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  • Safed and Keturah
    William Eleazar Barton
    The eloquent short stories and parables of Safed the sage – a character created by author William Barton – offer moral teachings and thought-provoking vignettes of humanity.Dozens of short yet memorable stories comprise this volume, which seeks to promote the virtues and good deeds that make a life worth living. Sometimes the tales are simple observations of life, of chance enc...
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    12,25 €

  • The Cut-Glass Bowl
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'It was astonishing to think that life had once been the sum of her current love-affairs. It was now the sum of her current problems.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Cut-Glass Bowl (1920)The Cut-Glass Bowl (1920), by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first published in Scribner’s Magazine and later in his short story collection, Flappers and Philosophers (also available from Cosimo Classics)....
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    7,44 €

  • Head and Shoulders
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Head and Shoulders (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in the Saturday Evening Post and later in his short story collection, Flappers and Philosophers (also available from Cosimo Classics), features Horace, a Princeton academic, who falls for flapper, Marcia. Marcia’s shoulders shaking in her performances and Horace’s 'head' with his academia are the basis for the ti...
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    7,65 €

  • Dalyrimple Goes Wrong
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'Cutting corners meant rejecting the old childhood principles that success came from faithfulness to duty, that evil was necessarily punished or virtue necessarily rewarded-that honest poverty was happier than corrupt riches.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dalyrimple Goes Wrong (1920)Dalyrimple Goes Wrong (1920), written in September of 1919 by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first published i...
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    7,56 €

  • Myra Meets His Family
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'The particular Myra whom this story concerns will have to have a paragraph of history. I will get it over with as swiftly as possible.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Myra Meets His Family (1920)Myra Meets His Family (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the author’s first stories published in the Saturday Evening Post and features Myra Harper, a twenty-something former debutante who ...
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    7,69 €

  • The Ice Palace
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'Then she kissed him until the sky seemed to fade out and all her smiles and tears to vanish in an ecstasy of eternal seconds.'―F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Ice Palace (1920)The Ice Palace (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in the Saturday Evening Post and later in his short story collection, Flappers and Philosopher (also available from Cosimo Classics) is based on th...
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    7,69 €

  • The Four Fists
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms.' ―F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Four Fists (1920)The Four Fists (1920) was first published as part of a collection of short stories, Flappers and Philosophers (also available from Cosimo Classics) and features Samuel Meredith, a man whose face seems to be quite hittable. The fists to t...
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    7,50 €

  • The Offshore Pirate
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'You see, this is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding-it’s got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl.' ―Carlyle, The Offshore Pirate by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920). The Offshore Pirate (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in the Saturday Evening Post and later in his short story collection, Flappers and Philosoph...
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    6,55 €

  • The Story of the Other Wise Man
    Henry van Dyke
    Complete edition of The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry van Dyke and illustrated by J. R. Flanagan.  A powerful story of Christmas from a wise man who spent his life in search of the Christ Child, it was made into a movie called, 'The Fourth Wise Man.''You know the story of the Three Wise Men of the East, and how they travelled from far away to offer their gifts at the ma...
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    7,29 €

  • The Story of the Other Wise Man
    Henry van Dyke
    Complete edition of The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry van Dyke and illustrated by J. R. Flanagan.  A powerful story of Christmas from a wise man who spent his life in search of the Christ Child, it was made into a movie called, 'The Fourth Wise Man.''You know the story of the Three Wise Men of the East, and how they travelled from far away to offer their gifts at the ma...
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    18,13 €

  • Bernice Bobs Her Hair
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'He wondered idly whether she was a poor conversationalist because she got no attention or got no attention because she was a poor conversationalist.' -F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1920)Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1920), by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first published in the Saturday Evening Post and later in his short story collection, Flappers and Philosophers (also ava...
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    7,69 €

  • This Side of Paradise
    F. Scott Fitzgerald / FScott Fitzgerald
    Complete edition of This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald. His debut novel, written in and describing the post World War period of 1920’s America, Fitzgerald’s lyrical verse and personal writing style are fully demonstrated here.'Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.'No student of thought should...
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    19,96 €

  • This Side of Paradise
    F. Scott Fitzgerald / FScott Fitzgerald
    Complete edition of This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald. His debut novel, written in and describing the post World War period of 1920’s America, Fitzgerald’s lyrical verse and personal writing style are fully demonstrated here.'Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.'No student of thought should...
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    10,86 €

  • The Couple
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'Carrol’s arrogance, her coldness, her growing dislike for him, had been beyond endurance. He was short- tempered himself and many times in the last month their disputes had hovered on the verge of physical violence.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Couple (1920-1922)The Couple, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was written sometime between 1920 and 1922, then published posthumously as one of t...
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    7,56 €

  • The I.O.U.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'Non-fiction is a form of literature that lies half-way between fiction and fact.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The I.O.U. (1920)The I.O.U. by F. Scott Fitzgerald was written early in his professional career, submitted to Harper’s Bazaar magazine in 1920, and rejected. The story, published posthumously, offers a satirical take on the publishing world and describes how publishers sensat...
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    7,44 €

