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  • WIELAND; OR THE TRANSFORMATION
    Charles Brockden Brown
    Wieland: or, The Transformation: An American Tale, usually simply called Wieland, is the first major work by Charles Brockden Brown. First published in 1798, it distinguishes the true beginning of his career as a writer. Wieland is sometimes considered the first American Gothic novel. It has often been linked to Caleb Williams by William Godwin. Godwin’s influence is clear, but...
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    23,10 €

  • BARTLEBY, THE SCRIVENER
    Herman Melville
    'Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street' is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam’s Magazine and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. In the story, a Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard wor...
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    11,40 €

  • THE WORLD SET FREE
    H. G. Wells
    The World Set Free is a novel written in 1913 and published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. The book is based on a prediction of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort of weapon than the world has yet seen. It had appeared first in serialised form with a different ending as A Prophetic Trilogy, consisting of three books: A Trap to Catch the Sun, The Last War in the World and The Wo...
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    19,88 €

  • AGAINST THE GRAIN
    Joris-Karl Huysmans
    À rebours translated Against Nature or Against the Grain is an 1884 novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. The narrative centers on a single character: Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive, ailing aesthete. The last scion of an aristocratic family, Des Esseintes loathes nineteenth-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his...
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    19,91 €

  • METAMORPHOSIS
    Franz Kafka
    Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka’s best-known works, Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German: ungeheueres Ungeziefer, lit. 'monstrous vermin') and subsequently struggles to adjust to ...
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    12,88 €

  • THREE MEN IN A BOAT
    Jerome K. Jerome
    Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the ...
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    19,91 €

  • PERSUASION
    Jane Austen
    The story concerns Anne Elliot, an Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family moves to lower their expenses and reduce their debt by renting their home to an Admiral and his wife. The wife’s brother, Captain Frederick Wentworth, was engaged to Anne in 1806, but the engagement was broken when Anne was persuaded by her friends and family to end their relationship. Anne and Captain We...
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    23,12 €

  • A LANTERN IN HER HAND
    Bess Streeter Aldrich
    First published in 1928, A Lantern in Her Hand has outlasted literary fashions to touch generations of readers. In this classic story of a pioneer woman, Bess Streeter Aldrich modeled protagonist Abbie Deal on her own mother, who in 1854 had traveled by covered wagon to the Midwest. In A Lantern in Her Hand, Abbie accompanies her family to the soon-to-be-state of Nebraska. Ther...
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    24,11 €

  • NORTHANGER ABBEY
    Jane Austen
    Northanger Abbey is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic novels written by Jane Austen. Austen was also influenced by Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote (1752). Northanger Abbey was completed in 1803, the first of Austen’s novels completed in full, but was published posthumously in 1817 with Persuasion. The story concerns Catherine Morland, the naïve young protagonis...
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    22,01 €

  • MANSFIELD PARK
    Jane Austen
    The novel tells the story of Fanny Price, starting when her overburdened family sends her at the age of ten to live in the household of her wealthy aunt and uncle and following her development into early adulthood. From early on critical interpretation has been diverse, differing particularly over the character of the heroine, Austen’s views about theatrical performance and the...
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    33,65 €

  • SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
    Jane Austen
    The novel follows the three Dashwood sisters as they must move with their widowed mother from the estate on which they grew up, Norland Park. Because Norland is passed down to John, the product of Mr. Dashwood’s first marriage, and his young son, the four Dashwood women need to look for a new home. They have the opportunity to rent a modest home, Barton Cottage, on the property...
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    28,33 €

  • THE LETTERS OF JANE AUSTEN
    Jane Austen
    Jane Austen’s letters afford a unique insight into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and gossipy, observant and informative--they read much like the novels themselves. They bring alive her family and friends, her surroundings and contemporary events, all with a freshness unparalleled in modern biographies. Most important, we recognize the unmistakable voice of the author...
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    23,10 €

  • ALEXANDER The Great
    Jacob Abbott
    Alexander the Great was one of the most successful military commanders in history, and was undefeated in battle. By the time of his death, he had conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks. In 'Alexander the Great' Abbott recounts how Alexander ascended the Macedonian throne at the age of 20, overthrew his rival claimants, and then began preparations for the expedi...
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    18,83 €

  • The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    Héloïse d’Argenteuil / Peter Abelard
    Peter Abelard was a Medieval French scholastic philosopher, leading logician, theologian, poet, composer, and musician. Heloise was his young student, famous as the most well-educated and intelligent woman in Paris at the time. Abelard was surrounded by students drawn from all countries by the fame of his teaching. At the height of his fame, he encountered romance that stands t...
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    48,04 €

  • George Orwell
    George Orwell
    A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned -a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as t...
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    15,75 €

