Alma Books: 225 books

Cover of The Life of Our Lord
by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Never published in its author's lifetime and intended solely for his own children, to whom he read it every Christmas, The Life of Our Lord is an accessible and gently humorous take on the life of Jesus Christ and his teachings. Far removed from the sharp satire and social dimension of his more famous...
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by Alessandro Gallenzi
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013

When Francesco decides to embark on his first trip outside his native Italy, he leaves behind a difficult relationship with his father, the narrow vistas of a small provincial town and the stifling atmosphere of a country he feels has become degraded. All he brings with him are a change of clothes, a...
Cover of Flappers and Philosophers
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Published soon after Fitzgerald's debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the author's first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in newspapers and magazines. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing:...
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Godfathers

The Lives and Crimes of Mafia Mobsters

by Roberto Olla
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012

Analyzes the Mafia through the mysterious lives of Mafia mobsters. This book introduces some of the biggest names in Mafia history, and explains the ways in which their political savvy helped them orchestrate many of history's major events. Much blood has been spilt on account of the Sicilian and American...
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by Antal Szerb
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Travelling to Italy on their honeymoon, Erszi and Mihaly are ready to take in all the beauties and pleasures of the country. But when they reach Venice, it is clear that Mihaly prefers to roam around the back alleys and the canals on his own, and as they continue their journey through the Bel Paese there...
Cover of The Horror Handbook
by Paul Van Loon
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

What happens to a vampire when he dies? How does somebody become a werewolf? How can you protect yourself from witches? All of these questions and more are answered in this book, which will finally give you all the information you ever wanted to know about ghosts, zombies, monsters and all kinds of creepy-crawly...
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by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

First published in 1861, Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, unrequited love and irreconcil­able relationships. At the centre of the story are a young struggling author, an orphaned teenager and a depraved aristocrat, who not only foreshadows...
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by Niccolò Machiavelli
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Controversial in his own time, The Prince made Machiavelli’s name a byword for manipulative scheming, and had an impact on such major figures as Napoleon and Frederick the Great. It contains principles as true today as when they were first written almost five centuries ago.
Cover of Sketches of Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen and Young Couples
by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

When the publishers of the Pickwick Papers, Chapman & Hall, brought out the anonymous 'Sketches of Young Ladies' in 1837, their resounding success prompted the twenty-six-year old Dickens to write, the following year, a companion piece, the 'Sketches of Young Gentlemen', followed two years later - to...
Cover of Carmen
by Georges Bizet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Carmen is one of the most enduringly popular of all operas and the most successful of Georges Bizet’s works. Following its premiere at the Opéra- Comique in Paris in 1875, it went on to be performed at all the major opera houses in the world. With its searing depictions of passion, obsession and jealousy,...
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The Garden of Eros

The Story of the Paris Expatriates and the Post-war Literary Scene

by John Calder
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The Garden of Eros brings to life some of last century’s leading cultural figures, who shaped our modern thinking and defined the tastes of an entire generation, changing for ever the way we look at literature and the world around us. Drawing from the accounts of two fellow publishers Maurice Girodias...
Cover of The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories
by Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

One of Twain's most celebrated novellas, 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' is a satirical retelling of the Garden of Eden story in the Bible, in which the author, mocking the supposed honesty and incorruptibility of the inhabitants of an imaginary American town, shows how man is fundamentally bad and...
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Angela Merkel

The Authorized Biography

by Stefan Kornelius
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013

With the Eurozone engulfed in an unprecedented crisis, one political figure looms largest of all, Angela Merkel, the leader of its most powerful economy. While foreign affairs have become the central issues of her chancellorship in this crucial election year, the entire world is anxiously looking...
Cover of The Haunted House
by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Having moved into an abandoned haunted house, the narrator, undaunted by the warnings of the locals, invites a party of friends over, setting them the task of driving out the ghosts from the various rooms and reporting back on Twelfth Night. The resulting ghost stories form the basis of a thrilling narrative.For...
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