  • A Damsel in Distress
    P. G. Wodehouse / PGWodehouse
    A Damsel in Distress is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States in 1919. The plot revolves around golf-loving American composer George Bevan who falls in love with a mysterious young lady who takes refuge in his taxicab one day. When he later tracks her down to a romantic rural manor, mistaken identity leads to all manner of brouhaha.  Source: Wikipedia...
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    16,99 €

  • A Damsel in Distress
    P. G. Wodehouse / PGWodehouse
    A Damsel in Distress is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States in 1919. The plot revolves around golf-loving American composer George Bevan who falls in love with a mysterious young lady who takes refuge in his taxicab one day. When he later tracks her down to a romantic rural manor, mistaken identity leads to all manner of brouhaha.  Source: Wikipedia...
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    8,32 €

  • Nomads of the North
    James Oliver Curwood
    Nomads of the North-A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars is a classic nature/wildlife story by James Oliver Curwood. It was late in the month of March, at the dying-out of the Eagle Moon, that Neewa the black bear cub got his first real look at the world. Noozak, his mother, was an old bear, and like an old person she was filled with rheumatics and the desire t...
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    16,47 €

  • The Curious Republic of Gondour
    Mark Twain
    'I found that the nation had at first tried universal suffrage pure and simple, but had thrown that form aside because the result was not satisfactory.'-The Curious Republic of Gondour (1870) The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches (1906) is a collection of short stories and sketches written by Mark Twain in 1870-1871 for The Galaxy and The Buffalo Expres...
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    10,50 €

  • Free Air
    Sinclair Lewis
    'She knew the exaltation of starting out in the fresh morning for places she had never seen, without the bond of having to return at night.'― Sinclair Lewis, Free AirFree Air (1919), by Sinclair Lewis, was one of the first novels to celebrate the adventure and freedom that road trips introduced to America at the start of the twentieth century, thanks to the invention of the au...
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    39,44 €

  • The Relic
    UNKNOWN
    ?Vijay stuck his ear on the door and pressed the eye of the cobra as if he pressed a button, he heard a latch unfasten itself. Immediately the two halves of the door started to slide in their respective sides. With a creaking noise, the legendary door slid open.? ...
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    17,74 €

  • My Ántonia
    Willa Cather
    My Ántonia is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. It is the final book of her "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark.The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia Shimerda, who are each bro...
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    13,24 €

  • My Ántonia
    Willa Cather
    My Ántonia is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. It is the final book of her 'prairie trilogy' of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark.The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia Shimerda, who are each bro...
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    21,64 €

  • Spero
    UNKNOWN
    Aanandi has made a debut attempt with her book named Spero. She is a seventeen years old budding writer who aspires to share stories which resonate with different people. She is hardworking, kind, confident and most importantly strong. Being fuelled by passion and enthusiasm, she hopes to create stories that make a difference. ...
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    14,42 €

  • Indeliberate Deliberations
    UNKNOWN
    Indeliberate Deliberations is a collection of heartfelt poems, twenty in total on various themes.The book is divided into four broad themes ? Latency, Abyss, Frost and Froth and Gory Musings. The poems borrow the recently popular art of free verse poetry, with no fixed structure. They express emotions, deal with heartbreaks, reminisce in the nature, or dance with the tunes of s...
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    11,55 €

  • The Shadow Line
    Joseph Conrad
    The Shadow Line is a classic Joseph Conrad adventure novel about a young sailor quits a ship and ends up, surprisingly, with command of another ship. The story makes interesting commentary on how chance can dictate human life. "ONLY the young have such moments. I don't mean the very young. No. The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privi- lege of earl...
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    13,23 €

  • A Wodehouse Miscellany
    P.G. Wodehouse / P.GWodehouse
    A Wodehouse Miscellany is a hilarious and classic collection of P.G. Wodehouse stories that stands as one of the great British humorist's finest collections of works. This venerable collection includes the following titles:  ARTICLES, SOME ASPECTS OF GAME-CAPTAINCY, AN UNFINISHED COLLECTION and THE NEW ADVERTISING, among others. ...
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    21,25 €

  • The Home and the World
    Rabindranath TAGORE
    The Home and the World is a classic volume by Rabindranath Tagore tells the story of Bimala and her husband Nikhil and a political activist named Sandip. The story is told from the perspectives of these three people and foretells foreshadows the separation of India and Pakistan in 1947.The novel is set in early 20th century India. The story line coincides with the National Inde...
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    17,40 €

  • Croatian Tales of Long Ago
    Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić / F. S. Copeland / FSCopeland
    This vibrant and illustrated selection of Croatian myths and heroic folk tales offers stunning glimpses into a centuries-old culture.The familiar themes of the fairy tale - the gallant hero, fearsome beast, and damsel-in-distress - were popular with the storytellers of Croatia of old. What makes these stories so interesting is the local variations of familiar narratives; the ma...
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    11,32 €

  • The Mysterious Stranger
    Mark Twain
    'I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong; but no matter, the crowd follows it.'-Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger (1916) The Mysterious Stranger (1916) is the third ...
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    20,87 €


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