Catálogo de libros: Ficción clásica

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  • Penguin Island by Anatole France, Fiction, Classics
    Anatole France / A. W. Evans / AWEvans
    Penguin Island in all its peculiar glory: this is the tale of the enchanted island island where the nearsighted Abbot Mael baptised penguins in error. These penguins posessed of Divine Grace by dint of baptism are remarkably like and unlike men; they rule the fictional land of Penguinia. ...
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    20,45 €

  • Wrong Box, The
    Lloyd Osborne / Robert Louis Stevenson
    The Wrong Box is one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s strangest works. Written with his stepson Lloyd Osborne, it is a masterpiece of black comedy, turning on mistaken identity, the disappearance of a corpse, and several makeshift coffins. V. S. Pritchett described it as 'a farce that slips down the throat with the nicety of an oyster,' and, according to E. F. Benson, it is 'perha...
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    27,41 €

  • The Wish House and Other Stories
    Rudyard Kipling
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    21,01 €

  • All the King’s Men
    Noel Polk / Robert Penn Warren
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    12,57 €

  • Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace, Fiction, Classics, Literary
    Lew Wallace / Lewis Wallace
    BEN-HUR is a story of oppression and principled rebellion, of friendship turned to hate -- and of religious revelation. It is a tale of war on land and at sea, set against a backdrop as big as the world -- a backdrop big as all our souls. ...
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    26,57 €

  • The Church of Solitude
    Grazia Deledda / E Ann Matter / E. Ann Matter
    A translation of Grazia Deledda’s final novel, an autobiographically based portrayal of an Italian woman coming to terms with breast cancer at the cusp of the twentieth century. ...
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    41,05 €

  • The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories
    D. H. Lawrence / DHLawrence / Lawrence D. H. / Lawrence DH.
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    38,33 €

  • Woodstock
    Walter Scott
    An adventurous story centering upon the escape of Charles II from England after the battle of Worcester. The work was written when misfortunes were heaping themselves upon the author: his financial ruin, the death of his wife, and the grievous illness of his beloved grandson. Yet he stuck to his work and wrote Woodstock in three months. ...
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    32,42 €

  • The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Science Fiction
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    The year is 2137. Two hundred years ago -- in our time, more or less -- Eurasia fought a war to end all wars, a war that meant, for all intents and purposes, the end of the Old World. The Americas managed to retain their civilization -- but only by engaging by the most extreme form or isolationism imaginable for two centuries, now, no American has ventured east of the thirtieth...
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    31,50 €

  • Wieland; or, the Transformation. An American Tale by Charles Brockden Brown, Fiction, Horror
    Charles Brockden Brown
    'A light proceeding from the edifice made every part of the scene visible. A gleam diffused itself over the intermediate space, and instantly a loud report, like the explosion of a mine, followed. She uttered an involuntary shriek, but the new sounds that greeted her ear, quickly conquered her surprise. They were piercing shrieks, and uttered without intermission. The gleams wh...
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    33,88 €

  • The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Fiction, Literary
    Vicente Blasco Ibáñez / Charlotte Brewster Jordan
    The novel, first published in 1916, tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian land-owner who find themselves fighting on opposite sides in the First World War.When Julio finally decided to fight, the world and his family knew him for a different man. In the end the man who was once a spoiled son of privilege, became a man of honor and integrity...
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    20,08 €

  • Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen , Fiction, Fantasy
    Arthur Machen
    Lucian Taylor is damned - either through contact with an erotically pagan faerie world or through something degenerate in his own nature. He thinks of the damning thing inside him as a faun. He becomes a writer, and when he moves to London he becomes trapped by the increasing reality of the dark imaginings of this creature within him, which become increasingly real. The portrai...
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    18,79 €

  • Great God Pan by Arthur Machen, Fiction, Horror
    Arthur Machen
    In Supernatural Horror in Literature, H. P. Lovecraft praised the story Great God Pan, saying: 'No one could begin to describe the cumulative suspense and ultimate horror with which every paragraph abounds'; he added that 'the sensitive reader' reaches the end with 'an appreciative shudder.' Arthur Machen had a substantial career as a novelist and storyteller, but nothing he di...
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    13,83 €

  • The Beckoning Fair One by Oliver Onions, Fiction, Horror
    Oliver Onions
    'As far as the chief business of his life--his writing--was concerned, Paul Oleron treated the world a good deal better than he was treated by it; but he seldom took the trouble to strike a balance, or to compute how far, at forty-four years of age, he was behind his points on the handicap. To have done so wouldn’t have altered matters, and it might have depressed Oleron. He ha...
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    14,65 €

  • The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie, Fiction, Mystery & Detective
    Agatha Christie
    Captain Arthur Hastings, Poirot’s cohort, is recovering from a war injury at the upper-class household known as Styles Court. When the mistress of the manor, Emily Inglethorpe, is murdered. The family members occupying the house all become suspects -- including her newlywed young husband. Hercule Poirot faces a Sherlock Holmes-style mystery -- complete with numerous suspects, a...
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    17,08 €

  • Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac, Fiction, Classics
    Honoré De Balzac / Katharine Prescott Wormeley
    Balzac kept a rough draft of the novel for six years before completing it in 1837 after being offered 20,000 Francs by Le Figaro, provided it was ready to appear before December 15 that year. Explaining the delay he would later write 'For six years I have kept a rough draft of César Birotteau despairing of ever being able to interest anyone in the character of a rather stupid, ...
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    20,32 €

  • The Double by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Fiction, Classics
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky / Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky / Constance Garnett
    There is a great doppelganger tradition in literature, but there is nothing is quite like Fyodor Dostoevsky’s _The Double_. There is a modern quality in this Russian nightmare -- where much of Dostoevsky shares qualities with Dickens and Tolstoy, The Double reminds us of the work of Kafka or Sartre -- Sartre’s ’Nausea’ particularly. The novel leaves us with a feeling as though ...
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    20,53 €

  • Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki, Classics
    Yei Theodora Ozaki
     A 1908 collection of traditional fables and folktales. Twenty-two charming Japanese Fairy Tales, selected and translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki, including 'My Lord Bag of Rice,' 'The Tongue-Cut Sparrow,' 'The Story of Urashima Taro, the Fisher Lad,' 'The Farmer and the Badger,' 'The Shinansha, or the South Pointing Carriage,' 'The Adventures of Kintaro, the Golden Boy,' 'The St...
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    20,35 €

  • The Snare by Rafael Sabatini, Fiction, Action & Adventure
    Rafael Sabatini
    The problem was traitors in high places: traitors secretly opposing his methods and playing the spy for the enemy. All depended on secrecy and unity of action. And then a young British officer made a moronic blunder, and gave the plotters their chance to upset the delicate balance. Their influence caused the Portuguese Council of Regency to demand that the culprit be made a sca...
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    20,36 €

  • The Stolen White Elephant
    Mark Twain
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    27,61 €

  • Midrash in the Jerusalem Talmud
    Eugene J. Cohen / Eugene JCohen
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    27,00 €

  • The Smoky God by Willis George Emerson, Fiction
    Willis George Emerson
    Is it possible that the world’s geography is incomplete? That the startling narrative of Olaf Jansen is predicated upon demonstrable facts? Olaf Jansen had long been a fisherman off the coast of Norway, in the region of the Lofoden Islands, from whence he had made trips still farther north to Spitzbergen and even to Franz Josef Land. On the night of his demise he gave this stor...
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    13,83 €

  • The Watter’s Mou’ by Bram Stoker, Fiction, Classics
    Bram Stoker
    The problem was that the fisherman had fallen on hard times, and had turned to smuggling. And putting a stop to smuggling was William Barrow’s sworn duty. It’s a recipe for disaster: nothing good can come of this night. And down at the water’s mou’, a terrible fate awaits them all in the stormy night to come -- for William Barrow, for his love, and for the fisherman who is her ...
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    13,83 €

  • Bardelys the Magnificent by Rafael Sabatini, Historical Fiction
    Rafael Sabatini
    It was an unlikely romance -- it started as a challenge from one of her scorned suitors: she was a woman, said the scorned one, who not even Bardelys the Magnificent could woo. Bardelys (called Magnificent for the fine quality of his hospoitality) tried to demur. It was madness, plain and simple. But them the rustic Gascon pointed out that it had become a matter of honor, and t...
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    20,45 €

  • Tales, Poems, and Other Writings
    Herman Melville
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    24,51 €

  • Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Fiction, Contemporary Romance
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians. The idea for the poem came from Longfellow’s friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Longfellow used dactylic hexameter, imitating Greek and Latin classics, though the choice was criticized. It became Longfellow’s most famous work in his lifetim...
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    14,67 €

  • Lud-In-The-Mist by Hope Mirrlees, Fiction, Epic Poetry, Classics
    Hope Mirrlees
    Lud-in-the-Mist’s unconventional elements, responsible for its appeal to the fantasy readership, are understood better if they are analyzed in the context of Hope Mirrlees’ whole oeuvre.Between the mountains and the sea; between the sea and fairyland lay the Free State of Dorimare. But no Luddite ever had any truck with fairies or fairyland. Bad business. In the spring the Sene...
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    20,23 €

  • Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley, Fiction
    Christopher Morley
    Morley was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. His father, Frank Morley, was a mathematics professor at Haverford College; his mother, Lilian Janet Bird, was a violinist who provided Christopher with much of his later love for literature and poetry.'I warn you,' said the funny-looking little man with the red beard, 'I?m here to sell this caravan of culture, and by the bones of Swi...
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    16,37 €

  • Lilith by George Macdonald, Fiction, Fantasy
    George MacDonald
     Lilith is a story concerning the nature of life, death, and salvation.After he followed the old man through the mirror, nothing in his life was ever right again. It was a special mirror and the man he followed was a special man -- a man who led him to the things that underlie the fate of all creation. Lilith is considered among the darkest of MacDonald’s works, and among the m...
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    20,32 €

  • The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling, Fiction, Historical
    RUDYARD KIPLING
    The Light that Failed follows the life of Dick Heldar. Dick Heldar is a war correspondent and an artist, well-known for the drawings he sends home to the London papers from wars in exotic places like Sudan. When he returns to London, he attempts to make a career for himself as a serious artist -- and re-encounters his childhood sweetheart, Maisie. The pair fall in love. And the...
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    20,34 €


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