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Selected Poetical Works: Blake

William Blake This volume includes a comprehensive selection of Blake’s poetry, from the early Songs of Innocence and Experience to his later “prophetic works”, covering almost four decades of poetical activity and displaying the author’s originality and independence of mind at their sparkling best. It includes notes and extra material for students.

UK December 2020 • US February 2021 • 288 pages PB 9781847498212 • £7.99 / $11.00 Alma Classics World English

Dead Fingers Talk

William S. Burroughs Introduction by Professor Oliver Harris, Keele University This newly edited edition of Dead Fingers Talk, based on the restored text of the novel, will delight all Burroughs fans and lovers of experimental literature, and offer a new insight into the artistic process of one of the most original and influential writers of the twentieth century. PB 9780714550015 • £9.99 World English (excluding Canada/USA)

The Mother

Maxim Gorky Translated by Hugh Aplin 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.

Tales from Russian Folklore: New Translation

Alexander Afanasyev Translated by Stephen Pimenoff Following the example of the Brothers Grimm in Germany, Alexander Afanasyev embarked on the ambitious task of sifting through the huge repository of tales from Russian folklore and selecting the very best from written and oral sources. This large selection from Afanasyev’s work, presented in a new translation by Stephen Pimenoff, will give English readers the opportunity to discover one of the founding texts of the European folkloristic tradition.

UK October 2020 • US January 2021 • 320 pages PB 9781847498373 • £9.99 / $14.00 Alma Classics

UK August 2020 • 288 pages Series: Alma Classics Evergreens • Alma Books World English

Malinovka Heights: New Translation

Ivan Goncharov Translated by Stephen Pearl Malinovka Heights (previously translated in English as The Precipice) is Goncharov’s crowning achievement as a novelist and a triumph of psychological insight. Here presented for the first time in unabridged form in a sparkling new translation by Stephen Pearl, Goncharov’s final novel deserves to be reassessed as one of the most important classics of nineteenth-century Russian literature.

UK November 2020 • US February 2021 • 800 pages PB 9781847498380 • £9.99 / $11.00 Alma Classics

World English

UK November 2020 • US February 2021 • 384 pages PB 9781847498533 • £9.99 / $11.00 Alma Classics World English

Lyrics: Volume 3 (1824–29)

Alexander Pushkin Translated by Various This volume, part of Alma's series of the complete poetic works of Alexander Pushkin, collects the poems Pushkin wrote in his mid-to-late twenties, during his exile in Mikháylovskoye and his subsequent return to metropolitan life. It includes some of his lyrical masterpieces, such as 'To Anna Kern' and 'I Loved You…' – arguably the two most famous love poems in the Russian language – 'To the Sea', 'André Chénier', 'The Prophet', 'Stanzas Addressed to Nicholas I', 'Deep in Siberian Mines', 'Arion', 'An Angel', 'The Talisman', 'Remembrance', 'A Flower' and 'Anchár, Tree of Poison', 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 explore the Russian bard's genius.

UK August 2020 • US January 2021 • 448 pages PB 9781847497338 • £9.99 / $14.00 Alma Classics World English