ALMA BOOKS
(P/B) The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants
Εκδότης: ALMA BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0045-0161
Presented in a new translation by Roger Cockrell, The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants was originally conceived as a play and first published in 1859, shortly after the author's release from forced military service. Gogolian in style and tone, and waspish in its description of the villainous Opiskin, it is a sustained exercise in caricatural cruelty and a comedic tour de force. The young Sergei is summoned from St Petersburg by his uncle, the retired colonel Yegor Rostanev, to the remote country estate of Stepanchikovo. Rostane... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) PLAYS: THE CHERRY ORCHARD, THREE SISTERS, THE SEAGULL AND UNCLE VANYA
Εκδότης: ALMA BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0045-0137
The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and world theatre, with plays that were remarkable not just for their dialogue but their atmosphere and the tensions expressed between the lines. Collected in this volume are Chekhov's four most celebrated plays - The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard - in a brand-new translation by Hugh Aplin. In these personal stories of unfulfilled love, failed ambition and existential ennui, set against a b... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) A STUDY IN SCARLET
ANNOTATED EDITION
Εκδότης: ALMA BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0045-0123
On his return to London after serving in the Second Anglo-Afghan War as an assistant surgeon, Doctor Watson is looking for a place to live. He is introduced to a certain Mr Holmes, an eccentric, pipe-smoking gentleman who shows an interest in chemistry and is currently engaged in a test to detect human haemoglobin. What begins as a simple house-sharing enquiry soon turns into a fully fledged "study in scarlet", a case of blood, murder and betrayal that will transport the reader from the streets of London to the early settlements of Salt La... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) A Clergyman’s Daughter
Annotated Edition
Εκδότης: ALMA BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0045-0162
Twenty-eight-year-old Dorothy Hare leads a life of drudgery and self-abnegation in the house of her father, the rector of Knype Hill, helping him stave off his creditors and making costumes for fund-raising events. When, after being invited to dinner by Mr Warburton, a local atheist and libertine, she is glimpsed in his arms by the village gossip, Mrs Semprill, Dorothy suffers a breakdown and, struck by amnesia, embarks on journey that will see her join a group of vagrants, pick hops in the fields of Kent, stay in a hotel for "working girl... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
Εκδότης: ALMA BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0045-0060
Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself surrounded by its six-inch-tall natives, the Lilliputians. But this is only the first in a long line of wonderful discoveries, as his adventures take him to other far-off lands such as Brobdingnag, populated by a race of giants, Luggnagg, home to the eternally ageing Struldbrugs, and the country of the Houyhnhnms, a race of benevolent talking horses. Parodying the popular travel accounts of its time, Gulliver's Travels is not only a tour de force of imaginative and com... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) DIABOLIAD
Εκδότης: ALMA BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0045-0050
In Bulgakov's "Diaboliad", the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the First Central Depot for the Materials for Matches, and tries to seek out his newly assigned superior Kalsoner, responsible for his dismissal. His quest through the labyrinth of Soviet bureaucracy takes on the increasingly surreal dimensions of a nightmare. This early satirical story, reminiscent of Gogol and Dostoevsky, was first published in 1924 and incurred the wrath of pro-Soviet critics. Along with th... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) DUBLINERS
Εκδότης: ALMA BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0045-0067
Although ranging considerably in tone, mood and milieu, the fifteen short stories included in this collection all centre around the city of Dublin and its inhabitants at the beginning of the twentieth century. From the unsettling adventure of two truant schoolboys to the crafty schemes of two con men, from a young woman's refusal to abandon Ireland and elope with a sailor to a man's moment of clarity during an annual dance party, these stories offer a moving portrait of an entire world and era which are about to disappear. James Joyce's fi... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) MRS DALLOWAY
Εκδότης: ALMA BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0045-0030
As Mrs Dalloway works on the preparations for a dinner party, her thoughts throughout the day wander from memories of the past to interrogations about the present and lead her to assess the choices she has made in life and love. Her monologue interweaves with the account of the distress, on that same day, of the shell-shocked veteran Septimus Warren Smith, whose trauma and hallucinations end in tragedy, as the links between the two characters unfold. (From the publisher)... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) HEART OF DARKNESS
AND THE COMPLETE CONGO DIARY
Εκδότης: ALMA BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0045-0031
On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most remote outpost in central Africa, which brought him on the trail of the elusive Kurtz, a brilliant idealist gone rogue. His account relates not only the perils he encounters on his quest, but also the deterioration of his state of mind as he is confronted with a world that is hostile and alien to him. (From the publisher)... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) THE TRAGEDY OF THE KOROSKO
(ALMA CLASSICS)
Εκδότης: ALMA BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0045-0142
As a group of Western tourists travel down the Nile on the steamer Korosko towards the historical sites near Egypt's southern border, they are kidnapped by a marauding band of dervishes who demand their conversion to Islam. Cut off from the world, deprived of the comforts of civilized society and shaken in their beliefs, they will have to overcome the most arduous obstacles to regain their freedom and safety. Written towards the end of the Victorian era and permeated with a sense of fear and uncertainty, The Tragedy of the Korosko calls in... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) TALES OF TERROR AND MYSTERY
Εκδότης: ALMA BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0045-0143
