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  • Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
    Robert Louis Stevenson
     Robert Louis Stevenson’s masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man’s nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious-during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil, inner persona-the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde-ha...
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    9,11 €

  • An Antarctic Mystery
    Jules Verne / Frances Cashel Hoey
    'An Antarctic Mystery' is a captivating adventure novel penned by the visionary Jules Verne. Set against the backdrop of the icy and mysterious Antarctic region, the story unfolds as Captain Len Guy and his crew embark on a perilous journey to unravel the enigma surrounding the disappearance of the Jane, a ship that vanished years ago under inexplicable circumstances. As the ex...
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    12,05 €

  • Room 13
    Edgar Wallace
    Recently released from prison, John Gray visits his old friend Peter Kane. Although it is the day of his daughter’s wedding, Kane agrees to an audience with Emanuel Legg, the criminal and cop-killer with whom he has some business. Gray wanders into the garden and a tornado of fury sweeps through him. The debonair Major Floyd, the new husband to whom Kane has entrusted his preci...
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    16,04 €

  • Sylvie and Bruno
    Lewis Carroll
    Sylvie and Bruno, first published in 1889, and its second volume Sylvie and Bruno Concluded published in 1893, form the last novel by Lewis Carroll published during his lifetime.  Both volumes were illustrated by Harry Furniss. The novel has two main plots: one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fantasy world of Fairyl...
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    14,34 €

  • A Fitting Epitaph
    Michael Decker
    Bill is out of options. Unemployed, alone and returning to the raucous seas of Northern California, the only home he knows, he takes a loan out at the bank and pours his last cent into his final chance for redemption: a tired old boat without a name. Although 'pitted with rust' with 'the cancer of salt corrosion gnawing at the copper engine parts' Bill purchases the WWII craft,...
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    12,12 €

  • Troilus and Criseyde
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    Troilus and Criseyde is an epic poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war during the siege of Troy. It was written in rime royale and probably completed during the mid-1380s. Many Chaucer scholars regard it as the poet’s finest work. As a finished long poem it is more self-containe...
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    25,21 €

  • Troilus and Criseyde
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    Troilus and Criseyde is an epic poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war during the siege of Troy. It was written in rime royale and probably completed during the mid-1380s. Many Chaucer scholars regard it as the poet’s finest work. As a finished long poem it is more self-containe...
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    39,76 €

  • Action Front
    Boyd Cable
    A classic work in which the author tries to draw an image of WWI horrors through several short stories. The book was based on true events and reflects the feelings of the soldiers facing death on the front lines.About the authorBoyd Cable was pseudonym of Ernest Andrew Ewart (1878-1943). He was an English author who migrated to Australia. His other works - all written under the...
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    37,32 €

  • Between the Lines
    Boyd Cable
    During WWI the folks at home were mostly fed a steady diet of propaganda and vague press statements that didn’t really reveal the reality of life in the trenches. This book, written by a journalist ’at the Front and within the sound of the German guns’ aimed to remedy that. ... (Perry Whitford)About the authorBoyd Cable was pseudonym of Ernest Andrew Ewart (1878-1943). He was a...
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    21,58 €

  • Between the Lines
    Boyd Cable
    During WWI the folks at home were mostly fed a steady diet of propaganda and vague press statements that didn’t really reveal the reality of life in the trenches. This book, written by a journalist ’at the Front and within the sound of the German guns’ aimed to remedy that. ... (Perry Whitford)About the authorBoyd Cable was pseudonym of Ernest Andrew Ewart (1878-1943). He was a...
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    34,82 €

  • Dracula’s Guest
    Bram Stoker
    'Dracula’s Guest' is a short story by Bram Stoker, first published in the short story collection Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914). It is believed to be the first chapter for Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, but was deleted prior to publication as the original publishers felt it was superfluous to the story. It is widely believed that 'Dracula’s Guest' is actually the ...
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    21,11 €

  • The Jewel of Seven Stars
    Bram Stoker
    The Jewel of Seven Stars is a horror novel by Irish writer Bram Stoker, first published by Heinemann in 1903. The story is a first-person narrative of a young man pulled into an archaeologist’s plot to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy. It explores common fin de siècle themes such as imperialism, the rise of the New Woman and feminism, and societal progress.Prepublic...
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    34,64 €

  • Dracula
    Bram Stoker
    Dracula is a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. An epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist, but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Harker escapes the castle after discovering that Dracula is a va...
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    24,88 €

  • Dracula’s Guest
    Bram Stoker
    'Dracula’s Guest' is a short story by Bram Stoker, first published in the short story collection Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914). It is believed to be the first chapter for Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, but was deleted prior to publication as the original publishers felt it was superfluous to the story. It is widely believed that 'Dracula’s Guest' is actually the ...
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    34,84 €

  • Dracula
    Bram Stoker
    Dracula is a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. An epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist, but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Harker escapes the castle after discovering that Dracula is a va...
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    39,44 €

  • The Jewel of Seven Stars
    Bram Stoker
    The Jewel of Seven Stars is a horror novel by Irish writer Bram Stoker, first published by Heinemann in 1903. The story is a first-person narrative of a young man pulled into an archaeologist’s plot to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy. It explores common fin de siècle themes such as imperialism, the rise of the New Woman and feminism, and societal progress.Prepublic...
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    22,70 €

