 text, this dual-language edition also contains Radiguet's foreword to the collection, providing an invaluable insight into the history and interpretation of the works. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Histoires Naturelles Jules Renard (Author) Richard Stokes (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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22 Jun 2017
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 300pp h198mm x w128mm 298g ISBN13: 9781847497055 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-705-5 ISBN10: 1847497055 EAN: 9781847497055 x Description: A delightful variation on the long tradition of bestiary writing, Jules Renard's short verse and prose poems have captured the imagination of readers and artists since they were originally written in 1894, with Ravel famously setting five of them to music. Presented in a new version by acclaimed translator Richard Stokes, this sumptuously produced volume will captivate and enchant new generations of readers the world over. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Regicide Alain Robbe-Grillet (Author) John Calder (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 May 2015
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w128mm 211g ISBN13: 9781847494184 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-418-4 ISBN10: 1847494188 EAN: 9781847494184
x Description: Set in an unspecified island kingdom, A Regicide tells the story of the statistician Boris who, after the electoral victory of the Church party in the country's elections, decides to assassinate the King on the day he is to visit the factory where he is employed. As the crime is described and relived, doubt sets in as to whether it has ever taken place. Written in 1949 but only published in 1979, Robbe-Grillet's first novel is a disquieting and satirical avant-garde political thriller which bridges the gap between traditional novel and the Nouveau Roman genre he would later espouse and make famous. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Voyeur Alain Robbe-Grillet (Author) Richard Howard (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
13 Mar 2012
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 176pp h198mm x w128mm 202g ISBN13: 9781847492845 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-284-5 ISBN10: 1847492843 EAN: 9781847492845 This Product Replaces: 9781847491107 x Description: When Mathias, a travelling watch salesman, returns after many years to the island of his birth, a young girl is found dead on the rocks. As Mathias makes an increasingly tense recapitulation of his movements on the day of the event, tiny details slowly and inexorably accumulate. Through the warped screen of his distorted mind, the remembered images pile up until the reader is caught in his web of desperation. And yet in the end reality has lost all meaning, as the distinction between the narrator's recollections and the underlying facts are more and more blurred. This brilliantly executed novel, which showcases all the techniques that have secured Robbe-Grillet's place in the canon of Western literature, leaves behind a disturbing sense of unrest. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Impressions of Africa Raymond Roussel (Author) Rayner Heppenstall (Translated by) Lindy Foord (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
13 Mar 2012
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w128mm 288g ISBN13: 9781847492708 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-270-8 ISBN10: 1847492703 EAN: 9781847492708 This Product Replaces: 9781847491688 x Description: The first of Roussel's two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventure story put together in a highly individual fashion and with an unusual time sequence, whereby the reader is even made to choose whether to begin with the first or the tenth chapter. A veritable literary melting pot, Roussel's groundbreaking text makes ample use of wordplay and the surrealist techniques of automatic writing and private allusion. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Incest Sade De (Author) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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17 Jan 2013
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h198mm x w128mm 131g ISBN13: 9781847492975 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-297-5 ISBN10: 1847492975 EAN: 9781847492975 x Description: When the immoral libertine Monsieur de Franval marries and fathers a daughter, he decides to inculcate in her a sense of absolute freedom, an unconventional education that involves the two becoming secret lovers. But Franval's virtuous, God-fearing wife becomes suspicious and confronts him, setting off a tragic chain of events. Part of Sade's The Crimes of Love cycle, this shocking tale - which was among the writings banned for publication until the twentieth century - tests the limits of morality and portrays the disastrous consequences of freedom and pleasure. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Night Flight Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Author) David Carter (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jul 2016
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w128mm 129g ISBN13: 9781847495891 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-589-1 ISBN10: 1847495893 EAN: 9781847495891 x Description: Under the pressure of his boss, the intransigent Riviere, the airmail pilot Fabien attempts a perilous flight during a heavy night-time thunderstorm in Argentina. As conditions get worse and the radio communication with Fabien becomes increasingly difficult, Riviere begins to question his uncompromising methods, and his distress turns to guilt when the pilot's wife comes to find him in search of answers. Based on Saint-Exupery's own experiences as a commercial pilot, Night Flight is a haunting and lyrical examination of duty, destiny and the individual, as well as an authentic and tragic portrayal of the intrepid early days of human air travel. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Comic Romance Paul Scarron (Author) Jacques Houis (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
16 Aug 2012
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 272g ISBN13: 9781847492203 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-220-3 ISBN10: 1847492207 EAN: 9781847492203
x Description: Paul Scarron's masterpiece, The Comic Romance, recounts the adventures of a troupe of provincial itinerant actors, skilfully weaving multiple narrative strands - such as the personal histories and love stories of the central couples Destiny and Star and Leandre and Angelique, the farcical misadventures of the buffoonish Ragotin and various tales inspired by Spanish novelas - into a rich tapestry depicting side by side the realities of rural France and the realms of the imagination. A milestone of picaresque literature that would influence Henry Fielding, The Comic Romance spawned countless imitations when it was published and was championed in the nineteenth century by eminent literary figures such as Theophile Gautier and Gerard de Nerval. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Supernatural Short Stories of Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott (Author) Series:
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Calder Publications Ltd
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Alma Books Ltd
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01 Apr 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9780714543635 ISBN13: 978-0-7145-4363-5 ISBN10: 0714543632 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sonnets William Shakespeare (Author) Series:
Evergreens
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
21 Jul 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w128mm 186g ISBN13: 9781847496089 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-608-9 ISBN10: 1847496083 EAN: 9781847496089 x Description: Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most lyrical and moving pieces of poetry in any language, abounding with examples of his genius for wordplay, rhythm and metaphor and dealing with the eternal themes of love, memory, beauty and the ravishes of time. First published in 1609, after Shakespeare had written many of his most famous works, the Sonnets have been the subject of literary curiosity ever since, mainly concerning the identity of the two addressees, `Mr W.H.' and the `Dark Lady', and the light they could shine on Shakespeare's life. This collection constitutes one of English literature's most profound poetic meditations on life and love, and is a vital complement to the plays, offering clues to Shakespeare's own biography. Presented here in an edition that makes them accessible to twentieth-century readers, these poems are worth returning to again and again. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Intelligent Woman's Guide Bernard Shaw (Author) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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15 May 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 512pp h198mm x w128mm 446g ISBN13: 9781847493330 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-333-0 ISBN10: 1847493335 EAN: 9781847493330 x Description: The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism, and Fascism As a lifelong socialist, Shaw believed that economic inequality was a poison destroying every aspect of human life, perverting family affections and the relations between the sexes. According to him, all British institutions were "corrupted at the root by pecuniary interest" - and idealism, integrity and any
piecemeal attempts at political reform were futile in the face of the gross injustice built into the Empire's economic system. Begun in 1924 - the year of the British Labour Party's first period of office under Ramsay MacDonald (who hailed it as "the world's most important book since the Bible") - and first published in 1928, The Intelligent Woman's Guide draws on Shaw's decades of activism and remains a brilliant, thoughtprovoking classic of political propaganda. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Frankenstein Mary Shelley (Author) Series:
Evergreens
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
16 Jan 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 244pp h198mm x w128mm 219g ISBN13: 9781847493507 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-350-7 ISBN10: 1847493505 EAN: 9781847493507 x Description: Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley's seminal novel has generated countless print, stage and screen adaptations, but none has ever matched the power and philosophical resonance of the original. Composed as part of a challenge with Byron and Shelley to conjure up the most terrifying ghost story, Frankenstein narrates the chilling tale of a being created by a bright young scientist and the catastrophic consequences that ensue. Considered by many to be the first science-fiction novel, the tragic tale of Victor Frankenstein and the tortured creation he rejects is a classic fable about the pursuit of knowledge, the nature of beauty and the monstrosity inherent to man. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Memoirs of a Mother in Law George R. Sims (Author) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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16 Jan 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 288pp h220mm x w134mm 452g ISBN13: 9781847493415 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-341-5 ISBN10: 1847493416 EAN: 9781847493415 x Description: Jane Tressider has never been afraid of speaking her mind, even if she admits that she may have occasionally given offence by doing so. But as a busy mother of nine children, she cannot let such a small foible get in the way of her job, which is to keep her feckless husband on his toes while ensuring the perfect management not just of her own household but also of that of her married daughters and sons. Since mothers-in-law have always been misunderstood and no one has ever taken up their side of the argument properly, Jane is determined to set the record straight and plead the cause of the most maligned race on the face of the earth. The result is a hilarious comedy of manners and a gentle satire of Edwardian mores and attitudes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Life of Rossini Stendhal (Author) Series:
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15 Jan 2015
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 600pp h198mm x w128mm 638g ISBN13: 9781847494474 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-447-4 ISBN10: 1847494471 EAN: 9781847494474 This Product Replaces: 9781847490568 x Description: Rossini's popularity in Italy in the early 1820s was certainly not echoed in France where he was regarded as 'an ill-bred parvenu, whose cheap popularity was an insult to a great musical tradition' and thus Stendhal, always an obstinate individualist, was the first of his contemporaries to recognise the genius of this important Italian composer. Stendhal's introduction to this book sets the musical climate in perspective with a history of the interregnum between the death of Cimarosa and the coming of Rossini.Details of Rossini's early life are followed by penetrating discussions in the operas, libretti, personalities of the period, and on Rossini's own character - indeed a whole chapter is devoted to his wild sense of humour. No book of its period better captures the atmosphere of opera-going during the birth-period of Romantic music. Besides being a fascinating and penetrating account of this popular Italian composer's most creative years and of contemporary musical events and opinions, this work is one of the finest items in the Stendhalian literary canon.Richard Coe's eloquent translation (revised for the second edition) and careful annotations do full justice to the incandescent strength of this great French writer's prose style. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Racine and Shakespeare Stendhal (Author) Series:
