Alma: 292 books

Starving after a harsh winter, the bears descend from the mountains in search of food and invade the valley below, where they face fierce opposition from the army of the Grand Duke of Sicily. After many battles, scrapes and dangers, the bears' reign is established over the land, but their victory comes...

Writing clandestine sonnets in local dialect for over fifteen years whilst leading a respectably conformist life of letters and bureaucracy, Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli erected a lasting poetical monument to the people of nineteenth-century Rome. Set against the chequered background of the city of the...

Although he is best-known to the public as the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories and other pioneering works of detective fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle successfully contributed to other genres, such as historical fiction, as demonstrated by this collection which he compiled in 1922. These vivid and...

Il 14 agosto 2021, l'Umanità realizzò di vivere il giorno più importante della propria storia. Alle 10.27, un oggetto di forma perfettamente sferica si presentò tra la Terra e la Luna. Quella cosa aveva un diametro di 1000 km circa, era completamente nera, anzi buia, del buio più assoluto. Fu...

Federico II di Svevia, Imperatore del Sacro Romano Impero, di madre normanna e di padre tedesco regnò nella Palermo multietnica e multiculturale del XIII secolo. Amante della cultura, si circondò di sapienti cristiani, musulmani ed ebrei. Fu scomunicato da Papa Gregorio IX per ben due volte: mal...

Un adolescente, timido e indeciso, per sfuggire ad una banda di bulli si rifugia una notte in un parco abbandonato. Ne verrà fuori una persona profondamente diversa, in grado di sbalordire i suoi coetanei. Per analogia con un famoso personaggio cinematografico, verrà soprannominato Neo. Cosa...

After one of their own people repeatedly fails to live up to a pact with the Devil, a petty and morally bankrupt village community is plagued by a swarm of deadly black spiders. Using a complex narrative structure, Gotthelf ’s cautionary novella shrewdly dissects the iniquitous social dynamics of rural life.

Kirk Rush is a struggling English screenwriter who is obsessed by the action TV shows of the 1980s. Now hes finally been offered his dream job of writing The A-Team movie - provided he can set it in the Gulf War and make Face bisexual. But Kirks attempts to knuckle down to his script are thwarted...

John Calder's new poetry collection, 'Solo', avoids strict poetic forms in favour of a casual and natural expression of thought. Honest in its pessimism, the tone is often questioning, and some of the biggest issues, such as politics and war, are not shirked.

Published for the first time in 1972, this verse collection reveals lesser-known facets of the novelist Alexander Trocchi’s writing. The poems included span a long period of time, and range from the lyricism of his early love poetry and reflections on his involvement in drug culture to the penetrating...

Czechoslovakia, 1942. Jans father has been summarily executed by the Nazis. His mother and his older sister Maria have disappeared, and his younger sister Lena has been removed to a remote farm in the German countryside. With Europe in the throes of war, the ten-year-old boy embarks on a personal journey...

"Odyssey, a volume of twenty-one stories aimed at young adults, offers a variety of takes on the theme of travelling - at times funny and playful, at others dramatic and poignant - covering a wide range of themes relevant to teenagers across Europe such as coming of age, sexuality, migration,...

Jim Talbot, a writer with a dozen unpublished novels under his belt, has been roundly rejected by virtually every agent and publisher in the land, and is willing to go to extreme lengths to make his dream of literary stardom come true. Charles Randall, the eccentric founder and managing director of Tetragon...

The Vita Nuova remains a central document in European culture’s examination of love and the self. It is a hundred and fifty years since Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s groundbreaking version of the Vita Nuova. Now Anthony Mortimer, already acclaimed as translator of Cavalcanti, Petrarch and Michelangelo,...