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  • My Ántonia
    Willa Cather
    My Ántonia is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. It is the final book of her 'prairie trilogy' of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark.The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia Shimerda, who are each bro...
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    21,64 €

  • The Shadow Line
    Joseph Conrad
    The Shadow Line is a classic Joseph Conrad adventure novel about a young sailor quits a ship and ends up, surprisingly, with command of another ship. The story makes interesting commentary on how chance can dictate human life. "ONLY the young have such moments. I don't mean the very young. No. The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privi- lege of earl...
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    13,23 €

  • A Wodehouse Miscellany
    P.G. Wodehouse / P.GWodehouse
    A Wodehouse Miscellany is a hilarious and classic collection of P.G. Wodehouse stories that stands as one of the great British humorist's finest collections of works. This venerable collection includes the following titles:  ARTICLES, SOME ASPECTS OF GAME-CAPTAINCY, AN UNFINISHED COLLECTION and THE NEW ADVERTISING, among others. ...
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    21,25 €

  • The Home and the World
    Rabindranath TAGORE
    The Home and the World is a classic volume by Rabindranath Tagore tells the story of Bimala and her husband Nikhil and a political activist named Sandip. The story is told from the perspectives of these three people and foretells foreshadows the separation of India and Pakistan in 1947.The novel is set in early 20th century India. The story line coincides with the National Inde...
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    17,40 €

  • The Mysterious Stranger
    Mark Twain
    'I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong; but no matter, the crowd follows it.'-Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger (1916) The Mysterious Stranger (1916) is the third ...
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    20,87 €

  • 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
    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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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
    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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 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 €

  • 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 €


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