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  • Nobody’s Boy
    Hector Malot / Florence Crewe-Jones
    Nobody’s Boy is a classic coming-of-age story by Hector Malot, and this edition includes the original four illustrations of the tale.Inspired by the young street musicians from Italy who lived in Paris in the late 19th century, the titular ’Nobody’s Boy’ is Rémi, who was abandoned as a baby in Paris. Taken in by the impoverished Jerome Barberin and his wife, he is given up at e...
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    11,06 €

  • The Thirty-Nine Steps
    John Buchan
    The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form in October that year by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. It is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculou...
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    15,43 €

  • The Metamorphosis
    Franz Kafka
    Unabridged English value reproduction of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. This wonderfully weird classic of an average family with an unacceptable member is studied in universities across the globe. The Metamorphosis is multilayered and resonates in people in different ways, opening doors of thoughts that were often never even seen before.This beautifully tragic science fictio...
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    16,55 €

  • The Metamorphosis
    Franz Kafka
    Unabridged English value reproduction of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. This wonderfully weird classic of an average family with an unacceptable member is studied in universities across the globe. The Metamorphosis is multilayered and resonates in people in different ways, opening doors of thoughts that were often never even seen before.This beautifully tragic science fictio...
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    6,26 €

  • Doctor Syn
    Russell Thorndike
    Herein is the tale of Doctor Syn, a swashbuckling smuggler who ferried brandy and tobacco from the French countryside to Romney Marsh in southeast England.The titular character is no ordinary sea dog; educated at Oxford University, he lives incognito as a clergyman, respected in his parish as a gentle and affable man of faith. However, circumstances and revelations unveil his s...
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    9,93 €

  • A Bride of The Plains
    Baroness Emma Orczy
      A Bride of the Plains is a historical novel written in 1915 by Baroness Orczy, the author of the famous The Scarlet Pimpernel series. It is dedicated to the memory of Lajos Kossuth, and in the dedication the author cries out to the dead Hungarian patriot and asks him: 'What would YOU have said now had vou lived to see your country tied to Austria's chariot-wheels, the cat...
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    26,75 €

  • A Bride of The Plains
    Baroness Emma Orczy
      A Bride of the Plains is a historical novel written in 1915 by Baroness Orczy, the author of the famous The Scarlet Pimpernel series. It is dedicated to the memory of Lajos Kossuth, and in the dedication the author cries out to the dead Hungarian patriot and asks him: 'What would YOU have said now had vou lived to see your country tied to Austria's chariot-wheels, the cat...
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    14,04 €

  • The Metamorphosis
    Franz Kafka
    The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915.One day, Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect (the most common translation of the German description ungeheuer Ungeziefer, literally "monstrous vermin"). He reflects on how dreary life as a traveling salesman i...
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    15,00 €

  • The Metamorphosis
    Franz Kafka
    "The Metamorphosis" (original German title: "Die Verwandlung") is a short novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into an inse...
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    5,61 €

  • Dubliners
    James Joyce
    Unabridged value reproduction of Dubliners by James Joyce is the 1914 classic written during the heyday of Irish nationalism. Every vignette stands alone, yet every vignette is part of the same tapestry, producing both a personal and profound effect for the reader.Shocking for his time because of its realism, today Dubliners is a portal back to the gritty reality of the Irish e...
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    8,31 €

  • Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories
    Bram Stoker
    Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories is a collection of short stories by Bram Stoker, first published in 1914, two years after Stoker's death.The same collection has been issued under short titles including simply Dracula's Guest. Meanwhile, collections published under Dracula's Guest and longer titles contain different selections of stories.Contents: Dracula...
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    13,83 €

  • King Lear
    UNKNOWN
    King Lear is widely regarded as Shakespeare’s crowning achievement. This play recounts the misjudgment of a father in understanding his daughters and the tragedy that follows. ...
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    16,66 €

  • The Little Prince
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    Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince fiom a small planet, Asteroid B-612, who relates his adventures in seeking the secret of what is important in life. ...
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    17,92 €

  • The Hound of the Baskervilles
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    The Hound of the Baskervilles is credited as being Sherlock Holmes’ most famous and most chilling case.Sherlock Holmes and his companion. Dr. Watson, investigate the legend of a supernatural hound roaming the spooky moors near the Baskerville estate. ...
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    19,86 €

  • Dubliners
    James Joyce
    Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, ...
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    16,36 €

  • Dubliners
    James Joyce
    Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, ...
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    5,80 €

  • Lay Down Your Arms
    Bertha von Suttner
    This fictional autobiography concerns a female activist for peace and human rights; through the form of biography, peace activist Bertha von Suttner passionately advances her lifelong beliefs and passions.In using the name Martha von Tilling, Bertha von Suttner sought to widen the scope of the antiwar message while drawing a clear parallel to her life’s work. By placing Martha ...
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    14,54 €