Calder Collection
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01 Jan 2012
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Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780714544038 ISBN13: 978-0-7145-4403-8 ISBN10: 0714544035 This Product Replaces: 9780714507583 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Rome, Naples and Florence Stendhal (Author) Richard N. Coe (Translated by) Series:
Calder Collection
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01 Mar 2010
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Selected Journalism Stendhal (Author) Richard N. Coe (Translated by) Series:
Calder Collection
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01 Mar 2010
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Travels in the South of France Stendhal (Author) Elisabeth Abbott (Translated by) Series:
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13 Feb 2013
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm 210g ISBN13: 9781847492920 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-292-0 ISBN10: 1847492924 EAN: 9781847492920 This Product Replaces: 9781847491121 x Description: Published posthumously in 1930, Stendhal's travel notes on his 1838 journey to southern France contain descriptions of cities such as Bordeaux, Toulouse and Marseilles, peppered with numerous personal digressions, anecdotes and cultural musings. Both an addition to the Stendhalian canon and a pioneering work of the travel-writing genre, Travels in the South of France provides an illuminating perspective on this popular region and the phenomenon of tourism in general. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne (Author) Series:
Evergreens
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01 May 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 608pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847494160 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-416-0 ISBN10: 1847494161 x Description: Purporting to be an autobiography of the antihero Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne's novel is a comic masterpiece of digression, egoism and sensationalism, as its hilarious asides, explanations and host of memorable secondary characters - such as Uncle Toby, Dr Slop, Parson Yorick and Widow Wadman - take centre stage, at the expense of the actual life events the book sets out to depict. A humorous compendium of European thought and literature - pastiching the likes of Locke and Bacon and referencing Pope, Swift, Cervantes and Rabelais - emerges amid the convoluted accounts of Tristram's conception, misnaming and accidental circumcision by a sash window, in a shrewd narrative that examines the role and nature of language itself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
New Arabian Nights Robert Louis Stevenson (Author) Series:
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15 Apr 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 310g ISBN13: 9781847494092 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-409-2 ISBN10: 1847494099 EAN: 9781847494092 x Description: Stevenson published this collection of his early fiction in 1882, after the pieces had appeared in various magazines. The first half features two popular detective-story cycles, The Suicide Club and The Rajah's Diamonds, which deal with a macabre secret society and the intrigues and escapades involving exotic jewels. The second half brings together unrelated pieces, including the seminal `The Pavilion on the Links' - described by Conan Doyle as the first short story in the world - which is set in a cottage surrounded by quicksand and tells the story of two old friends who become rivals for the affection of a woman. An eclectic, entertaining compilation, New Arabian Nights represented a milestone in Stevenson's creative development and confirmed his reputation as one of the finest storytellers in the English language. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories Robert Louis Stevenson (Author) Series:
Evergreens
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18 Sep 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 144pp h198mm x w128mm 243g ISBN13: 9781847493781 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-378-1 ISBN10: 1847493785 EAN: 9781847493781 x Description: One of Stevenson's most famous and enduringly popular works, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde describes the mysterious relationship between a respectable and affable doctor and his brutal associate. Set in the grimy streets of Victorian London, this tale of murder, split personality and obscure science, with its chilling final revelation, became an instant horror classic when it was first published in 1886 and has enthralled and terrified generations of readers ever since. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Immensee and Other Stories Theodor Storm (Author) R. Taylor (Translated by) B. Q. Morgan (Translated by) F. M. Voigt (Translated by) Series:
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15 Mar 2015
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 150pp h198mm x w128mm 150g ISBN13: 9781847494597 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-459-7 ISBN10: 1847494595 EAN: 9781847494597 This Product Replaces: 9781847491077 x
Description: A romantic tale of an old man reminiscing about his youth and unfulfilled love, "Immensee" is considered by many to be Theodor Storm's most accomplished work, evoking a reality which is veiled and haunted by dreams and illusion.This volume, which also contains "Viola Tricolor", the delightful story of a woman coming to terms with her stepdaughter, and "Curator Carsten", a sombre account of a young man falling into a life of debauchery, provides a vivid introduction to one of German Romanticism's finest storytellers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Directions to Servants Jonathan Swift (Author) Series:
Alma Quirky Classics
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01 May 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h150mm x w110mm 97g ISBN13: 9781847496614 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-661-4 ISBN10: 184749661X EAN: 9781847496614 x Description: A tongue-in-cheek manual on how servants should cope with the demands of their masters and perform their tasks in ways that will best satisfy their indolence, wastefulness and greed, Directions to Servants takes a caustic and irreverent look at master-servant relations. Written towards the end of his writing career and published posthumously, this pamphlet shows Swift - who was himself known to be strict but fair to his own servants, as illustrated in the Appendix to this volume - at his witty and mischievous best. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift (Author) Series:
Evergreens
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21 Jul 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w128mm 242g ISBN13: 9781847495976 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-597-6 ISBN10: 1847495974 EAN: 9781847495976 x Description: Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself surrounded by its six-inch-tall natives, the Lilliputians. But this is only the first in a long line of wonderful discoveries, as his adventures take him to other far-off lands such as Brobdingnag, populated by a race of giants, Luggnagg, home to the eternally ageing Struldbrugs, and the country of the Houyhnhnms, a race of benevolent talking horses. Parodying the popular travel accounts of its time, Gulliver's Travels is not only a tour de force of imaginative and comic writing, which has thrilled readers of all ages for almost three centuries, but also a masterly, merciless satire on Western society and human nature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Battle of the Books Jonathan Swift (Author) Series:
Alma Quirky Classics
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15 Dec 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 112pp h150mm x w110mm 87g ISBN13: 9781847496799 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-679-9 ISBN10: 1847496792 EAN: 9781847496799 This Product Replaces: 9781847492050 x Description: Inspired by Boileau's Lutrin and illustrating the debate within European intellectual circles between the "Ancients", who argued that all essential knowledge was to be found in classical texts, and the "Moderns", who claimed that contemporary learning superseded the old sources, The Battle of the Books shows Swift at his wittiest and most trenchant. In this early satire, various books in St James's Library take on a life of their own and
come into conflict with one another, in a pastiche of the heroic epic genre. As well as providing humorous reflections on the nature of scholarship and education, Swift seizes the opportunity to take swipes at several authors and critics. The result is a timeless and entertaining parody by one of the most enduringly popular writers in the English language. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Benefit of Farting Explained Jonathan Swift (Author) Series:
Alma Quirky Classics
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15 Dec 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 120pp h150mm x w110mm 94g ISBN13: 9781847496805 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-680-5 ISBN10: 1847496806 EAN: 9781847496805 This Product Replaces: 9781847490315 x Description: What is the nature, essence and definition of a fart? What are the consequences and disadvantages of suppressing one? Why is farting considered to be taboo? Swift's The Benefit of Farting argues eloquently, in a forceful a posteriori fashion, that most of the distempers thought to affect the fairer sex are due to flatulences not adequately vented. To complete the excursus into this venerable and age-old human activity, Charles James Fox's Essay upon Wind provides a detailed analysis, classification and history of farting, peppered with wit and curious anecdotes about particularly eminent farters of the past. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders Jonathan Swift (Author) Series:
Quirky Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Dec 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h150mm x w110mm 97g ISBN13: 9781847496874 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-687-4 ISBN10: 1847496873 EAN: 9781847496874 This Product Replaces: 9781847491329 x Description: A glorious exercise in cheeky punmanship, The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders sees Jonathan Swift in fine scatological form. Flying by the seat of his pants, the great author treats us to a condensed biography of his posterior, enlivened by some inspired wordplay. Most famous for his celebrated masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels, Swift was the foremost satirist of his day. Also including a selection of Swift's other lesser-known works, and a very peculiar proposal to make money from public toilets, this volume will be a hilarious and illuminating read for any fans of Ireland's most illustrious wit. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Journey by Moonlight Antal Szerb (Author) Peter Czipott (Translated by) Series:
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24 Feb 2016
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Language: English Translated From: Hungarian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 273g ISBN13: 9781847495822 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-582-2 ISBN10: 1847495826 EAN: 9781847495822 x Description: Travelling to Italy on their honeymoon, Erszi and Mihaly are ready to take in all the beauties and pleasures of the country. But when they reach Venice, it is clear that Mihaly prefers to roam around the back alleys and the canals on his own, and as they continue their journey through the Bel Paese there is a growing sense of unrest between them, until Mihaly misses the train to Rome they were due to take together. Wandering alone from city to city, with his marriage rapidly falling apart, Mihaly must confront the ghosts of his past and try to find a sense of purpose. Originally written in 1937, and here presented in a brilliant new translation by Peter V. Czipott, Antal Szerb's gently humorous and psychologically subtle exploration into the workings of a budding bourgeois marriage has been hailed as one of the great rediscovered classics of the twentieth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Calendar of Wisdom Leo Tolstoy (Author) Roger Cockrell (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Oct 2015
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w128mm 349g ISBN13: 9781847495631 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-563-1 ISBN10: 184749563X EAN: 9781847495631 x Description: 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 everyday life. Banned in Russia under Communism, A Calendar of Wisdom was Tolstoy's last major work, and one of his most popular both during and after his lifetime. This new translation by Roger Cockrell will offer today's generation of readers the chance to discover, day by day, these edifying and carefully selected pearls of wisdom. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy (Author) Kyril Zinovieff (Translated by) Jenny Hughes (Translated by) Series:
