19th Century
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3,00 €by Mikhail Lermontov, Paul Foote (Translator, Introduction)
In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and ’30s.
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8,00 €by Charles Dickens
Bleak House is one of Dickens’s most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums.
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4,00 €by Alexander Pushkin, Charles Johnston (Translator), John Bayley (Introduction)
A translation of Pushkin’s sober, elegant, witty, fluent, affable, graceful, sad novel in verse, Eugene Onegin. -
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6,00 €by Charlotte Brontë
Since its publication in 1847 Jane Eyre has never ceased to be one of the most widely read of English novels.
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5,00 €by Walt Whitman
A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential writers of the nineteenth century.
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8,00 €by Herman Melville
One of the great American novels, if not even the greatest, Moby Dick epically combines rip-roaring adventure, a meticulously realistic portrayal of the whaling trade and a profound philosophical disquisition on the nature of good and evil.
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6,00 €by Rudyard Kipling
First published in 1888, Plain Tales from the Hills was Kipling’s first volume of prose fiction. -
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by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe’s tales and poems draw the reader into an unsettling world of mystery and fear. -
5,00 €
A Christmas Carol/The Chimes/The Cricket on the Hearth
by Charles Dickens
This new volume collects Dickens’s three most renowned “Christmas Books,” including The Chimes, a New Year’s tale, and The Cricket on the Hearth, whose eponymous creature remains silent during sorrow and chirps amid happiness.
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6,00 €
by Emily Brontë, John S. Whitley (Contributor)
A brooding Yorkshire tale of a love that is stronger than death, it is also a fierce vision of metaphysical passion, in which heaven and hell, nature and society, are powerfully juxtaposed.
