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  • Tales from the Riverside
    Larry Landgraf
    Tales from the Riverside tells true and unique stories about one man’s struggle with alligators, snakes, killer bees, and hordes of nasty critters on a daily basis in his swamp. Experience the danger without the need for professional medical services. Life in a swamp is not for everyone. ...
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    22,79 €

  • The Life of Samuel Johnson
    James Boswell
    This is a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell. It is regarded as an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography; many have claimed it as the greatest biography written in English. While Boswell’s personal acquaintance with his subject only began in 1763, when Johnson was 54 years old, Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson’s life by...
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    36,04 €

  • Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
    Thomas De Quincey
    Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum (opium and alcohol) addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was 'the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him fame almost overnight. ...
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    17,94 €

  • Haiku Master
    Erik Thomas
    A literary vision quest in space & time coming from the mind of a high school student. All poetry written from 9th through 12th grade blended with an emotive exhilarating score of rhyme nuanced by an organized touch of romance. ...
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    11,27 €

  • ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
    WILLIAM H. PATTERSON / WILLIAM HPATTERSON
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    34,12 €

  • A Passionate Sisterhood
    Kathleen Jones
    The Lake Poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, have become a literary myth and we are used to looking at the Lake District landscape through its romantic prism. But for their sisters, wives and daughters the view was very different. The Wordsworths lived at Grasmere, the Coleridges and Southeys twelve miles away at Keswick and the women created a kind of extended family tha...
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    12,01 €

  • The Lonely House
    Paul Brody
    During her lifetime, Emily Dickinson did not seek out recognition or attempt to change the world around her, even in the smallest way. A private but not antisocial person, she kept her life’s work, and her innermost feelings, almost entirely to herself. Her life was rich in intellectual pursuits, and she had many friends with whom she exchanged witty and brilliant letters, but ...
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    6,16 €

  • Beat Transnationalism
    John Tytell
    Allen Ginsberg told John Tytell that he would not understand the Beat Generation without first experiencing life in Mexico, and so, while writing Naked Angels, the first book to explore the development of Beat literature, Tytell headed south to Oaxaca.In this volume, Tytell examines the importance of Mexico to the Beat Generation, while recounting – via letters from that period...
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    16,04 €

  • The Canister X Transmission
    A.P. Fuchs
    Begin transmission . . .Running from June 2020 to March 2024, The Canister X Transmission was sent via email to readers worldwide.Readers received news straight from A.P. Fuchs’s bunker studio at Axiom-man Central that was meant to engage, entertain, and have some fun.The Very Long Year Six took a long time to fulfill. It was a time of A.P. Fuchs’s settlement into a new life an...
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    15,19 €

  • The Voyage of the Norman D.
    Barbara Newhall Follett
    Following the successful launch of her first book, The House Without Windows (Alfred A. Knopf, 1927), thirteen-year-old Barbara Newhall Follett dived deep into pirate lore. She wanted to write about a fortune-telling girl her age whose world was gypsies and pirates-that is, another fictional autobiography like House. One problem: Barbara has never been to sea. She lacks the kno...
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    18,63 €

  • James Joyce
    United Library
    James Joyce’s book delves into the extraordinary life and literary contributions of one of the most renowned figures of the 20th century. Born in Dublin on February 2, 1882, Joyce’s impact on modernist literature is immeasurable. His seminal work, 'Ulysses' (1922), revolutionized the novel form by paralleling episodes of Homer’s Odyssey in a variety of literary styles, notably ...
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    11,35 €

  • J.R.R. Tolkien
    United Library
    The book J. R. R. Tolkien unveils the life and literary legacy of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, an eminent English writer, and philologist renowned for his profound contributions to the fantasy genre. Born on January 3, 1892, Tolkien achieved literary immortality as the author of the high fantasy masterpieces, 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.'Tolkien’s academic journey led...
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    9,02 €

  • Rosaries, Reading, Secrets
    Anita Mathias
    Rosaries, Reading, Secrets: A Catholic Childhood in India is a lyrical account of Anita Mathias’s turbulent Roman Catholic childhood in India.Mathias grew up in Jamshedpur, 'The Steel City,' a company town benevolently run by the Zoroastrians of Tata Steel. The Catholic church, run by American Jesuits, provided an all-encompassing world. In a pre-TV world, visiting friends was ...
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    16,83 €

  • Extinction Wednesday
    Joey Nicoletti
    Extinction Wednesday is a memoir that investigates the challenges of nostalgia, letting go of the past, and pursuing positive change through the lenses of learning, unlearning, popular culture, and a New York Italian American experience ...
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    14,67 €

  • Roughing It
    Mark Twain
    Embark on a wild journey through the untamed West with Mark Twain’s Roughing It. Join Twain as he navigates the frontier, encountering colorful characters, outrageous adventures, and unexpected twists at every turn. A humorous and insightful exploration of the American frontier that will leave you longing for more. ...
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    19,83 €

  • Gregory Corso
    Leon Horton
    After Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, Gregory Corso (1930-2001) was the fourth 'Daddy' of the socio-literary movement they called the Beat Generation. Those 'angel-headed hipsters' who came to prominence in the 1950s were the voice of a disaffected generation of renegades, rebels, and rabble-rousers in the post-war conservative years of President Eisenhower....
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    22,47 €

