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  • The Pusher-in-the-Face
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    '...the kind of face that makes up crowds, gray in color with ears that shrank back against the head as if fearing the clamor of the city, and with the tired, tired eyes of one whose forebears have been underdogs for five thousand years.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Pusher-in-the-Face (1925)The Pusher-in-the-Face (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of many short stories the autho...
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    7,39 €

  • An American Tragedy
    Theodore Dreiser
    'Who were these people with money, and what had they done that they should enjoy so much luxury, where others as good seemingly as themselves had nothing? And wherein did these latter differ so greatly from the successful?'-Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy (1925)An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser is based on the 1906 murder of Grace Brown, her lover’s immoralit...
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    34,37 €

  • Arrowsmith
    Sinclair Lewis
    'It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.'-Sinclair Lewis, ArrowsmithArrowsmith (1926) is among Sinclair Lewis’s early novels. Even so, it is usually considered one of his major works, because it was the first 'scientific' novel. Inspired to write it by major reforms in the field of ...
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    26,28 €

  • Arrowsmith
    Sinclair Lewis
    'It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.'-Sinclair Lewis, ArrowsmithArrowsmith (1926) is among Sinclair Lewis’s early novels. Even so, it is usually considered one of his major works, because it was the first 'scientific' novel. Inspired to write it by major reforms in the field of ...
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    15,50 €

  • Fitzgerald Treasury - The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned
    F. Scott Fitzgerald / FScott Fitzgerald
    Complete editions of The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, and The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald. His oozing verse and indulgent styling are fully captured here.His three early novels, written in and describing the post World War period of 1920’s America, are haunting classics that stays with the reader. From The Great Gatsby (1925): 'Only Gatsby, the man who g...
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    30,43 €

  • Fitzgerald Treasury - The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned
    F. Scott Fitzgerald / FScott Fitzgerald
    Complete editions of The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, and The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald. His oozing verse and indulgent styling are fully captured here.His three early novels, written in and describing the post World War period of 1920’s America, are haunting classics that stays with the reader. From The Great Gatsby (1925): 'Only Gatsby, the man who g...
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    20,03 €

  • The Great Gatsby
    F. Scott Fitzgerald / FScott Fitzgerald
    Complete edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written in and describing the decadent period of 1920’s America, Fitzgerald’s lyrical verse is a tragically simple love story that is strangely profound.  This is a haunting classic that stays with the reader.  'Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction-Gatsby, who represented e...
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    17,65 €

  • The Great Gatsby
    F. Scott Fitzgerald / FScott Fitzgerald
    Complete edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written in and describing the decadent period of 1920’s America, Fitzgerald’s lyrical verse is a tragically simple love story that is strangely profound.  This is a haunting classic that stays with the reader.  'Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction-Gatsby, who represented e...
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    8,14 €

  • American Tragedy
    Theodore Dreiser
    'Who were these people with money, and what had they done that they should enjoy so much luxury, where others as good seemingly as themselves had nothing? And wherein did these latter differ so greatly from the successful?'-Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy (1925)An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser is based on the 1906 murder of Grace Brown, her lover’s immoralit...
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    56,53 €

  • The Sensible Thing
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing (1924)The Sensible Thing (1924) by F. Scott Fitzgerald was originally published in the weekly magazine Liberty and is based on the early lives of Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda. Main character George does not have enough money to marry his sweetheart Jonquil, and t...
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    7,47 €

  • The Third Casket
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'Reclining lazily in an armchair not two yards away sat a gold-and-ivory little beauty with dark eyes and a moving, childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Third Casket (1924)The Third Casket (1924) is one of the 68 stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald published in the Saturday Evening Post over a seventeen-year timespan. The unique plo...
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    7,44 €

  • The Unspeakable Egg
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    '...the public was pleased to know that they were ugly monsters for all their money, and everyone was satisfied all around.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Unspeakable Egg (1924)The Unspeakable Egg (1924) is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that features ultra-rich main character Fifi, engaged to be married to a man who in her estimation is too perfect. The day before the wedding...
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    7,53 €

  • The Inimitable Jeeves
    P.G. Wodehouse / P.GWodehouse
    Reginald Jeeves, usually referred to as just Jeeves, is a fictional character in a series of comedic short stories and novels by English author P. G. Wodehouse. Jeeves is the highly competent valet of a wealthy and idle young Londoner named Bertie Wooster. First appearing in print in 1915, Jeeves continued to feature in Wodehouse's work until his last completed novel Aunts ...
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    19,28 €

  • The Surgeon’s Daughter
    Walter Scott
    The Surgeon’s Daughter is part of Chronicles of the Canongate which is a collection of stories by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1827 and 1828 in the Waverley novels series. They are named after the Canongate, in Edinburgh. After his financial ruin at the beginning of 1826, Scott committed himself to writing works that would produce funds for the Trustees of James Ballantyne & ...
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    17,63 €

  • Old Mortality
    Walter Scott
    Old Mortality is one of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott. Set in south west Scotland, it forms, along with The Black Dwarf, the 1st series of his Tales of My Landlord (1816). The novel deals with the period of the Covenanters, featuring their victory at Loudoun Hill and their defeat at Bothwell Bridge, both in June 1679; a final section is set in 1689 at the time of the roya...
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    22,08 €

