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  • Obscure Destinies
    Willa Cather
    Obscure Destinies is a collection of three short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1932. Each story deals with the death of a central character .When Doctor Burleigh told neighbour Rosicky he had a bad heart, Rosicky protested.'So? No, I guess my heart was always pretty good. I got a little asthma, maybe. Just a awful short breath when I was pitchin' hay last summer, da...
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    18,61 €

  • Obscure Destinies
    Willa Cather
    Obscure Destinies is a collection of three short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1932. Each story deals with the death of a central character .When Doctor Burleigh told neighbour Rosicky he had a bad heart, Rosicky protested."So? No, I guess my heart was always pretty good. I got a little asthma, maybe. Just a awful short breath when I was pitchin' hay last summer, da...
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    11,97 €

  • Magnificent Obsession
    Lloyd C. Douglas
    This romantic classic tells the story of Robert Merrick, a young man who almost dies in an accident and vows to enter the medical profession in memory of a local doctor.After almost losing his life in a boating accident, Robert Merrick is inspired by the life of Dr. Hudson, a kindly and compassionate fellow who spent his career saving lives. Hudson perishes at the very start of...
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    21,43 €

  • Magnificent Obsession
    Lloyd C. Douglas
    This romantic classic tells the story of Robert Merrick, a young man who almost dies in an accident and vows to enter the medical profession in memory of a local doctor.After almost losing his life in a boating accident, Robert Merrick is inspired by the life of Dr. Hudson, a kindly and compassionate fellow who spent his career saving lives. Hudson perishes at the very start of...
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    14,68 €

  • The Sun Also Rises
    Ernest Hemingway
    Complete edition of The Sun Also Rises (or Fiesta) by Ernest Hemingway. Written by one of the ’lost generation’, this book is attracting readers today trying to find meaning in their own lives.The unique Hemingway writing style, lush scenes based on his own experiences from 1920’s Europe, and lack of moral judgement for promiscuous, carousing characters, have kept the book famo...
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    18,76 €

  • The Sun Also Rises
    Ernest Hemingway
    Complete edition of The Sun Also Rises (or Fiesta) by Ernest Hemingway. Written by one of the ’lost generation’, this book is attracting readers today trying to find meaning in their own lives. The unique Hemingway writing style, lush scenes based on his own experiences from 1920’s Europe, and lack of moral judgement for promiscuous, carousing characters, have kept the book fam...
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    9,66 €

  • Mrs. Dalloway
    Virgina Woolf
    'He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.'-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925)Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf is touted by Time as one of the top 100 novels in the English language since the magazine’s inception in 1923. While in the throes of party planning, protag...
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    11,21 €

  • Arrowsmith
    Sinclair Lewis
    'It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.'-Sinclair Lewis, ArrowsmithArrowsmith (1926) is among Sinclair Lewis’s early novels. Even so, it is usually considered one of his major works, because it was the first 'scientific' novel. Inspired to write it by major reforms in the field of ...
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    26,28 €

  • Arrowsmith
    Sinclair Lewis
    'It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.'-Sinclair Lewis, ArrowsmithArrowsmith (1926) is among Sinclair Lewis’s early novels. Even so, it is usually considered one of his major works, because it was the first 'scientific' novel. Inspired to write it by major reforms in the field of ...
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    15,50 €

  • An American Tragedy
    Theodore Dreiser
    'Who were these people with money, and what had they done that they should enjoy so much luxury, where others as good seemingly as themselves had nothing? And wherein did these latter differ so greatly from the successful?'-Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy (1925)An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser is based on the 1906 murder of Grace Brown, her lover’s immoralit...
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    34,37 €

  • The Great Gatsby
    F. Scott Fitzgerald / FScott Fitzgerald
    Complete edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written in and describing the decadent period of 1920’s America, Fitzgerald’s lyrical verse is a tragically simple love story that is strangely profound.  This is a haunting classic that stays with the reader.  'Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction-Gatsby, who represented e...
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    17,65 €

  • The Great Gatsby
    F. Scott Fitzgerald / FScott Fitzgerald
    Complete edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written in and describing the decadent period of 1920’s America, Fitzgerald’s lyrical verse is a tragically simple love story that is strangely profound.  This is a haunting classic that stays with the reader.  'Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction-Gatsby, who represented e...
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    8,14 €

  • Fitzgerald Treasury - The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned
    F. Scott Fitzgerald / FScott Fitzgerald
    Complete editions of The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, and The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald. His oozing verse and indulgent styling are fully captured here.His three early novels, written in and describing the post World War period of 1920’s America, are haunting classics that stays with the reader. From The Great Gatsby (1925): 'Only Gatsby, the man who g...
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    30,43 €

  • Fitzgerald Treasury - The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned
    F. Scott Fitzgerald / FScott Fitzgerald
    Complete editions of The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, and The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald. His oozing verse and indulgent styling are fully captured here.His three early novels, written in and describing the post World War period of 1920’s America, are haunting classics that stays with the reader. From The Great Gatsby (1925): 'Only Gatsby, the man who g...
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    20,03 €

  • American Tragedy
    Theodore Dreiser
    'Who were these people with money, and what had they done that they should enjoy so much luxury, where others as good seemingly as themselves had nothing? And wherein did these latter differ so greatly from the successful?'-Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy (1925)An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser is based on the 1906 murder of Grace Brown, her lover’s immoralit...
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    56,53 €