  • Back O’ Cairns
    Ion Idriess
    In this book, Ion Idriess reflects on his life prospecting in far North Queensland from 1912 to 1914, and coincided with his earliest writing as 'Gouger' for the Bulletin.In Back of Cairns, Jack gives the reader a picture of what life was like when the peninsula jungle was falling under the settler’s axe, his own day-to-day experiences, and the district’s historical background....
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    24,35 €

  • Prince of los Cocuyos, The
    Richard Blanco
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    18,52 €

  • Garden of Marvels, A
    Ruth Kassinger
    Combing the curiosity of The Botany of Desire and the playful spirit of Wicked Plants, a witty and engaging history of botany and gardening memoir from the author of Paradise Under Glass--an easy-to-follow, anecdotal tutorial on the fascinating science of plants.In Paradise Under Glass, Ruth Kassinger-- a self-described 'wanton killer of plants'--recounted with grace, humor, an...
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    17,94 €

  • Walden-ish
    Henry David Thoreau / Krimsey Lilleth
    AN AMERICAN CLASSIC, REINVIGORATEDIn 1854, Henry David Thoreau published his famous work, Walden, an experiment in simple living. Thoreau recounts his experiences living alone in a small self-built cabin near Walden Pond, reflecting on the virtue of self-reliance and the pursuit of a meaningful life. He challenges readers to question societal norms and reconnect with the natura...
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    19,28 €

  • D.H. Lawrence and Cornwall
    Philip Prof. Payton
    This book examines D.H. Lawrence’s attempts to establish a utopian community in Cornwall during WWI. Lawrence was drawn to the idea of a ’Celtic Cornwall’ beyond England’s reach and thus remote from the war. But it caught up with Cornwall and Lawrence, resulting in disillusion and eventual expulsion. He described his Cornish sojourn in Kangaroo. ...
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    145,42 €

  • Castles & Ruins
    Rue Matthiessen
    Decades after spending a summer in the Irish countryside with her parents-author Deborah Love and National Book Award winner Peter Matthiessen-Rue takes her young family back to Ireland to revisit locales from that season in the sixties. As a guide, she has her mother’s poetic book, Annaghkeen, named for the castle that overlooked their home in Galway.What begins as a simple, n...
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    15,91 €

  • Bacon and The Dissociation Of Sensibility
    David Conduct
    The term 'Dissociation of Sensibility' has its origin in an essay published by T. S. Eliot in 1921 on the Metaphysical Poets, in which he referred to a dramatic change in poetic experience taking place in the Seventeenth Century. He attributed this change to social and literary causes but, in fact, the true origin of this change lies in the development of scientific thought at ...
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    5,26 €

  • A Confession
    Leo Tolstoy
    A Confession or My Confession, is a classic Leo Tolstoy book and a short work on the subject of melancholia, philosophy and religion. It was written in 1879 to 1880, when Tolstoy was in his early fifties.The book is a brief autobiographical story of the author’s struggle with a mid-life existential crisis. It describes his search for the answer to the ultimate philosophical que...
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    12,85 €

  • CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
    Theophile Gautier / Guy Thorne
    CHARLES BAUDELAIRE: HIS LIFEBy Théophile GautierWith poems translated by Guy ThorneCharles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a celebrated 19th century French poet, author of the famous Flowers of Evil poetic sequence, first published in 1857. Baudelaire is a poet’s poet par excellence, a brilliant craftsman who produced some of the finest poems in the French language. Baudelaire was k...
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    21,21 €

  • Walden-ish
    Henry David Thoreau / Krimsey Lilleth
    AN AMERICAN CLASSIC, REINVIGORATEDIn 1854, Henry David Thoreau published his famous work, Walden, an experiment in simple living. Thoreau recounts his experiences living alone in a small self-built cabin near Walden Pond, reflecting on the virtue of self-reliance and the pursuit of a meaningful life. He challenges readers to question societal norms and reconnect with the natura...
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    11,35 €

  • My Hospitals & My Prisons
    Paul Verlaine / Richard Robinson
    Autobiographical in nature, but reading more like works of fiction, written in that rare, ephemeral, and nuanced style that the poet is famous for in his early poetry, these two works by Paul Verlaine are a first-ever English translation of My Hospitals, from 1891, and My Prisons, from 1893. Enthusiasts of the Paris Commune and the Belle Epoque will be enthralled by these eye-w...
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    17,88 €

  • Virginia Woolf
    United Library
    Step into the world of Adeline Virginia Woolf, the celebrated English writer whose pioneering contributions to modernist literature and mastery of the stream of consciousness narrative technique have left an indelible mark on the 20th-century literary landscape. Virginia Woolf;s book is an intimate journey through the complex and brilliant mind of a literary icon. Born into pri...
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    9,08 €

  • Ten Years a Bohemian
    Émile Goudeau / Richard Robinson
    Ten Years a Bohemian (Dix ans de bohème in French), first published in 1888, is the autobiographical account of a young man, Émile Goudeau, who moves to Paris from the French countryside in the mid- to late-1870s, with high ambitions of becoming a poet. Would that it were so easy! Whimsical and endearing, it tells the story of the Bohemian life of not just one young man, but co...
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    21,47 €

  • Nadine Gordimer’s Fiction
    Syeda Faiqa Mazhar
    Nadine Gordimer’s Fiction is a major study of the life and writings of Nadine Gordimer, a towering figure in the literary and cultural life of South Africa in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, recognised for her fiction through several prizes, most notably the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature. It has the makings of a guide, taking the reader through the complexities in Gor...
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    18,43 €


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