Alma Classics Evergreens Edition:
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Alma Books Ltd
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16 Jul 2014
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 912pp ISBN13: 9781847493682 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-368-2 ISBN10: 1847493688 x Description: Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic story of its eponymous heroine. Anna is desperately pursuing a good, "moral" life, standing for honesty and sincerity. Passion drives her to adultery, and this flies in the face of the corrupt Russian bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, the aristocrat Konstantin Levin is struggling to reconcile reason with passion, espousing a Christian anarchism that Tolstoy himself believed in. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth Leo Tolstoy (Author) Dora O'Brien (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
24 Nov 2016
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w128mm 313g ISBN13: 9781847496003 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-600-3 ISBN10: 1847496008 EAN: 9781847496003 x Description: This trilogy of short novels, taken as a whole, recounts the young narrator's early life up to his university days, each episode told through the perceptions, points of view and emotions felt by the protagonist at the time. Based on Tolstoy's own life and experiences, this fictionalized account of a young man growing into the world combines anecdote with frank personal assessment and philosophical extrapolation, as the author's Stendhalian take on the confessional genre confronts and blurs the notions of reality and imagination. Tolstoy's first published work, which launched him on a successful writing career, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth - besides offering an early display of his storytelling and stylistic abilities - provides the reader with invaluable insight into the personal and literary development of one of the greatest writers of all time." _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hadji Murat Leo Tolstoy (Author) Kyril Zinovieff (Translated by) Jenny Hughes (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Aug 2015
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm 218g ISBN13: 9781847494818 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-481-8 ISBN10: 1847494811 EAN: 9781847494818 This Product Replaces: 9781847491794 x Description: Hadji Murat, one of the most feared and venerated mountain chiefs in the Caucasian struggle against the Russians, defects from the Muslim rebels after feuding with his ruling imam, Shamil. Hoping to protect his family, he joins the Russians, who accept him but never put their trust in him - and so Murat must find another way to end the struggle. Tolstoy knew as he was writing this, his last work of fiction, that it would not be published in his lifetime, and so gave an uncompromising portrayal of the Russians' faults and the nature of the rebels' struggle. In the process, he shows a mastery of style and an understanding of Chechnya that still carries great resonance today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Dec 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w128mm 188g ISBN13: 9781847493637 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-363-7 ISBN10: 1847493637 EAN: 9781847493637 This Product Replaces: 9781847491916 x Description: The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to work and often neglecting his family in the process. When, after a small accident, he fails to make the expected recovery, it gradually becomes clear that he is soon to die. Ivan Ilyich then starts to question the futility and barrenness of his previous existence, realizing to his horror, as he grapples with the meaning of life and death, that he is totally alone. Included in this volume is another celebrated novella by Tolstoy, The Devil, which addresses the conflicts between desire, social norms and personal conscience, providing at the same time a further exploration of human fear and obsession. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories Leo Tolstoy (Author) Roger Cockrell (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Apr 2015
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w128mm 279g ISBN13: 9781847494115 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-411-5 ISBN10: 1847494110 EAN: 9781847494115 x Description: On a train journey, Pozdnyshev tells his story to a stranger: how his relationship with his wife gradually deteriorated from one of love and passion to jealousy and resentfulness, culminating in a mad act of desperation while she practised Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata with her violin teacher. An uncompromising examination of lust, suspicion and infidelity which was once forbidden by censors in Russia and banned in the US due to its shocking content, Tolstoy's controversial novella - here presented in a new translation, along with `The Prisoner of the Caucasus', `Master and Man' and `After the Ball' - is now considered one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy's late period. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Three Novellas Leo Tolstoy (Author) April Fitzlyon (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
15 May 2015
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm 246g b/w ISBN13: 9781847494795 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-479-5 ISBN10: 184749479X EAN: 9781847494795 This Product Replaces: 9781847491251 x Description: One of Tolstoy's last published works of fiction, The Devil revolves around the young landowner Yevgeny's irrepressible lust for Stepanida, a sensual peasant woman. Even when he gets married to a respectable upper-class lady, he finds himself unable to put an end to his encounters with Stepanida, and becomes increasingly consumed by guilt and helplessness in the face of his urges. In some ways comparable to the controversial Kreutzer Sonata, The Devil shows Tolstoy at his most salacious, and addresses the conflicts between desire, social norms and personal conscience. Also included in this volume is Family Happiness, one of Tolstoy's earliest works, an entertaining and cynical account of marriage from the perspective of a disillusioned wife, and A Landowner's Morning. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Man at Leisure Alexander Trocchi (Author) Series:
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15 Jan 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 90pp h198mm x w128mm 118g ISBN13: 9781847494399 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-439-9 ISBN10: 1847494390 EAN: 9781847494399 This Product Replaces: 9781847491008 x Description: Published for the first time in 1972, this verse collection reveals lesser-known facets of the novelist Alexander Trocchi's writing. The poems included span a long period of time, and range from the lyricism of his early love poetry and reflections on his involvement in drug culture to the penetrating comments on contemporary figures and events of his later pieces. Trocchi's language is strong, rich and frankly obscene, and his arguments are both witty and profound. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Nest of the Gentry Ivan Turgenev (Author) Michael Pursglove (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
17 Nov 2016
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm 241g ISBN13: 9781847495907 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-590-7 ISBN10: 1847495907 EAN: 9781847495907 x Description: Coming back to the "nest" of his family home in Russia after years of fruitless endeavours away from his roots, Lavretsky decides to turn his back on the vacuous salons of Paris and his frivolous and unfaithful wife Varvara Pavlovna. On his return he meets Liza, the daughter of one of his cousins, whom he had known when they were children and who rekindles in him long-smothered feelings of love. News of Varvara's death arrive from France, offering Lavretsky the prospect of a new life, but a cruel twist threatens to shatter his dreams and forces him to re-evaluate his plans. Hailed as a masterpiece of Russian literature, A Nest of the Gentry - Turgenev's most successful and widely read novel, here presented in a new translation by Michael Pursglove - deals with the personal struggles of the individual in a period of turbulent social change. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fathers and Children Ivan Turgenev (Author) Michael Pursglove (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Aug 2015
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w128mm 248g ISBN13: 9781847494894 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-489-4 ISBN10: 1847494897 EAN: 9781847494894 This Product Replaces: 9781847491459
x Description: Fathers and Children, arguably the first modern novel in the history of Russian literature, shocked readers when it was first published in 1862 - the controversial character of Bazarov, a self-proclaimed nihilist intent on rejecting all existing traditional values and institutions, providing a trenchant critique of the established order. Turgenev's masterpiece investigates the growing nihilist movement of mid-nineteenth-century Russia - a theme which was to influence Dostoevsky and many other European writers - in a universal and often hilarious story of generational conflict and the clash between the old and the new. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Faust Ivan Turgenev (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
21 Jun 2012
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 135pp h198mm x w128mm 144g ISBN13: 9781847492180 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-218-0 ISBN10: 1847492185 EAN: 9781847492180 x Description: 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 also a world of unbridled feelings and tempestuous passions, which can only shatter the comfort and safety of her existence and force her to set off on a journey of spiritual awakening. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
On the Eve Ivan Turgenev (Author) Michael Pursglove (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
21 Apr 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm 281g ISBN13: 9781847496324 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-632-4 ISBN10: 1847496326 EAN: 9781847496324 x Description: On the eve of the Crimean War, the young, headstrong Yelena, the daughter of aristocratic Russian parents, falls in love with a revolutionary from Bulgaria named Insarov. Facing the wrath and disapproval of her family, Yelena abandons her home to follow Insarov to Bulgaria. Their fateful match sets in motion a series of tragic events which challenge notions of love, revolution and idealism. A highly controversial work upon its original publication, Ivan Turgenev's On the Eve is now recognized as one of the masterpieces of Russian literature and an essential document of the upheaval that dominated Russian society in the years prior to the Crimean War. Turgenev's restrained, nuanced prose is rendered beautifully in Michael Pursglove's new translation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Rudin Ivan Turgenev (Author) Dora O'Brien (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
21 Jun 2012
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 177pp h198mm x w128mm 183g ISBN13: 9781847492265 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-226-5 ISBN10: 1847492266 EAN: 9781847492265 x Description: Dmitry Rudin, a high-minded gentleman of reduced means, arrives at the estate of Darya Mikhailovna, where his intelligence, eloquence and conviction immediately make a powerful impression. As he stys on longer than intended, Rudin exerts a strong influence on the younger generation, and Darya's daughter, Natalya, falls in love with him. But circumstances soon will show whether Rudin has the courage to act on his beliefs, and whether he can live ip to the image he has created for himself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Smoke Ivan Turgenev (Author) Michael Pursglove (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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18 Jul 2013
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w128mm 249g ISBN13: 9781847493163 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-316-3 ISBN10: 1847493165 EAN: 9781847493163 x Description: On his way back to Russia after some years spent in the West, Grigory Mikhailovich Litvinov, the son of a retired official of merchant stock, stops over in Baden-Baden to meet his fiancee Tatyana. However, a chance encounter with his old flame, the manipulative Irina - now married to a general and a prominent figure in aristocratic expatriate circles - unearths feelings buried deep inside the young man's heart, derailing his plans for the future and throwing his life into turmoil. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Virgin Soil Ivan Turgenev (Author) Michael Pursglove (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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21 Aug 2014
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w128mm 305g ISBN13: 9781847493750 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-375-0 ISBN10: 1847493750 EAN: 9781847493750 x
