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  • IN A GLASS DARKLY
    Sheridan Le Fanu
    This remarkable collection of stories, first published in 1872, includes Green Tea, The Familiar, Mr. Justice Harbottle, The Room in the Dragon Volant, and Carmilla. The five stories are purported to be cases by Dr. Hesselius, a ’metaphysical’ doctor, who is willing to consider the ghosts both as real and as hallucinatory obsessions. The reader’s doubtful anxiety mimics that of...
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    28,37 €

  • THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
    Edith Wharton
    The Age of Innocence, which was set in the time of Wharton’s childhood, was a softer and gentler work than The House of Mirth, which Wharton had published in 1905. In her autobiography, Wharton wrote of The Age of Innocence that it had allowed her to find 'a momentary escape in going back to my childish memories of a long-vanished America... it was growing more and more evident...
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    26,27 €

  • NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Notes from Underground also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld) is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in the journal Epoch in 1864. It is a first-person narrative in the form of a 'confession': the work was originally announced by Dostoevsky in Epoch under the title 'A Confession'. The novella presents itself as an excerpt from ...
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    16,72 €

  • THE BOSTONIANS
    Henry James
    This bittersweet tragicomedy centres on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom’s cousin and a Boston feminist; and Verena Tarrant, a pretty, young protégée of Olive’s in the feminist movement. The storyline concerns the struggle between Ransom and Olive for Verena’s allegiance and affection, though the no...
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    22,01 €

  • ONE, NONE AND A HUNDRED-THOUSAND
    Luigi Pirandello
    One, None and One Hundred Thousand is a 1926 novel by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello. It is Pirandello’s last novel; his son later said that it took 'more than 15 years' to write. In an autobiographical letter, published in 1924, the author refers to this work as the '...bitterest of all, profoundly humoristic, about the decomposition of life: Moscarda one, no one and one...
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    19,91 €

  • UTOPIA
    Thomas More
    A utopia typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its members. It was coined by Sir Thomas More for his book Utopia, describing a fictional island society in the New World. However, it may also denote an intentional community. In common parlance, the word or its adjectival form may be used synonymously...
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    16,76 €

  • THE TIME MACHINE
    H. G. Wells
    The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time. The term 'time machine', coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device. Util...
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    15,72 €

  • DAISY MILLER
    Henry James
    Daisy Miller is a novella by Henry James that first appeared in The Cornhill Magazine in June-July 1878, and in book form the following year. It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Winterbourne, a sophisticated compatriot of hers. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates when they...
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    12,97 €

  • THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
    H. G. Wells
    The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialised in 1897 by Pearson’s Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The novel’s first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between mankind and...
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    19,94 €

  • THE TURN OF THE SCREW
    Henry James
    The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James which first appeared in serial format in Collier’s Weekly (January 27 - April 16, 1898). In October 1898, it was collected in The Two Magics, published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London. The novella follows a governess who, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the gr...
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    16,72 €

  • WIELAND; OR THE TRANSFORMATION
    Charles Brockden Brown
    Wieland: or, The Transformation: An American Tale, usually simply called Wieland, is the first major work by Charles Brockden Brown. First published in 1798, it distinguishes the true beginning of his career as a writer. Wieland is sometimes considered the first American Gothic novel. It has often been linked to Caleb Williams by William Godwin. Godwin’s influence is clear, but...
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    23,10 €

  • BARTLEBY, THE SCRIVENER
    Herman Melville
    'Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street' is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam’s Magazine and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. In the story, a Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard wor...
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    11,40 €

  • THE WORLD SET FREE
    H. G. Wells
    The World Set Free is a novel written in 1913 and published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. The book is based on a prediction of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort of weapon than the world has yet seen. It had appeared first in serialised form with a different ending as A Prophetic Trilogy, consisting of three books: A Trap to Catch the Sun, The Last War in the World and The Wo...
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    19,88 €

  • AGAINST THE GRAIN
    Joris-Karl Huysmans
    À rebours translated Against Nature or Against the Grain is an 1884 novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. The narrative centers on a single character: Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive, ailing aesthete. The last scion of an aristocratic family, Des Esseintes loathes nineteenth-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his...
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    19,91 €

  • PULIYUR VENBA / புலியூர் வெண்பா
    Kappiya Reading
    Vāṭkaiyaca vāṇiyaṉcoṉ mānū liṉaippaṭikkaṟpūṭkaiyeṭuk kakkoḷ puliyūrē - tāṭkamalappōtuḷa vaṉattaṉ purukūtaṉ pōṟṟumantippōtuḷa vaṉattaṉ puri. , (38)I-ḷ. Vāḷ kai - vāḷaiyēntiya kaiyaiyuṭaiya; acavāṇiyar - acavāṇiyarkulattil tiruvavatārañceyta tirukkaṭavūr uyyavanta tēvanāyaṉār, col - kūṟiya, mānūliṉ ai - makattuvamamainta caivacittānta nūliṉai, paṭi (cannitāṉattiṉ) cōpāṉattilamain...
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    19,13 €

