Catálogo de libros: Ficción clásica

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  • Der Kleine Prinz (Farbausgabe)
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
     Das Buch erschien zuerst 1943 in New York, wo sich Saint-Exupéry im Exil aufhielt. Der kleine Prinz gilt als literarische Umsetzung des moralischen Denkens und der Welterkenntnis seines Autors und als Kritik am Werteverfall der Gesellschaft. Das Werk ist ein modernes Kunstmärchen und wird fast immer als Plädoyer für Freundschaft und Menschlichkeit interpretiert. In diesem Werk...
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    16,10 €

  • Приключения Алисы в Стране Чудес - Prikliucheniia Alisy v Strane Chudes
    Lewis Carroll / Yury Nesterenko
    Перевод «Алисы в Стране чудес» Юрия Нестеренко (2000), доступный в течение многих лет в Интернете, впервые публикуется в виде бумажной книги, с классическими иллюстрациями Джона Тенниела. Из предисловия переводчика: «Все русские переводы “Алисы”, с которыми мне довелось ознакомиться, достаточно далеки от оригинала. Честнее всего поступил Заходер, прямо назвавший свой вариант пе...
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    17,76 €

  • Jonas on a Farm in Winter
    Jacob Abbott
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    20,48 €

  • The Amazing Quest of Doctor Syn
    Russell Thorndyke
    The sixth book in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike, in which the doctor travels to Wales to compete with another smuggler. ...
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    27,98 €

  • The Time Machine
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    H. G. Wells’ classic science fiction masterpiece The Time Machine explores human nature. The Time Traveler finds himself in 802,701 A.D., where he meets the peaceful Eloi and encounters the violent Morlocks. Wells uses these two descendants of man to explore evil and its causes, drawing conclusion that might surprise you in this riveting tale that has stood the test of time. Th...
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    24,34 €

  • The Time Machine
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    H. G. Well’s classic science fiction masterpiece The Time Machine explores human nature. The Time traveler finds himself in 802,701 A.D., where he meets the Eloi and encounters the violent Morlocks. Well uses these two descendants of man to explore evil and it’s causes. He draws conclusion that might surprise you. A riveting tale that has stood the test of time. ...
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    20,52 €

  • The Island of Doctor Moreau
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    Edward Prendick finds himself adrift at sea, a lone survivor of a ship wreck. He spends more than a week drifting without food or water. Pendrick consigns himself to death, but fate intervenes and delivers him to an unknown Island. The terrors that await him on Doctor Moreau’s island are far worse than what he has just been rescued from or anything that he could have imagined. ...
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    20,42 €

  • The Egoist
    George Meredith
    The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and his attempts at marriage; jilted by his first bride-to-be, he vacillates between the sentimental Laetitia Dale and the strong-willed Clara Middleton. More importantly, the novel follows Clara’s attempts to escape from her engagement to Sir Willoughby, who desires women to serve as a mirror for him and con...
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    35,99 €

  • The Time Machine
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    H. G. Well’s classic science fiction masterpiece The Time Machine explores human nature. The Time traveler finds himself in 802,701 A.D., where he meets the Eloi and encounters the violent Morlocks. Well uses these two descendants of man to explore evil and it’s causes. He draws conclusion that might surprise you. A riveting tale that has stood the test of time. ...
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    20,52 €

  • Belinda
    Maria Edgeworth
    Being unwed, Belinda is sent to live with Lady Delacour, whom Belinda considers fascinating and charming. Lady Delacour believes herself to be dying of breast cancer. She hides her emotional distress from Belinda through wit and charm. The first half of the novel is concerned with the blooming friendship between Belinda and Lady Delacour, which is eventually broken, 'I see...th...
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    36,23 €

  • 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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    14,27 €

  • 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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    27,87 €

  • 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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    18,08 €

  • 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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    18,01 €

  • The House of Seven Gables
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    The house of the title is a gloomy New England mansion, haunted from its foundation by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft, and sudden death. The current resident, the dignified but desperately poor Hepzibah Pyncheon, opens a shop in a side room to support her brother Clifford, who is about to leave prison after serving thirty years for murder. ...
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    36,91 €

  • 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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    20,39 €

  • A Message to Garcia
    Elbert Hubbard
    A Message to Garcia is one of the most widely read inspirational stories of all time. Since it’s publication it has sold more than 40 million copies. This is the touching story of an American soldier who must get a message through enemy lines to General Garcia. The lessons contained within it have changed the lives of countless people. Prepare to be inspired. This edition also ...
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    18,11 €

