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03/06/2026

Alain Resnais was born in 1922. His film Last Year at Marienbad, as well as winning the Golden Lion at the 1961 Venice Film Festival, has enthralled the critics, fascinated the public and become one of the greatest cult classics of modern cinema.
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The director Alain Resnais was already famous for films such as Hiroshima, Mon Amour when he asked Alain Robbe-Grillet – the author of several seminal novels, including Jealousy and The Vo**ur, and the leader of the Nouveau Roman school – to write a script for him. The result was Last Year at Ma...

03/06/2026

: The Collection. All five volumes include annotations by scholars
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A great collection by James Joyce which includes Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Chamber Music and Other Poems.

02/06/2026

“It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity”
― Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, born in 1840
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Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, Tess of the d’Urbervilles has become Thomas Hardy’s most popular novel, catching the imaginations of generations of readers with its high drama, endearing heroine and powerful evocations of the southern English countryside.

01/06/2026

The Flowers of Evil by Charles was published in 1857.
'There all is beauty, all is measure,
Richness, serenity and pleasure.'
Translated by Anthony Mortimer
(dual-language edition)
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The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire is presented here in a dual-language edition, with extra material, notes and bibliography. Anthony Mortimer, already praised for his virtuoso translations of Petrarch, Dante and Villon, has produced a new version that not only respects the sense and the form...

30/05/2026

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27/05/2026

Louis-Ferdinand Céline, born in 1894
‘I feel called by his voice… my Proust is Celine’ – Philip Roth
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This collection includes five novels by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, one of the greatest twentieth-century novelists. ‘The most blackly humorous and disenchanted voice in all of French literature’ London Review of Books ‘The prose stylist of the century’ – Tibor Fischer ‘Céline’s expletiv...

26/05/2026

Choose Your Own Five Calder ! A historical list championing some of the great writers of the 20th century. Now added more to the collection
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To celebrate 70 years of Calder Publications, we are offering our customers the opportunity to choose your own collection.

25/05/2026

More underrated classics that can be read in one sitting!

22/05/2026

Over 50 Alma Classics Collections: almost all at 50% off!
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22/05/2026

“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.”

To celebrate Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's birthday, we are giving three of you the chance to win a book of your choice from our collection!

Entries close at midnight on Monday 25th May (UK entries only), so what are you waiting for?

Comment below if you'd like to enter the competition and don't forget to tag a partner in crime!

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