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  • Prague Tales
    Jan Neruda / Michael Heim / Michael Henry Heim
    This is a collection of Jan Neruda’s intimate, wry, bittersweet stories of life among the inhabitants of the Little Quarter of nineteenth-century Prague. These finely tuned and varied vignettes established Neruda as the quintessential Czech nineteenth-century realist, the Charles Dickens of a Prague becoming ever more aware of itself as a Czech rather than an Austrian city. Pra...
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    20,62 €

  • The Great Gatsby
    FScott Fitzgerald / TBD
    The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F.Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan.Co...
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    12,39 €

  • Oxford Guides to Chaucer
    Helen Cooper
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    89,20 €

  • Ah, But Your Land is Beautiful
    Alan Paton
    For millions of readers worldwide, Alan Paton’s books have vividly described life in contemporary South Africa. Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful revolves around the everyday experiences of a group of men and women whose lives reflect the human costs of maintaining a racially divided society. Writing at the peak of his powers, Paton delivers a masterpiece. ...
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    17,27 €

  • A Modern Mephistopheles
    Louisa May Alcott
    This chilling tale of lust, deception and greed, first published anonymously in 1877, allowed Alcott the chance to exercise 'the lurid style' she believed was her 'natural ambition'. A novel of psychological complexity that touches on the controversial subjects of sexuality and drug use, A Modern Mephistopheles is a penetrating and powerful study of human evil and its appalling...
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    14,04 €

  • Iliad Book IX
    Homer
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    69,93 €

  • Dark Princess
    W. E. B. Du Bois
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    49,75 €

  • Beowulf
    George Jack
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    58,26 €

  • Almayer’s Folly
    Joseph Conrad
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    125,38 €

  • The Mill on the Floss
    George Eliot / TBD
    The Mill on the Floss is one of George Eliot’s greatest works. The novel is a portrayal of oppressive narrowness. The story revolves around Maggie Tulliver who is an intellectual and high-spirited young girl and her incurious and pragmatic brother Tom who has an altogether different approach towards life than her sister. Torn between her passion for intellect and a desperate ne...
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    20,34 €

  • Anna Karenina
    Leo Tolstoy
    Anna Karenina, a married aristocrat and socialite from St. Petersburg falls in love with Count Vronsky, a civilized military officer. Constrained by the laws of the Russian orthodox church, Anna is skeptical and anxious about leaving her husband and starting a new life with Vronsky. A social outcast, Anna is a voracious reader and despises fakery that she feels her husband embo...
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    27,14 €

  • The Country of the Pointed Firs, and Other Stories
    Sarah Orne Jewett
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    18,93 €

  • The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
    Tobias Smollett
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    68,24 €

  • Electra
    E. A. Sophocles / EASophocles
    The classic drama of a daughter’s revenge of her father’s murder, in a brilliant new translation for modern audiences. Plays for Performance Series. ...
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    20,45 €

  • Electra
    E. A. Sophocles / EASophocles / Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles
    The classic drama of a daughter’s revenge of her father’s murder, in a brilliant new translation for modern audiences. Plays for Performance Series. ...
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    9,24 €

  • The Master of Whitestorm
    Janny Wurts
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    26,93 €

  • Hedda Gabler
    Henrik Ibsen / Henrik Johan Ibsen / Nicholas Rudall
    Ibsen’s great social drama of a caged woman in the late 19th century explores her tormented desire for escape and her yearning for individual and spiritual freedom. Plays for Performance Series. ...
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    8,69 €

  • When We Dead Awaken
    Henrik Ibsen / Henrik Johan Ibsen / Robert Brustein
    Ibsen’s last work concludes the series of autobiographical dramas begun with The Master Builder which deal with the aging rebel, despairing of life and racked with guilt, who experiences an ambiguous victory at the moment of death. Plays for Performance Series. ...
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    8,23 €

  • The Seagull
    Anton Chekhov / Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
    Chekhov’s treatment of theatre and love against the background of a magical lake attempts to define the role of the artist in the modern world. Plays for Performance Series. ...
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    8,80 €

  • You Know Me Al
    Ring Lardner
    'You Know me Al' is a classic of baseball--the game and the community. Jack Keefe, one of literature’s greatest characters, is talented, brash, and conceited. Self-assured and imperceptive, impervious to both advice and sarcasm, Keefe rises to the heights, but his inability to learn makes for his undoing. Through a series of letters from this bush-league pitcher to his not-quit...
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    14,79 €

  • Gargantua and Pantagruel
    Francois Rabelais / Burton Raffel
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    26,90 €

  • Lysistrata
    Aristophanes
    Aristophanes’ great anti-war drama, with comedic overtones, glorifies the power of fertility in the face of destruction. Plays for Performance Series. ...
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    8,23 €

  • Doctor Faustus
    Christopher Marlowe
    Marlowe’s classic treatment of the myth of man’s greed and ambition has contemporary reverberations that make it compelling drama. Plays for Performance Series. ...
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    8,23 €

  • The Three Musketeers
    Alexandre Dumas
    When young D’Artagnan travels to Paris to join the ranks of the Musketeers, he soon finds himself challenged to three duels with Athos, Porthos and Aramis. However, the foursome is abruptly attacked by the evil Cardinal Richelieu’s guards, and D’Artagnan fights alongside them, proving his skills with a sword and his honour. The three Musketeers enfold D’Artagnan into their rank...
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    26,21 €

  • Bleak House
    Charles Dickens
    Bleak House is a novel by celebrated English author Charles Dickens, first serialised and then published in book form in 1853. The complex plot, aided by a brilliantly depicted and engaging cast of characters, is in many ways a detective story, incorporating as it does elements of crime, mystery and romance.Set in 19th century London, this is an intricate story of the infamous ...
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    31,96 €

  • Mother
    Maxim Gorky
    Mother is the immortal classic of Maxim Gorky, one of the world’s best-loved writers. It is the story of the radicalization of an uneducated woman from her dull peasant existence into active participation in her people’s struggle for justice. Through her work she frees herself from the cowed state into which she has been beaten and her simple motherly concern for her son become...
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    19,24 €

  • The Republic
    Plato
    The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. It is Plato’s best-known work, and has proven to be one of the world’s most influential works of philosophy and political theory, both intellectually and historically.In the dialogue, Socrates talks with various Athenians and...
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    21,58 €

  • Pollyanna
    Eleanor H. Porter
    As soon as Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her stern and cantankerous maiden aunt, she begins to brighten up everybody’s life. The ’glad game’ she plays, of finding a silver lining in every cloud, transforms the sick, the lonely and the plain miserable - until one day something so terrible happens that even Pollyanna doesn’t know how to feel glad about it. ...
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    12,30 €

  • Eugene Onegin
    Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin / Vladimir Nabokov
    The description for this book, Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Commentary, will be forthcoming. ...
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    88,43 €

  • Painter Ki Prem Kahani
    R.K. Narayan / R.KNarayan
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    15,56 €


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