  • Saint Augustine
    Saint Augustine
    The work outlines Saint Augustine’s sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. Modern English translations of it are sometimes published under the title The Confessions of Saint Augustine in order to distinguish the book from other books with similar titles. Its original title was Confessions in Thirteen Books, and it was composed to be read out loud with each book being ...
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    25,17 €

  • C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis
    The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is a classic masterpiece of religious satire that entertains readers with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to 'Our Father Below.' At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging account o...
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    15,68 €

  • Wilhelm Grimm & Jacob Grimm
    Jacob Grimm / Wilhelm Grimm
    Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, commonly known as the Brothers Grimm, were not primarily writers but philologists whose names are still as well known in the field of linguistics as they are to readers of fairy tales. Grimm’s Law is a basic rule in the study of Indo-European languages, and the dictionary of the German language is largely their work. Although the fairy tales were always...
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    24,11 €

  • Menander
    Alan H. Sommerstein
    This book introduces readers who may have no previous knowledge of Menander’s comedies to Epitrepontes (The Arbitration), arguably the most exquisitely crafted of his better-preserved plays. It explains what we know about the play, how we know it, and how far we can tentatively fill in the gaps in our knowledge. Sommerstein analyses the nature of the dramatic genre (Athenian N...
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    39,78 €

  • The Second Voynich Manuscript
    Matti Charlton
    What if there existed a second Voynich Manuscript that continued where the first one left off? The Voynich Manuscript is a real and legendary text, written in a yet-undeciphered language or script, containing fantastic and detailed scientific-like examinations of what appear to be flora. The drawings have their own weird and wonderful style. So what if a second Voynich Manuscri...
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    35,72 €

  • Hellenistic Epigrams
    Alexander Sens
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    39,11 €

  • The Atlantis
    Golu Kumar
    In his Timaeus and Critias, Plato first refers to the mythological metropolis of Atlantis. Despite being primarily thought to be a myth, Atlantis has appeared in literature and has survived the years. Over time, the tale developed into a legend that finally drew people to explore this historic city to determine whether Plato’s allusions were true or just allegory. The different...
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    12,54 €

  • The Land
    Golu Kumar
    One of the most vivid symbols for the ancient Israelites was the land. The physical source of Israel’s fertility and life, as well as a location for the gathering of the covenant people’s hopes, were found in the land—a gift, a promise, and a task. Walter Brueggemann explores the evolution of his theme through the main building elements of Israel’s traditions in this meticulous...
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    9,43 €

  • Ishtar and Tammuz
    Golu Kumar
    The Green One, Tammuz, is sent to reside on the ground below by his mother, Ishtar, the Babylonian deity of all creation. She, however, becomes so envious of how much love he receives that she has him murdered. For the return of the green spirit, the people pray to their goddess. Ishtar concurs, but not before facing up against the dreadful half-lioness, half-woman who controls...
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    10,72 €

  • the Greek Chronology of the First Ages
    Golu Kumar
    In this book, the history of the beginning of Greek civilization has been told.Completely written about Greek kings, warriors, temples, etc. Many Greek mythology characters have been told such as Perseus, Hercules, Medusa, and their gods.There are also details of their thinking, living, clothes, etc.If you want to know about Greek civilization, then this book gives you a chance...
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    17,91 €

  • The Life, the Legend, and the Islamic Empire of Saladin
    Golu Kumar
    One of the most well-known historical figures is still Saladin. He is regarded as the greatest hero in the Islamic world for uniting the Arabs and defending Islam against Christian crusaders in the 12th century. He was ruthless in defending his beliefs and a superb commander, qualities that garnered the adoration of his Christian adversaries. He understood when to use violence ...
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    9,81 €

  • The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus
    Publius Syrus
    The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, A Roman Slave is a collection of proverbs and aphorisms pulled from the many mimes and plays of Publius Syrus. Enslaved by the Romans in his youth, this witty man went on to conquer the Roman stage. These maxims, believed to have been collected in the 1st century AD, are all that remain of the great playwright’s work.  Born in Syria in the 1s...
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    6,81 €

  • The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus
    Publius Syrus
    The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, A Roman Slave is a collection of proverbs and aphorisms pulled from the many mimes and plays of Publius Syrus. Enslaved by the Romans in his youth, this witty man went on to conquer the Roman stage. These maxims, believed to have been collected in the 1st century AD, are all that remain of the great playwright’s work.  Born in Syria in the 1s...
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    24,52 €

  • shrimat bhagavatam
    Nivruthi Shekar
    ''He who sees the Ultimate Reality seated equally in all beings and unperishing within the perishing, see truly.'' “of the unreal, there is no being, and of the real, there is no non-being.”            Bhagavad Gita VI, 29 ...
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    16,79 €

  • Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration
    Benjamin Folit-Weinberg
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    53,56 €


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