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  • The Romantic Triumph (1900)
    Thomas Stewart Omond
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    26,28 €

  • The Little Child’s Fable Book
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    15,23 €

  • The Steam House, Part 2
    Jules Verne / Agnes D. Kingston / Agnes DKingston
    The Steam House, Part 2: Tigers And Traitors is a novel written by Jules Verne and first published in 1881. It is the second part of the two-part series, The Steam House. The story is set in India during the British Raj and follows the adventures of three British men who travel across the country in a steam-powered house on wheels. In this second part, the group encounters vari...
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    37,51 €

  • The Romantic Liar (1919)
    Lawrence Perry
    The Romantic Liar is a novel written by Lawrence Perry and originally published in 1919. The story follows the life of a young man named Richard, who is a struggling writer trying to make a name for himself in the literary world. Richard is a romantic at heart and often embellishes the truth to make his stories more interesting. He becomes involved with a beautiful and wealthy ...
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    33,33 €

  • The Romantic Land Of Hind (1882)
    Charles Francis Mackenzie
    ''The Romantic Land of Hind'' is a book written by Charles Francis Mackenzie and published in 1882. The book is a detailed account of the author’s travels throughout India, and it provides a vivid and colorful description of the country’s people, culture, and landscapes.Mackenzie’s writing style is engaging and descriptive, and he paints a picture of India as a land of great be...
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    34,32 €

  • The Time Spirit
    John Collis Snaith
    The Time Spirit: A Romantic Tale is a novel written by John Collis Snaith and first published in 1918. The story follows the life of a young man named Robert Drury, who inherits a large fortune from his uncle and decides to travel the world. On his journey, he meets a mysterious woman named Muriel, who seems to have the power to manipulate time. As Robert falls in love with Mur...
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    36,50 €

  • The Mysterious Island Abandoned (1875)
    Jules Verne / W. H. G. Kingston / WHGKingston
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    26,74 €

  • The Natural Or The Supernatural? (1874)
    A Layman / T. M. Stevenson / TMStevenson
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    14,84 €

  • The Maid Of Orleans
    Emma Robinson
    ''The Maid of Orleans: A Romantic Chronicle'' is a historical novel written by Emma Robinson and published in 1850. The book is a fictionalized account of the life of Joan of Arc, the French heroine who led the French army to victory against the English during the Hundred Years’ War. The novel follows Joan’s life from her humble beginnings as a peasant girl in Domr�����my to he...
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    30,00 €

  • The Queen Of The Fairies, A Village Story
    Violet Fane
    The Queen of the Fairies, A Village Story: And Other Poems is a collection of poems written by Violet Fane and published in 1876. The book features a variety of poems, including the titular poem about a queen of the fairies who falls in love with a mortal man, as well as other poems that explore themes of love, nature, and human emotion. The poems are written in a lyrical and r...
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    26,90 €

  • John Buchan
    Kate Macdonald
    The works of Scottish politician, statesman and thriller writer John Buchan examined the nature of good and evil and explored the shifting boundaries between civilization and anarchy. Buchan published the best-selling The Thirty-Nine Steps in 1915, one of 40 novels of his long career, which also included 60 works of non-fiction. This comprehensive companion to Buchan’s myster...
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    73,16 €

  • The Thin Man Films Murder Over Cocktails
    Charles Tranberg
    The Thin Man films are one of the most highly regarded and successful series of films from Hollywood’s classic era. This book looks at the people who populated the films, including full chapter profiles of its stars, William Powell and Myrna Loy, whose chemistry together was a huge reason for the success of the films. As Nick and Nora Charles they knocked the stereotypes of on...
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    27,33 €

  • African American Mystery Writers
    Frankie Y Bailey
    The book describes the movement by African American authors from slave narratives and antebellum newspapers into fiction writing, and the subsequent developments of black genre fiction through the present. It analyzes works by modern African American mystery writers, focusing on sleuths, the social locations of crime, victims and offenders, the notion of "doing justice," and th...
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    42,65 €

  • Mitchison’s Ghosts
    Moira Burgess
    This groundbreaking book, an important contribution to Naomi Mitchison criticism,examines three novels,The Bull Calves (1947), The Big House (1950) and Lobsters on the Agenda (1952),and a selection of short stories, with particular regard to the supernatural, fairy-tale and mythical content which is a recurrent element in her work. Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999) was a highly ...
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    30,00 €

  • Diary of an Insane Woman
    Pauline Drouin-Degorgue
    Diary of an Insane Woman is a novel was inspired by the death of JonBenèt Ramsey. On Christmas Eve of 1996, this lovely Mini-Miss was murdered in her own home while her parents slept in another part of the house. The culprit was never found, nor anyone ever brought to trial. This book, then, attempts to explain the unexplainable. Heidy Montgomry is the main character of the nov...
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    12,85 €

  • Tarlton’s Jests And News Out Of Purgatory
    James Orchard Halliwell
    Tarlton’s Jests And News Out Of Purgatory: With Notes, And Some Account Of The Life Of Tarlton is a book written by James Orchard Halliwell and published in 1844. The book is a collection of humorous anecdotes and stories attributed to Richard Tarlton, an English actor and comedian who lived during the Elizabethan era. The book also includes a section on News Out of Purgatory, ...
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    29,10 €

