American
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4,00 €by Arthur Miller
Powerful, passionate and frighteningly relevant, the drama of Arthur Miller deals in the hard currency of ‘social’ realism and tragedy.
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3,00 €by John Steinbeck
First published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is—both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. John Steinbeck draws on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, and interweaves their stories in this world where only the fittest survive—creating what is at once one of his most humorous and poignant works.
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9,00 €by Joseph Heller
Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel’s strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller’s classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage.
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15,50 €by Richard Yates
A mesmerising collection of stories from the superb Richard Yates
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4,00 €by Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman (Illustrator)
‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive …”‘
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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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5,00 €by John Updike
A deftly satirical portrait of life and love in a suburban town as only Updike can paint it.
No one else comes even close to Heinlein in consistently fusing scientific thinking with fictional form.
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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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4,00 €
Rabbit Angstrom #2
by John Updike
The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. -
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6,00 €
by John Updike
On a spring day in Vermont, seventy-nine-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life to Kathryn, a young interviewer from New York.
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3,00 €
by Ken Kesey
The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest…
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6,00 €
by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe’s tales and poems draw the reader into an unsettling world of mystery and fear. -
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7,00 €
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Two novels – six years separate Tender is the Night and The Last Tycoon, the novel Fitzgerald left unfinished at his death in December 1940.
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4,00 €
Adventures of Tom and Huck #1
by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel’s schoolboy protagonist, Thomas Sawyer, whose reputation precedes him for causing mischief and strife.
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6,00 €
The Leatherstocking Tales #2
by James Fenimore Cooper‘Death and honour are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.’
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4,00 €
by William Faulkner
In this feverishly beautiful novel— subsequently titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem by Faulkner—William Faulkner interweaves two narratives, each wholly absorbing in its own right, each subtly illuminating the other.
No one else comes even close to Heinlein in consistently fusing scientific thinking with fictional form.
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6,00 €
Adventures of Tom and Huck #2
by Mark Twain
Though originally written as adventure stories for young people, the vivid writing provides a profound commentary on provincial American life in the mid-nineteenth century and the institution of slavery.
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3,00 €
by John Steinbeck
As Nobel Prize winner Steinbeck chronicles their deeds—their multiple lovers, their wonderful brawls, their Rabelaisian wine-drinking—he spins a tale as compelling and ultimately as touched by sorrow as the famous legends of the Round Table, which inspired him.
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4,00 €
by John Updike
It is the year 2020. America has recently experienced a war with China, and social chaos and protection-racketeering prevail.