While he is now mostly associated with his Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle was also celebrated for the many masterful tales he wrote outside of that cycle. In this collection, first published in 1922, he compiled various pieces of short fiction which fall into the categories of horror and detective fiction, two genres for which he has become a byword. These eclectic, captivating tales - dealing with topics such as mysterious jungles in the sky, seventeenth-century torture techniques, a bloodthirsty Brazilian cat and a train mys... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
ILLUSTRATED BY DAVID MACKINTOSH
Εκδότης: ALMA BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0045-0125
"I know every move of your game . . It has been a duel between you and me, Mr Holmes . . If you are clever enough to bring destruction upon me, rest assured that I shall do as much to you." With Sherlock Holmes's reputation as the scourge of the criminal underworld preceding him, the ingenious detective, with the aid of Dr Watson, is confronted in these stories by some of his most fiendishly difficult cases yet. The collection culminates in 'The Final Problem', in which the evil Professor Moriarty is plotting the detective's downfall. So... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) THE ART OF WAR
Εκδότης: ALMA BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0045-0150
For two and a half thousand years The Art of War has been the core text of military strategy and planning, providing leaders with enduring insights into tactics, psychology, discipline and the nature of power. Favoured by countless great generals and military tacticians throughout history, over the last century the book has found a new lease of life, inspiring business leaders, politicians and sporting figures, and offering a profound understanding of such diverse topics as managing others and outwitting competitors. Thoroughly edited vers... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) DEAD SOULS
Εκδότης: ALMA BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0045-0086
A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town and proceeds to visit a succession of landowners, making each of them an unusual and somewhat macabre proposition. He offers to buy the rights to the dead serfs who are still registered on the landowner's estate, thus reducing their liability for taxes. It is not clear what Chichikov's intentions are with the dead serfs he is purchasing, and despite his attempts to ingratiate himself, his strange behaviour arouses the suspicions of everyone in the town. A biti... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) TENDER IS THE NIGHT
Εκδότης: ALMA BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0045-0091
While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star Rosemary Hoyt. Her arrival causes a stir in their social circle and exposes the cracks in their fragile marriage. As their relationship unravels, glimpses of their troubled past emerge, and a series of disturbing events unfolds. Peopled by an unforgettable cast of aristocrats and high-fliers, Tender Is the Night is at once a scathing critique of the materialism and hypocrisy of the Roaring Twenties and a poignant an... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) POEMS FROM THE MOOR
Εκδότης: ALMA BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0045-0092
From the transcendent beauty of nature observed on the Yorkshire moors to fierce and forceful confrontations of mortality, Emily Bront?'s poems are powerful and passionate works that eloquently elaborate upon her sister Charlotte's description of her as "a solitude-loving raven, no gentle dove". While only twenty-one of Emily Bront?'s poems were published in her lifetime, her poetic oeuvre is rich and varied, and not only includes visionary poems such as 'No Coward Soul Is Mine' and 'Remembrance', but also features the poems that describe ... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) THE VALLEY OF FEAR
ANNOTATED EDITION
Εκδότης: ALMA BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0045-0127
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The greatest schemer of all time, the organizer of every deviltry, the controlling brain of the underworld, a brain which might have made or marred the destiny of nations - that's the man!' Summoned to a mysterious manor house by one of the henchmen of his arch nemesis, Professor Moriarty, Holmes and Watson find themselves confronted by the scene of a brutal murder. But the brilliant Holmes soon reveals that there is much more to this case than first... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) GONE WITH THE WIND
(ALMA CLASSICS)
Εκδότης: ALMA BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0045-0141
The pampered daughter of a wealthy Georgian plantation owner of Irish descent, sixteen-year-old Scarlett O'Hara soon realizes that young men can't resist her charms, despite her forthright manners and her refusal to embrace her mother's ladylike ways. Her romantic intrigues lead her to an early marriage, but when the war between the Union and the Southern States breaks out and she is left a young widow, Scarlett's life is turned upside down, and she finds herself embroiled, together with the world surrounding her, in a long struggle for su... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED
Εκδότης: ALMA BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0045-0149
The heir to his grandfather's considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations of the 1920s Jazz Age. His descent into dissolution and profligacy is accelerated by his marriage to the attractive but turbulent Gloria, and the couple soon discover the dangerous flip side of a life of glamour and debauchery. Containing obvious parallels with F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's own lives, The Beautiful and Damned is a tragic examination of the pitfalls of greed and materialism and the transie... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) PERSUASION
Εκδότης: ALMA BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0045-0077
Persuasion narrates the emotional journey of its protagonist Anne Elliot, who chances upon Captain Wentworth, a suitor she was persuaded to reject seven years earlier, and whose reappearance causes her to reflect on her past decisions and contemplate her marital future. Vividly depicting the society holiday towns of Lyme Regis and Bath and infused with its author's trademark wit, Austen's last completed novel, set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, is an entertaining and enduring account of the dilemmas facing young women in the ... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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