  • Monseigneur Mermillod On The Supernatural Life
    Gaspard Mermillod / Lady Herbert
    Monseigneur Mermillod On The Supernatural Life: Being Conferences Delivered, In Retreat, To The Ladies Of Lyons (1874) is a book written by Gaspard Mermillod. It is a collection of conferences that were delivered to the ladies of Lyons during a retreat. The book explores the concept of the supernatural life and how it can be achieved through faith and devotion. Mermillod discus...
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    35,38 €

  • Romantic Spain V2
    John Augustus O’Shea
    Romantic Spain V2: A Record Of Personal Experiences (1887) is a book written by John Augustus O’Shea. The book is a personal account of the author’s experiences in Spain during the romantic era. It is the second volume of the series and provides an insightful look into the culture, history, and people of Spain during the 19th century. The author provides a detailed description ...
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    36,45 €

  • Romantic Edinburgh (1900)
    John Geddie
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    22,85 €

  • Ireland
    Leitch Ritchie
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    22,32 €

  • Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them
    John T. Irwin
    Early in the twentieth century a new character type emerged in the crime novels of American writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler: the 'hard-boiled' detective, most famously exemplified by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. Unlike the analytical detectives of nineteenth-century fiction, such as Edgar Allan Poe’s Inspector Dupin, the new detectives encountered case...
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    37,99 €

  • Mary Shelley
    Graham Allen
    Graham Allen provides both an introduction to and review of the critical responses to Mary Shelley’s major fictions, from the Romantic period to the present day, while also pushing debates forward. The book moves beyond Frankenstein, presenting new readings of other texts such as Matilda, Valperga, The Last Man and Lodore. ...
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    174,11 €

  • Lovecraft Annual No. 2 (2008)
    S. T. Joshi
    Table of Contents: Dispatches from the Providence Observatory: Astronomical Motifs and Sources in the Writings of H. P. Lovecraft......T. R. Livesey The Sickness unto Death in H. P. Lovecraft's 'The Hound'......James Goho Queer Tales? Sexuality, Race, and Architecture in 'The Thing on the Doorstep'......Joel Pace 'Clever Lines': Some Thoughts on Lovecraft's Ad Criticos......Phi...
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    14,96 €

  • Alfred Bester
    Carolyn Wendell
    A chronology, study, annotated bibliography of Bester’s works, both within and outside of the science fiction genre. 3 ...
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    11,74 €

  • Marcia Muller and the Female Private Eye
    In 1977, Marcia Muller invaded the all-male domain of detective literature and within a decade was established as the mother of the female hardboiled private eye. She is now the author of four detective series, including the critically acclaimed Sharon McCone series of more than two dozen novels. This collection critically assesses Marcia Muller’s writing and reevaluates curr...
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    72,17 €

  • Gothic and Modernism
    John Paul Riquelme
    Gothic and Modernism establishes and interprets the significant presence and the transformations of the Gothic tradition at the dark heart of writing during the long twentieth century. Artfully introduced and collected by John Paul Riquelme, the essays-nine previously published in Modern Fiction Studies-reveal challenges to both realism and to optimistic Enlightenment attitudes...
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    38,20 €

  • Nancy Drew and Her Sister Sleuths
    This collection of essays focuses on the girl sleuth, made famous by Nancy Drew but also characterized by other famous detectives like Cherry Ames, Trixie Belden, Linda Carlton, and even in contemporary media by Veronica Mars and Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter series. Topics include the disputed origins of Nancy Drew and the Stratemeyer Syndicate; the intertwined relation...
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    42,90 €

  • Lexicon Urthus, Second Edition
    Michael Andre-Driussi
    Lexicon Urthus is an alphabetical dictionary for the complete Urth Cycle by Gene Wolfe: The Shadow of the Torturer; The Claw of the Conciliator; The Sword of the Lictor; The Citadel of the Autarch; the sequel Urth of the New Sun; the novella Empires of Foliage and Flower; the short stories 'The Cat,' 'The Map,' and 'The Old Woman Whose Rolling Pin Is the Sun'; and Gene Wolfe’s ...
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    35,35 €

  • Lexicon Urthus, Second Edition
    Michael Andre-Driussi
    Lexicon Urthus is an alphabetical dictionary for the complete Urth Cycle by Gene Wolfe: The Shadow of the Torturer; The Claw of the Conciliator; The Sword of the Lictor; The Citadel of the Autarch; the sequel Urth of the New Sun; the novella Empires of Foliage and Flower; the short stories 'The Cat,' 'The Map,' and 'The Old Woman Whose Rolling Pin Is the Sun'; and Gene Wolfe’s ...
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    19,34 €

  • Romanticism
    Simon Bainbridge
    This book is a wide-ranging collection of the key contextual documents which inform the Romantic period. It includes material on fiercely debated areas such as the French Revolution, women, the slave trade, science and religion. Documents are supported by substantial editorial material, drawing connections to the major Romantic texts. ...
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    173,45 €


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