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Alma Classics: Collected Poems

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Alma Evergreen: Keep the Aspidistra Flying

George Orwell

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• Despite hailing from a comfortable family background, budding poet Gordon Comstock decides to declare war on money and all the middle-class trappings ... Lees meer

Call me Zebra

Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi

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• After the death of her father, an exiled Iranian man of letters, the bookish twenty-two-year-old Zebra finds herself alone in New York and decides to ... Lees meer

Alma Classics: Letters

Alexander Pushkin

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• It is universally acknowledged among Russians that Pushkin is as much their finest letter writer as he is their greatest and most beloved poet. The le... Lees meer

Catastrophe and Other Stories

Dino Buzzati, Judith Landry

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• 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 ... Lees meer

Humorous Tale

Rudyard Kipling

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• First published in 1921, this volume collects some of the most comical stories Kipling published throughout his writing career. These tales derive the... Lees meer

Dictionary of Received Ideas

Gustave Flaubert

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• A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, the Dictionary of Received Ideas sees Flaubert at his witty and satirical best.... Lees meer

Alma Classics: Six Plays by Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill

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• When Eugene O’Neill was conferred the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936, the award committee praised “the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions” of th... Lees meer

Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell

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• After travelling to Spain at the end of 1936 with the intention of working as a correspondent for a British socialist newspaper, thirty-three-year-old... Lees meer

Quirky Classics: The Life of Our Lord

Charles Dickens

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• 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 acce... Lees meer

Alma Classics: The King’s Bride

E.T.A. Hoffmann

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• Happily engaged to the poet Amandus, Fräulein Anna is horrified to discover that a beautiful ring, mysteriously deposited upon her finger whilst tendi... Lees meer

Flush

Virginia Woolf

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• Written after Woolf had finished her emotionally draining work on The Waves, Flush purports to be an autobiography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epo... Lees meer

Alma Classics: The Road to Wigan Pier

George Orwell

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• In January 1936, the thirty-two-year-old George Orwell left his home in London and travelled to the industrial north of England with the intention of ... Lees meer

The Crack-up

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• 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... Lees meer

Slick

Monica Meira Vaughan

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• Eric Young is the first child android to be trialled in society, but he doesn't know that. He does know that he's just moved to Ashland from New York ... Lees meer

The Zone

Sergei Dovlatov

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• 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... Lees meer

Nineteen eighty-four

George Orwell

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• Ravaged by years of war and civil conflict, Britain has changed its name to Airstrip One and become part of Oceania - one of the three totalitarian bl... Lees meer

Guignol's Band

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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• Often considered to be Celine's funniest work, Guignol's Band showcases its author's idiosyncratic style at its finest, frantically blending slang, in... Lees meer

Alma Classics: The New Dress and Other Stories

Virginia Woolf

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• As Mabel Waring takes off her cloak and steps into the drawing room of Clarissa Dalloway, she immediately realizes that something is not right: her pa... Lees meer

Chamber Music and Other Poems

James Joyce

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• This volume, which includes Joyce's first published book, Chamber Music, as well as his later collection Pomes Penyeach and several other uncollected ... Lees meer

Alma Evergreen: The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

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• Having lived in the city of Orphalese for twelve years, the revered Prophet is about to board a ship taking him back to the isle of his birth. Before ... Lees meer

The Complete Fitzgerald Collection

F. Scott Fitzgerald

• A special collection of all 15 fiction works by F. Scott Fitzgerald. A must-have for fans of Fitzgerald and ideal as a gift. Beautifully packaged, eac... Lees meer

The Captain's Daughter and A History of Pugachov

Alexander S. Puschkin

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• Set against the backdrop of the the Pugachev rebellion against Catherine the Great, The Captain's Daughter was Pushkin's only completed novel and rema... Lees meer

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

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• Based on two lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One's Own is an extended essay about the... Lees meer