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  • 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 €

  • Villette
    Charlotte Brontë
    After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both adventure and romance. The novel is celebrated not so much for its plot as its acute tracing of Lucy’s psychology, particularly Brontë’s use of Gothic doubling to represent externally what her protagonis...
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    36,05 €

  • Troilus and Criseyde
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    Troilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war in the Siege of Troy. It was composed using rime royale and probably completed during the mid 1380s. Many Chaucer scholars regard it as the poet’s finest work. ...
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    36,84 €

  • An Enemy of the People
    Henrik Johan Ibsen
    An Enemy of the People addresses the irrational tendencies of the masses, and the hypocritical and corrupt nature of the political system that they support. It is the story of one brave man’s struggle to do the right thing and speak the truth in the face of extreme social intolerance. ...
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    17,88 €

  • 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 €

  • Rollo in Holland
    Jacob Abbott
    Follow Rollo, and his friends, on their many adventures. You will have fun learning about subjects such as ethics, history, science, friendship and family. He will take you on adventures around the block, and around the globe! ...
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    20,54 €

  • Rollo on the Atlantic
    Jacob Abbott
    Follow Rollo, and his friends, on their many adventures. You will have fun learning about subjects such as ethics, history, science, friendship and family. He will take you on adventures around the block, and around the globe! ...
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    20,39 €

  • Rollo on the Rhine
    Jacob Abbott
    Follow Rollo, and his friends, on their many adventures. You will have fun learning about subjects such as ethics, history, science, friendship and family. He will take you on adventures around the block, and around the globe! ...
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    20,42 €

  • Rollo at Work
    Jacob Abbott
    Follow Rollo, and his friends, on their many adventures. You will have fun learning about subjects such as ethics, history, science, friendship and family. He will take you on adventures around the block, and around the globe! ...
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    20,53 €

  • Rollo in London
    Jacob Abbott
    Follow Rollo, and his friends, on their many adventures. You will have fun learning about subjects such as ethics, history, science, friendship and family. He will take you on adventures around the block, and around the globe! ...
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    20,51 €

  • Archibald Malmaison
    Julian Hawthorne
    A must-read for fans of strange or gothic literature!Every seven years, Archibald Malmaison falls into a trance-like state to emerge with one of two alternate personalities. Within these pages you will find insanity, death, ghosts, revenge, duels, star-crossed lovers-everything fans of the gothic will love, written by Julian Hawthorne (June 22, 1846 - July 21, 1934), son of the...
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    27,84 €

  • Lost Illusions
    Honoré De Balzac
    Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous, and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. Lost Illusions concerns Lucien de Rubem...
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    35,81 €

  • 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 €

  • Stragno Fall om Doctor Jekyll ed Poti Hyde
    Robert Louis Stevenson / Olivier Simon
    Uno narn om horror ed terror quod siet taraghe ed hayranihes sien leisers. Myehrste ia forlegvern filmversions ed bevidte courage pro tod psychologic aventure. Id storia jinkdout in London, bet ghehdiet ubgwehmus in id mysteirplen hava os Edinburg, id urb quer gnahsit Robert Louis Stevenson. Kwe id est un Freudsk basmo, uno moralo parabel au un allegoria de sexualitat? Vos est ...
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    18,80 €

  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
    L Frank Baum
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is L. Frank Baum's story of a little girl named Dorothy, who with her dog Toto is carried by a tornado from Kansas to the strange and beautiful land of Oz. Here she decides to visit the Emerald City to ask its ruler, a wizard called Oz, to send her back home again. On the way she meets a Scarecrow, who is in search of brains; a Tin Woodman, who wi...
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    70,45 €