Description: Turgenev's final novel, Virgin Soil traces the destinies of several middle-class revolutionaries who seek to "go to the people" by working on the land and instilling democratic ideas in the countryside's locals. They include the daydreaming impoverished young tutor Nezhdanov - employed by the liberal councillor Sipyagin and his vain and beautiful wife Valentina - the naive young radical Maryanna and the progressive factory manager Solomin. Their liaisons, intrigues and conspiracies, set against the backdrop of Tsarist Russia, form the matter of Turgenev's most ambitious and elaborate work, which cemented the author's place in the West as Russia's foremost novelist while at the same time proving controversial at home - culminating in the arrest of fifty-two real-life revolutionaries barely a month after it was published. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Diaries of Adam and Eve Mark Twain (Author) Series:
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15 Aug 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h198mm x w128mm 160g ISBN13: 9781847494382 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-438-2 ISBN10: 1847494382 EAN: 9781847494382 This Product Replaces: 9781847490902 x Description: Mark Twain's gloriously funny Diary of Adam and Eve, which John Updike described as a paradigm of the relations between sexes, is presented here with a number of other Twain pieces on our two oldest ancestors, showing the writer's interest in this most famous episode of the Bible. By giving a voice to Adam and Eve, and by hitting all the notes on the literary scale - from the intimate to the comical, from the journalistic to the idyllic Twain displays the brilliance and wit for which he is rightly considered one of the greatest satirists of all time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Is Shakespeare Dead? Mark Twain (Author) Series:
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21 Jul 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847495990 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-599-0 ISBN10: 1847495990 x Description: An exponent of the theory that William Shakespeare, the modestly educated provincial man from Stratford-upon-Avon, could not have written the works - full of erudition and accurate professional jargon - which are attributed to him, Mark Twain offers an eloquent and entertaining analysis of this issue of authorship, peppered with personal recollections of his own first encounters with the Bard's plays on a boat on the Mississippi.Balancing humour, insight and vitriol, Is Shakespeare Dead? is a provocative contribution to the tradition of Shakespeare-doubting, as well as a fine example of the great American novelist's critical writing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Author) Series:
Evergreens
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 Aug 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w128mm 254g ISBN13: 9781847496027 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-602-7 ISBN10: 1847496024 EAN: 9781847496027
x Description: Widely considered one of the greatest American novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn tells the story of Huck Finn and his companion, the slave Jim, as they journey down the Mississippi river after running away from Huck's alcoholic father and Jim's owners. As they travel, they encounter a floating house, feuding families and cunning grifters, but more importantly Huck gets to know Jim and regard him as a friend and equal, overcoming the racial prejudices of the time, in a landmark narrative which poignantly addresses the issues of growing up and finding freedom. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Tom Sawyer, Detective Mark Twain (Author) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Jul 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 287g ISBN13: 9781847494900 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-490-0 ISBN10: 1847494900 EAN: 9781847494900 This Product Replaces: 9781847491954 x Description: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer charts the escapades of a thirteen-year-old boy growing up on the banks of the Mississippi. Testing the patience of his aunt Polly, the bold and sharp-witted Tom Sawyer frequently skips school in search of excitement, and the scrapes he gets into with his friend Huckleberry Finn range from innocent japes to more serious events such as the witnessing of a murder. One of the most popular and influential American novels, Mark Twain's masterpiece is at the same time a highly entertaining romp which celebrates youth and freedom and a more profound investigation of his times, touching on themes such as race, revenge and slavery. This volume includes Tom Sawyer, Detective, a sequel and pastiche of the detective genre, first published in 1896. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg Mark Twain (Author) Series:
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15 Feb 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w128mm 273g ISBN13: 9781847494030 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-403-0 ISBN10: 184749403X EAN: 9781847494030 x Description: One of Twain's most celebrated novellas, `The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' is a satirical retelling of the Garden of Eden story in the Bible, in which the author, mocking the supposed honesty and incorruptibility of the inhabitants of an imaginary American town, shows how man is fundamentally bad and cannot resist the temptations of gold. This collection also includes another acclaimed novella, `A Double-Barrelled Detective Story', a spoof of the mystery genre featuring Sherlock Holmes in the American West, as well as lesser-known narratives such as `The Belated Russian Passport' and `The Death Disk'. Together, these tales are a testament to Twain's inexhaustible gift for invention and his skills as a storyteller. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Testament and Other Poems Francois Villon (Author) Anthony Mortimer (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
21 Nov 2013
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 288pp h220mm x w160mm 460g ISBN13: 9781847493286 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-328-6 ISBN10: 1847493289 EAN: 9781847493286 x Description: Violent, indignant, ribald and often brutally physical, Villon's verse has a formidable satiric thrust, and yet is also encompasses passages of poignant nostalgia and haunting lyric expression, culminating in his digressive autobiographical masterpiece, 'The Testament', which counts among the most popular texts of French poetry. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Micromegas Voltaire (Author) Douglas Parmee (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
18 Sep 2014
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w128mm 158g ISBN13: 9781847493798 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-379-8 ISBN10: 1847493793 EAN: 9781847493798 x Description: Micromegas is a six-hundred-and-fifty-year-old, thirty-nine-kilometre-high giant from the planet Sirius who can speak a thousand languages and has been expelled from his homeland for writing a heretical tract. On Saturn he befriends the local secretary of the Academy of Sciences - a comparative dwarf, being only two kilometres high - and the two decide to travel to earth together, where they will make startling discoveries about human nature. At once a story-length Bildungsroman and a philosophical tale, `Micromegas' is a classic Enlightenment text, and is accompanied in this volume by thirteen other pieces - including `Plato's Dream' and `Memnon' - all in a new translation by acclaimed French specialist Douglas Parmee. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Spring Awakening Frank Wedekind (Author) Tom Osborn (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
15 Mar 2015
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 75pp h198mm x w128mm 107g ISBN13: 9781847494610 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-461-0 ISBN10: 1847494617 EAN: 9781847494610 This Product Replaces: 9781847491886 x Description: The action is set in a small German town in the 1890s where adolescent boys and girls grope their way towards knowledge and maturity against the blocks set up by parents and teachers in the name of 'morality'. Melchior, fearless in his pursuit of the truth, manages to retain his freedom of spirit, but his friends are not so lucky or so strong. Wedekind's theme that ignorance is the greatest threat to innocence is presented with humour, lyricism and realism, as he follows his adult characters from the familiar to the grotesque and his adolescent characters from the rivalry of the schoolroom to the double-edged welcome of the grave. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lulu Plays Frank Wedekind (Author) Stephen Spender (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
15 Mar 2015
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 296pp h198mm x w128mm 330g ISBN13: 9781847494603 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-460-3 ISBN10: 1847494609 EAN: 9781847494603 This Product Replaces: 9781847491879 x Description: Two of Wedekind's most seminal plays, "Earth Spirit" and "Pandora's Box" both focus on the actions of the young heroine Lulu, who embodies both animal sensuality and waif-like innocence, as she escapes a life on the streets, receives a society education, marries, takes on various lovers, becomes a dancer in a revue, is imprisoned for murder, and encounters Jack the Ripper. When "Earth Spirit" was premiered Leipzig in 1898, Wedekind was vilified and persecuted for advocating unfeigned sexual pleasure and making his heroine a heartless whore. "Death and Devil" and "Castle Wetterstein," the other plays that make up this volume, are essentially extensions of and complementary to the Lulu tragedies. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Invisible Man H. G. Wells (Author) Series:
Alma Classics Evergreens Edition:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
23 Feb 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w128mm 202g ISBN13: 9781847496294 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-629-4 ISBN10: 1847496296 EAN: 9781847496294 x Description: The mysterious Griffin arrives at a picturesque English inn during a snowstorm, swaddled in bandages which cover his face and with his eyes hidden behind dark glasses. His odd get-up and irascible behavior intrigue the locals, who believe him to be the victim of an accident. However,
the true reason for Griffin's outfit is far stranger: underneath those clothes, he is completely invisible. As the cause of Griffin's state of transparency is revealed, his nefarious and destructive intentions become clear. One of the foundational texts of science fiction, The Invisible Man has inspired numerous film and TV adaptations and remains chilling in its depiction of scientific experimentation gone wrong. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Time Machine H. G. Wells (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
23 Mar 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w128mm 147g ISBN13: 9781847496270 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-627-0 ISBN10: 184749627X EAN: 9781847496270 x Description: A Victorian scientist and inventor creates a machine for propelling himself through time, and voyages to the year AD 802701, where he discovers a race of humanoids called the Eloi. Their gently indolent way of life, set in a decaying cityscape, leads the scientist to believe that they are the remnants of a once great civilization. He is forced to revise this assessment when he comes across the cave dwellings of threatening ape-like creatures known as Morlocks, whose dark underground world he must explore to discover the terrible secrets of this fractured society, and the means of getting back to his own time. A biting critique of class and social equality as well as an innovative and much imitated piece of science fiction which introduced the idea of time travel into the popular consciousness, The Time Machine is a profound and extraordinarily prescient novel. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells (Author) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
21 Apr 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w128mm 250g ISBN13: 9781847496461 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-646-1 ISBN10: 1847496466 EAN: 9781847496461 x Description: When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people of the Earth must come to terms with the prospect of the end of human civilization and the beginning of Martian rule. Inspiring films, radio dramas, comic-book adaptations, television series and sequels, The War of the Worlds is a prototypical work of science fiction which has influenced every alien story that has come since, and is unsurpassed in its ability to thrill, well over a century since it was first published. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Decay of Lying Series:
Quirky Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Dec 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 120pp h150mm x w110mm 92g ISBN13: 9781847496829 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-682-9 ISBN10: 1847496822 EAN: 9781847496829 This Product Replaces: 9781847490674 x
Description: In the library of a country house in Nottinghamshire, Vivian is writing an article about the importance of lying, when he is interrupted by Cyril, who tries to tempt him away, but instead is drawn into a discussion about art, nature, literature and imagination. The Decay of Lying sees Wilde explore his deepest preoccupations about the relationship between life and art, and examine the work of such writers as Shakespeare and Balzac. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
