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  • The Black Arrow
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    'I know; I don’t care to die either. But when whining mendeth nothing, wherefore whine?' -Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black ArrowThe Black Arrow: A Tales of the Two Roses (1888) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a classic piece of adventure fiction, set during a civil war in England known as 'The War of the Roses' (1455-1487), that tells the story of a swashbuckling, young nobleman ...
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    31,29 €

  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Chump Change Edition)
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Unabridged version of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, offered here for chump change, from the Master Storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. His first draft was burned to ash, the final published version created at the request of his wife.  The result is a complex, tingling tale that drives the reader to the last page.THERE IS ONLYONE WAYTO STOP HYDE…CONTENTSStory of t...
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    6,23 €

  • Kidnapped
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    'There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people. - Robert Louis Stevenson, KidnappedKidnapped (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a coming-of-age novel that recounts the adventures of a teenager named David Balfour during the Jacobite Rebellions in 18th century Scotland. Follo...
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    16,89 €

  • Prince Otto
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    '. . . a remarkably interesting work and a splendid example of what Stevenson could do even when writing at his ordinary best rather than his very best.'- Graham Tulloch, Professor, Faculty of Education, Humanities, Law and Theology Flinders UniversityPrince Otto: A Romance (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson recounts the story of young dilettante who is faced with overcoming a se...
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    16,81 €

  • Catriona
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    'A good conscience is eight parts of courage.' -Robert Louis Stevenson, CatrionaCatriona: A Sequel to 'Kidnapped-Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad' (1892) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a companion volume to the author’s classic Kidnapped. But it falls more into the category of 'historical romance' than its predecessor. Unlike the daring ...
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    23,30 €

  • A Simple Soul
    Gustave Flaubert
    For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite.For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the horse, fattened the poultry, made the butter and remained faithful to her mistress—although the latter was by no means an agreeable person.Madame Aubain had married a comely yout...
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    7,32 €

  • A Simple Soul
    Gustave Flaubert
    For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite.For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the horse, fattened the poultry, made the butter and remained faithful to her mistress—although the latter was by no means an agreeable person.Madame Aubain had married a comely yout...
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    15,67 €

  • Sketches New and Old
    Mark Twain
    'I have scattered through this volume a mass of matter which has never been in print before (...) not doing this in order to make an advertisement of it, but because these things seemedinstructive.-Mark Twain, Preface Sketches New and Old (1875) Sketches New and Old (1875) by Mark Twain is a collection of short stories published first as newspaper articles all with Twain’s hu...
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    12,57 €

  • Far from the Madding Crowd
    Thomas Hardy
    Complete and unabridged, tragedy and true love in the Wessex countryside makes this Thomas Hardy romantic classic a great English novel.Bathsheba Everdene is pursued by Farmer Boldwood, Soldier Troy, and Shepherd Oak.  Who will win her heart, if any? Find out in this worthwhile investment of page turning romance. ...
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    21,07 €

  • The Innocents Abroad
    Mark Twain
    'This book is a record of a pleasure-trip... Yet not-withstanding it is only a record of a picnic, it has a purpose, which is, to suggest to the reader how he would be likely to see Europe and the East if he looked at them with his own eyes instead of the eyes of those who travelled in those countries before him.'-Mark Twain (1869) The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims’ Pr...
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    23,50 €

  • The Gambler
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    The Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoyevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoyevsky completed the novella under a strict deadline to pay off gambling debts. The Gambler treated a subject Fyodor Do...
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    16,42 €

  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
    Lewis Carroll
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. This version is illustrated by Sir John Tenniel.  The story tells of a young girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. T...
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    5,92 €

  • Notes from the Underground
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Notes from Underground, also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man), who i...
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    14,44 €

  • Les Misérables
    Victor Hugo / Isabel F. Hapgood
       Les Miserables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original French title. However, several alternatives have been used, including The Miserables, The Wretched, The Miserable Ones, The Poor Ones, The Wretch...
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    69,34 €