  • The Comedy Of Errors
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    One of William Shakespeare’s shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, The Comedy of Errors tells the story of two sets of identical twins that were accidentally separated at birth. Mistaken identity is the driving plot point of the play and is the foundation for most of the play’s humor and wordplay. Shakespeare combines adventure, the comedy of human folly, romance, and...
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    14,42 €

  • El Dorado
    Baroness Emma Orczy
      Eldorado is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1913. The novel is notable in that it is the partial basis for most of the film treatments of the original book.  As well as containing all the main characters from the first book, Eldorado introduces several new characters and features the Baron de Batz, who also turns u...
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    25,64 €

  • El Dorado
    Baroness Emma Orczy
      Eldorado is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1913. The novel is notable in that it is the partial basis for most of the film treatments of the original book.  As well as containing all the main characters from the first book, Eldorado introduces several new characters and features the Baron de Batz, who also turns u...
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    17,69 €

  • The Mansion - and 18 more Henry van Dyke tales
    Henry van Dyke
    Complete edition of The Mansion by Henry van Dyke with 18 more of his short stories and many illustrations. Originally published as The Unknown Quantity : a book of romance and some half-told tales, it is a great treasury of wholesome tales for young and old.'They are like etchings in which more is suggested than is in the picture. For this reason they are called Half-Told Tal...
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    18,75 €

  • The Mansion - and 18 more Henry van Dyke tales
    Henry van Dyke
    Complete edition of The Mansion by Henry van Dyke with 18 more of his short stories and many illustrations. Originally published as The Unknown Quantity : a book of romance and some half-told tales, it is a great treasury of wholesome tales for young and old.'They are like etchings in which more is suggested than is in the picture. For this reason they are called Half-Told Tale...
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    8,35 €

  • The Diary of a Young Girl
    UNKNOWN
    ?I haven’t written for a few days, because I wanted first of all to think about my diary. It’s an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I ? nor for that matter anyone else ? will be interested in the unbosoming of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl. Still, what does that matter? I want to ...
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    20,85 €

  • Much Ado About Nothing
    UNKNOWN
    Treated as one of the great comedy plays of Shakespeare, this presents the main plot of obstacles that occur in the union of two lovers ? Claudio and Hero. A much more interesting and entertaining sub plot runs parallel, and that heightens the humour of the situations: the ’merry war’ of love between Beatrice and Benedick. The contrast between these two pairs of lovers is indee...
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    14,56 €

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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    Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, who has written many scientific fictions, historical novels, plays, romances, poetries and nonfiction stories, is most popularly known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes. The book features Sherlock Holmes, who along with Dr. Watson, unravels various mysteries and provides a vivid description of nineteenth century England taking ...
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    20,00 €

  • Three Men in a Boat
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    The most ordinary circumstances turn hilarious as an idler who exhibits a 'general disinclination to work of any kind,' and his friends journey up the Thames River. Getting into many scrapes along the way, the friends consider 'assaulting a policeman' just to have 'a night’s lodging in the station-house, 'when they get lost, but ultimately reject the preposition, fearful that h...
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    21,92 €

  • Gulliver’s Travels Part I and Part II
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    Considered the greatest satire ever written in English, Jonathan Swift?s Gulliver?s Travels chronicles the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, principally to four marvelous realms: Lilliput, where the people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land inhabited by giants; Laputa, a wondrous flying island; and a country where the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses, are serv...
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    19,83 €

  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
    UNKNOWN
    One of the founding fathers of the United States of America, Benjamin Franklin was a leading author, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman and diplomat. Franklin was interested in science and technology, and gained international fame for his famous experiments, discoveries and theories regarding electricity. An early supporter ...
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    25,79 €

  • O Pioneers!
    Willa Cather
    O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather, written while she was living in New York. It is the first novel of her Great Plains trilogy, followed by The Song of the Lark (1915) and My Ántonia (1918).Part I – The Wild LandOn a windy January day in Hanover, Nebraska, Alexandra Bergson is with her five-year-old brother Emil, whose little kitten has climbed a teleg...
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    11,80 €

  • Apache Gold
    Joseph A. Altsheler / Joseph AAltsheler
    Apache Gold is a rip-roaring tale of adventure set on the Arizona frontiers of the American Old West.An abiding classic of western literature, our hero in this tale is Charles Wayne, a young but strong and sharp lad who seeks adventure in the southwesterly desert frontier of Arizona. His quest is fulfilled and then some: the hostile and arid environment, and the threat of ambus...
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    12,20 €


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