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  • Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World
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    39,42 €

  • Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
    Ewen Bowie
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    59,78 €

  • Xenophon of Athens
    Noreen Humble
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    43,65 €

  • Poetry and Poetics in the Presocratic Philosophers
    Tom Mackenzie
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    39,43 €

  • Demigods of India
    Dr Anshumali
    Demigods of India: In this book, the author has made an honest effort to provide readers with a faithful picture of Hindu beliefs, based on sacred texts. The author has consciously avoided any prejudice or theological bias and refrained from commenting on passages quoted, except where necessary for clarity. The author has included both positive and negative aspects of Hindu god...
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    14,29 €

  • William Byrd, Consort Music
    Anne Martin
    Anne Martin worked as a music teacher after graduating from Homerton College, Cambridge with a degree in Music and Education. She became interested in Early Music and the recorder in her twenties and has taught the recorder and conducted recorder groups for many years as well as arranging music, composing and writing. Her interest in the consort music of William Byrd led to the...
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    50,33 €

  • THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home. In the book, Hawthorne explores themes of guilt, retribution, and atonement, and colors the tale with suggestions of the super...
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    26,25 €

  • THE ETHICS
    Benedict de Spinoza
    The book is perhaps the most ambitious attempt to apply the method of Euclid in philosophy. Spinoza puts forward a small number of definitions and axioms from which he attempts to derive hundreds of propositions and corollaries, such as 'When the Mind imagines its own lack of power, it is saddened by it', 'A free man thinks of nothing less than of death', and 'The human Mind ca...
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    23,06 €

  • THE SCARLET LETTER
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    The Scarlet Letter was one of the first mass-produced books in the United States. It was popular when first published and is considered a classic work of American literature. The novel has inspired numerous film, television, and stage adaptations. Critics have described The Scarlet Letter as a masterwork, and novelist D. H. Lawrence called it a 'perfect work of the American ima...
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    23,08 €

  • THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER
    J.W. Von Goethe
    The Sorrows of Young Werther, a story about a young man’s extreme response to unrequited love, is presented as a collection of letters written by Werther, a young artist of a sensitive and passionate temperament, to his friend Wilhelm. These give an intimate account of his stay in the fictional village of Wahlheim, whose peasants have enchanted him with their simple ways. There...
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    16,75 €

  • THE TRIAL
    Franz Kafka
    The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. One of his best known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavily influenced by Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and The Brothers K...
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    22,03 €

  • TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
    Jules Verne
    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas is a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne. The novel was originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel’s fortnightly periodical, the Magasin d’éducation et de récréation. A deluxe octavo edition, published by Hetzel in November 1871. The book was widely acclaimed on its relea...
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    27,34 €

  • THÉRÈSE RAQUIN
    Émile Zola
    Thérèse Raquin is an 1868 novel by French writer Émile Zola, first published in serial form in the literary magazine L’Artiste in 1867. It was Zola’s third novel, though the first to earn wide fame. The novel’s adultery and murder were considered scandalous and famously described as 'putrid' in a review in the newspaper Le Figaro. Thérèse Raquin tells the story of a young woman...
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    22,08 €

  • THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
    Henry James
    The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who, 'affronting her destiny,' finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates. Like many of James’s novels, it is set in Europe, mostly England and Italy. Generally regarded as the masterpie...
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    28,36 €

  • Sacrament an Alter/The Sacrament of the Altar
    This first ever critical edition of a pivotal Cornish-language text opens to the Tudor historian-and the general reader-a new window onto a crucial example of the reception of John Foxe, and gives fascinating insights into a possible alliance between Church Papism and recusancy in Tudor Cornwall. ...
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    131,22 €

  • The Epic of Gilgamesh
    Albert T. Clay / Morris Jastrow Jr.
    The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia, regarded as the earliest surviving notable literature and the second oldest religious text, after the Pyramid Texts. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about Bilgamesh (Sumerian for 'Gilgamesh'), king of Uruk, dating from the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2100 BC). These independent stories...
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    17,71 €

