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  • 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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    21,90 €

  • The Lost World
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. It was originally published serially in the popular Strand Magazine and illustrated by New-Zealand-born artist Harry Rountree during the months of April–No...
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    25,37 €

  • The Lost World
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    Unabridged value reproduction of THE LOST WORLD by the original master of mystery Arthur Conan Doyle. Join the enigmatic and forceful Professor Challenger into the terrifying world of dinosaurs roaming wild.Adventure and mayhem, with humor sprinkled throughout, provide for a thrilling 1912 adventure through the jungles of South America that every reader should take. ...
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    8,37 €

  • The Lost World
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    Unabridged value reproduction of THE LOST WORLD by the original master of mystery Arthur Conan Doyle. Join the enigmatic and forceful Professor Challenger into the terrifying world of dinosaurs roaming wild.Adventure and mayhem, with humor sprinkled throughout, provide for a thrilling 1912 adventure through the jungles of South America that every reader should take. ...
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    17,58 €

  • Utopia
    Thomas More / Gilbert Burnet
    Unabridged English value reproduction of Utopia by Thomas More and translated by Gilbert Burnet, in this affordably printed volume, is a book that belongs on everyone’s shelf. Published originally in 1516, More made popular the common usage of the term Utopia, “as a communal place where everything is perfect.”  A lawyer himself, Utopia includes no lawyers due to the law’s simpl...
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    6,42 €

  • Utopia
    Thomas More / Gilbert Burnet
    Unabridged English value reproduction of Utopia by Thomas More and translated by Gilbert Burnet, in this affordably printed volume, is a book that belongs on everyone’s shelf. Published originally in 1516, More made popular the common usage of the term Utopia, “as a communal place where everything is perfect.”  A lawyer himself, Utopia includes no lawyers due to the law’s simpl...
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    16,50 €

  • Gitanjali
    UNKNOWN
    'Gitanjali' or song offerings, is a collection of poems written by Rabindranath Tagore. These poems are primarily devotional, with mystic aura and sublimated ecstasy. They are the thoughts of a seer and the perfect union of beauty and truth in poetry from the pen of the greatest poet of modern India. While introducing this small volume to the West, W. B. Yeats wrote: '[Though t...
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    14,56 €

  • The Wisdom of Father Brown
    UNKNOWN
    Hailed as the ’King of Paradox’, G.K. Chesterton was a prolific writer who made diverse contributions in different genres of literature. As for his fictions, they were all detective and fantastic stories, infused with funny and insightful comparisons and supernatural elements, which were entertaining and thought provoking. ...
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    20,89 €

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    UNKNOWN
    'One of the early comedies of Shakespeare, *A Midsummer Night’s Dream* can be suitably called as a ’wedding play’, as it presents an atmosphere of wedding celebration. ...
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    14,33 €

  • Gulliver’s Travels Part III and Part IV
    Unknown
    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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    33,53 €

  • 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 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 wan...
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    24,09 €

  • The Hound of the Baskervilles
    UNKNOWN
    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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    21,93 €

  • Up from Slavery
    UNKNOWN
    Ranked among the best autobiographies, Up from Slavery documents the personal achievement of the renowned educator, Booker T. Washington, in his long journey from being born into slavery to becoming a leading educator and founder of the Tuskegee Institute, a famous speaker, and a spokesman. ...
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    21,98 €

  • The Invisible Man
    UNKNOWN
    A gripping and entertaining tale of terror and suspense, The Invisible Man is one of the signature stories in the literature of science fiction. A brilliant scientist uncovers the secret to invisibility, but his grandiose dreams and the power he unleashes cause him to spiral into intrigue, madness, and murder. ...
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    21,96 €

  • Murat
    Alexandre Dumas
    Joachim-Napoléon Murat was the brother-in-law of Napoleon Boneparte, and held many titles in his life including Marshal of France, Grand Admiral of France, Grand Duke of Berg, and King of Naples.The story was first published as part of Dumas’s eight-volume series “Celebrated Crimes” (1839–40), and recounts Murat’s fall from favour and fascinating death subsequent to Napoleon’s ...
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    19,04 €

  • Murat
    Alexandre Dumas
    Joachim-Napoléon Murat was the brother-in-law of Napoleon Boneparte, and held many titles in his life including Marshal of France, Grand Admiral of France, Grand Duke of Berg, and King of Naples.The story was first published as part of Dumas’s eight-volume series “Celebrated Crimes” (1839–40), and recounts Murat’s fall from favour and fascinating death subsequent to Napoleon’s ...
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    7,58 €

