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  • 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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    18,87 €

  • Anne of Avonlea
    Lucy Maud Montgomery
    Anne of Avonlea is a 1909 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published as L. M. Montgomery). Following Anne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. This book follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school. It includes many of the characters from Anne of Green Gables, as w...
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    15,60 €

  • The Wonderful Wizard of OZ
    UNKNOWN
    A little Kansas farm girl, Dorothy Gale, and her dog Toto are blown away in a tornado and land in a fairyland, named Oz. Here she meets a very unusual cast of characters - a recrow, a Tin Woodman, and a Cowardly Lion. Together they go on a quest to see the Wizard of Oz, each of them seeking what they want most in life. Making their way along the Yellow Brick Road through a seri...
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    15,62 €

  • The Old Man in the Corner
    Baroness Emma Orczy
    The Old Man in the Corner is an unnamed armchair detective who appears in a series of short stories written by Baroness Orczy. He examines and solves crimes while sitting in the corner of a genteel London tea-room in conversation with a female journalist. He was one of the first of this character-type created in the wake of the huge popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Th...
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    24,61 €

  • The Old Man in the Corner
    Baroness Emma Orczy
    The Old Man in the Corner is an unnamed armchair detective who appears in a series of short stories written by Baroness Orczy. He examines and solves crimes while sitting in the corner of a genteel London tea-room in conversation with a female journalist. He was one of the first of this character-type created in the wake of the huge popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Th...
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    13,35 €

  • The Elusive Pimpernel
    Baroness Emma Orczy
    The Elusive Pimpernel By Baroness Orczy First published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel. A French-language version, translated and adapted by Charlotte and Marie-Louise Desroyses, was also produced under the title Nouveaux Exploits du Mouron Rouge. It was adapted into a silent film The ...
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    28,82 €

  • The Elusive Pimpernel
    Baroness Emma Orczy
    The Elusive Pimpernel By Baroness Orczy First published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel. A French-language version, translated and adapted by Charlotte and Marie-Louise Desroyses, was also produced under the title Nouveaux Exploits du Mouron Rouge. It was adapted into a silent film The ...
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    15,50 €

  • The Iron Heel
    Jack London
       The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Generally considered to be 'the earliest of the modern Dystopian,' it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display.   To understand the full impact of the dystopia ...
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    13,26 €

  • Before Adam
    Jack London
    Before Adam is a historical novel by Jack London, serialized in 1906 and 1907 in Everybody's Magazine. It is the story of a man who dreams he lives the life of an early hominid Australopithecine.The story offers an early view of human evolution. The majority of the story is told through the eyes of the man's hominid alter ego, one of the Cave People. In addition to the ...
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    11,96 €

  • The Spell Of The Yukon And Other Verses
    Robert w. Service / Robert WService
    The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses (original Canadian title - Songs of a Sourdough) is a book of poetry published in 1907 by Robert W. Service.The book is well known for its verse about the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon a decade earlier, particularly the long, humorous ballads, "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee."The Spell of the Yukon and Other...
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    14,39 €

  • The Spell Of The Yukon And Other Verses
    Robert W. Service
    The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses (original Canadian title - Songs of a Sourdough) is a book of poetry published in 1907 by Robert W. Service.The book is well known for its verse about the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon a decade earlier, particularly the long, humorous ballads, 'The Shooting of Dan McGrew' and 'The Cremation of Sam McGee.'  Source: WikipediaThe Spell of ...
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    4,56 €

  • The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
    Mark Twain
    'Money had brought him misery, and he took his revenge upon us, who had done him no harm. He had his desire: with base and cunning calculation he left us but thirty thousand, knowing we would try to increase it, and ruin our life and break our hearts.'-The $30,000 Bequest (1906) The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906) is a collection of humorous tales by Mark Twain, cove...
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    22,21 €

  • I Will Repay
    Baroness Emma Orczy
    I Will Repay was written by Baroness Emmuska Orzcy and originally published in 1906, this is a sequel novel to the Scarlet Pimpernel. The second Pimpernel book written by Orzcy, it comes (chronologically) third in the series and should be read after Sir Percy Leads the Band and before The Elusive Pimpernel.The story starts before the French revolution. It's 1783 and wealthy...
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    21,64 €

  • I Will Repay
    Baroness Emma Orczy
    I Will Repay was written by Baroness Emmuska Orzcy and originally published in 1906, this is a sequel novel to the Scarlet Pimpernel. The second Pimpernel book written by Orzcy, it comes (chronologically) third in the series and should be read after Sir Percy Leads the Band and before The Elusive Pimpernel.The story starts before the French revolution. It's 1783 and wealthy...
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    13,24 €