  • Old Mortality
    Walter Scott
    Old Mortality is one of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott. Set in south west Scotland, it forms, along with The Black Dwarf, the 1st series of his Tales of My Landlord (1816). The novel deals with the period of the Covenanters, featuring their victory at Loudoun Hill and their defeat at Bothwell Bridge, both in June 1679; a final section is set in 1689 at the time of the roya...
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    34,01 €

  • One of Ours
    Willa Cather
    One of Ours is a novel by Willa Cather which won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize. It tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a native of Nebraska around the turn of the 20th century. The son of a successful mid-western farmer and an intensely pious mother, thus guaranteed a comfortable livelihood, Claude Wheeler nonetheless views himself as a victim of his father's success a...
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    17,67 €

  • One of Ours
    Willa Cather
    One of Ours is a novel by Willa Cather which won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize. It tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a native of Nebraska around the turn of the 20th century. The son of a successful mid-western farmer and an intensely pious mother, thus guaranteed a comfortable livelihood, Claude Wheeler nonetheless views himself as a victim of his father's success a...
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    28,44 €

  • Babbitt
    Sinclair Lewis
    Unabridged value reproduction of BABBITT by the gritty realist and Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis. It is a tale of the emptiness of materialism in the roaring twenties that applies today to those wanting a simpler life.The hero is Babbitt, ruling his business with militant normalcy and also the most grievous victim of his own militant dullness.Lewis describes it this way, “H...
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    10,85 €

  • Babbitt
    Sinclair Lewis
    Unabridged value reproduction of BABBITT by the gritty realist and Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis. It is a tale of the emptiness of materialism in the roaring twenties that applies today to those wanting a simpler life.The hero is Babbitt, ruling his business with militant normalcy and also the most grievous victim of his own militant dullness.Lewis describes it this way, “H...
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    19,95 €

  • The Beautiful and Damned
    F Scott Fitzgerald
    Complete edition of The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It tells the story of the rise, fall, and relationship of the main characters, which many feel are based on the author’s own life. Fitzgerald’s oozing verse, debauchery, and speedy action have made this book continue to be read through the years.'As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not wit...
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    21,07 €

  • The Beautiful and Damned
    F Scott Fitzgerald
    Complete edition of The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It tells the story of the rise, fall, and relationship of the main characters, which many feel are based on the author’s own life. Fitzgerald’s oozing verse, debauchery, and speedy action have made this book continue to be read through the years.'As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not wit...
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    11,97 €

  • Siddhartha
    Hermann Hesse / TBD
    Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The book, Hesse's ninth novel, was written in German, in a simple, lyrical style. It was published in the U.S. in 1951 and became influential during the 1960s. Hesse dedicated the first part of it to Romain Rolland a...
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    18,43 €

  • Two for a Cent
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'He had been bored with the President, he had been bored and not a little embarrassed with the duchesses-nevertheless, the two incidents had pleased him and still sat softly upon his naive vanity.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Two for a Cent (1922)Two for a Cent (1922) by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a short story that deviates from his romantic plotline and is the first of several he wrote ...
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    7,44 €

  • Winter Dreams
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of illusion, of youth, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams (1922)Winter Dreams (1922) by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the author’s early short stories which served as a first draft of sorts for The Great Gatsby (1925) also available from Cosimo Cl...
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    10,26 €

  • Babbitt
    Sinclair Lewis
    'Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.'-Sinclair Lewis, BabbittIn the novel Babbitt (1922), Sinclair Lewis created a sardonic portrait of a typical American businessman, striving to conform to the standards of the American culture of the time. Its 'hero' is a real estate salesman who, havin...
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    44,18 €

  • The Beautiful and the Damned
    F. Fitzgerald / FFitzgerald
    'Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (1922)The Beautiful and Damned (1922) followed F. Scott Fitzgerald’s critically acclaimed first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920) and cinched his place as a noted author of his time. The plot centers on Anthony, a socialite awaiting an inheritance and his marriage to Gloria, a...
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    21,67 €

  • Dead Man Talking
    Danny Campbell / Farzana Habib / Julie Baron
    No one escapesfrom life alive.- Michael Chrichton ...
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    17,77 €

  • Castles in the Air
    Baroness Emma Orczy
    My name is Ratichon—Hector Ratichon, at your service, and I make so bold as to say that not even my worst enemy would think of minimizing the value of my services to the State. For twenty years now have I placed my powers at the disposal of my country: I have served the Republic, and was confidential agent to Citizen Robespierre; I have served the Empire, and was secret factotu...
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    24,56 €

  • Castles in the Air
    Baroness Emma Orczy
    My name is Ratichon—Hector Ratichon, at your service, and I make so bold as to say that not even my worst enemy would think of minimizing the value of my services to the State. For twenty years now have I placed my powers at the disposal of my country: I have served the Republic, and was confidential agent to Citizen Robespierre; I have served the Empire, and was secret factotu...
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    13,31 €


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