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A Fantasy of Dr Ox by Jules Verne; Andrew Brown (Translator)
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
In the somnolent Flemish town of Quiquendone disagreements are unheard of, courtships might last a decade and not a ripple of activity can be seen at all. But when the mysterious Dr Ox is tasked with providing lighting for the town, strange things begin to happen: animals become aggressive, fruits grow ...Show more
A Voyage to the Moon by Cyrano de Bergerac; Andrew Brown (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
In A Voyage to the Moon, the narrator (called, like the author, Cyrano de Bergerac), after a failed first attempt to reach the moon using vials of dewdrops, finally makes it into space and to his desired destination using the more scientific means of a rocket-powered craft. After landing, he discovers f ...Show more
Botanical Illustration from Chelsea Physic Garden by Andrew Brown
$115.00 AUD
Category: Gardening
Chelsea Physic Garden was founded by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in 1673 as a resource providing plant material for the training of apothecaries. For most of its existence, the Garden has been a focus for botanists, taxonomists, students and horticulturists both for employing their skills and ...Show more
Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant; Andrew Brown (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
Pendant plusieurs jours de suite des lambeaux d'arm e en d route avaient travers la ville. Ce n' tait point de la troupe, mais des hordes d band es.
How Everything Can Collapse - A Manual for Our Times by Pablo Servigne; Andrew Brown (Translator); Rapha¿l Stevens
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Category: Politics
What if our civilization were to collapse? Not many centuries into the future, but in our own lifetimes? Most people recognize that we face huge challenges today, from climate change and its potentially catastrophic consequences to a plethora of socio-political problems, but we find it hard to face up t ...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
Life with Lacan by Catherine Millot; Andrew Brown (Translator)
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Category: Biography
'There was a time when I felt that I had grasped Lacan's essential being from within - that I had gained, as it were, an apperception of his relation to the world, a mysterious access to that intimate place from which sprang his relation to people and things, and even to himself. It was as if I had slip ...Show more
Pantagruel and Gargantua by François Rabelais; Andrew Brown (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
With his birth itself a monumental exploit in itself, it is clear that the giant Pantagruel is destined to great things, and the novel that bears his name chronicles his the remarkable life of the exuberant youth: from his voracious reading habits to his escapades with the knave Panurge and his prowess ...Show more
Pleasures and Days by Andrew Marcel;Brown Proust
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Category: Classics
Proust's only other work of fiction published in his lifetime apart from the monumental novel cycle In Search of Lost Time, Pleasures and Days takes the reader on a journey through the high-society circles of fin-de-siecle Paris, presenting the lives, loves and attitudes of a host of unforgettable chara ...Show more
That Was the Church That Was: How the Church of England Lost the English People by Andrew Brown
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Category: Religion
The Church of England still seemed an essential part of Englishness, and even of the British state, when Mrs Thatcher was elected in 1979. The decades which followed saw a seismic shift in the foundations of the C of E, leading to the loss of more than half its members and much of its influence. In Engl ...Show more
The Ghost-Seer by Friedrich Schiller; Andrew Brown (Translator)
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Category: Classics
The brooding, introverted Count von O- arrives in Venice during the carnival in order to escape from his duties and live incognito. But after encountering a enigmatic Armenian stranger who makes an uncanny pronouncement, a bizarre chain of events unfolds, involving a Jesuit secret society, a ghostly sea ...Show more
Thousand and One Ghosts , The by Alexandre Dumas; Andrew Brown (Translator)
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Category: Classics
Coming back into town after a hunting expedition, Alexandre Dumas witnesses an incredible scene: a man has come to hand himself in to the mayor after decapitating his wife, terrified by the fact that her severed head spoke to him to proclaim her innocence. This prompts the guests at a dinner Dumas atten ...Show more
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