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  • The Turn of the Screw
    Henry James
        Widely recognized as one of literature's most gripping ghost stories, this classic tale of moral degradation concerns the sinister transformation of two innocent children into flagrant liars and hypocrites. The story begins when a governess arrives at an English country estate to look after Miles, aged ten, and Flora, eight. At first, everything appears normal but then ...
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    5,64 €

  • The Turn of the Screw
    Henry James
        Widely recognized as one of literature's most gripping ghost stories, this classic tale of moral degradation concerns the sinister transformation of two innocent children into flagrant liars and hypocrites. The story begins when a governess arrives at an English country estate to look after Miles, aged ten, and Flora, eight. At first, everything appears normal but then ...
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    15,11 €

  • The Island of Doctor Moreau
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    Unabridged value reproduction of The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells is a must-have collectable for every bookshelf. The Island of Doctor Moreau is nonstop suspenseful action that every other surgical sci-fi tale must compare itself against.The Island of Doctor Moreau is a tale that can be viewed in many ways as it multiple layers of social theory, master race evolution,...
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    16,43 €

  • The Island of Doctor Moreau
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    Unabridged value reproduction of The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells is a must-have collectable for every bookshelf. The Island of Doctor Moreau is nonstop suspenseful action that every other surgical sci-fi tale must compare itself against.The Island of Doctor Moreau is a tale that can be viewed in many ways as it multiple layers of social theory, master race evolution,...
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    6,43 €

  • Captains Courageous
    Rudyard Kipling
    Rudyard Kipling's Captains Courageous is a story that follows fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr. through his adventures. Harvey is the son of a wealthy railroad tycoon, and is spoiled and largely unaware of the ways of the world. When he is stranded on the shore of the Grand Banks after having been washed overboard from his transatlantic steamship, he meets the Captain of "...
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    16,24 €

  • Fables
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    'Peculiar and provocative, graceful, funny, sometimes eerie, and always beautiful, Stevenson’s Fables are true masterpieces of art, wit, and style.' -Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2018This jacketed hardcover edition of Fables (1896), by Robert Louis Stevenson, represents the author’s attempt to master the age-old genre of fables. Although not all stories have been...
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    16,49 €

  • The Red Badge of Courage (Chump Change Edition)
    Stephen Crane
    Unabridged version of The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane, offered here for chump change. A breakthrough novel of American literature, it changed the perception of what literature should be or do.The book tells the ambitious tale of Henry Fleming, Civil War soldier, who tries to avenge his feelings of cowardice with a wound, a “red badge,” so that none could accuse him t...
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    16,43 €

  • The Time Machine
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    Unabridged value reproduction of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells is a must-have collectable for every bookshelf.  The Time Machine is nonstop action that every other time travelling sci-fi tale must compare itself against.The Time Machine is a tale that can be viewed in many ways as it multiple layers of social theory, evolution, and political theory, which makes it much more i...
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    6,42 €

  • The Time Machine
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    Unabridged value reproduction of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells is a must-have collectable for every bookshelf.  The Time Machine is nonstop action that every other time travelling sci-fi tale must compare itself against.The Time Machine is a tale that can be viewed in many ways as it multiple layers of social theory, evolution, and political theory, which makes it much more i...
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    16,50 €

  • The Importance of Being Earnest
    Oscar Wilde
    The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major them...
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    14,47 €

  • The Importance of Being Earnest
    Oscar Wilde
    The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major them...
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    4,44 €

  • The Tragedy Of Pudd’nhead Wilson
    Mark Twain
    The Tragedy Of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) is a novel by American writer Mark Twain. Its central intrigue revolves around two boys - one, born into slavery, with 1/32 black ancestry; the other, white, born to be the master of the house. The two boys, who look similar, are switched at infancy. Each grows into the other's social role.The story was serialized in The Century M...
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    17,08 €

  • Baron Trump’s Marvellous Underground Journey
    Ingersoll Lockwood
    The Baron Trump novels are two children's novels written in 1889 and 1893 by the American author and lawyer Ingersoll Lockwood. They remained obscure until 2017, when they received media attention for perceived similarities between their protagonist and U.S. President Donald Trump. Ingersoll published the first novel, Travels and adventures of Little Baron Trump and his won...
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    16,92 €

  • Baron Trump’s Marvellous Underground Journey
    Ingersoll Lockwood
    The Baron Trump novels are two children's novels written in 1889 and 1893 by the American author and lawyer Ingersoll Lockwood. They remained obscure until 2017, when they received media attention for perceived similarities between their protagonist and U.S. President Donald Trump. Ingersoll published the first novel, Travels and adventures of Little Baron Trump and his won...
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    8,48 €

  • The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories
    Mark Twain
    'I was a twenty-seven-year-old mining-broker’s clerk in San Francisco, andan expert in all the details of stock traffic. I was alone in the world and had nothing to depend upon but my wits and a clean reputation; but these were setting my feet in the road to eventual fortune, and I was content with the prospect.'-The £1,000,000 Bank Note (1893) The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Ot...
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    16,97 €

