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  • Colonel Carter’s Christmas and the Romance Of An Old-Fashioned Gentleman
    Francis Hopkinson Smith
    'Colonel Carter’s Christmas and the Romance of an Old-Fashioned Gentleman' is a heartwarming novella written by Francis Hopkinson Smith, an American author, artist, and engineer. The book was originally published in 1891 and is a charming tale that captures the spirit of the holiday season and evokes a sense of nostalgia for a simpler, more genteel era. The novella is set in th...
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    13,38 €

  • Germinal
    Émile Zola / Havelock Ellis
    Discover Emile Zola’s timeless masterpiece 'Germinal' in this new edition featuring easy-to-read large type. Set against the backdrop of the 19th-century French coal mining industry, 'Germinal' vividly portrays the struggles of the working class, their fight for justice, and the harsh realities of industrialization. As you delve into the lives of the characters, you’ll find str...
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    29,53 €

  • The World Set Free
    H.G. Wells
    'A World Set Free' by H. G. Wells is a gripping and visionary science fiction novel that foresaw the revolutionary impact of atomic energy long before its time. Published in 1914, Wells crafts a tale of international intrigue and geopolitical tensions as nations scramble to control the devastating power of atomic bombs. Beyond its thrilling narrative, the novel delves into ethi...
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    9,91 €

  • Y Peiriant Amser
    H. G. Wells / Herbert George Wells / TBD / Adam Pearce
    (Welsh Translation of H. G. Wells The Time Machine)Cydnabyddir H.G. Wells fel un o brif ffigyrau cynnar ffuglen wyddonol, mewn unrhyw iaith. Ysgrifennodd dros bum deg o nofelau ac chyfrir y enwocafohonynt, gan gynnwys The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds ac When the Sleeper Wakes, ymhlith y straeon mwyaf enwog a phoblogaidd eri...
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    17,13 €

  • Lona
    T. Gwynn Jones / Thomas Gwynn Jones
    (A classic Welsh love story originally written in 1908 by one of the great literary figures of his day)'Dewines, duwies, drychiolaeth, pa beth? Rhywbeth ond geneth gyffredin o gig a gwaed. Bwriodd ei hud drosto hyd na wyddai ef pa beth i’w feddwl amdani. Agorodd ffenestr ei henaid iddo, a dangosodd beth o’r trysor ysblennydd oedd yno, heb yn wybod i neb ond iddi hi ei hun, ac h...
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    18,17 €

  • Gorchest Gwilym Bevan
    T. Gwynn Jones / Thomas Gwynn Jones
    (Classic Welsh novel by T. Gwynn Jones)'Roedd llais torcalonnus Mrs. Tomos, a’i geiriau gwylltion, ’Dacw fo’r dyn starfiodd fy ngŵr i; i lawr â fo!’ yn swnio yn eu clustiau’n barhaus...'Mae Gwilym Bevan ar fin taflu’i hun i ddyfroedd y Tafwys pan gaiff ei achub gan ddieithryn, a chael ail gyfle ar fywyd. Dychwela i Gymru a chael gwaith yn y chwarel; a diolch i’w ddysg a’i hyfe...
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    19,35 €

  • Nest Merfyn
    Mary Oliver Jones
    'Tom, tyrd i lawr y funud yma,' meddai llais un a adnabyddai Tom fel eiddo i Bill Tomos, porthor yn y Plas.'Beth sy’n bod?''Mr. Pugh wedi’i ladd!'Tra’n ymweld â bro enedigol ei thad, daw merch ifanc dan amheuaeth o lofruddio’r gŵr y mae disgwyl iddo etifeddu cartref ei thaid. Mae’r holl dystiolaeth yn ei herbyn: beth ddaw o Nest?  Nofel Mary Oliver Jones yw un o’r enghreifftiau...
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    16,83 €

  • The Sun Also Rises
    Ernest Hemingway
    The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemingway’s masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The sto...
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    13,40 €

  • The Son of the Wolf
    Jack London
     Jack London gained his first and most lasting fame as the author of tales of the Klondike gold rush.  This, his first collection of stories, draws on his experience in the Yukon.  The stories tell of gambles won and lost, of endurance and sacrifice, and often turn on the qualities of exceptional women and on the relations between the white adventurers and the native tribes.Sto...
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    9,97 €

  • Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
    Robert Louis Stevenson
     Robert Louis Stevenson’s masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man’s nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious-during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil, inner persona-the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde-ha...
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    9,11 €

  • The Last of the Mohicans
    James Fenimore Cooper
    The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become embroiled in the bloody battles of the French and Indian War. The a...
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    21,63 €

  • An Antarctic Mystery
    Jules Verne / Frances Cashel Hoey
    'An Antarctic Mystery' is a captivating adventure novel penned by the visionary Jules Verne. Set against the backdrop of the icy and mysterious Antarctic region, the story unfolds as Captain Len Guy and his crew embark on a perilous journey to unravel the enigma surrounding the disappearance of the Jane, a ship that vanished years ago under inexplicable circumstances. As the ex...
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    12,05 €

  • The finest story in the world
    RUDYARD KIPLING
    This brief but moving and captivating story recounts the adventures imagined by Charlie Mears, a twenty-year-old bank employee with literary aspirations, whose motivation is to write what he believes will be the best story in the world. His account, full of veracity and all sorts of realistic details, may seem more like the memory of another life than the product of his fantasy...
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    12,00 €

  • Room 13
    Edgar Wallace
    Recently released from prison, John Gray visits his old friend Peter Kane. Although it is the day of his daughter’s wedding, Kane agrees to an audience with Emanuel Legg, the criminal and cop-killer with whom he has some business. Gray wanders into the garden and a tornado of fury sweeps through him. The debonair Major Floyd, the new husband to whom Kane has entrusted his preci...
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    16,04 €