  • Beyond the Gates
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    I had been ill for several weeks with what they called brain fever. The events which I am about to relate happened on the fifteenth day of my illness. ...
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    28,28 €

  • A Study in Scarlet
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    Doyle, unsuccessful in his medical practice, in need of money and a more satisfying career, had already sold a number of magazine stories when he wrote the novella, 'A Study in Scarlet,' the first Sherlock Holmes story, which, after many rejections, was published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual for 1887. Doyle got twenty-five pounds for all rights to the story. He never received a...
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    17,85 €

  • Indian Boyhood
    Charles A. Eastman / Charles AEastman
    The Memoirs of an Indian boyhood, is and autobiography by Charles Eastman. Eastman was a Native American physician, writer, national lecturer, and reformer. He was of Santee Sioux and Anglo-American ancestry. Active in politics and issues on American Indian rights, he worked to improve the lives of youths, and founded 32 Native American chapters of the Young Men’s Christian Ass...
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    20,37 €

  • Genji Monogatari
    Lady Murasaki Shikibu
    The Tale of Genji Monogatari is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, around the peak of the Heian Period. It is sometimes called the world’s first novel, the first modern novel. ...
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    36,96 €

  • Notes from the Underground
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Notes from Underground is a study of a single character, and a revelation of Dostoyevsky’s own deepest beliefs. In this work we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who, disillusioned by the oppression and corruption of the society in which he lives withdraws from that society into the underground. Considered by many to be the first existentialist novel, Notes from the Und...
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    20,46 €

  • The Marvellous History of King Arthur in Avalon
    Geoffrey Junior
    THE writer considereth the truth of the matters which are recorded in the Historie of King Arthur concerning the site of the Island of Avalon and the family of Queen Morgan la Faye. He telleth how Morgan la Faye carried away King Arthur and his Round Table into Avalon; and how she made them pass the time there for many hundreds of years; how she put King Arthur to sleep; of the...
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    18,03 €

  • Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
    Albert Pike
    Morals and Dogma is a collection of thirty-two essays which provide a philosophical rationale for the degrees (membership levels) of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. The lectures provided a backdrop for the degrees by giving lessons in comparative religion, history, and philosophy.' ...
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    41,31 €

  • Charlotte Temple
    Susanna Haswell Rowson
    The book tells of the seduction of a British schoolgirl by a dashing soldier, John Montraville, who brings her to America and there abandons her, pregnant and ill. As such, it belongs to the seduction novel genre popular in early American literature. ...
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    17,85 €

  • Our Island Story
    H. E. Marshall / HEMarshall
    Our Island Story is the 'history' of England up to Queen Victoria’s Death. Marshall used these stories to tell her children about their homeland, Great Britain. To add to the excitement, she mixed in a bit of myth as well as a few legends. ...
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    36,64 €

  • Daisy Miller
    Henry Jr. James / Henry JrJames
    Here is Henry James classic masterpiece, Daisy Miller. Daisy is a youthful, exuberant American girl vacationing in Europe. She typifies the brashness of America—a brashness that clashes with the European society to which she finds herself drawn. This poignant tragedy plays out as these cultures collide. ...
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    18,01 €

  • Lady Chatterly’s Lover
    D. H. Lawrence / DHLawrence
    Constance, the young Lady Chatterly, is married to a handsome, well-built man. Clifford, her husband, was wounded in the war, and is paralyzed from the waist down. His physical limitations lead him to emotionally neglect Constance, and for comfort, she turns to the gamekeeper, Oliver. In his arms, she finds the passion she needs, even as she struggles with the class differences...
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    23,58 €

  • Civil War Stories
    Ambrose Bierce
    Bierce was considered a master of pure English by his contemporaries, and virtually everything that came from his pen was notable for its judicious wording and economy of style. He wrote in a variety of literary genres. His short stories are held among the best of the 19th century, providing a popular following based on his roots. He wrote realistically of the terrible things h...
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    20,43 €

  • A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court
    Mark Twain
    After a blow to the head, American, Hank Morgan wakes up in England. Specifically King Arthur’s England of 528. With no other options Morgan uses his knowledge of science to pass himself off as a great wizard. This earns him the enmity of Merlin. Biting social commentary and laugh out loud humor make this book a classic. ...
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    27,58 €


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