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The Life of Castruccio Castracani by Niccolo Machiavelli; J. G. Nichols (Translator)
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Category: Classics | 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 Marquise of O by Heinrich von Kleist; Richard Stokes (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
A respectable young widow and mother of two children, the Marquise of O- finds herself inexplicably pregnant after being rescued by a Russian officer from the attentions of his soldiers during the storming of her town's citadel. Convinced of her own innocence and wishing to vindicate her own integrity, ...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
The Touchstone by Edith Wharton
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Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money. So when he becomes aware of the potential value of a series of passionate love letters written to him by the recently deceased author Margaret Aubyn, he sells them and marries the beautiful Alexa Trent. However, his shame and guilt at building a new life o ...Show more
Three Years by Anton Chekhov; Hugh Aplin (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: 101 Pages Ser.
On a visit to a provincial town to see his sister Nina who is suffering from cancer, Alexei Laptev, who works for his father's Moscow haberdashery business, falls in love with Yulia, the daughter of her doctor, and proposes to her. Although she does not reciprocate his feelings, she agrees to marry him ...Show more
Transformation by Mary Shelley
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Category: Fiction | 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