  • MISS LONELYHEARTS
    Nathanael West
    Miss Lonelyhearts is a novella by Nathanael West. It is about a male newspaper advice columnist who provides advice to lonesome people who becomes so affected by their desperate letters that he spirals into depression, drinking, and ill-considered sexual affairs, which leads to his downfall. In the story, Miss Lonelyhearts is the pseudonym for an unnamed male newspaper columnis...
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    14,22 €

  • FRANKENSTEIN
    Mary Shelley
    Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was ...
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    22,07 €

  • TENDER IS THE NIGHT
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Tender Is the Night is the fourth and final novel completed by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in French Riviera during the twilight of the Jazz Age, the novel chronicles the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychiatrist, and his wife, Nicole, who is one of his patients. The story mirrors events in the lives of the author and his wife Zelda Fitzgerald as ...
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    28,36 €

  • SILAS MARNER
    George Eliot
    Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot. It was published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, the novel is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community. Silas Marner is a story of loss, alienation, and redemption that combines elements...
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    21,00 €

  • IN A GLASS DARKLY
    Sheridan Le Fanu
    This remarkable collection of stories, first published in 1872, includes Green Tea, The Familiar, Mr. Justice Harbottle, The Room in the Dragon Volant, and Carmilla. The five stories are purported to be cases by Dr. Hesselius, a ’metaphysical’ doctor, who is willing to consider the ghosts both as real and as hallucinatory obsessions. The reader’s doubtful anxiety mimics that of...
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    28,37 €

  • THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
    Edith Wharton
    The Age of Innocence, which was set in the time of Wharton’s childhood, was a softer and gentler work than The House of Mirth, which Wharton had published in 1905. In her autobiography, Wharton wrote of The Age of Innocence that it had allowed her to find 'a momentary escape in going back to my childish memories of a long-vanished America... it was growing more and more evident...
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    26,27 €

  • NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Notes from Underground also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld) is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in the journal Epoch in 1864. It is a first-person narrative in the form of a 'confession': the work was originally announced by Dostoevsky in Epoch under the title 'A Confession'. The novella presents itself as an excerpt from ...
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    16,72 €

  • THE BOSTONIANS
    Henry James
    This bittersweet tragicomedy centres on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom’s cousin and a Boston feminist; and Verena Tarrant, a pretty, young protégée of Olive’s in the feminist movement. The storyline concerns the struggle between Ransom and Olive for Verena’s allegiance and affection, though the no...
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    22,01 €

  • ONE, NONE AND A HUNDRED-THOUSAND
    Luigi Pirandello
    One, None and One Hundred Thousand is a 1926 novel by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello. It is Pirandello’s last novel; his son later said that it took 'more than 15 years' to write. In an autobiographical letter, published in 1924, the author refers to this work as the '...bitterest of all, profoundly humoristic, about the decomposition of life: Moscarda one, no one and one...
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    19,91 €

  • UTOPIA
    Thomas More
    A utopia typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its members. It was coined by Sir Thomas More for his book Utopia, describing a fictional island society in the New World. However, it may also denote an intentional community. In common parlance, the word or its adjectival form may be used synonymously...
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    16,76 €

  • THE TIME MACHINE
    H. G. Wells
    The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time. The term 'time machine', coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device. Util...
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    15,72 €

  • DAISY MILLER
    Henry James
    Daisy Miller is a novella by Henry James that first appeared in The Cornhill Magazine in June-July 1878, and in book form the following year. It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Winterbourne, a sophisticated compatriot of hers. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates when they...
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    12,97 €

  • THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
    H. G. Wells
    The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialised in 1897 by Pearson’s Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The novel’s first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between mankind and...
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    19,94 €

  • THE TURN OF THE SCREW
    Henry James
    The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James which first appeared in serial format in Collier’s Weekly (January 27 - April 16, 1898). In October 1898, it was collected in The Two Magics, published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London. The novella follows a governess who, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the gr...
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    16,72 €


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