Historical Fiction
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4,00 €by Edith Wharton
This classic Wharton tale of thwarted love is an exuberantly comic and profoundly moving look at the passions of the human heart, as well as a literary achievement of the highest order.
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5,60 €by Alexandre Dumas
Historical suspense with an introduction and notes by David Coward.
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6,00 €by Richard Rayner
The Cloud Sketcher is a transforming journey into the heart of beauty and the peril of love, a romantic, lyrical epic that resurrects history with such authenticity and drama as to place Richard Rayner in the company of our very best novelists. -
5,00 €by Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller’s classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 – ‘one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history’ – and the McCarthyism which gripped America in the 1950s.
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5,60 €by John Preston
A brilliantly realised account of the most famous archeological dig in British history, now a major motion picture starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James.
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4,00 €The Last Kingdom #10
by Bernard Cornwell
The brand new novel in Bernard Cornwell’s number one bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg.
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4,20 €The Forsyte Chronicles #1-3
by John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy, a Nobel Prize-winning author, chronicles the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle-class Forsyte family through three generations, beginning in Victorian London during the 1880s and ending in the early 1920s.
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6,00 €by Arundhati Roy
The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it. -
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Canongate’s The Myths #16
by Philip Pullman
This is a story. In this ingenious and spell-binding retelling of the life of Jesus, Philip Pullman revisits the most influential story ever told.
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5,00 €
by Ford Madox Ford
“A Tale of Passion,” as its subtitle declares, The Good Soldier relates the complex social and sexual relationships between two couples, one English, one American, and the growing awareness by the American narrator John Dowell of the intrigues and passions behind their orderly Edwardian facade. -
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by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A true classic of 20th-century literature and one of America’s best-loved and iconic novels.
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7,00 €
by Elizabeth Kostova
For centuries, the story of Dracula has captured the imagination of readers and storytellers alike. Kostova’s breathtaking first novel, ten years in the writing, is an accomplished retelling of this ancient tale. -
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4,20 €
by Upton Sinclair
One of the most powerful, provocative and enduring novels to expose social injustice ever published in the United States.
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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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5,00 €
by Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
Set in 1920s India, this magical debut novel tells the story of beautiful Anuradha, whose songs are spellbinding, but whose fate is troubled.
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6,40 €
by Ronlyn Domingue
Razi Nolan is growing up in New Orleans in the 1920s. She’s smart, fearless, set on breaking the comfortable family mould by making a career as a doctor. But then she falls in love with Andrew O’Connell and her plans become complicated.
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4,00 €
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 Umberto Eco
Eco takes his readers here on an unforgettable journey through the underbelly of world-shattering events. This is Eco at his most exciting, a book immediately hailed as his masterpiece.
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1,50 €
by H.E. Bates
In Kashmir, a small expatriate community seek shelter from the fighting in a Catholic mission. But the tribesmen who sweep down from the hills are bent on rape and massacre.
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7,00 €
by Philipp Meyer
The acclaimed author of American Rust, returns with The Son: an epic, multigenerational saga of power, blood, and land that follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family from the Comanche raids of the 1800s to the border raids of the early 1900s to the oil booms of the 20th century. -
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by Alexandre Dumas
The classic adventure from the author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Man in the Iron Mask. The complete and unabridged text. -
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3,50 €
by Yiyun Li
Writing with profound emotion, and in the superb tradition of fiction by such writers as Orhan Pamuk and J. M. Coetzee, Yiyun Li gives us a stunning novel that is at once a picture of life in a special part of the world during a historic period, a universal portrait of human frailty and courage, and a mesmerizing work of art.
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27,00 €
by Paul Harding
National Book Award and Booker Award-nominated novel inspired by the true story of the once racially integrated Malaga Island off the coast of Maine, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers.
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4,00 €
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise captures the rhythms and romance of Fitzgerald’s youth and offers a poignant portrait of the “Lost Generation.” -
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4,20 €
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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5,60 €
by Joy Jordan-Lake
From the bestselling author of A Tangled Mercy comes an enthralling novel of secrets, a tumultuous war of ideas, and murder as classes collide in the shadow of Biltmore House.
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5,00 €
by Marilyn Bowering
Visible Worlds is a magnetic novel that spans decades and continents to bring us the riches of a family’s history, of lives inextricably intertwined.
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4,80 €
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.
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4,00 €
by Helen Dunmore
In her prize-winning first novel, Zennor in Darkness, Helen Dunmore reimagines the plight of D.H. Lawrence and his German wife hiding out in Cornwall during the First World War.
