19th Century
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2,00 €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. -
5,00 €by Thomas Hardy
The background of this tale is the Wessex countryside in all its moods, contriving to make it one of the most English of great English novels.
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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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5,00 €
by Jane Austen
Executed with high-spirited gusto, Northanger Abbey is a lighthearted, yet unsentimental commentary on love and marriage.
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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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5,00 €
by Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde made up these very special fairy stories for children. He was telling them more than stories about princes, giants, nightingales, and roses, he was teaching them about life and the way to live it. You will find in them so much sweetness and tenderness you will never forget them.
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by George Eliot
With its poignant portrayal of sibling relationships, The Mill on the Floss is considered George Eliot’s most autobiographical novel; it is also one of her most powerful and moving. -
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by Wilkie Collins
A pioneer in the art of the English detective novel and master of innovation, Wilkie collins was one of the most successful and gifted writers of his generation. In the words of Michael Innes The Moonstone ‘stands alone in its kind… [there is] a sense of attending upon the birth of the detective story’.
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4,00 €
by Henry James
An undisputed masterpiece, The Portrait of a Lady is arguably James’s most popular work, and certainly the finest of his early novels. -
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.