  • The American Claimant
    Mark Twain
    ' ’...and a manner so peculiar and romantic, and extraneous, and ad libitum, and heart-searching, that- that- he- he is an impressionist, I presume?’ ’No,’ said the captain simply, ’he is a Presbyterian.’ '-Mark Twain, The American Claimant (1892) The American Claimant (1881), by Mark Twain, is a humorous book about mistaken identities. The main characters are Colonel Mulberr...
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    19,17 €

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wilde's knowledge. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral s...
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    17,40 €

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (Chump Change Edition)
    Oscar Wilde
    Unabridged version of The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, offered here for chump change.  Wilde’s only novel was a breakthrough of psychological horror in the Victorian age.Is it about the author himself and his life of destructive indulgence? Is it about the dark side of mankind? Or the ability to appreciate the pleasures of life?  Decide for yourself in this classic t...
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    8,40 €

  • The Master of Ballantrae
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    'This tale of hate is probably Stevenson’s best book. . . Its blend of historical romance, travel fantasy and gothic nightmare makes it deeply pleasurable.'-Jonathan Jones, art critic, The Guardian, 2009The Master of Ballantrae (1889) by Robert Louis Stevenson is set during a 19th-century uprising in Scotland, weaving the tale of James Durie, who abandons his family and his tit...
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    20,76 €

  • The Black Arrow
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    'I know; I don’t care to die either. But when whining mendeth nothing, wherefore whine?' -Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black ArrowThe Black Arrow: A Tales of the Two Roses (1888) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a classic piece of adventure fiction, set during a civil war in England known as 'The War of the Roses' (1455-1487), that tells the story of a swashbuckling, young nobleman ...
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    31,29 €

  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Chump Change Edition)
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Unabridged version of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, offered here for chump change, from the Master Storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. His first draft was burned to ash, the final published version created at the request of his wife.  The result is a complex, tingling tale that drives the reader to the last page.THERE IS ONLYONE WAYTO STOP HYDE…CONTENTSStory of t...
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    6,23 €

  • Kidnapped
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    'There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people. - Robert Louis Stevenson, KidnappedKidnapped (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a coming-of-age novel that recounts the adventures of a teenager named David Balfour during the Jacobite Rebellions in 18th century Scotland. Follo...
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    16,89 €

  • Prince Otto
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    '. . . a remarkably interesting work and a splendid example of what Stevenson could do even when writing at his ordinary best rather than his very best.'- Graham Tulloch, Professor, Faculty of Education, Humanities, Law and Theology Flinders UniversityPrince Otto: A Romance (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson recounts the story of young dilettante who is faced with overcoming a se...
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    16,81 €

  • Catriona
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    'A good conscience is eight parts of courage.' -Robert Louis Stevenson, CatrionaCatriona: A Sequel to 'Kidnapped-Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad' (1892) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a companion volume to the author’s classic Kidnapped. But it falls more into the category of 'historical romance' than its predecessor. Unlike the daring ...
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    23,30 €

  • A Simple Soul
    Gustave Flaubert
    For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite.For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the horse, fattened the poultry, made the butter and remained faithful to her mistress—although the latter was by no means an agreeable person.Madame Aubain had married a comely yout...
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    15,67 €

  • A Simple Soul
    Gustave Flaubert
    For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite.For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the horse, fattened the poultry, made the butter and remained faithful to her mistress—although the latter was by no means an agreeable person.Madame Aubain had married a comely yout...
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    7,32 €

  • Sketches New and Old
    Mark Twain
    'I have scattered through this volume a mass of matter which has never been in print before (...) not doing this in order to make an advertisement of it, but because these things seemedinstructive.-Mark Twain, Preface Sketches New and Old (1875) Sketches New and Old (1875) by Mark Twain is a collection of short stories published first as newspaper articles all with Twain’s hu...
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    12,57 €

  • Far from the Madding Crowd
    Thomas Hardy
    Complete and unabridged, tragedy and true love in the Wessex countryside makes this Thomas Hardy romantic classic a great English novel.Bathsheba Everdene is pursued by Farmer Boldwood, Soldier Troy, and Shepherd Oak.  Who will win her heart, if any? Find out in this worthwhile investment of page turning romance. ...
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    21,07 €

  • The Innocents Abroad
    Mark Twain
    'This book is a record of a pleasure-trip... Yet not-withstanding it is only a record of a picnic, it has a purpose, which is, to suggest to the reader how he would be likely to see Europe and the East if he looked at them with his own eyes instead of the eyes of those who travelled in those countries before him.'-Mark Twain (1869) The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims’ Pr...
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    23,50 €

  • The Gambler
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    The Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoyevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoyevsky completed the novella under a strict deadline to pay off gambling debts. The Gambler treated a subject Fyodor Do...
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    16,42 €


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