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Apology for a Murder by Lorenzino de' Medici; Andrew Brown (Translator)
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Category: Classics | 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
Eureka by Edgar Allen Poe
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
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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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
The Duel by J. G. Nichols (Translator)
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Category: Classics | 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 Single Hound - Poems of a Lifetime by Emily Dickinson; Martha Dickinson Bianchi
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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
Transformation by Mary Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
"Having frittered away his family's fortune in Paris, the profligate Guido il Cortese incurs the wrath of his future father-in-law and finds himself in exile from his native Genoa and harbouring plans for revenge. After a mighty storm, he sees a mysterious, misshapen creature emerging from the sea, with ...Show more
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