04 Jul 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 244g ISBN13: 9781847493729 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-372-9 ISBN10: 1847493726 EAN: 9781847493729 This Product Replaces: 9781847490186 x Description: Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in the portrait rather than on Dorian's own face. The stage is now set for a masterful tale about appearance, reality, art, life, truth, fiction and the burden of conscience. Oscar Wilde's only full-length novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a lasting gem of sophisticated wit and playfulness, which brings together all the best elements of his talent in a reinterpretation of the Faustian myth. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Monday or Tuesday Virginia Woolf (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
20 Feb 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h198mm x w128mm 130g ISBN13: 9781847493477 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-347-7 ISBN10: 1847493475 EAN: 9781847493477 x Description: Originally hand-printed at her Hogarth Press in Richmond, Monday or Tuesday is the only collection of short stories that Virginia Woolf published during her lifetime, providing a fascinating insight into the early stages of development of themes that would blossom in her later masterpieces. From the impressionist description of four groups of people walking by a flowerbed in the botanic gardens at Kew to the soaring flight of a heron above the teeming life of towns and cities below and the reveries of a woman as she looks at a mark on the wall, the eight pieces included in this volume showcase Woolf's inimitable observational powers and her boldly modern style of writing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf (Author) Series:
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15 Jan 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm 220g ISBN13: 9781847494009 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-400-9 ISBN10: 1847494005 EAN: 9781847494009 This Product Replaces: 9781847492197 x Description: As Mrs Dalloway works on the preparations for a dinner party, her thoughts throughout the day wander from memories of the past to interrogations about the present and lead her to assess the choices she has made in life and love. Her monologue interweaves with the account of the distress, on that same day, of the shell-shocked veteran Septimus Warren Smith, whose trauma and hallucinations end in tragedy, as the links between the two characters unfold. One of Virginia Woolf's most famous novels, Mrs Dalloway is a triumph of experimentation, a cornerstone of Modernism and a subtle examination of love, freedom, mental illness and the female condition in society. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Orlando Virginia Woolf (Author) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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17 Jul 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 300pp ISBN13: 9781847493705 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-370-5 ISBN10: 184749370X x Description: Orlando, a young nobleman and one of Queen Elizabeth I's court favourites, is the object of many ladies' attentions but, after suffering heartbreak, he prefers literary pursuits to entertaining any thoughts of marriage. Having obtained a ambassadorial post in Constantinople, Orlando falls into a long sleep and wakes up suddenly transformed into a woman. Also blessed with the gift of never ageing, she embarks on adventurous travels throughout Europe and the following centuries, observing what it is like to be female. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Waves Virginia Woolf (Author) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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15 Aug 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w128mm 244g ISBN13: 9781847494924 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-492-4 ISBN10: 1847494927 EAN: 9781847494924 x Description: Through a series of connected monologues, The Waves tells the story of six very different friends - Bernard, Louis, Neville, Jinny, Susan and Rhoda - as they progress from childhood to middle age. Interspersed with evocative descriptions of the seaside at different times of day, the poignant personal histories coalesce into a poetic tapestry of human experience. A commercial and critical success when it was first published in 1931, and now considered by some to be Virginia Woolf's most ambitious novel, showcasing her Modernist narrative techniques at their finest, The Waves casts a visionary and lyrical light on everyday life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf (Author) Series:
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26 Oct 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 240pp h198mm x w128mm 230g ISBN13: 9781847496577 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-657-7 ISBN10: 1847496571 EAN: 9781847496577 x Description: When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day, little does she know that this trip will only be completed ten years later by her husband, and that a gulf of war, grief and loss will have opened in the meantime. As each character tries to readjust their memories and emotions with the shifts of time and reality, this long-delayed excursion will also prove to be a journey of self-discovery and fulfilment for them. Rich in symbolism, daring in style, elegiac in tone and encapsulating Virginia Woolf's ideas on life, art and human relationships, To the Lighthouse is a landmark of twentieth-century literature and one of the high points of early Modernism. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Selected Poems W. B. Yeats (Author) Series:
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15 Nov 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp ISBN13: 9781847494412 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-441-2 ISBN10: 1847494412 This Product Replaces: 9781847491374 x Description: The present selection traces the development of Yeats' fully annotated verse, encompassing the poet's interest in Irish folklore and national identity, his engagement with the political situation of his day and the rich symbolism that is the hallmark of his work and a reflection of his lifelong fascination with the occult. It contains some of his best-known pieces, including the elegiac 'Easter 1916', the apocalyptic "The Second Coming" and the reflective and spiritual "Sailing to Byzantium". Often radical in content but always traditional in form, these poems are by turns startling and affecting, and never less than inspired. Taken together, they form an ideal introduction to the poetic career of one of Ireland's greatest literary figures. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
We Yevgeny Zamyatin (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
23 Nov 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847496768 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-676-8 ISBN10: 1847496768 EAN: 9781847496768 x Description: We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirements of the state, under the rule of the allpowerful Benefactor, and dreams are regarded as a sign of mental illness. In a city of straight lines, protected by green walls and a glass dome, a
spaceship is being built in order to spearhead the conquest of new planets. Its chief engineer, a man called D-503, keeps a journal of his life and activities: to his mathematical mind everything seems to make sense and proceed as it should, until a chance encounter with a woman threatens to shatter the very foundations of the world he lives in. Written in a highly charged, direct and concise style, Zamyatin's 1921 seminal novel - here presented in Hugh Aplin's crisp translation - is not only an indictment of the Soviet Russia of his time and a precursor of the works of Orwell and the dystopian genre, but also a prefiguration of much of twentieth-century history and a harbinger of the ominous future that may still lay ahead of us. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Attack on the Mill and Other Stories Emile Zola (Author) Douglas Parmee (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
22 Jun 2017
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm 302g ISBN13: 9781847496973 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-697-3 ISBN10: 1847496970 EAN: 9781847496973 x Description: Most famous for his twenty-volume dissection of nineteenth-century French mores and society, the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola was also an extremely accomplished short-story writer, as exemplified by the tales included in this volume. Concerned with the manifold aspects of everyday life and varying in their settings - from aristocratic drawing rooms to poverty-stricken garrets, from the hustle and bustle of Paris to the Provencal countryside of the author's childhood - these stories will keep the reader riveted from the beginning to the end and surprise for their modernity. Contains: The Attack on the Mill The Girl Who Loves Me Rentafoil Death by Advertising Story of a Madman Big Michu The Way People Die A Flash in the Pan Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder Priests and Sinners Fair Exchange The Haunted House _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dead Men Tell No Tales and Other Stories Emile Zola (Author) Douglas Parmee (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
22 Jun 2017
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm 168g ISBN13: 9781847496966 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-696-6 ISBN10: 1847496962 EAN: 9781847496966 x Description: In contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola's short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of human existence and the interests of ordinary people. From the cruel irony of `Captain Burle' to the Rabelaisian exuberance of `Coqueville on the Spree', these stories display the broad range of Zola's imagination, using a variety of tones, from the quietly cynical to the compassionate, from the playful to the tragic. Contains: Dead Men Tell No Tales Coqueville on the Spree Captain Burle Shellfish for Monsieur Chabre _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Money Emile Zola (Author) Andre Naffis-Sahely (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 May 2016
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 416pp h198mm x w128mm 450g ISBN13: 9781847495792 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-579-2 ISBN10: 1847495796 EAN: 9781847495792 x Description: Now bankrupt after some failed gambles, Aristide Saccard, the former kingpin of the Paris Stock Exchange, desperately wants to get back to the top of the financial pile. When his powerful brother, the government minister Eugene Rougon, refuses to help him, he forms a partnership with the engineer Hamelin and founds the Banque Universelle, which speculates on public works in the Middle East. But as his greed and desire to outplay his rivals gets the better of him, the dashing and ruthless Saccard perilously begins to inflate the value of his enterprise using rumour, intrigue, financial manipulation and all the other tricks in the book. Inspired by real events and meticulously researched by Zola, Money is, in the wake of recent financial scandals, an all-too-topical exploration of the dynamics of greed, the excesses of capitalism and its dangerous relationship with politics and the press. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Dream Emile Zola (Author) Andrew Brown (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Jun 2013
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 244g ISBN13: 9781847493118 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-311-8 ISBN10: 1847493114 EAN: 9781847493118 x Description: Finding the young Angelique on their doorstep one Christmas Eve, the pious Hubert couple decide to bring her up as their own. As the girl grows up in the vicinity of the town's towering cathedral and learns her parents' trade of embroidery, she becomes increasingly fascinated by the lives of the saints, a passion fuelled by her reading of the `Golden Legend' and other mystical Christian writings. One day love, in the shape of Felicien Hautocoeur, enters the dream world she has constructed around herself, bringing about upheaval and distress. Although it provides a detailed portrait of provincial nineteenth-century life and adhered to a naturalist approach, `The Dream' eschews many of the characteristics of Zola's other novels of the Rougon-Macquart cycle - such as a pronounced polemical agenda or a gritty subject matter - offering instead a timeless, lyrical tale of love and innocence. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Ladies' Paradise Emile Zola (Author) April Fitzlyon (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
21 Oct 2013
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 480pp h198mm x w128mm 360g ISBN13: 9781847493132 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-313-2 ISBN10: 1847493130 EAN: 9781847493132 This Product Replaces: 9781847490483 x Description: Encapsulating in luxurious detail the phenomenon of consumer society - obsessed with image, fashion and instant gratification - Ladies' Delight vividly depicts the workings of a new commercial entity, the department store. The novel centres around the story of Denise, a young shopgirl from the provinces, and Octave Mouret, the dashing young director of a shopping emporium, who find themselves torn between the conflicting forces of love, loyalty and ambition. Set in the heart of the city, Zola's novel - the eleventh in his Rougon-Macquart series - evokes the giddy pace of Paris's transition into a modern city and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place during the second half of the nineteenth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Game of Chess and Other Stories Stefan Zweig (Author) Zweig Bowman (Translated by) Peter James Bowman (Translated by) Series:
