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A Young Doctor's Notebook: New Translation: Newly Translated and Annotated by Mikhail Bulgakov
25.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Ser.
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 ...Show more
Animal Farm (Alma Classics) by George Orwell
17.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens Ser.
Under the feckless husbandry of Mr Jones, Manor Farm has fallen into disrepair. Pushed into hardship, the animals decide to stage a revolt, and led by two young pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, they overthrow Mr Jones and drive him away from the farm. In the subsequent struggle for power, it is Napoleon tha ...Show more
Arsene Lupin vs Sherlock Holmes by Maurice Leblanc
18.00 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Alma Junior Classics Ser.
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 o ...Show more
Dracula by Bram Stoker
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Junior Classics Ser.
"Awareness of Dracula" as a masterly gothic thriller has increased ever since its publication in 1897, and the novel is regarded as one of the most seminal horror stories of ever written, having inspired countless copycat tales and literary spin-offs. The tale of young Englishman Jonathan Harker's journ ...Show more
Le Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac; Andrew Brown (Translator)
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
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)
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | 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
The Life of Castruccio Castracani by Niccolo Machiavelli; J. G. Nichols (Translator)
15.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
Rising from humble beginnings as a foundling, Castruccio Castracani came to prominence as one of the most powerful and shrewd warlords in Italy. Indeed, Machiavelli argues, so great was his vigour and charisma that o had he not been prevented by his untimely death o he might have surpassed in fame the g ...Show more
The Single Hound - Poems of a Lifetime by Emily Dickinson; Martha Dickinson Bianchi
15.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | 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
Ulysses by James Joyce
25.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Ser.
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 peregrinatio ...Show more
Uncle's Dream by Dostoevsky, Fyodor
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
The small town of Mordasov is all abuzz at the arrival of Prince K-, a wealthy, ageing landowner, after an absence of several years. Maria Alexandrovna Moskalyova, a local gossip and fearsome schemer, decides that he would be an advantageous match for her daughter Zina. But in her endeavours to make suc ...Show more
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