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  • 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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    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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    31,40 €

  • 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 €

  • A Christmas Carol
    Charles Dickens
    A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits o...
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    21,28 €

  • A Christmas Carol
    Charles Dickens
    Fully illustrated, unabridged edition of A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens with classic drawings throughout by Arthur Rackham. The tale was written in October 1843 to help supplement Charles Dickens’s income and “strike a sledgehammer blow” for the poor.It is the tale of a miser given a second chance. From an author needing to get out of debt. A story of redemption a...
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    16,48 €

  • A Christmas Carol
    Charles Dickens
    Fully illustrated, unabridged edition of A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens with classic drawings throughout by Arthur Rackham. The tale was written in October 1843 to help supplement Charles Dickens’s income and “strike a sledgehammer blow” for the poor.It is the tale of a miser given a second chance. From an author needing to get out of debt. A story of redemption a...
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    5,22 €

  • The Black Cat
    Edgar Allan Poe
    'The Black Cat' is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black cat and the subsequent deterioration of a man. The story is often linked with 'The Tell-Tale Heart' because of the profound psychological elements these two works share.Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Black Cat,” first published in the August 19, 1843, issue of the Saturda...
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    8,11 €

  • The Black Cat
    Edgar Allan Poe
    'The Black Cat' is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black cat and the subsequent deterioration of a man. The story is often linked with 'The Tell-Tale Heart' because of the profound psychological elements these two works share.Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Black Cat,” first published in the August 19, 1843, issue of the Saturda...
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    15,40 €

  • The Masque of the Red Death
    Edgar Allan Poe
    'The Masque of the Red Death', originally published as 'The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy', is an 1842 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague, known as the Red Death, by hiding in his abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, hosts a masquerade ballwithin seven rooms of the abbey, ea...
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    6,26 €

  • The Pit and the Pendulum
    Edgar Allan Poe
    The Pit and The Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe 'The Pit and the Pendulum' is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843. The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts.The narrator of the story describes his...
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    6,45 €

  • The Murders in the Rue Morgue
    Edgar Allan Poe
    The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been recognized as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his 'tales of ratiocination'.Two works that share some similarities predate Poe's stories, including Das Fräulein von Scuderi (1819) by E. T. A. Hoffmann and Zadig (1747) by Vol...
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    7,29 €

  • Persuasion
    Jane Austen
    The last novel that Austen completed before she died. The most mature. A story of second chances.Anne Elliot turned away her love Frederick Wentworth. Years go by and they are in the same social circles, outwardly aloof, and suffering aching hearts.Does Wentworth’s quick glances mean more than they appear? Can Anne, a woman past her youth, overcome her self-consciousness and em...
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    18,80 €

  • Frankenstein
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797–1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous, sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the novel was published anonymously in London on 1 January ...
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    5,82 €

  • Frankenstein
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797–1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous, sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the novel was published anonymously in London on 1 January ...
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    16,59 €


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