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Serie: Alma classics 101 pages
paperbackEngels224 blz.9781847497680
22-8-2025
Uncle's Dream 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. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781847498946
24-3-2022
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. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781847499189
15-4-2024
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. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781847499240
23-8-2024
New edition of one of the most powerful novellas which Thomas Mann saw as foretelling the advent of Nazism. Now part of Alma 101-pages series of lesser-known classics. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781847498625
23-9-2021
Part of Alma Classics 101 Pages series, The Marquise of O is a masterpiece of psychological literature. This unique edition is accompanied by The Earthquake in Chile and The Foundling, showcasing the range of their author's narrative abilities and his taste for the ambiguous and the paradoxical. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781847498700
5-11-2021
The Last Day of a Condemned Man is an eloquent plea for compassion and a masterpiece of realist fiction. This edition includes Preface to the 1832 edition, a manifest of Hugo's personal opnions, A Comedy about a Tragedy and Claude Gueux, an early example of "true crime" fiction. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781847498359
1-5-2021
This 1856 novella from the master of fantasy and the supernatural, featuring one of the most hauntingly surreal denouements in nineteenth-century fiction, is a brilliant and witty examination of man's innermost fantasies and fears. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781847497697
23-8-2018
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. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781847498113
24-10-2019
A unique collection of short stories by the master of Italian modernism. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781847497710
20-9-2018
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. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781847497727
20-9-2018
Part of Alma Classics new series: 101 Pages, The Single Hound contains some of Dickinson's most original and poignant pieces. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781847497871
24-1-2019
First published in 1831 and here presented with the supernatural stories `The Evil Eye' and `The Immortal Mortal', the chilling Gothic tale `Transformation' is a paragon of the genre by the author of Frankenstein. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781847498106
29-8-2019
Flush is a genre-defying blend of biography and fantasy, and an accessible yet stylistically innovative jeu d'esprit. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781847498755
5-11-2021
First published in 1816, this classic of German Gothic fiction has enthralled generations ever since, and has spawned countless interpretations by critics intrigued by its powerful symbolism. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781847498021
30-10-2019
These surreal compositions have been considered as forerunners to the theatre of the absurd of the 1950s, as exemplified by Beckett, Ionesco and Adamov. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781847498342
19-11-2020
This 1882 novella, a key work in Huysmans’ literary development – prefiguring in its protagonist the figure of Jean des Esseintes, the hero of À rebours, written two years later – is accompanied here by another masterly study of human despair, ‘M. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781847498977
31-3-2023
Carmen, the archetype of the amoral femme fatale, is Prosper Merimee's highest creation, and a model for many subsequent literary heroines. First published in 1846, this story of crime and desire has been adapted into a number of dramatic works, including the famous 1875 opera of the same name by Georges Bizet. Meer