Evergreens
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Feb 2016
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Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 300pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847495815 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-581-5 ISBN10: 1847495818
x Description: When it is discovered that the reigning world chess champion, Mirko Czentovic, is on board a cruiser heading for Buenos Aires, a fellow passenger challenges him to a game. Czentovic easily defeats him, but during the rematch a mysterious Austrian, Dr B., intervenes and, to the surprise of everyone, helps the underdog obtain a draw. When, the next day, Dr B. confides in a compatriot travelling on the same ship and decides to reveal the harrowing secret behind his formidable chess knowledge, a chilling tale of imprisonment and psychological torment unfolds.Stefan Zweig's last and most famous story, 'The Game of Chess' was written in exile in Brazil and explores its author's anxieties about the situation in Europe following the rise of the Nazi regime. The tale is presented here in a brand-new translation, along with three of the master storyteller's most acclaimed novellas: 'Twentyfour Hours in the Life of a Woman', 'The Invisible Collection' and 'Incident on Lake Geneva'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Phoenix and the Carpet Edith Nesbit (Author) Ella Okstad (Illustrated by) Series:
Alma Junior Classics
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Alma Classics
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
22 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm Line illustrations ISBN13: 9781847496553 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-655-3 ISBN10: 1847496555 x Description: When Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane accidentally destroy a carpet in their London home with fi reworks, their parents replace it with a second-hand one. Upon unfurling it, the children fi nd an egg inside, and, when one of them accidentally drops it into the fi re, it hatches into a magical golden phoenix, who tells them that he can take them on the carpet to any location they wish. This revelation sets the siblings - and their baby brother Lamb - off on wild adventures, taking them around London and to far-fl ung destinations such as India and a remote tropical island. After the success of Five Children and It, E. Nesbit decided to recast its much-loved characters in this sequel, which has now become a classic in its own right, enchanting generations of readers and inspiring many fi lm and television adaptations. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Daddy-Long-Legs Jean Webster (Author) Series:
Alma Classics Junior
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Imprint:
Alma Classics
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
31 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm Line illustrations ISBN13: 9781847496515 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-651-5 ISBN10: 1847496512 x Description: One of the classics of American children's literature, Daddy-Long-Legs tells the tale of Judy Abbott - an ebullient orphan beginning a college degree with the aim of becoming a writer - through her letters to the anonymous patron who is paying for her education. Judy is informed that she must write him monthly letters, but that she will never know his identity or receive a letter in reply. One day, Judy catches a glimpse of the man's shadow and sees a pair of long legs, but just who is this mysterious benefactor? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Story of Doctor Dolittle Hugh Lofting (Author) Series:
Alma Classics Junior
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Imprint:
Alma Classics
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
19 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497451 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-745-1 ISBN10: 1847497454
x Description: John Dolittle is a highly respected doctor in the village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, yet he loves animals so much that his house is soon full of them. With all his patients scared away, and the expense of feeding his menagerie mounting, a friend suggests that the Doctor become a vet instead. With the help of Polynesia the parrot, Doctor Dolittle swiftly learns the language of the animals so that he can talk to all of his new patients. However, when a message comes from Africa, telling of a terrible sickness among the monkeys there, the Doctor and his animal friends depart on a thrilling and dangerous adventure that they are never likely to forget. This new edition contains original illustrations and extra material for young readers including a glossary and a quiz-yourself section. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) David Mackintosh (Illustrated by) Series:
Alma Classics Junior
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Imprint:
Alma Classics
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847497444 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-744-4 ISBN10: 1847497446 x Description: With Sherlock Holmes's reputation as the scourge of the criminal underworld preceding him, the ingenious detective, with the aid of Dr Watson, is confronted in these stories by some of his most fiendishly difficult cases yet. The collection culminates in `The Final Problem', in which the evil Professor Moriarty is plotting the detective's downfall. Soon Holmes and Watson are led across Europe in a deadly pursuit of their devilish quarry, until the final showdown in Switzerland, at the precipitous Reichenbach Falls... Stories included are: The Silver Blaze The Yellow Face Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk The Gloria Scott The Musgrave Ritual The Reigate Puzzle The Crooked Man The Resident Patient The Greek Interpreter The Naval Treaty The Final Problem _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Silver Skates Mary Mapes Dodge (Author) Series:
Alma Classics Junior
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Imprint:
Alma Classics
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w128mm Line illustrations ISBN13: 9781847497208 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-720-8 ISBN10: 1847497209 x Description: As their father is sick, Hans Brinker and his younger sister Gretel must work to support their family. Despite this life of poverty, they long to take part in the annual ice-skating races on the frozen canal, where the victors win magnifi cent silver skates. But how can they hope to enter the races - let alone win - when their skates are wooden and home-made? After meeting the famous surgeon Dr Boekman, and hearing that he might be able to cure their father, Hans doesn't hesitate in offering to pay for the
necessary operation, although he has been saving up all his money to buy two pairs of swift steel skates. As the big day looms, can the children enter their respective races and win the longed-for prize? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Little Women Louisa May Alcott (Author) Ella Bailey (Illustrated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 May 2016
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 528pp h198mm x w128mm x s22mm 290g illustrations ISBN13: 9781847495877 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-587-7 ISBN10: 1847495877 x Description: The four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy - live in financial hardship in New England with their mother, while their father has been drafted to fight in the Civil War. The girls embark on a series of adventures and endure a number of unexpected misfortunes - experiences that allow their personalities to emerge: Meg sensible and outgoing, Jo literary and boyish, Beth musical and shy, and Amy artistic and selfish - but the bonds holding together the March family remain unbroken.Initially written as a novel for girls, Little Women is now regarded as an all-time American classic for all readers, inspiring generations of women writers and giving rise to many adaptations. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Belle and Sebastien Cecile Aubry (Author) Helen Stephens (Illustrated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 Jan 2018
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Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w128mm Line Illustrations ISBN13: 9781847497253 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-725-3 ISBN10: 184749725X x Description: The son of a gypsy woman, Sebastien is found as a newborn baby in the Alps and brought up by Cesar and his grandchildren Angelina 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 escapes from a kennel. When Sebastien rescues the runaway Belle from the wrath of the villagers, the boy and the dog form a lifelong friendship and embark on exciting adventures in the mountains. First published in 1965 to coincide with the internationally successful television series of the same name, Belle and Sebastien is a heart-warming story of camaraderie, adventure and freedom. Available for the first time into English, this edition Includes extra material for young readers, including a section on the book, information about the author and a test-yourself quiz. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Complete Peter Pan Sir J. M. Barrie (Author) Joel Stewart (Illustrated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Oct 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 368pp h198mm x w128mm 332g ISBN13: 9781847495600 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-560-0 ISBN10: 1847495605 EAN: 9781847495600 x Description: The boy who wouldn't grow up, Peter Pan has the power of flight and lives on a magical island. But he is fascinated by Mary Darling's bedtime stories for her children and makes covert night-time visits to their Bloomsbury home. One evening he loses his shadow, and after Mary's
daughter Wendy helps him reattach it, he invites her to fly away with him on an extraordinary adventure. In addition to the famous 1911 novel Peter and Wendy, which tells the familiar adventures of Peter Pan in Neverland and popularized the characters of Tinkerbell and Captain Hook, this volume contains the celebrated stage version on which Peter and Wendy is based, as well as Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, in which Peter Pan is a seven-day-old infant who consorts with birds and fairies and travels down the Serpentine in a thrush's nest. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum (Author) Ella Okstad (Illustrated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Feb 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm 20 black and white illustrations ISBN13: 9781847495778 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-577-8 ISBN10: 184749577X x Description: When young Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a cyclone, their Kansas farmhouse is carried off to the magical Land of Oz. Upon being told that the only way back is to follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, home to the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy embarks on an extraordinary but perilous quest, in which the Wicked Witch of the West is constantly lurking around the corner.With its unforgettable cast of now iconic characters such as the Tin Man, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was an instant hit when it was published over a century ago, inspiring numerous adaptations and sequels. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily Dino Buzzati (Author) Dino Buzzati (Illustrated by) Frances Lobb (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2016
Publishing Status:
