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  • 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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    39,72 €

  • The Snake’s Pass
    Bram Stoker
    The Snake’s Pass is an 1890 novel by Bram Stoker. It centers on the legend of Saint Patrick defeating the King of the Snakes in Ireland, as well as on the troubled romance between the main character and a local peasant girl. The Snake’s Pass was Stoker’s second imperial fiction novel, and was first published in the United Kingdom in 1890. The novel is a precursor to Stoker’s Dr...
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    21,36 €

  • The Snake’s Pass
    Bram Stoker
    The Snake’s Pass is an 1890 novel by Bram Stoker. It centers on the legend of Saint Patrick defeating the King of the Snakes in Ireland, as well as on the troubled romance between the main character and a local peasant girl. The Snake’s Pass was Stoker’s second imperial fiction novel, and was first published in the United Kingdom in 1890. The novel is a precursor to Stoker’s Dr...
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    37,22 €

  • Honorine
    Honoré de Balzac
    Honorine is an 1843 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) and included in his series of novels (or Roman-fleuve) known as La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy) which parodies and depicts French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy (1815-1848). Balzac has a subtle way of approaching his plot indirectly and embedding a stor...
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    21,55 €

  • The Physiology of Marriage
    Honoré de Balzac
    ...La Physiologie du mariage (The Physiology of Marriage), is a humorous and satirical essay on the subject of marital infidelity, encompassing both its causes and its cure. ...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 humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleo...
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    25,00 €

  • Honorine
    Honoré de Balzac
    Honorine is an 1843 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) and included in his series of novels (or Roman-fleuve) known as La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy) which parodies and depicts French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy (1815-1848). Balzac has a subtle way of approaching his plot indirectly and embedding a stor...
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    37,41 €

  • The Physiology of Marriage
    Honoré de Balzac
    ...La Physiologie du mariage (The Physiology of Marriage), is a humorous and satirical essay on the subject of marital infidelity, encompassing both its causes and its cure. ...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 humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleo...
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    34,33 €

  • Father Goriot
    Honoré de Balzac
    Le Père Goriot ('Old Goriot' or 'Father Goriot') is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set in Paris in 1819, it follows the intertwined lives of three characters: the elderly doting Goriot, a mysterious criminal-in-hiding named Vautrin and a naive...
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    25,21 €

  • Father Goriot
    Honoré de Balzac
    Le Père Goriot ('Old Goriot' or 'Father Goriot') is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set in Paris in 1819, it follows the intertwined lives of three characters: the elderly doting Goriot, a mysterious criminal-in-hiding named Vautrin and a naive...
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    39,76 €

  • The Country Doctor
    Honoré de Balzac
    Le Médecin de campagne (The Country Doctor) is an 1833 novel by Honoré de Balzac. The second in his Scène de la vie de campagne series, it addresses the author’s preoccupations with social organisation, political power and religion, though Balzac’s own political principles were not those of the character Dr Benassis. None of the characters appear elsewhere in La Comédie humaine...
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    21,33 €

  • The Country Doctor
    Honoré de Balzac
    Le Médecin de campagne (The Country Doctor) is an 1833 novel by Honoré de Balzac. The second in his Scène de la vie de campagne series, it addresses the author’s preoccupations with social organisation, political power and religion, though Balzac’s own political principles were not those of the character Dr Benassis. None of the characters appear elsewhere in La Comédie humaine...
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    34,58 €

  • Letters of Two Brides
    Honoré de Balzac
    Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées (Letters of Two Brides) is an epistolary novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac. It was serialized in the French newspaper La Presse in 1841 and published by Furne in 1842 as the first work in the second volume (Scènes de la vie privée, tome II or Scenes from Private Life, Volume 2) of Balzac’s La Comédie humaine. It was dedicated to the Fre...
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    18,78 €

  • Letters of Two Brides
    Honoré de Balzac
    Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées (Letters of Two Brides) is an epistolary novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac. It was serialized in the French newspaper La Presse in 1841 and published by Furne in 1842 as the first work in the second volume (Scènes de la vie privée, tome II or Scenes from Private Life, Volume 2) of Balzac’s La Comédie humaine. It was dedicated to the Fre...
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    37,27 €

  • The Duchesse of Langeais
    Honoré de Balzac
    La Duchesse de Langeais is an 1834 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie parisienne section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. General Armand de Montriveau, a war hero, is enamored of Duchess Antoinette de Langeais, a coquettish, married noblewoman who invites him to a ball but ultimately refuses his sexual advances and ...
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    19,00 €

  • The Duchesse of Langeais
    Honoré de Balzac
    La Duchesse de Langeais is an 1834 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie parisienne section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. General Armand de Montriveau, a war hero, is enamored of Duchess Antoinette de Langeais, a coquettish, married noblewoman who invites him to a ball but ultimately refuses his sexual advances and ...
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    34,86 €

  • The Adventures of Roderick Random (Annotated)
    Tobias Smollett
    Step into the pages of literary history with 'The Adventures of Roderick Random' by Tobias Smollett, a masterful tapestry of 18th-century life that unfolds in a dazzling array of colorful characters and daring escapades. Published in 1748, this timeless classic invites readers to traverse the vivid landscapes of Roderick Random’s tumultuous life, from his early days marked by t...
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    19,10 €