  • The Surgeon’s Daughter
    Walter Scott
    The Surgeon’s Daughter is part of Chronicles of the Canongate which is a collection of stories by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1827 and 1828 in the Waverley novels series. They are named after the Canongate, in Edinburgh. After his financial ruin at the beginning of 1826, Scott committed himself to writing works that would produce funds for the Trustees of James Ballantyne & ...
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    17,63 €

  • Old Mortality
    Walter Scott
    Old Mortality is one of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott. Set in south west Scotland, it forms, along with The Black Dwarf, the 1st series of his Tales of My Landlord (1816). The novel deals with the period of the Covenanters, featuring their victory at Loudoun Hill and their defeat at Bothwell Bridge, both in June 1679; a final section is set in 1689 at the time of the roya...
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    24,69 €

  • Old Mortality
    Walter Scott
    Old Mortality is one of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott. Set in south west Scotland, it forms, along with The Black Dwarf, the 1st series of his Tales of My Landlord (1816). The novel deals with the period of the Covenanters, featuring their victory at Loudoun Hill and their defeat at Bothwell Bridge, both in June 1679; a final section is set in 1689 at the time of the roya...
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    34,01 €

  • Babbitt
    Sinclair Lewis
    Unabridged value reproduction of BABBITT by the gritty realist and Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis. It is a tale of the emptiness of materialism in the roaring twenties that applies today to those wanting a simpler life.The hero is Babbitt, ruling his business with militant normalcy and also the most grievous victim of his own militant dullness.Lewis describes it this way, “H...
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    10,85 €

  • Babbitt
    Sinclair Lewis
    Unabridged value reproduction of BABBITT by the gritty realist and Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis. It is a tale of the emptiness of materialism in the roaring twenties that applies today to those wanting a simpler life.The hero is Babbitt, ruling his business with militant normalcy and also the most grievous victim of his own militant dullness.Lewis describes it this way, “H...
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    19,95 €

  • Siddhartha
    Hermann Hesse / TBD
    Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The book, Hesse's ninth novel, was written in German, in a simple, lyrical style. It was published in the U.S. in 1951 and became influential during the 1960s. Hesse dedicated the first part of it to Romain Rolland a...
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    18,43 €

  • The Beautiful and Damned
    F Scott Fitzgerald
    Complete edition of The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It tells the story of the rise, fall, and relationship of the main characters, which many feel are based on the author’s own life. Fitzgerald’s oozing verse, debauchery, and speedy action have made this book continue to be read through the years.'As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not wit...
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    21,07 €

  • The Beautiful and Damned
    F Scott Fitzgerald
    Complete edition of The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It tells the story of the rise, fall, and relationship of the main characters, which many feel are based on the author’s own life. Fitzgerald’s oozing verse, debauchery, and speedy action have made this book continue to be read through the years.'As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not wit...
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    11,97 €

  • Babbitt
    Sinclair Lewis
    'Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.'-Sinclair Lewis, BabbittIn the novel Babbitt (1922), Sinclair Lewis created a sardonic portrait of a typical American businessman, striving to conform to the standards of the American culture of the time. Its 'hero' is a real estate salesman who, havin...
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    44,18 €

  • The Beautiful and the Damned
    F. Fitzgerald / FFitzgerald
    'Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (1922)The Beautiful and Damned (1922) followed F. Scott Fitzgerald’s critically acclaimed first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920) and cinched his place as a noted author of his time. The plot centers on Anthony, a socialite awaiting an inheritance and his marriage to Gloria, a...
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    21,67 €

  • Castles in the Air
    Baroness Emma Orczy
    My name is Ratichon—Hector Ratichon, at your service, and I make so bold as to say that not even my worst enemy would think of minimizing the value of my services to the State. For twenty years now have I placed my powers at the disposal of my country: I have served the Republic, and was confidential agent to Citizen Robespierre; I have served the Empire, and was secret factotu...
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    13,31 €

  • Castles in the Air
    Baroness Emma Orczy
    My name is Ratichon—Hector Ratichon, at your service, and I make so bold as to say that not even my worst enemy would think of minimizing the value of my services to the State. For twenty years now have I placed my powers at the disposal of my country: I have served the Republic, and was confidential agent to Citizen Robespierre; I have served the Empire, and was secret factotu...
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    24,56 €

  • Dalyrimple Goes Wrong
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'Cutting corners meant rejecting the old childhood principles that success came from faithfulness to duty, that evil was necessarily punished or virtue necessarily rewarded-that honest poverty was happier than corrupt riches.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dalyrimple Goes Wrong (1920)Dalyrimple Goes Wrong (1920), written in September of 1919 by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first published i...
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    7,56 €

  • Bernice Bobs Her Hair
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'He wondered idly whether she was a poor conversationalist because she got no attention or got no attention because she was a poor conversationalist.' -F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1920)Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1920), by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first published in the Saturday Evening Post and later in his short story collection, Flappers and Philosophers (also ava...
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    7,69 €

  • This Side of Paradise
    F. Scott Fitzgerald / FScott Fitzgerald
    Complete edition of This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald. His debut novel, written in and describing the post World War period of 1920’s America, Fitzgerald’s lyrical verse and personal writing style are fully demonstrated here.'Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.'No student of thought should...
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    19,96 €


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