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h220mm x w160mm 309g colour ISBN13: 9781847495723 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-572-3 ISBN10: 1847495729 EAN: 9781847495723 x Description: Starving after a harsh winter, the bears descend from the mountains in search of food and invade the valley below, where they face fierce opposition from the army of the Grand Duke of Sicily. After many battles, scrapes and dangers, the bears' reign is established over the land, but their victory comes at a price. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Alice's Adventures Under Ground Lewis Carroll (Author) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Mar 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w128mm 323g ISBN13: 9781847494078 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-407-8 ISBN10: 1847494072 EAN: 9781847494078 x Description: Originally conceived by its author as an entertaining story for Alice Liddell, the daughter of an Oxford dean, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the fantastic tale of the young Alice's encounters with the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts, has captured the imaginations of young and old throughout the world since it was first published in 1865. In addition to the vivid and unforgettable characters, it is the book's experimental style, linguistic inventiveness and myriad of jokes and puzzles that account for the timeless fascination it inspires. Published to coincide with Alice in Wonderland's 150th anniversary, this volume includes John Tenniel's iconic drawings, the sequel Through the Looking Glass and a facsimile of Alice's Adventure's Under Ground, the early manuscript version of the novel illustrated by Lewis Carroll himself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Adventures of Pipi the Pink Monkey Carlo Collodi (Author) Alessandro Gallenzi (Edited by) Axel Scheffler (Illustrated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Oct 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w128mm 197g b/w ISBN13: 9781847495594 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-559-4 ISBN10: 1847495591 EAN: 9781847495594 x Description: Pipi isn't like his four brothers or the other young monkeys living in the forest of Hullabaloo: he has bright-pink fur, a mischievous character and a rebellious streak that lands him into all sorts of scrapes. In this story, an expanded version of Collodi's original tale, we see him lose his tail to an ancient crocodile, end up as a valet to a young master, fall into the hands of flying bandits and become emperor of a tribe of apes. Collodi wrote this story immediately after Pinocchio, and the little monkey's adventures present clear similarities, both in terms of themes and characters, with his more celebrated masterpiece. This rediscovered gem of Italian literature, beautifully illustrated by Axel Scheffler and preserving all of Collodi's trademark wit and linguistic crispness, will delight and enthral a new generation of children. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) David Mackintosh (Illustrated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Oct 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w128mm 312g ISBN13: 9781847496164 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-616-4 ISBN10: 1847496164 EAN: 9781847496164 x Description: From his Baker Street apartment, Sherlock Holmes wields his powers of deduction in pursuit of justice and truth, venturing out into foggy Victorian London accompanied by his faithful sidekick Dr Watson. This classic collection of Holmes tales includes many of the detective's most-loved exploits: Holmes is confronted by a venomous snake in `The Adventure of the Speckled Band', mystified by a missing thumb in `The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb' and beguiled by a beautiful opera singer in `A Scandal in Bohemia', never once losing his famous cool. First appearing separately in the Strand Magazine, these stories were published together in 1892 in a volume that rapidly became one of the most popular Sherlock Holmes collections. Showcasing Arthur Conan Doyle's inimitable genius for mystery and storytelling, these tales are proof that the famous detective remains one of the greatest crime fighters ever created. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) David Mackintosh (Illustrated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Sep 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w128mm 230g ISBN13: 9781847494962 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-496-2 ISBN10: 184749496X EAN: 9781847494962 x Description: When the corpse of Sir Charles Baskerville is found on the grounds of his Dartmoor estate next to a mysterious animal footprint, thoughts turn to a fabled family curse: that of a hellhound set out to avenge a crime committed by one of Sir Charles's ancestors. As the only surviving heir of the Baskervilles is terrified for his safety, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are called in to investigate. The most famous novel in Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes cycle, The Hound of the Baskervilles is a masterpiece of terror, suspense and mystery which has enthralled readers young and old since it was first published in 1902. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What Katy Did Susan Coolidge (Author) Susan Hellard (Illustrated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
17 Nov 2016
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w128mm 13 black and white illustrations ISBN13: 9781847496072 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-607-2 ISBN10: 1847496075 x Description: Katy, a twelve-year-old gangly tomboy, dreams of blossoming into a sophisticated young woman, capable of grand deeds and adventures. She is however prone to mischief, and leads her six siblings into various scrapes, much to the annoyance of her kindly father and domineering aunt. Her life is turned upside down by a terrible accident, which leaves her a bedridden invalid. Now she is forced to learn the virtues of
patience, sacrifice and hopefulness, as she comes to terms with her disability.A heart-warming tale that has become a children's classic since its publication in 1872, Susan Coolidge's What Katy Did is a lesson in the value of good humour and perseverance against the odds for young readers. Beautifully illustrated by Sue Hellard, this is a poignant and timeless story that every child should read. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe (Author) Adam Stower (Illustrated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Nov 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 316g ISBN13: 9781847494856 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-485-6 ISBN10: 1847494854 EAN: 9781847494856 This Product Replaces: 9781847490124 x Description: Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, is considered by many to be the first novel in English, and its success was so enormous that by the end of the nineteenth century it had spawned more translations and versions than any other previous English book. An everyman character who has become part of our cultural heritage, Defoe's castaway - shipwrecked, imperilled and facing a host of elemental challenges - lives an archetypal life of survival, adventure and personal development. On one level a simple adventure story, while at the same time an allegory, a quest novel and a spiritual autoEdition Biography, Robinson Crusoe has captured the imagination of readers for nearly three centuries. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame (Author) Tor Freeman (Illustrated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
21 Apr 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w128mm 249g b/w ISBN13: 9781847496386 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-638-6 ISBN10: 1847496385 EAN: 9781847496386 x Description: Depicting the adventures of Rat, Mole, Badger and the pretentious Mr Toad, The Wind in the Willows sees these four animals getting into all sorts of trouble as they wander along the river, through the Wild Wood and around the grand Toad Hall. Adapted for the stage by A.A. Milne as Toad of Toad Hall, and recreated for film and TV numerous times, Kenneth Grahame's tale has been an essential part of every English child's formative reading for over a century, with new generations of readers succumbing to its charm, wit and wonder. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Little Lord Fauntleroy Frances Hodgson Burnett (Author) Peter Bailey (Illustrated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Jan 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w128mm 273g b/w ISBN13: 9781847496355 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-635-5 ISBN10: 1847496350 EAN: 9781847496355 x
Description: Growing up in a poor New York neighbourhood, Cedric Errol appears to be a normal American boy. However, as he discovers when he meets his grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, he is actually Lord Fauntleroy, and is expected to become an English gentleman. Whisked away from his mother and his friends, Cedric must find a way to convince his grandfather to send him home and show him that there is more to nobility than titles and wealth. First published in 1886, Little Lord Fauntleroy was Frances Hodgson Burnett's first children's novel, and was hugely popular in its day. It contains many of the themes that would recur in her masterpiece The Secret Garden, and remains a witty and charming tale of a transatlantic clash of cultures. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett (Author) Peter Bailey (Illustrated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
21 Apr 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 368pp h198mm x w128mm 264g b/w ISBN13: 9781847495730 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-573-0 ISBN10: 1847495737 EAN: 9781847495730 x Description: After her parents die of cholera in India, Mary Lennox is sent to live with her uncle in his gloomy house in Yorkshire, where she leads a lonely and neglected life, with nothing to do apart from exploring her surroundings. One day she discovers a walled garden which has been locked up, and becomes determined to enter it and find out its secret and the source of the mysterious crying sound that can be heard nearby. A powerful tale of regeneration and personal transformation, The Secret Garden has become one of the most popular children's classics, and has continued to delight generations of young readers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling (Author) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
23 Mar 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm 152g b/w ISBN13: 9781847496379 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-637-9 ISBN10: 1847496377 EAN: 9781847496379 x Description: 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's spots were painted on. Kipling's imagination runs wild as he creates charming origin stories that still enchant and delight children to this day. This edition features Kipling's iconic original illustrations. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Jungle Books Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Apr 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 448pp h198mm x w128mm 364g b/w ISBN13: 9781847495839 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-583-9 ISBN10: 1847495834 EAN: 9781847495839
x Description: The adventures of Mowgli, the young man raised by wolves in the jungles of Central India, and his friends Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther and Kaa the python, as they face the arch villain Shere Khan the tiger, have become so popular that they have achieved an almost mythical status throughout the world. They were collected by Kipling in The Jungle Book and its sequel, The Second Jungle Book, which also contain other stories set in India which prominently feature animals, such as the well-known `Rikki-Tikki-Tavi', which describes the struggles of a mongoose against venomous cobras. Here presented with brand-new illustrations by Ian Beck, these hugely popular tales, inspired by ancient fables and Kipling's own experiences in India, form a vivid account of the relationship between humans and nature, and will continue to inspire readers young and old. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lassie Come-Home Eric Knight (Author) Gary Blythe (Illustrated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Feb 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w128mm 273g b/w ISBN13: 9781847495785 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-578-5 ISBN10: 1847495788 EAN: 9781847495785 x Description: Everyone in the Yorkshire town of Greenall Bridge knows Lassie, the prize collie of miner Sam Carraclough and his son Joe. But when the family falls on hard times, Sam is forced to sell his dog to the Duke of Rudling, who takes her hundreds of miles away to his estate in Scotland. Undeterred by the distance and driven by instinctive love, Lassie escapes from her new owners and embarks on an epic journey to be reunited with her young master Joe. Will she survive the hardships of the long journey and the various dangers along the way? Based on the author's own childhood memories and filled with adventure and suspense, Lassie Come-Home - Eric Knight's best-loved novel and a huge best-seller, famously adapted into a 1943 Hollywood movie - is a timeless classic and one of the greatest dog stories ever written. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tales from Shakespeare Mary Lamb (Author) Charles Lamb (Author) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
23 Nov 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm b/w ISBN13: 9781847496775 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-677-5 ISBN10: 1847496776 x Description: In 1807, Charles Lamb and his sister Mary wrote a collection of stories retelling twenty of Shakespeare's plays for children. While making sure that the pieces were accessible for a younger audience, they took care to stay faithful to the language and vocabulary of the Bard as much as possible. Ranging from the high drama of Romeo and Juliet to the delightful fancy of A Midsummer Night's Dream and the humour of As You Like it, this collection of vivid adaptations - here presented in a lavish new edition - has been a much loved children's classic for more than two hundred years, offering budding readers an accessible route to Shakespeare's works. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Arsene Lupin vs Sherlock Holmes Maurice Leblanc (Author) Thomas Muller (Illustrated by) David Carter (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Oct 2015