  • A Young Macedonian in the Army of Alexander the Great
    Alfred John Church
    This riveting historical fiction depicts a soldier in Alexander the Great’s army, and was written using the authentic Macedonian letters discussing Alexander’s conquests across Asia.We join the young Charidemus as he competes in a race around Olympia. Athletic and determined by nature, we find the young man ostracized by the Greek establishment owing to his origins in Macedonia...
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    8,59 €

  • The Innocence of Father Brown
    G.K. Chesterton / G.KChesterton
    The Innocence of Father Brown is a classic mystery collection by G.K. Chesterton and an exciting compilation of twelve mystery classics featuring the amatuer detective, Father Brown, the short, stumpy Catholic priest with "uncanny insight into human evil."Contents: The blue cross -- The secret garden -- The queer feet -- The flying stars -- The invisible man -- The honour of Is...
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    25,28 €

  • 'Twixt Land and Sea Tales'
    Joseph Conrad
    'Twixt Land and Sea Tales is a classic collection of sea stories by Joseph Conrad. . Joseph Conrad has come into his own. The three stories contained in this volume take rank with the most mature and romantic of his work. The charming love and adventure of the life which he depicts in remote places confirm the growing belief that he is among the greatest of living creative ...
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    25,28 €

  • The Innocence of Father Brown
    UNKNOWN
    Hailed as the ’King of Paradox,’G.K. Chesterton was a prolific writer who made diverse contributions in different genres of literature. As for his fictions, they were all detective and fantastic stories, infused with funny and insightful comparisons and supernatural elements, which were entertaining and thought provoking. ...
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    21,93 €

  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
    UNKNOWN
    This most popular science fiction by the French Novelist Jules Verne unravels an exotic and fascinating underwater world as it presents the expeditions of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilius ,as narrated by Professor Pierre Aronnax. ...
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    26,09 €

  • Northanger Abbey
    UNKNOWN
    Jane Austen’s posthumously published novel, Northanger Abbey, is a delightful satire of the period’s Gothic novels, poking fun at romantic follies of the genteel classes. ...
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    20,91 €

  • Tess of the d’Urbervilles
    UNKNOWN
    Tess of the d’Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy’s penultimate novel and tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, who is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D’Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune. ...
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    28,19 €

  • The Phantom of the Opera
    Gastón Leroux
    Unabridged English value reproduction of The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. This wonderfully spellbinding drama of hopes, dreams, and love, has characters that resonate in different ways reading after reading. Is the Phantom real? Does he deserve pity? Can he be loved?Find out in this beautifully blended tragic drama provided to the reader in a slim volume with the full...
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    18,84 €

  • The Phantom of the Opera
    Gastón Leroux
    Unabridged English value reproduction of The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. This wonderfully spellbinding drama of hopes, dreams, and love, has characters that resonate in different ways reading after reading. Is the Phantom real? Does he deserve pity? Can he be loved?Find out in this beautifully blended tragic drama provided to the reader in a slim volume with the full...
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    8,43 €

  • Far from the Madding Crowd
    UNKNOWN
    Far from the Madding Crowd is Thomas Hardy’s fourth novel and his first major literary success. The central character is the vivacious and independent young heiress, Bathsheba Everdene, who arrives at Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors. Each in contrasting ways unsettles her dec...
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    30,34 €

  • The Tempest
    UNKNOWN
    The Tempest is the fourth, final, and the finest of Shakespeare’s great late romances. It is classified as a romantic comedy with a mild element of tragedy in its main plot. The play is set on a remote island, now inhabited by Prospero and his daughter Miranda. He is the rightful Duke of Milan, his throne being usurped by his villainous brother Antonio. When Antonio and his fri...
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    14,56 €

  • Legends of Maui
    W. D. Westervelt / WDWestervelt
    The Hawaiian island of Maui is the origin of one of the greatest myths, wherein the demigod Maui creates Hawaii by hauling the islands up from the ocean, and sees that this new land prospers.Maui’s many exploits are given in this translation, which is adapted from the original Hawaiian script derived from the telling of the Maui legend through many generations. Though no exact ...
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    11,98 €

  • Marius the Epicurean
    Walter Pater
    Walter Pater’s coming-of-age novel is presented whole in this edition, that readers may witness the change in Marius’s philosophical and spiritual views.Marius is a young man living in Rome in the 2nd century AD, a time when the classical traditions of philosophy were in their maturity. The educated man gravitates from one school of philosophy to another, and even enjoys a stin...
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    14,87 €

  • Three Lives
    Gertrude Stein
    Unabridged English value reproduction of Three Lives by Gertrude Stein. This wonderfully complex drama of hopes, dreams, and love, has characters that resonate with readers in different ways reading after reading. The three stories are based on her being influenced by Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso.The first book of Stein, and written in an unconventional way, this beautifully b...
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    8,43 €


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