  • A Second Home
    Honoré de Balzac
    Une double famille (A Second Home) is a lengthy short story by Honoré de Balzac. The story first appeared in 1830 under the title La femme vertueuse (The Virtuous Woman). It was subsequently published in 1832 by Mame et Delaunay as part of Balzac’s Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes from Private Life). In 1835, it appeared, in an edition by Madame Béchet, in the collection Études ...
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    21,60 €

  • A Daughter of Eve
    Honoré de Balzac
    Two aristocratic sisters raised in religious seclusion by their pious mother are suddenly married off into the glittering, treacherous Paris society of the 1830’s, the younger to a domineering banker, the elder to a humane and loving count.This excellent novella from the ’private life’ collection of Balzac’s Comédie Humaine focusses on the elder daughter, Madame Felix de Vanden...
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    19,07 €

  • A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
    Honoré de Balzac
    Corruption. Deceit. Money. Publishing. Rival factions and the flippancies of rhetoric. Fortunes lost and won. Genius stumbles and greed overtakes. Is it the tale of New York City today? No it’s Balzac’s 19c Paris. (Yonina)About the author:Honoré de Balzac born Honoré Balzac; (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humai...
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    25,04 €

  • A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
    Honoré de Balzac
    Corruption. Deceit. Money. Publishing. Rival factions and the flippancies of rhetoric. Fortunes lost and won. Genius stumbles and greed overtakes. Is it the tale of New York City today? No it’s Balzac’s 19c Paris. (Yonina)About the author:Honoré de Balzac born Honoré Balzac; (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humai...
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    39,60 €

  • A Start in Life
    Honoré de Balzac
    Un début dans la vie (A Start in Life) is a novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac. It is the sixth of the Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes of Private Life) in La Comédie humaine.The novel was serialized in the review La Législature in 1842 under the title Le Danger des mystifications (The Dangers of Gasconade). In 1845 it appeared under its present title in the second Furn...
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    34,86 €

  • A Woman of Thirty
    Honoré de Balzac
    Honoré de Balzac born Honoré Balzac; (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in ...
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    21,56 €

  • A Start in Life
    Honoré de Balzac
    Un début dans la vie (A Start in Life) is a novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac. It is the sixth of the Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes of Private Life) in La Comédie humaine.The novel was serialized in the review La Législature in 1842 under the title Le Danger des mystifications (The Dangers of Gasconade). In 1845 it appeared under its present title in the second Furn...
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    21,61 €

  • Cousin Pons
    Honoré de Balzac
    Le Cousin Pons is one of the last of the 94 novels and short stories that make up Honoré de Balzac’s Comédie humaine. Begun in 1846 as a novella, it was envisaged as one part of a diptych, Les Parents pauvres (The Poor Relations), along with La Cousine Bette (Cousin Bette). The book was originally published as a serial in Le Constitutionnel, but during 1847 it grew into a full-...
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    25,12 €

  • Cousin Pons
    Honoré de Balzac
    Le Cousin Pons is one of the last of the 94 novels and short stories that make up Honoré de Balzac’s Comédie humaine. Begun in 1846 as a novella, it was envisaged as one part of a diptych, Les Parents pauvres (The Poor Relations), along with La Cousine Bette (Cousin Bette). The book was originally published as a serial in Le Constitutionnel, but during 1847 it grew into a full-...
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    39,67 €

  • Eugenie Grandet
    Honoré de Balzac
    Eugénie Grandet is a novel first published in 1833 by French author Honoré de Balzac. While he was writing it he conceived his ambitious project, La Comédie humaine, and almost immediately prepared a second edition, revising the names of some of the characters so that Eugénie Grandet then fitted into the section: Scenes from provincial life (Scènes de la vie de province) in the...
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    21,55 €

  • Eugenie Grandet
    Honoré de Balzac
    Eugénie Grandet is a novel first published in 1833 by French author Honoré de Balzac. While he was writing it he conceived his ambitious project, La Comédie humaine, and almost immediately prepared a second edition, revising the names of some of the characters so that Eugénie Grandet then fitted into the section: Scenes from provincial life (Scènes de la vie de province) in the...
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    34,80 €

  • The Lair of the White Worm
    Bram Stoker
    The Lair of the White Worm is a horror novel by the Irish writer Bram Stoker. It was first published by Rider and Son of London in 1911 - the year before Stoker’s death - with colour illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith. The story is based on the legend of the Lambton Worm. It has also been issued as The Garden of Evil.The book is widely considered one of the worst books ever w...
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    21,52 €

  • The Lair of the White Worm
    Bram Stoker
    The Lair of the White Worm is a horror novel by the Irish writer Bram Stoker. It was first published by Rider and Son of London in 1911 - the year before Stoker’s death - with colour illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith. The story is based on the legend of the Lambton Worm. It has also been issued as The Garden of Evil.The book is widely considered one of the worst books ever w...
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    34,77 €

  • The Man
    Bram Stoker
    The Man is a 1905 Victorian novel by Bram Stoker, best known for Dracula. A typical Gothic novel, it features horror and romance. The Man has also been published as The Gates of Life. The Victorian Era, the reign of Queen Victoria from her coronation on 20 June 1837 to her death on 22 January 1901, is known as a long period of peace, prosperity and national pride for the Britis...
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    25,17 €


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