  • Cielo de mejores ríos
    Federico Olmos / Leticia Gavernet
    Cielo de mejores ríos es un desafío a la lógica narrativa contemporánea. Una novela ensayo de corte filosófico sobre dos amigos que charlan sobre una historia de amor y comparten sus filosofías, contiene ade4más un maravilloso álbum de canciones que es la banda sonora de la novela, se accede a través de QR y te permite entrar en el ambiente en que se desarrolla la acción. 10 ...
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    20,80 €

  • METAMORPHOSIS
    Franz Kafka
    Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka’s best-known works, Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German: ungeheueres Ungeziefer, lit. 'monstrous vermin') and subsequently struggles to adjust to ...
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    12,88 €

  • THREE MEN IN A BOAT
    Jerome K. Jerome
    Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the ...
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    19,91 €

  • PERSUASION
    Jane Austen
    The story concerns Anne Elliot, an Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family moves to lower their expenses and reduce their debt by renting their home to an Admiral and his wife. The wife’s brother, Captain Frederick Wentworth, was engaged to Anne in 1806, but the engagement was broken when Anne was persuaded by her friends and family to end their relationship. Anne and Captain We...
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    23,12 €

  • A LANTERN IN HER HAND
    Bess Streeter Aldrich
    First published in 1928, A Lantern in Her Hand has outlasted literary fashions to touch generations of readers. In this classic story of a pioneer woman, Bess Streeter Aldrich modeled protagonist Abbie Deal on her own mother, who in 1854 had traveled by covered wagon to the Midwest. In A Lantern in Her Hand, Abbie accompanies her family to the soon-to-be-state of Nebraska. Ther...
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    24,11 €

  • NORTHANGER ABBEY
    Jane Austen
    Northanger Abbey is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic novels written by Jane Austen. Austen was also influenced by Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote (1752). Northanger Abbey was completed in 1803, the first of Austen’s novels completed in full, but was published posthumously in 1817 with Persuasion. The story concerns Catherine Morland, the naïve young protagonis...
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    22,01 €

  • MANSFIELD PARK
    Jane Austen
    The novel tells the story of Fanny Price, starting when her overburdened family sends her at the age of ten to live in the household of her wealthy aunt and uncle and following her development into early adulthood. From early on critical interpretation has been diverse, differing particularly over the character of the heroine, Austen’s views about theatrical performance and the...
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    33,65 €

  • SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
    Jane Austen
    The novel follows the three Dashwood sisters as they must move with their widowed mother from the estate on which they grew up, Norland Park. Because Norland is passed down to John, the product of Mr. Dashwood’s first marriage, and his young son, the four Dashwood women need to look for a new home. They have the opportunity to rent a modest home, Barton Cottage, on the property...
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    28,33 €

  • THE LETTERS OF JANE AUSTEN
    Jane Austen
    Jane Austen’s letters afford a unique insight into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and gossipy, observant and informative--they read much like the novels themselves. They bring alive her family and friends, her surroundings and contemporary events, all with a freshness unparalleled in modern biographies. Most important, we recognize the unmistakable voice of the author...
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    23,10 €

  • ALEXANDER The Great
    Jacob Abbott
    Alexander the Great was one of the most successful military commanders in history, and was undefeated in battle. By the time of his death, he had conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks. In 'Alexander the Great' Abbott recounts how Alexander ascended the Macedonian throne at the age of 20, overthrew his rival claimants, and then began preparations for the expedi...
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    18,83 €

  • The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    Héloïse d’Argenteuil / Peter Abelard
    Peter Abelard was a Medieval French scholastic philosopher, leading logician, theologian, poet, composer, and musician. Heloise was his young student, famous as the most well-educated and intelligent woman in Paris at the time. Abelard was surrounded by students drawn from all countries by the fame of his teaching. At the height of his fame, he encountered romance that stands t...
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    48,04 €

  • George Orwell
    George Orwell
    A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned -a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as t...
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    15,75 €

  • Saint Augustine
    Saint Augustine
    The work outlines Saint Augustine’s sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. Modern English translations of it are sometimes published under the title The Confessions of Saint Augustine in order to distinguish the book from other books with similar titles. Its original title was Confessions in Thirteen Books, and it was composed to be read out loud with each book being ...
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    25,17 €

  • C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis
    The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is a classic masterpiece of religious satire that entertains readers with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to 'Our Father Below.' At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging account o...
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    15,68 €

  • Wilhelm Grimm & Jacob Grimm
    Jacob Grimm / Wilhelm Grimm
    Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, commonly known as the Brothers Grimm, were not primarily writers but philologists whose names are still as well known in the field of linguistics as they are to readers of fairy tales. Grimm’s Law is a basic rule in the study of Indo-European languages, and the dictionary of the German language is largely their work. Although the fairy tales were always...
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    24,11 €


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