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  • Vice, Redemption and the Distant Colony
    Jules Verne
    Literary fraud or filial devotion?This is the question at the heart of a firestorm that erupted when manuscripts and letters were discovered proving that Jules Verne’s son, Michel, significantly revised over a dozen of the stories published under his father’s name, and even originated some of them himself. It was a collaboration that had begun while both were still alive, and c...
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    28,98 €

  • The Amateur Cracksmen
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung
    Arthur Raffles is a prominent member of London society, and a national sporting hero. As a cricketer he regularly represents England in Test matches. He uses this as a chance to commit a number of burglaries, primarily stealing valuable jewelry from his hosts. In this he is assisted by his friend, the younger, idealistic Bunny Manders. Both men are constantly under the surveill...
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    13,90 €

  • The Absentee
    Maria Edgeworth
    Just before coming of age, Lord Colambre, the sensitive hero of the novel, finds that his mother Lady Clonbrony’s attempts to buy her way into the high society of London are only ridiculed, while his father, Lord Clonbrony, is in serious debt as a result of his wife’s lifestyle. Colambre falls in love with his mother’s companion, his supposed cousin, Grace Nugent. ...
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    11,49 €

  • She Stoops to Conquer
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Wealthy countryman Mr. Hardcastle arranges for his daughter Kate to meet Charles Marlow, the son of a wealthy Londoner, hoping the pair will marry. Unfortunately Marlow is nervous around upper-class women, yet the complete opposite around lower-class females. On his first acquaintance with Kate, the latter realises she will have to pretend to be common, or Marlow will not woo h...
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    6,80 €

  • Make Way for Lucia - The Complete Mapp & Lucia - Queen Lucia, Miss Mapp Including ’The Male Impersonator’, Lucia in London, Mapp and Lucia, Lucia’s Pr
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    Make way for Lucia is a series of novels written by E.F Benson. They feature hilarious incidents in the lives of upper-middle class people in the 1920s and ’30s. The characters vie for social standing in an extremely snobby world. In the series the two main characters - sophisticated Lucia and frumpy Miss Mapp compete with each other and have to extricate themselves from a seri...
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    76,00 €

  • Mapp & Lucia
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    Mapp and Lucia was written by E.F Benson in 1931. It is part of a series of novels that feature hilarious incidents in the lives of upper-middle class people in the 1920s and ’30s. The characters vie for social standing in an extremely snobby world. In the series the two main characters - sophisticated Lucia and frumpy Miss Mapp compete with each other and have to extricate the...
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    25,12 €

  • Queen Lucia
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    Queen Lucia was written by E.F Benson in 1920. It is the first book in a series of novels that feature hilarious incidents in the lives of upper-middle class people in the 1920s and ’30s. The characters vie for social standing in an extremely snobby world. In the series the two main characters - sophisticated Lucia and frumpy Miss Mapp compete with each other and have to extric...
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    23,97 €

  • The Land of Enchantment - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
    Various
    Pook Press celebrates the great Golden Age of Illustration in children’s literature. Many of the earliest children’s books, particularly those dating back to the 1850s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these ...
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    33,88 €

  • The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
    Christopher Marlowe
    The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge. Doctor Faustus was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe’s death and at least twelve years after the first performance of the pl...
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    11,10 €

  • The Country of the Pointed Firs
    Sarah Orne Jewett
    Sarah Orne Jewett, who wrote the book when she was 47, was largely responsible for popularizing the regionalism genre with her sketches of the fictional Maine fishing village of Dunnet Landing. Like Jewett, the narrator is a woman, a writer, unattached, genteel in demeanor, intermittently feisty and zealously protective of her time to write. The narrator removes herself from he...
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    9,96 €

  • Young Goodman Brown
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    The story begins at sunset in Salem, Massachusetts, as young Goodman Brown leaves Faith, his wife of three months, for an unknown errand in the forest. Faith pleads with her husband to stay with her but he insists the journey into the forest must be completed that night. In the forest he meets a man, dressed in a similar manner to himself and bearing a resemblance to himself. T...
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    7,33 €

  • Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
    Samuel Johnson
    The plot is simple in the extreme. Rasselas, son of the King of Abyssinia, is shut up in a beautiful valley, 'till the order of succession should call him to the throne.' He grows weary of the factitious entertainments of the place, and after much brooding escapes with his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah and his poet-friend Imlac. They are to see the world and search for h...
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    10,06 €

  • Pierre and Jean
    Guy De Maupassant
    Pierre and Jean are the sons of Gérôme Roland, a jeweller who has retired to Le Havre, and his wife Louise. Pierre works as a doctor, and Jean is a lawyer. It recounts the story of a middle-class French family whose lives are changed when Léon Maréchal, a deceased family friend, leaves his inheritance to Jean. This provokes Pierre to doubt the fidelity of his mother and the leg...
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    8,72 €

  • The Land of Enchantment - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
    Various
    Pook Press celebrates the great Golden Age of Illustration in children’s literature. Many of the earliest children’s books, particularly those dating back to the 1850s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these ...
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    24,13 €

  • The Complete Illustrated Novels of Sherlock Holmes
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    The Complete Novels of Sherlock Holmes includes A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Valley of Fear. Included are illustrations by Sidney Paget, George Hutchinson, James Greig & Charles Kerr. Holmes will need to use his various skills, including a knack at cracking ciphers, an aptitude for acting and disguise, tracking footprints, han...
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    34,56 €

  • Letters from my Windmill
    Alphonse Daudet
    The stories are all told by the author in the first person, typically addressing a Parisian reader. The author, having relocated his home from Paris, recounts short bucolic tales about his new life in Provence as well as his trips to Corsica and French Algeria. Considered to be light-hearted, and often a bit tongue-in-cheek, the stories vary from day-to-day events in southern F...
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    13,90 €

