Classics
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Original price was: 3,00 €.0,90 €Current price is: 0,90 €.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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Original price was: 3,00 €.0,90 €Current price is: 0,90 €.by E.M. Forster
A masterful portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India compellingly depicts the fate of individuals caught between the great political and cultural conflicts of the modern world. -
3,00 €by Philip K. Dick
California, the mid-1990’s – a society split between the “straights” (with their privileges) and the dopers (with their dreams), leaving the narks stranded in the no-man’s land between…
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3,00 €by Charles Dickens, Lenore Mussoff (Introduction)
In Paris, the streets run red with blood. In London a beautiful young women waits for word of the nobleman she loves….
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Original price was: 4,00 €.1,20 €Current price is: 1,20 €.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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5,00 €by Elizabeth Taylor
An unforgettable picture of love, loss and the keeping up of appearances. Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the 40th anniversary of the Virago Modern Classics.
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Original price was: 3,00 €.0,90 €Current price is: 0,90 €.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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6,00 €by John Gunther
Death Be Not Proud chronicles Johnny Gunther’s gallant struggle against the malignant brain tumor that killed him at the age of seventeen. -
6,00 €by Susan Sontag
‘Death Kit’ follows a troubled man through a self-incriminating investigation. It travels from upstate New York to New York City, and to the recesses of the American conscience, where the will to destroy may to the strongest impulse of all.
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Original price was: 4,00 €.2,80 €Current price is: 2,80 €.by Jane Austen
Emma Woodhouse believes herself to be an excellent matchmaker, though she herself does not plan on marrying. But as she meddles in the relationships of others, she causes confusion and misunderstandings throughout the village, and she just may be overlooking a true love of her own.
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Original price was: 4,00 €.1,20 €Current price is: 1,20 €.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. -
4,00 €Milton Crane (Editor)
50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction.
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4,00 €by Georgia Hunter
A wickedly funny satire of Irish society after WWI, featuring “delicious and deleterious accounts of illicit sex and wild high jinks, and a mother-daughter duo who can scrap with the best of them” (Vulture). -
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Original price was: 6,00 €.1,80 €Current price is: 1,80 €.by Charles Dickens
Dickens’s magnificent novel of guilt, desire, and redemption.
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4,00 €by Eleanor Atkinson
Based on a a true story, Greyfriars Bobby is the tale of a little dog who keeps a vigil by his master’s grave in Greyfriars Churchyard, despite the efforts of the church authorities to ban him. -
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2,00 €by E.M. Forster, Oliver Stallybrass (Editor)
Frequently cited as E. M. Forster’s finest work, Howards End brilliantly explores class warfare, conflict and the English character. -
10,50 €by Allen Ginsberg
Howl & Other Poems is the single most influential poetic work of the post-World War II era, with over 1,000,000 copies now in print. -
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Original price was: 6,00 €.3,00 €Current price is: 3,00 €.by Philip K. Dick
Drawn from the five volumes of his complete short stories (also published by Gollancz) this volume represents the very cream of Philip K. Dick’s output.
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Original price was: 2,00 €.0,60 €Current price is: 0,60 €.Penguin Great Journeys
by Henry Walter Bates
One of the most impressive of all Victorian scientists but also a marvelous writer account of his years in the upper reaches of the Amazon is almost too good to be true …
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5,00 €by David Foster Wallace
A gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America.
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2,00 €by Peter Benchley
Here is Peter Benchley’s classic suspense novel of shark versus man, which was made into the blockbuster Steven Spielberg movie. The Jaws phenomenon changed popular culture and continues to inspire a growing interest in sharks and the oceans today.
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Original price was: 3,00 €.1,50 €Current price is: 1,50 €.by Jules Verne
The story of Professor Lidenbrock, his nephew, and a hired guide who, following the instructions of a medieval alchemist claiming to have found a passage to the center of the earth, travel deep into an Icelandic volcano.
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24,00 €by Walt Whitman, Karen Karbiener (Afterword), Brian Selznick (Illustrator)
New York Times bestselling and Caldecott Medal–winning Brian Selznick illustrates Walt Whitman like never before! -
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Original price was: 6,00 €.4,20 €Current price is: 4,20 €.by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Deliciously wry and inviting, it was her piquant plea that single women find liberty and civility, a theme that would later be explored by Virginia Woolf in ‘A Room of One’s Own’.
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Original price was: 6,00 €.1,80 €Current price is: 1,80 €.by Joseph Conrad
First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century.
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Original price was: 4,00 €.2,00 €Current price is: 2,00 €.by William Golding
When a plane crashes on a remote island, a small group of schoolboys are the sole survivors.… -
5,00 €by William Golding
When a plane crashes on a remote island, a small group of schoolboys are the sole survivors.… -
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Original price was: 5,00 €.2,50 €Current price is: 2,50 €.by Ovid
Mary Innes’s classic prose translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature, Ovid’s Metamorphosis. -
12,90 €by Charles Bukowski
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck captures glimpses of Charles Bukowski’s view on life through his poignant poetry: the pain, the hate, the love, and the beauty. He writes of lechery and pain while still being able to find its beauty.
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4,00 €by Daniel Defoe
The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (aka Moll Flanders) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. It purports to be the true account of the life of the eponymous Moll, detailing her exploits from birth until old age. -
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Original price was: 5,00 €.3,50 €Current price is: 3,50 €.by Jane Austen
Executed with high-spirited gusto, Northanger Abbey is a lighthearted, yet unsentimental commentary on love and marriage.
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5,00 €by John Milton
Greedily she engorged without restraint, And knew not eating death;
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4,00 €by J.M. Barrie
Considered a masterpiece since its first appearance on stage in 1904, Peter Pan is J. M. Barrie’s most famous work and arguably the greatest of all children’s stories.
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Original price was: 6,00 €.1,80 €Current price is: 1,80 €.by Rudyard Kipling
First published in 1888, Plain Tales from the Hills was Kipling’s first volume of prose fiction. -
4,00 €by Jane Austen
In this historic romance, young Elizabeth Bennet strives for love, independence and honesty in the vapid high society of 19th century England.
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Original price was: 4,00 €.2,00 €Current price is: 2,00 €.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. -
5,00 €by David Stuart Davies (Editor)
Beware, the Dead are coming back! This is a unique and fascinating collection of early mummy stories that helped to establish the chilling concept of the Dead returning to life as a potent sub-genre of horror fiction. -
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Original price was: 6,00 €.4,20 €Current price is: 4,20 €.by Evelyn Waugh
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, Scoop is a “thoroughly enjoyable, uproariously funny” satire of the journalism business (New York Times).