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5,00 €by Evelyn Waugh
Brilliantly combining tragedy, comedy and savage irony, ‘A Handful of Dust’ captures the irresponsible mood of the ‘crazy and sterile generation’ between the wars. The breakdown of the Last marriage is a painful, comic re-working of Waugh’s own divorce, and a symbol of the disintegration of society.
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3,00 €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. -
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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2,00 €Penguin Great Journeys
by Isabella Lucy Bird
A vanished world of grizzly hunters, cowboys, isolated cabins and plagues of rattlesnakes is here beautifully brought back to life.
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6,00 €by Michael Lewis
In this hilarious, fascinating, timely must-read, Michael Lewis reveals the true natures of the countries caught up in – and exacerbating – our boomerang economies.
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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. -
7,00 €by Jonathan Safran Foer
“Imagine a novel as verbally cunning as A Clockwork Orange, as harrowing as The Painted Bird, as exuberant and twee as Candide, and you have Everything Is Illuminated . . . Read it, and you’ll feel altered, chastened — seared in the fire of something new.” — Washington Post
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7,00 €by Jessica Bennett
Welcome to the Feminist Fight Club. You have lifetime membership.
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6,00 €
by M.R. James
The Ghost Stories of M.R. James collects the tales that best illustrate the author’s quiet mastery of the ghost story form. -
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2,00 €
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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7,00 €
by Becky Albertalli
Straight people should have to come out too. And the more awkward it is, the better. Simon Spier is sixteen and trying to work out who he is – and what he’s looking for.
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5,00 €
by Ovid
Mary Innes’s classic prose translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature, Ovid’s Metamorphosis. -
6,00 €
by Frederick Barthelme
Natural Selection is an intimate novel about a man getting smart, and getting there a little later than he should have. It’s caustic and subtle, slick and funny, charming, deeply melancholy, and more than anything else, true to the way we live.
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5,00 €
by Ken Kesey
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy.
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2,80 €
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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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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7,00 €
by John Christopher, Robert Macfarlane (Introduction)
Perhaps one of the best treatments of the ecological disaster theme, written with both intelligence and a clear understanding of the human condition when faced with life-threatening circumstances.
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16,50 €
by Jonathan Coe
Winner of the 1998 Prix Médicis Étranger, The House of Sleep is an intensely moving and frequently hilarious novel about love, obsession and sleep.
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1,00 €
by Shirley Jackson
Malice, paranoia and creeping dread lie beneath the surface of ordinary American life in these chilling miniature masterworks of unease.
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3,00 €
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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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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2,80 €
by John Updike
It is the year 2020. America has recently experienced a war with China, and social chaos and protection-racketeering prevail.