  • The Vicar of Wakefield
    Oliver Goldsmith
    There are an hundred faults in this Thing, and an hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. The hero of this piece unites in himself the three greatest characters upon earth; he is a priest, an husbandman, and the father of a family. He is drawn as ready...
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    13,81 €

  • The Phantom of the Opera
    Gastón Leroux
    During Christine’s childhood, which is described retrospectively in the early chapters of the book, her father tells her many stories featuring an ’Angel of Music’, who, like a muse, is the personification of musical inspiration. On his deathbed, Christine’s father tells her that from Heaven, he will send the Angel of Music to her. Christine is eventually given a position in th...
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    14,85 €

  • The History of Tom Jones
    Henry Fielding
    Tom Jones is a foundling discovered on the property of a very kind, wealthy landowner, Squire Allworthy, in Somerset in England’s West Country. Tom grows into a vigorous and lusty, yet honest and kind-hearted, youth. He develops affection for his neighbour’s daughter, Sophia Western. On one hand, their love reflects the romantic comedy genre that was popular in 18th-century Bri...
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    29,68 €

  • Moby Dick
    Herman Melville
    'Call me Ishmael,' Moby-Dick begins, in one of the most recognizable opening lines in Western literature. The name has come to symbolize orphans, exiles, and social outcasts - in the opening paragraph of Moby-Dick, Ishmael tells the reader that he has turned to the sea out of a feeling of alienation from human society. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab has one purpose on this voyag...
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    17,50 €

  • A Tale of Two Cities (Unabridged, Column Style)
    Charles Dickens
    Full length book, typeset in special newspaper (journal) column style. Many of Dickens’ works were published originally as serialized excerpts in variousformats, including newspapers. The Tale of Two Cities is one of his most famous works; a historical novel setbetween London and Paris just before and amidst the French Revolution. It isalso one of the best-selling novels of all...
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    14,31 €

  • La Recherche Du Temps Perdu
    Marcel Proust
    Volume 2 of a handsome new edition of the original French version of Marcel Proust’s justly celebrated 7-volume master-work, ’À la recherche du temps perdu’. In the three parts of the second volume, ’À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs’, set in Paris and the fictional seaside resort of Balbec, the narrator continues his social education and develops relationships, especially ...
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    34,62 €

  • The Mark of Zorro
    Johnston Mcculley
    CUT IN BLOOD! a slashing sword leaves Zorro's mark Z Tortured peasants! Beautiful senoritas in prison! Old California beneath the whiplash of oppression! But a champion of freedom rides the highways. His identity hidden behind a mask, the laughing ...
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    52,57 €

  • The Titan
    Theodore Dreiser
    The Titan is a novel by Theodore Dreiser and the sequel to The Financier. Frank Cowperwood has moved to Chicago with new wife Aileen. His plan is to take over the street-railway system in the process bankrupting opponents with political allies. The Titan follows Cowperwood through the trials of realizing his dream, marital upheavals and social banishment.Theodore Dreiser was an...
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    20,25 €

  • The Financier, a Novel
    Theodore Dreiser
    The Financier, a novel is the first volume of the Trilogy of Desire, which includes The Titan and The Stoic.Frank Cowperwood makes his first money by buying cheap soaps on the market and selling them to a grocer for profit. Cowperwood marries an affluent widow and over the years, he starts misusing municipal funds with the aid of the City Treasurer. The Great Chicago Fire redou...
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    20,28 €

  • Sister Carrie
    Theodore Dreiser
    Sister Carrie is a Theodore Dreiser novel about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream. She first becomes a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later emerges as a famous actress. Sister Carrie is considered as the 'greatest of all American urban novels.'Theodore Dreiser was an American novelist and journ...
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    19,57 €

  • Jennie Gerhardt, a Novel
    Theodore Dreiser
    Jennie Gerhardt is a tragic romantic novel following the destitute young Jennie through loves and losses. It exemplifies the naturalism of which Dreiser was a proponent, telling the story of a working-class woman who accepts all adversity and becomes the mistress of two wealthy and powerful men in order to help her impoverished family.Theodore Dreiser was an American novelist a...
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    18,36 €

  • Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
    Miles Franklin
    Some Everyday Folk and Dawn is a terrifically funny novel written in a rambling style. The vote has come to women in Australia and in the small town of Noonoon two male candidates have posited themselves, one as the 'women’s' candidate, the other as the 'men’s.' The women’s candidate spends his campaign flirting, while the men’s candidate, stomps around, chops a lot of wood, an...
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    12,91 €

  • Anne of Windy Poplars
    L. M. Montgomery / LMMontgomery / Lucy Maud Montgomery
    'Anne of Windy Willows' is the fourth book in the 'Anne of Green Gables' series by L. M. Montgomery. It details Anne Shirley’s experiences over three years teaching at a high school in Summerside, Prince Edward Island. Here her biggest challenge is the high-status Pringles family who are not what one would expect them to be. Anne captures her experiences in a series of letters ...
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    27,28 €

  • A Marker on Huff Creek
    Joe E. Robertson / Joe ERobertson / Peggy L. Robison / Peggy LRobison
    A Marker on Huff Creek is a fictional account based on historical facts. The focal point is a small stone marker that commemorates an unsolved murder which took place in Jackson County, Indiana in 1892. The murder is tied to many events related in the story. The authors characterize the marker as a symbol of the Huff Creek Valley, and the Valley as a microcosm of the grand phen...
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    27,65 €


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