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Andrew Brown

Andrew Brown was a teacher of language and literature before becoming a freelance translator. His translations are mainly from the French, with some Italian and German: both fiction and non-fiction, from Aretino to Zola, by way of crime stories, children’s books, legal documents and recipes. He has also written on subjects such as Barthes, Schumann and Spinoza – and, for Hesperus Press, two Brief Histories(of encyclopaedias and biographies) and two Brief Lives (of Stendhal and Flaubert).

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Around the World in Eighty Days

By Jules Verne

A huge commercial success on first publication in 1872, Jules Verne’s classic adventure story has been adapted numerous times for the stage and the screen, as well as inspiring many real-life adventurers who have sought to emulate Fogg’s audacious odyssey. Presented in a new translation by Andrew Br…

Carmen

By Prosper Mérimée

Carmen, the archetype of the amoral femme fatale, is Prosper Mérimée’s highest creation, and a model for many subsequent literary heroines. First published in 1846, this story of crime and desire has been adapted into a number of dramatic works, including the famous 1875 opera of the same name by Ge…

Incest

By Marquis de Sade

When the immoral libertine Monsieur de Franval marries and fathers a daughter, he decides to inculcate in her a sense of absolute freedom, an unconventional education that involves the two becoming secret lovers. But Franval’s virtuous, God-fearing wife becomes suspicious and confronts him, setting…

Jettatura

By Théophile Gautier

This 1856 novella from the master of fantasy and the supernatural, featuring one of the most hauntingly surreal denouements in nineteenth-century fiction, is a brilliant and witty examination of man’s innermost fantasies and fears. Jettatura is part of Alma Classics 101 Pages series. When Paul d’Asp…

With the Flow

By Joris-Karl Huysmans

This 1882 novella, a key work in Huysmans’ literary development – prefiguring in its protagonist the figure of Jean des Esseintes, the hero of À rebours, written two years later – is accompanied here by another masterly study of human despair, ‘M. Bougran’s Retirement’. The lowly, downtrodden Paris…

Mademoiselle de Scudéri

By E.T.A. Hoffmann

First published in 1819 to great acclaim, and displaying all the author’s trademark wit and ingenuity, E.T.A. Hoffmann’s tale has inspired and delighted writers and readers ever since, and remains a benchmark for all modern crime novels. As Paris is shaken by a gang of murderous thieves, the aristoc…

The Life of Castruccio Castracani

By Niccolò Machiavelli

Written in Machiavelli’s characteristically lucid and terse style, The Life of Castruccio Castracani is not only a key text in understanding the development of the author’s ideas on leadership and good statesmanship that would find fuller expression in The Prince, but also a revealing account of the…

Manon Lescaut

By Antoine François Prévost

Although causing scandal on its initial publication in 1731 and subsequently being banned, Manon Lescaut proved very popular with eighteenth-century readers, and remains one of literature’s finest and most evocative depictions of obsessive love. When the young nobleman Des Grieux lays eyes on the be…

Apology for a Murder

By Lorenzino de' Medici

Famed for having killed his cousin Alessandro, the Duke of Florence, in 1537, but also for writing accomplished literary works, including a comedy and several poems, Lorenzino de’ Medici remains one of the most enigmatic figures of Italian literature. In his masterpiece, Apology for a Murder, he rev…

A Voyage to the Moon

By Cyrano de Bergerac

Published posthumously and intended mainly as a satire of its age, this imaginative and entertaining tale – here presented in a lively translation by Andrew Brown – is now considered one of the pioneering works of science fiction. In A Voyage to the Moon, the narrator, after an attempt to reach the…

A Fantasy of Dr Ox

By Jules Verne

Part of Alma Classics 101 Pages series, A Fantasy of Dr Ox is a light-hearted satire that, in its warnings about the dangers of scientific experimentation, has a clear and troubling resonance with our times. In the somnolent Flemish town of Quiquendone disagreements are unheard of, courtships might…

Pantagruel and Gargantua

By François Rabelais

These bawdy and boisterous tales, with their fixation on food and faeces, are not just entertaining yarns, as François Rabelais, one of the foremost humanists of the sixteenth century, parodies medieval learning, lambasts the established church authority and develops his own ideal visions for the or…

The Ghost-Seer

By Friedrich Schiller

First serialized in 1787–89, this multilayered, fragmentary novel – which gave Friedrich Schiller a platform to expound his Enlightenment ideas on society and religion – has thrilled and engaged lovers of Gothic literature for over two centuries. The brooding, introverted Count von O— arrives in Ven…

The Thousand and One Ghosts

By Alexandre Dumas

The Thousand and One Ghosts – here presented in its first and only translation into English – is a gloriously macabre work by the celebrated author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, which also touches on the serious political issue of capital punishment. Coming back into town af…

The Wall and Other Stories

By Jean-Paul Sartre

First published in 1939, a few years before his most influential works in theatre and philosophy, The Wall was Sartre’s first and only collection of short fiction. The title piece tells the story of a prisoner during the Spanish Civil War, on the eve of his execution by a firing squad, who is told h…

Boule de Suif

By Guy de Maupassant

A scathing satire of bourgeois prejudice and hypocrisy and a compelling snapshot of France during the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, ‘Boule de Suif’ – here presented with five other major stories by the author of Bel-Ami – was declared a masterpiece by Flaubert and is widely considered to be Maupassant’s…

Colonel Chabert

By Honoré de Balzac

Part of Balzac’s La Comédie humaine cycle, Colonel Chabert is a poignant tale about the pursuit of justice, as well as a portrait of France’s transition from the Napoleonic Empire to the Restoration. Inspired by actual events, the novella has captured the imagination of generations of readers and ha…

Satyricon

By Petronius

Documenting the colourful escapades of the former gladiator Encolpius and his less than faithful lover Giton, the Satyricon plunges the reader into the lives of ordinary Roman citizens, vividly revealing the Empire’s seamy underbelly. A host of unforgettable characters are satirically presented, suc…

The Dream

By Émile Zola

Finding the young Angelique on their doorstep one Christmas Eve, the pious Hubert couple decide to bring her up as their own. As the girl grows up in the vicinity of the town’s towering cathedral and learns her parents’ trade of embroidery, she becomes increasingly fascinated by the lives of the sai…

Pleasures and Days

By Marcel Proust

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…

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