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After leaving his job with the BBC Eastern Service in November 1943, George Orwell became literary editor of Tribune magazine, penning a regular column called "As I Please" between 3rd December 1943 and 28th March 1947. Encompassing political opinion, literary criticism and social critique, Orwell's editorials represent an invaluable commentary on the major cultural issues that preoccupied Britain during and after the war. Collected here in one volume, and fully annotated, these opinion pieces showcase Orwell's polemical brilliance and cement his reputation as one of the finest journalists and...
After leaving his job with the BBC Eastern Service in November 1943, George Orwell became literary editor of Tribune magazine, penning a regular column called "As I Please" between 3rd December 1943 and 28th March 1947. Encompassing political opinion, literary criticism and social critique, Orwell's editorials represent an invaluable commentary on the major cultural issues that preoccupied Britain during and after the war. Collected here in one volume, and fully annotated, these opinion pieces showcase Orwell's polemical brilliance and cement his reputation as one of the finest journalists and literary writers in the English language. Alma Classics is committed to making available a wide range of literature from around the globe. Most of the titles are enriched by an extensive critical apparatus, notes and extra reading material, as well as a selection of photographs. The texts are based on the most authoritative edition and edited using a fresh, accessible editorial approach. With an emphasis on production, editorial and typographical values, Alma Classics aspires to revitalize the whole experience of reading classics. New annotated collection of George Orwell's articles while he was writing for the British left-wing newspaper Tribune. Part of Alma George Orwell Collection. Eric Blair (1903-50), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was a novelist, journalist and critic, best remembered for his seminal novels 1984 and Animal Farm, and for works of non-fiction such as The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia. AS GU MP PH PR US UM VI 49019900 DNP 12,99 O60617 Alma Books 9781847499493 Withering World Márai, Sándor 25.06.2026 ENG 12,99 UVP 256 Kt Although he is now mostly remembered as a novelist, it is as a poet and translator of poetry that Sándor Márai - the acclaimed author of Embers and Conversations in Bolzano - first made his name in the literary world. This collection, the first and only edition of Márai's poems in the English language - here presented in John M. Ridland's and Peter V. Czipott's brilliant verse translation - offers a comprehensive selection spanning the author's whole career and exemplifying his mastery of what he considered to be the highest form of literary expression. Although he is now mostly remembered as a novelist, it is as a poet and a translator of poetry that Sándor Márai - the acclaimed author of 'Embers' and 'Conversations in Bolzano' - first made his name in the literary world. This collection, the first and only edition of Márai's poems in the English language - here presented in John M. Rudland's and Peter V. Czipott's brilliant verse translation - offers a comprehensive selection spanning the author's whole career and exemplifying his mastery of what he considered to be the highest form of literary expression. Sándor Márai (1900-89) was a Hungarian novelist, journalist and poet who lived in exile for the last fifty years of his life and is now considered one of his country's major twentieth-century writers. 49019900 DCF 12,99 O60617 Alma Books 9781847499394 Jemima Puddle Duck and Other Animal Stories Potter, Beatrix 25.06.2026 ENG 12,99 UVP 169 Kt As well as being the celebrated creator of the enduringly popular Peter Rabbit tales, Beatrix Potter was the author of a number of stories featuring other animals - ducks, mice, frogs - which display the same inventive brilliance and mercurial charm. From the tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, who is annoyed with the farmer's wife for not letting her hatch her own eggs, to that of Jeremy Fisher, a frog who sets off across the pond on his lily-pad boat to go fishing, this selection of Potter's best animal stories, accompanied by beautiful new illustrations by Anna Currey, stands as testament to its author's genius and sensibility. Contents: 'The Tale of Two Bad Mice', 'The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck', 'The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse', 'The Tale of Jeremy Fisher' and 'The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse'; Glossary; 80 colour illustrations by Anna Currey. ABOUT THE SERIES: Alma Junior Classics series of illustrated classics includes some of the greatest books ever written for younger readers and new translations of unjustly neglected international works. Our aim is to give our list an international feel and offer young readers to opportunity to connect with other cultures and literatures - this applies not only to the titles we chose but also to the illustrators we commission - so that we can bring a bit of novelty into the canon of British children's literature. All children's classics contain extra material for young readers, including a profile of the author, a section on the book, a list of characters, a glossary and a test-yourself quiz. A deluxe edition of Jemima Puddle Duck and Other Animal Stories, illustrated by Anna Currey. Contains 80 colour illustrations and a glossary. It's the perfect companion to Alma edition of The Peter Rabbit Stories, also illustrated by Anna Currey. Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) was a children's writer and illustrator. Hugely successful in her lifetime, her books continue to be immensely popular among young readers of today. Anna Currey was brought up in rural Ireland. Over the years she has illustrated many books for many publishers including One Ted fell out of Bed by Julia Donaldson. She also wrote and illustrated The Christmas Unicorn for Oxford children's Books. 49019900 YFP 12,99 O60617 Alma Books 9781847499363 A Voyage at Sea with Don Quixote Mann, Thomas 26.02.2026 ENG 8,99 UVP 128 Kt Written immediately after his return from his first trip to America in June 1934, A Voyage at Sea with Don Quixote follows the author's observations about life aboard a Dutch vessel bound for New York, interspersed with remarks on his reading of Cervantes's immortal novel. Using Don Quixote as a springboard, Mann reflects on a number of urgent topics: art, literature, religion, the artist's freedom of conscience and the misuse of technology. The result is an engaging dialogue between past and present, an offbeat, witty travelogue of a voyage undertaken during the Great Depression, a creative tour de force that will delight and amuse in equal measure all those wishing to experience a lesser-known facet of the great German novelist's oeuvre. Alma Classics is committed to making available a wide range of literature from around the globe. Most of the titles are enriched by an extensive critical apparatus, notes and extra reading material, as well as a selection of photographs. The texts are based on the most authoritative edition and edited using a fresh, accessible editorial approach. With an emphasis on production, editorial and typographical values, Alma Classics aspires to revitalize the whole experience of reading classics. A unique edition of one of Thomas Mann's most significant cultural essays which reflect on environmentalism, the degradation of nature, the challenges facing Western civilization and democracy, wealth disparity, Islamophobia and, indirectly, anti-Semitism. AS GU MP PH PR US UM VI 49019900 DNL 8,99 O60617 Alma Books 9781847495266 Footprints Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand 23.04.2026 ENG 12,99 UVP 160 Kt The most important Swiss poet of the nineteenth century, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer is regarded as a crucial figure in the transition of German-language poetry from the Romanticism of Heine, Novalis and Eichendorff to the Symbolism of Rilke and Stefan George. In poems that took years and sometimes decades to reach a final version, he worked within a limited set of themes and images - high mountains, gloomy lakes, sinister boats, nocturnal ghosts, reflected clouds, dark woods, golden sunsets, lightning, harvesting, lost lovers - to present his own symbolic world with a vividness and intensity that few poets can match. In these sensitive and accurate versions by acclaimed translator Anthony Mortimer, Meyer's achievement is available to anglophone readers for the first time. First English translation of the most important Swiss poet of the nineteenth century. Now presented in a dual-language edition Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825-98) was a Swiss poet and historical novelist. He is best remembered today for narrative ballads such as 'Feet in the Fire'. 49019900 DCF 12,99 O60617 Alma Books 9781847495273 The Diary of a Nobody Grossmith, George,Grossmith, Weedon 23.04.2026 ENG 8,99 UVP 144 Kt Having just moved into a fine, six-roomed residence, "the Laurels", the Pooters are ready to begin a new life. Charles, the paterfamilias, a lowly clerk in the City firm Perkupp's, begins to keep a diary, one that, over the next fifteen months, will provide a record of the small trials and tribulations - as well as the preoccupations, aspirations and social anxieties - of a late-Victorian family. Serialized in Punch between 1888 and 1889, and later expanded and illustrated for publication in volume form in 1892, The Diary of a Nobody, the Grossmith brothers' highest achievement, is a comic masterpiece and arguably one of the greatest artistic collaborations of all time. ABOUT THE SERIES: Alma Classics Evergreens is a series of popular classics. All the titles in the series are provided with an extensive critical apparatus and extra reading material, including a section of photographs and notes. The texts are based on the most authoritative edition (or collated from the most authoritative editions or manuscripts) and edited using a fresh, intelligent editorial approach. With an emphasis on the production, editorial and typographical values of a book, Alma Classics aspires to revitalize the whole experience of reading the classics.
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