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 273g ISBN13: 9781847495617 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-561-7 ISBN10: 1847495613 EAN: 9781847495617 x Description: A battle of wits between the nimblest French thief and the shrewdest British detective 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 of a lamp containing a precious jewel conceals an astonishing secret. While their tone is at times ironic and firmly tongue-in-cheek, the two stories in Arsene Lupin vs Sherlock Holmes bear all the hallmarks of classic detective fiction, and will put a smile on the lips and set the pulses racing of all fans of mystery and detective fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery (Author) Susan Hellard (Illustrated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 May 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w128mm 312g b/w ISBN13: 9781847496393 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-639-3 ISBN10: 1847496393 EAN: 9781847496393 x Description: 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 arrival of a boy, display reservations about the newcomer, Anne must win them over with her charm, beauty and intelligence and find a way to fit in. Originally published in 1908, L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables has come to be acclaimed as one of the world's greatest children's tales. Its numerous sequels, adaptations and spin-offs are a testament to the beauty of this simple story, which continues to enchant readers to this day. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Five Children and It E. Nesbit (Author) Ella Okstad (Illustrated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
23 Feb 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w128mm 220g b/w ISBN13: 9781847496362 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-636-2 ISBN10: 1847496369 EAN: 9781847496362
x Description: When Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother start exploring a gravel pit not far from their new countryside home, they make an unexpected and very curious discovery. The gravel pit is home to a Psammead, a sand fairy. This ugly creature has eyes like a snail, ears like a bat and the body of a spider, and is very grumpy indeed. He grants the children one wish every day, and though they are excited to have all their desires fulfilled, they soon realize that having one's wishes come true can have unexpected consequences... E. Nesbit's much loved children's tale has enchanted generations of readers, and has been adapted for the screen numerous times - most notably by the BBC in a hugely popular 1990s series. It remains one of the most cherished children's classics ever written, and an indispensable part of every young reader's library. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Railway Children E. Nesbit (Author) Peter Bailey (Illustrated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
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25 Aug 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w128mm 245g b/w ISBN13: 9781847496010 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-601-0 ISBN10: 1847496016 EAN: 9781847496010 x Description: Roberta, Phyllis and Peter have their comfortable lives in London thrown into disarray by the unexpected disappearance of their father. They are forced to move to a small cottage in the countryside with their mother, who struggles to make ends meet by writing books. The children find solace in a stretch of railway track and the station nearby, and befriend the railway porter, who teaches them about running the station, and an old gentleman who takes the 9.15 train every day. Through this love of the trains they are led on many exciting adventures, including a quest to discover the secret of their father's disappearance. One of the most popular children's books ever written, E. Nesbit's tale has enchanted generations of readers since it was first released in 1906. It has been adapted for the screen and the stage many times, and its story of innocence, intrigue and discovery remains perfectly poignant today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pollyanna Eleanor H. Porter (Author) Kate Hindley (Illustrated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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22 Jun 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 279g b/w ISBN13: 9781847496409 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-640-9 ISBN10: 1847496407 EAN: 9781847496409 x Description: The orphan girl Pollyanna moves in with her strict aunt in New England. Despite a difficult start, Pollyanna's exuberance and positivity affect everyone who meets her, and she spreads joy and love wherever she goes. But when tragedy strikes, Pollyanna finds her optimistic attitude tested, and she must learn to find happiness again. A heartwarming tale that has become one of the most loved children's stories of all time, Eleanor H. Porter's 1913 best-seller - the first in a long series of Pollyanna novels by the author and other writers - is a beautiful story with a powerful moral message. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Author) Gregory Norminton (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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15 Jun 2015
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 112pp h220mm x w160mm 230g ISBN13: 9781847494238 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-423-8 ISBN10: 1847494234 EAN: 9781847494238 x Description: Having crash-landed in the Sahara desert, a pilot comes across a young boy who introduces himself as the Little Prince and tells him the story of how he grew up on a tiny asteroid before travelling across the galaxies and coming to Earth. His encounters and discoveries, seen through childlike, innocent eyes, give rise to candid reflections on life and human nature. First published in 1943 and featuring the author's own watercolour illustrations, The Little Prince has since become a classic philosophical fable for young and old, as well as a global publishing phenomenon, selling tens of millions of copies worldwide and being translated into dozens of languages. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gabriel-Ernest and Other Tales Quentin Blake (Illustrated by) Saki (Author) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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15 Oct 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h198mm x w128mm x s12mm 198g Quentin Blake ISBN13: 9781847495921 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-592-1 ISBN10: 1847495923 x Description: The local landowner Van Cheele experiences an unnerving encounter with a youth sunning himself near a pond, and starts to wonder if there is any connection between this wild-looking boy and the recent disappearances of poultry, hares, lambs and, more alarmingly, an infant child in the area. To his astonishment, he discovers the next day that his aunt has decided to take the boy in, buying him a suit of clothes and naming him Gabriel-Ernest. Van Cheele remains suspicious, especially when it is revealed that there is something supernatural about their new ward... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Black Beauty Anna Sewell (Author) Paul Howard (Illustrated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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01 Jan 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w128mm 275g b/w ISBN13: 9781847495860 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-586-0 ISBN10: 1847495869 EAN: 9781847495860 x Description: After a wonderful early life as a young colt on Farmer Gray's meadows, the stallion Black Beauty is sold to Squire Gordon of Birtwick Hall and joins the gentleman's stables. While his existence is no longer as carefree as before and he has to be trained by humans, he enjoys the company of the other horses there, such as the fiery Ginger and the kind Merrylegs. Unfortunately one day he is sold on to new owners, and a new chapter opens in his life, full of uncertainty, hardship and cruelty. Will Black Beauty ever
make it back home, or reconnect with the people and horses that cared about him? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Heidi: Her Early Lessons and Travels Johanna Spyri (Author) Susan Hellard (Illustrated by) Peter James Bowman (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
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26 Oct 2017
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 220g b/w ISBN13: 9781847496652 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-665-2 ISBN10: 1847496652 EAN: 9781847496652 x Description: Orphaned at an early age, Heidi has been brought up by her mother's sister Dete in Switzerland. Having been offered a job in Frankfurt, however, her aunt is forced to entrust her young charge into the care of her grandfather, the reclusive Alp-Uncle who lives in the mountains without any interaction with the villagers beneath. The curmudgeonly old man is initially reluctant to accept the new arrangement, but his grand-daughter's warmth, cleverness and exuberance soon win him over, while Heidi learns to love her new surroundings and makes a new friend, Peter the goatherd. But as Heidi gets settled in her new life, little does she suspect that a major upheaval is just around the corner. A timeless classic of Swiss literature that has inspired many adaptations and has captured the imaginations of children the world over, Heidi's Early Lessons and Travels is here presented in a brand-new, unabridged translation by James Bowman, with charming illustrations by Susan Hellard. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson (Author) David Mackintosh (Illustrated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Nov 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 274g ISBN13: 9781847494863 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-486-3 ISBN10: 1847494862 EAN: 9781847494863 This Product Replaces: 9781847490131 x Description: One of the best-loved adventure stories ever written, Treas-ure Island's timeless tale of pirates, lost treasure maps, mutiny and derringdo has appealed to generations of readers ever since Robert Louis Stevenson penned it in 1881 with the claim: If this don't fetch the kids, why, they have gone rotten since my day. But more than just a children's classic, the novel is considered to be one of the greatest feats of storytelling in the English language, with characters such as the unforgettable Long John Silver becoming part of the cultural consciousness. Treasure Island is a coming-of-age story that will captivate both adults and children for as long as stories are told. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dracula Bram Stoker (Author) David Mackintosh (Illustrated by) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
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15 Sep 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 416pp h198mm x w128mm 380g ISBN13: 9781847494870 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-487-0 ISBN10: 1847494870 EAN: 9781847494870 This Product Replaces: 9781847490261 x Description: Regarded as one of the most influential horror stories of all time and the inspiration for countless literary spin-offs, the tale of the young Englishman Jonathan Harker's journey into the very heart of Count Dracula's evil realm remains a compelling read to this day. A thriller of hypnotic power, a dark exploration of human passion, mythology and the paranormal, and a plain old-fashioned masterpiece of storytelling, the nightmarish saga of Dracula is one of the enduring classics of supernatural fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories Oscar Wilde (Author) Series:
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Alma Classics
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Alma Books Ltd
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22 Sep 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 124pp h198mm x w128mm x s11mm 145g ISBN13: 9781847496126 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-612-6 ISBN10: 1847496121 x Description: 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 mysterious bloodstains in the living room. However, the ghost struggles to intimidate his new victims, as they counter his ghoulish behaviour with typically transatlantic pragmatism, offering lubricator for his chains and cleaning up the stains with detergent. As the spirit is deserted by his capacity to scare, Virginia, the Otises' daughter, gets to know him and learns the tragic tale behind his sad fate.Sparkling with his trademark wit, this classic tale is one of Oscar Wilde's finest stories and is presented here with three other comic mystery stories, 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime', 'The Sphinx without a Secret' and 'The Model Millionaire', all of which were first published together in 1891. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Selfish Giant and Other Stories Oscar Wilde (Author) Philip Waechter (Illustrated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
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15 Sep 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w128mm 273g ISBN13: 9781847494979 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-497-9 ISBN10: 1847494978 EAN: 9781847494979 x Description: When the Selfish Giant decides to build a wall around his garden to prevent the children from playing in it, it becomes barren and stuck in perpetual winter. It takes a wonderful event and the heart of a young boy for him to realize the error of his ways. A classic tale for children, `The Selfish Giant' is presented here with all of Oscar Wilde's other fairy stories - `The Happy Prince', `The Nightingale and the Rose', `The Devoted Friend', `The Remarkable Rocket', `The Young King', `The Birthday of the Infanta', `The Fisherman and His Soul' and `The Star-Child' - brought to life by Philip Waechter's bright and imaginative illustrations.
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