  • Les Misérables
    Victor Hugo / Isabel F. Hapgood
       Les Miserables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original French title. However, several alternatives have been used, including The Miserables, The Wretched, The Miserable Ones, The Poor Ones, The Wretch...
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    72,11 €

  • Fathers and Sons
    Ivan Turgenev
    Fathers and Sons is an 1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev, published in Moscow by Grachev & Co. It is one of the most acclaimed Russian novels of the 19th century.Arkady Kirsanov has just graduated from the University of Petersburg and returns with a friend, Bazarov, to his father's modest estate in an outlying province of Russia. His father, Nikolay, gladly receives the two young...
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    19,44 €

  • Parables From Nature
    Mrs Margaret Gatty
    Margaret Gatty’s parables celebrate the natural world and provision life guidance: wise and attentive, their moral lessons are valuable for persons of all ages.Many of the stories within contain memorable and commonsense examples of acting the right way. Using the beauty of nature as a medium for expression, the author demonstrates the importance of good conduct and living a li...
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    11,36 €

  • North and South
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    North and South is a social novel published in 1855 by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. With Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford (1853), it is one of her best-known novels and was adapted for television three times (1966, 1975 and 2004).The later version renewed interest in the novel and attracted a wider readership.Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton (1848), focused on...
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    22,80 €

  • North and South
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    North and South is a social novel published in 1855 by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. With Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford (1853), it is one of her best-known novels and was adapted for television three times (1966, 1975 and 2004).The later version renewed interest in the novel and attracted a wider readership.Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton (1848), focused on...
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    31,74 €

  • Bartleby, The Scrivener
    Herman Melville
    "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine, and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. A Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuse...
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    10,18 €

  • Bartleby, The Scrivener
    Herman Melville
    "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine, and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. A Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuse...
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    20,36 €

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Unabridged English value reproduction of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Written by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe in response to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, the book was the most popular novel of the 1800’s.A fable based in reality, it dramatizes the plight of slaves through many memorable and idealized characters.Uncle Tom's Cabin, through its millions of copies sold, was ...
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    22,21 €

  • The Moorland Cottage
    Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
    Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (née Stevenson; 29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor. Her work is of interest to social historians as well as readers of literature. Her first nov...
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    16,39 €

  • The Scarlet Letter
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Complete edition of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. A story that is more complicated than most interpretations allow, this is a haunting classic that stays with the reader. The book covers redemption and love with incredibly real characters. For those that love the characters of great English novels, read afresh and enjoy The Scarlet Letter.'No man, for any considera...
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    18,87 €

  • The Scarlet Letter
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850.Set in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne who conceives a daughter through an affair and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. The book explores themes of legalism...
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    17,17 €

  • The Scarlet Letter
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850.Set in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne who conceives a daughter through an affair and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. The book explores themes of legalism...
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    8,44 €

  • Wuthering Heights
    Emily Brontë
    Emily Brontë’s only novel, published the year before her death at age 30.  A love story of characters readers love to hate.  And yet, Wuthering Heights polarizes audiences even today. ...
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    20,00 €

  • Wuthering Heights
    Emily Brontë
    Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym "Ellis Bell". It was written between October 1845 and June 1846. Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey were accepted by publisher Thomas Newby before the success of their sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre. After Emily's death, Charlotte edited the manuscript of Wuth...
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    18,51 €

  • Twenty Years After
    Alexandre Dumas
    Twenty Years After (French: Vingt ans après) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père, first serialized from January to August, 1845. A book of the D'Artagnan Romances, it is a sequel to The Three Musketeers and precedes The Vicomte de Bragelonne (which includes the sub-plot, Man in the Iron Mask).The novel follows events in France during La Fronde, during the childhood reign of...
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    38,49 €

  • Twenty Years After
    Alexandre Dumas
    Twenty Years After (French: Vingt ans après) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père, first serialized from January to August, 1845. A book of the D'Artagnan Romances, it is a sequel to The Three Musketeers and precedes The Vicomte de Bragelonne (which includes the sub-plot, Man in the Iron Mask).The novel follows events in France during La Fronde, during the childhood reign of...
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    31,40 €


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