  • White Fang
    Jack London
    Unabridged value reproduction of Jack London’s novel White Fang is the essence of the raw American frontier, with wild animals in the wild world of humans.  Taste the bitter cold in the unforgettable adventure of White Fang.London writes of dogs driven by, “instinct, sensation, and emotion, and by simple reasoning,” which leaves the reader wanting more chapter after chapter.Rea...
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    17,61 €

  • The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson
    Benjamin Thorpe
    Benjamin Thorpe’s excellent translations of the ancient Nordic legends – the Elder Eddas – are a superb introduction to Norse folklore and its pantheon of Gods.This collection is comprised of poetry from the Eddas, and begins with a historical narrative of the authorship of these verses. According to scholars, the elder Eddas were written by Sæmund, a well-travelled man from a ...
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    12,49 €

  • The Richest Man In Babylon
    George S. Clason
    This 1926 classic by George Samuel Clason offers logical lessons in financial management. It is based in the ancient city of Babylon, known to be amongst the wealthiest cities of the ancient world. The author explains how the Babylonians became wealthy by following sound financial principles. They also understood the value of money and created a future source of income. The bo...
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    20,19 €

  • The Great Gatsby
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel and was published in 1925. It is a rags to riches tale set in 1920’s New York and revolves around the American dream by telling the story of millionaire Jay Gatsby’s pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman. When first published in the twenties, it received a tepid response but surged in popularity during World War ...
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    21,31 €

  • The Secret House
    Edgar Wallace
    Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 - 10 February 1932) was an English writer. Drawing on his time as a reporter in the Congo, covering the Belgian atrocities, Wallace serialised short stories in magazines such as The Windsor Magazine and later published collections such as Sanders of the River (1911). In addition to the creation of King Kong, he is remembered as a writ...
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    18,69 €

  • Twice Told Tales
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. He graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine, where the poet Longfellow was also a student, and spent several years travelling in New England and writing short stories before his best-known novel The Scarlet L...
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    27,01 €

  • Greatest Stories of O. Henry
    O. Henry / OHenry
    O. Henry. O. Henry (1862 - 1910) was born under the name William Sydney Porter in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1862. This Amercian Short Story writer has a rich canon and his short stories are well known throughout the world; noted for their witticism, clever wordplay, and unexpected twist endings. His works include 'The Gift of the Magi', 'The Duplicity of Hargraves', and 'Th...
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    17,66 €

  • Greatest Stories of Alexandre Dumas
    Alexandre Dumas
    Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) was the son of Napoleon’s famous general Dumas. His works have been translated into many languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Te...
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    19,71 €

  • Greatest Stories of Louisa May Alcott
    Louisa May Alcott
    Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo’s Boys (1886). She began her writing career at an early age, with short stories for newspapers and magazines. What began as a series of stories in the 1860s became the class...
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    21,83 €

  • Gulliver Travels
    Jonathan Swift
    Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin on 30 November 1667, some months after his father’s death. He was sent to Kilkenny Grammar School when he was six and later attended Trinity College, Dublin, where he received his BA degree in 1686. He is considered the foremost prose satirist in the English language, which stemmed from his criticism of Britain’s repressive colonial policies in...
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    21,78 €

  • Greatest Stories of Andrew Lang
    Andrew Lang
    Andrew Lang FBA (31 March 1844 - 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. ...
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    18,64 €

  • What Maisie Knew
    Henry James
    HENRY JAMES (1843-1916), born in New York City, was the son of noted religious philosopher Henry James, Sr., and brother of eminent psychologist and philosopher William James. He spent his early life in America and studied in Geneva, London and Paris during his adolescence to gain the worldly experience so prized by his father. He lived in Newport, went briefly to Harvard Law S...
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    21,82 €

  • The Girl on the Boat
    P. G. Wodehouse / PGWodehouse
    Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known as ’Plum’) wrote about seventy novels and some three hundred short stories over seventy-three years. He is widely recognised as the greatest 20th-century writer of humour in the English language.Perhaps best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle, home to Lord Emsworth a...
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    19,71 €

  • POOR FOLK
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist, philosopher, short story writer, essayist, and journalist. Dostoevsky’s literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed works include Crime and Punishment (1866), T...
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    18,69 €

  • Essential Vivekananda
    Mukul / A.J. Anoop Kanitkar / Mukul / A.JAnoop Kanitkar
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    32,99 €

  • THINKING ALOUD - Reflections on India
    Prasoon Joshi
    Life, for me, is a vantage point. Things exist as they are-fluid, amorphous. It’s a frame of mind, an individual interpretation that gives form and makes them unique... A vantage point-layered as it is with various xperiences, metaphors and symbols-is authentic, one of its kind. And an authentic perspective is central to my being... Putting the authentic into play is not always...
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    29,89 €


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