  • Sylvie and Bruno
    Lewis Carroll
    Sylvie and Bruno, first published in 1889, and its second volume Sylvie and Bruno Concluded published in 1893, form the last novel by Lewis Carroll published during his lifetime.  Both volumes were illustrated by Harry Furniss. The novel has two main plots: one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fantasy world of Fairyl...
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    14,34 €

  • A Fitting Epitaph
    Michael Decker
    Bill is out of options. Unemployed, alone and returning to the raucous seas of Northern California, the only home he knows, he takes a loan out at the bank and pours his last cent into his final chance for redemption: a tired old boat without a name. Although 'pitted with rust' with 'the cancer of salt corrosion gnawing at the copper engine parts' Bill purchases the WWII craft,...
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    12,12 €

  • Dracula’s Guest
    Bram Stoker
    'Dracula’s Guest' is a short story by Bram Stoker, first published in the short story collection Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914). It is believed to be the first chapter for Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, but was deleted prior to publication as the original publishers felt it was superfluous to the story. It is widely believed that 'Dracula’s Guest' is actually the ...
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    21,11 €

  • The Jewel of Seven Stars
    Bram Stoker
    The Jewel of Seven Stars is a horror novel by Irish writer Bram Stoker, first published by Heinemann in 1903. The story is a first-person narrative of a young man pulled into an archaeologist’s plot to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy. It explores common fin de siècle themes such as imperialism, the rise of the New Woman and feminism, and societal progress.Prepublic...
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    34,64 €

  • Dracula’s Guest
    Bram Stoker
    'Dracula’s Guest' is a short story by Bram Stoker, first published in the short story collection Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914). It is believed to be the first chapter for Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, but was deleted prior to publication as the original publishers felt it was superfluous to the story. It is widely believed that 'Dracula’s Guest' is actually the ...
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    34,84 €

  • Dracula
    Bram Stoker
    Dracula is a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. An epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist, but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Harker escapes the castle after discovering that Dracula is a va...
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    39,44 €

  • The Jewel of Seven Stars
    Bram Stoker
    The Jewel of Seven Stars is a horror novel by Irish writer Bram Stoker, first published by Heinemann in 1903. The story is a first-person narrative of a young man pulled into an archaeologist’s plot to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy. It explores common fin de siècle themes such as imperialism, the rise of the New Woman and feminism, and societal progress.Prepublic...
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    22,70 €

  • A Second Home
    Honoré de Balzac
    Une double famille (A Second Home) is a lengthy short story by Honoré de Balzac. The story first appeared in 1830 under the title La femme vertueuse (The Virtuous Woman). It was subsequently published in 1832 by Mame et Delaunay as part of Balzac’s Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes from Private Life). In 1835, it appeared, in an edition by Madame Béchet, in the collection Études ...
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    21,60 €

  • A Daughter of Eve
    Honoré de Balzac
    Two aristocratic sisters raised in religious seclusion by their pious mother are suddenly married off into the glittering, treacherous Paris society of the 1830’s, the younger to a domineering banker, the elder to a humane and loving count.This excellent novella from the ’private life’ collection of Balzac’s Comédie Humaine focusses on the elder daughter, Madame Felix de Vanden...
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    19,07 €

  • A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
    Honoré de Balzac
    Corruption. Deceit. Money. Publishing. Rival factions and the flippancies of rhetoric. Fortunes lost and won. Genius stumbles and greed overtakes. Is it the tale of New York City today? No it’s Balzac’s 19c Paris. (Yonina)About the author:Honoré de Balzac born Honoré Balzac; (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humai...
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    25,04 €

  • A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
    Honoré de Balzac
    Corruption. Deceit. Money. Publishing. Rival factions and the flippancies of rhetoric. Fortunes lost and won. Genius stumbles and greed overtakes. Is it the tale of New York City today? No it’s Balzac’s 19c Paris. (Yonina)About the author:Honoré de Balzac born Honoré Balzac; (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humai...
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    39,60 €

  • A Woman of Thirty
    Honoré de Balzac
    Honoré de Balzac born Honoré Balzac; (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in ...
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    21,56 €

  • A Start in Life
    Honoré de Balzac
    Un début dans la vie (A Start in Life) is a novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac. It is the sixth of the Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes of Private Life) in La Comédie humaine.The novel was serialized in the review La Législature in 1842 under the title Le Danger des mystifications (The Dangers of Gasconade). In 1845 it appeared under its present title in the second Furn...
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    21,61 €

  • Eugenie Grandet
    Honoré de Balzac
    Eugénie Grandet is a novel first published in 1833 by French author Honoré de Balzac. While he was writing it he conceived his ambitious project, La Comédie humaine, and almost immediately prepared a second edition, revising the names of some of the characters so that Eugénie Grandet then fitted into the section: Scenes from provincial life (Scènes de la vie de province) in the...
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    21,55 €

  • Eugenie Grandet
    Honoré de Balzac
    Eugénie Grandet is a novel first published in 1833 by French author Honoré de Balzac. While he was writing it he conceived his ambitious project, La Comédie humaine, and almost immediately prepared a second edition, revising the names of some of the characters so that Eugénie Grandet then fitted into the section: Scenes from provincial life (Scènes de la vie de province) in the...
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    34,80 €

  • The Lair of the White Worm
    Bram Stoker
    The Lair of the White Worm is a horror novel by the Irish writer Bram Stoker. It was first published by Rider and Son of London in 1911 - the year before Stoker’s death - with colour illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith. The story is based on the legend of the Lambton Worm. It has also been issued as The Garden of Evil.The book is widely considered one of the worst books ever w...
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    21,52 €


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