When strange things are reported to be floating in rivers in rural Vermont after a flood, old myths about hill-dwelling monsters...

Unique edition presented in its definitive 1941 version with footnotes indicating the textual variants from the first volume...

When Lord Petre had the effrontery to cut off a lock of Lady Arabella Fermor’s hair, a veritable war erupted between the two...

As a group of Western tourists travel down the Nile on the steamer Korosko towards the historical sites near Egypt's southern...

Judicially condemned in 1857 as offensive to public morality, The Flowers of Evil is now regarded as the most influential volume...

Alma Classics edition of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer contains 3,000 notes and 30 pages extra material.
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When Francis Raven is roused from his sleep on the eve of his birthday and confronted by the sight of a woman trying to stab him,...

An English aristocrat, Lord Montbarry, abandons his fiancee for an enigmatic countess with a dark past, before moving with her...

The Good Soldier tells the stories of two outwardly happy couples who meet at a health spa in Germany just before the start of...

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Among the earliest artistic descriptions of the hallucinogenic experience in European literature, the four pieces in this volume...

The brooding, introverted Count von O— arrives in Venice during the carnival in order to escape from his duties and live...

Dual-Language Edition.

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the...

Seduced by the chimerical world of the theatre and taking upon himself the grand ambition of becoming a successful performer and...

The story of young Henry, who struggles to fulfil his ambitions to become a successful painter and is torn between the gentle...

Baron Eduard and his second wife Charlotte enjoy a quiet, humdrum existence in their opulent castle, but when he invites his...

Candide is an innocent young nobleman who leads an idyllic, sheltered life and has adopted the optimistic mindset promoted by his...

When the world-weary dandy Eugene Onegin moves from St Petersburg to take up residence in the country estate he has inherited, he...