  • Confidant
    Renfu Xiao
    ForQualification Yang tried very hard to accomplish his dream to become an official. He tried with every means available to him, through repeated setbacks, finally his dream came true, he became the chief of the Logistic Department from a driver and then a confidant of a director. When he was riding on the crest of his success, he went to prison for himself and the director for...
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    18,02 €

  • Peter Pan
    J M Barrie
    'Peter Pan,' written by J.M. Barrie, is a timeless classic that enchants readers with its magical tale of eternal youth, adventure, and the power of imagination. The story begins in the nursery of the Darling household in London, where the mischievous and spirited Peter Pan, a boy who can fly and never grows up, visits in search of his lost shadow. Accompanied by his loyal fair...
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    21,21 €

  • The Defiant Agents
    Andre Norton
    The Defiant Agents is a science fiction novel by American writer Andre Norton, the third book in her Time Traders series. It was first published in 1962, and as of 2012, had been reprinted in ten editions with cover changes, as well as twice in a combined edition with Key Out of Time. It is part of Norton’s Forerunner universe.The Defiant Agents continues the series’ premise, a...
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    16,42 €

  • Star Hunter
    Andre Norton
    This is my first Andre Norton book, and I really liked it. A seemingly straight forward partnership launches the tale, Hume wants a little payback, and Wass wants a reasonable, if illegal, profit. As they set their plan in motion, and the story unfolds, all of the characters are reminded of the many perils of new frontiers.Vye was an intriguing character, as he wrestles with th...
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    17,64 €

  • Star Hunter
    Andre Norton
    This is my first Andre Norton book, and I really liked it. A seemingly straight forward partnership launches the tale, Hume wants a little payback, and Wass wants a reasonable, if illegal, profit. As they set their plan in motion, and the story unfolds, all of the characters are reminded of the many perils of new frontiers.Vye was an intriguing character, as he wrestles with th...
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    28,28 €

  • The Defiant Agents
    Andre Norton
    The Defiant Agents is a science fiction novel by American writer Andre Norton, the third book in her Time Traders series. It was first published in 1962, and as of 2012, had been reprinted in ten editions with cover changes, as well as twice in a combined edition with Key Out of Time. It is part of Norton’s Forerunner universe.The Defiant Agents continues the series’ premise, a...
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    28,36 €

  • A Woman Named Smith
    Marie Conway Oemler
    A Gothic story by Marie Conway Oemler.About the author:Marie Conway Oemler (May 29, 1879 - June 7, 1932) was an American author from Georgia. She wrote numerous books and was a contributor to publications including The Century Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Women’s Home Companion, and Ladies Home Journal. Her books Slippy McGee and A Woman Named Smith are part of the Library of Con...
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    17,49 €

  • A Woman Named Smith
    Marie Conway Oemler
    A Gothic story by Marie Conway Oemler.About the author:Marie Conway Oemler (May 29, 1879 - June 7, 1932) was an American author from Georgia. She wrote numerous books and was a contributor to publications including The Century Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Women’s Home Companion, and Ladies Home Journal. Her books Slippy McGee and A Woman Named Smith are part of the Library of Con...
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    30,74 €

  • The Cabala
    Thornton Wilder
    Ironic and self-ironic, unapologetically literary, urbane and heady. Reads, for the most part, like Woolf or Forster, occasionally reaching wry delights: 'When the bourgeoisie discovered that she was accepting invitations there was a tumult as of many waters.'This is a book where you get the feeling that the trees, as it were, are more important than the forest. And then, after...
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    16,46 €

  • Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
    Marie Conway Oemler
    Slippy McGee is narrated by Father Armand Jean De Rancé, a Catholic priest. He lives and works in the town of Appleboro, South Carolina, where most of the ordinary townspeople are protestant, but a lot of the poor people who work at the mill and the factory are Catholic immigrants. One day a couple of them bring an injured man they’ve found to De Rancé. The man’s leg has to be ...
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    21,15 €

  • Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
    Marie Conway Oemler
    Slippy McGee is narrated by Father Armand Jean De Rancé, a Catholic priest. He lives and works in the town of Appleboro, South Carolina, where most of the ordinary townspeople are protestant, but a lot of the poor people who work at the mill and the factory are Catholic immigrants. One day a couple of them bring an injured man they’ve found to De Rancé. The man’s leg has to be ...
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    31,78 €

  • The Purple Heights
    Marie Conway Oemler
    A well-written, enjoyable love story by Marie Conway Oemler.Excerpts:The tiny brown house cuddling like a wren’s nest on the edge of the longest and deepest of the tide-water coves that cut through Riverton had but four rooms in all,-the kitchen tacked to the back porch, after the fashion of South Carolina kitchens, the shed room in which Peter slept, the dining-room which was ...
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    30,62 €

  • The Purple Heights
    Marie Conway Oemler
    A well-written, enjoyable love story by Marie Conway Oemler.Excerpts:The tiny brown house cuddling like a wren’s nest on the edge of the longest and deepest of the tide-water coves that cut through Riverton had but four rooms in all,-the kitchen tacked to the back porch, after the fashion of South Carolina kitchens, the shed room in which Peter slept, the dining-room which was ...
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    18,68 €

  • The Business of Life
    Robert W. Chambers
    'The Business of Life' is a novel by Robert W. Chambers that was first published in 1913. The story revolves around the life of Richard Leroy, a successful New York businessman who has made a fortune in the publishing industry. At the start of the novel, Richard is facing a midlife crisis and begins to question the purpose of his life. He becomes disillusioned with his business...
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    19,80 €