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A Perfect Hoax by Italo Svevo; J. G. Nichols (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
Travelling salesman Enrico Gaia decides to play a trick on the conceited ageing litterateur Mario Samigli: he dupes him into thinking that a representative of a prestigious Viennese publishing house wants to commission a German translation of a long-forgotten novel Samigli had written and published at h ...Show more
Apology for a Murder by Lorenzino de' Medici; Andrew Brown (Translator)
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
Famed for having killed his cousin Alessandro, the Duke of Florence, in 1537, but also for writing accomplished literary works, including a comedy and several poems, Lorenzino de' Medici remains one of the most enigmatic figures of Italian literature. In his masterpiece,Apology for a Murder, he reveals ...Show more
Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant; Andrew Brown (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
Pendant plusieurs jours de suite des lambeaux d'arm e en d route avaient travers la ville. Ce n' tait point de la troupe, mais des hordes d band es.
Eureka by Edgar Allen Poe
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Eureka: A Prose Poem by Edgar Allan Poe Eureka by Edgar Allan Poe - also known as - An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe ia a text Edgar Adapted from a lecture he had presented describing Poe's intuitive conception of the nature of the universe. Edgar Allan Poe is one of the true greats, a ma ...Show more
Le Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac; Andrew Brown (Translator)
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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 ...Show more
Life in the Country by Giovanni Verga; J. G. Nichols (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
In this richly colorful collection of stories, a masterwork of Naturalistic writing, Giovanni Verga attempts to capture the very essence of Sicilian life. A licentious woman coerces her son-in-law into agreeing to an illicit affair; a young boy, forced to work down in a mine to make a living, is robbed ...Show more
Prophecies by Leonardo da Vinci; J. G. Nichols (Translator)
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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 ...Show more
The Duel by J. G. Nichols (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
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 It ...Show more
The Frozen Deep by Wilkie Collins
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Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
The Frozen DeepBy Wilkie CollinsThe date is between twenty and thirty years ago. The place is an English sea-port. The time is night. And the business of the moment is-dancing. The Mayor and Corporation of the town are giving a grand ball, in celebration of the departure of an Arctic expedition from the ...Show more
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens; Wilkie Collins
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Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
The Lazy Tour Of Two Idle Apprentices By Charles Dickens In autumn 1857, Charles Dickens embarked on a sightseeing trip to Cumberland with his friend, the rising star of literature Wilkie Collins. Writing together, they reported their adventures for Dickens' periodical Household Words, producing a showc ...Show more
The Single Hound - Poems of a Lifetime by Emily Dickinson; Martha Dickinson Bianchi
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Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
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 th ...Show more
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