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  • A Collection of Lovecraft
    H. P. Lovecraft / HPLovecraft
    Collected here are 14 tales of terror and the supernatural by one of the greatest masters of all time.The AlchemistThe Beast in the CaveMemoryThe Picture in the HouseBeyond the Wall of SleepDagonThe White ShipThe Statement of Randolph CarterThe Doom That Came to SarnathPoetry and the GodsNyarlathotepThe Cats of UltharPolarisThe Street ...
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    20,03 €

  • Coming Attraction
    Fritz Leiber
    Wysten Turner is a Brit visiting America after it’s great war with Russia. He meats a woman with a tail of woe in the streets of New York. Her boyfriend is a professional wrestler who beats her. She begs Turner to help her escape him, but is the situation as straight forward as it seems? ...
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    14,28 €

  • Four Arthurian Romances -Eric Et Enide-
    Chretien Detroys
    Erec et Enide features many of the common elements of Arthurian romance, such as Arthurian characters, the knightly quest, and women or love as a catalyst to action. While it is not the first story to use conventions of the Arthurian characters and setting, Chrétien de Troyes is credited with the invention of the Arthurian romance genre by establishing expectation with his cont...
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  • Four Arthurian Romances -Yvain-
    Chretien Detroys
    In the poem, Yvain seeks to avenge his cousin Calogrenant who had been defeated by an otherworldly knight Esclados beside a magical storm-making stone in the forest of Brocéliande. Yvain defeats Esclados and falls in love with his widow Laudine. ...
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    17,93 €

  • A Study in Scarlet
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    Doyle, unsuccessful in his medical practice, in need of money and a more satisfying career, had already sold a number of magazine stories when he wrote the novella, 'A Study in Scarlet,' the first Sherlock Holmes story, which, after many rejections, was published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual for 1887. Doyle got twenty-five pounds for all rights to the story. He never received a...
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    17,85 €

  • Indian Boyhood
    Charles A. Eastman / Charles AEastman
    The Memoirs of an Indian boyhood, is and autobiography by Charles Eastman. Eastman was a Native American physician, writer, national lecturer, and reformer. He was of Santee Sioux and Anglo-American ancestry. Active in politics and issues on American Indian rights, he worked to improve the lives of youths, and founded 32 Native American chapters of the Young Men’s Christian Ass...
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    20,37 €

  • Genji Monogatari
    Lady Murasaki Shikibu
    The Tale of Genji Monogatari is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, around the peak of the Heian Period. It is sometimes called the world’s first novel, the first modern novel. ...
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    36,96 €

  • Otto of the Silver Hand
    Howard Pyle
    Born into a family that is already engaged in a blood feud with another noble house, Otto is sent to live with monks, but is reclaimed at age 12 by his militant, but loving father. The gentle-natured boy is kidnapped and mutilated by the rival family. Pauline, his captors daughter helps him escape. His father allows him to return to the monks who place him under the emperor’s ...
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    17,98 €

  • Notes from the Underground
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Notes from Underground is a study of a single character, and a revelation of Dostoyevsky’s own deepest beliefs. In this work we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who, disillusioned by the oppression and corruption of the society in which he lives withdraws from that society into the underground. Considered by many to be the first existentialist novel, Notes from the Und...
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    20,46 €

  • Second Sight
    Alan E. Nourse / Alan ENourse
    (Note: The following excerpts from Amy Ballantine’s journal have never actually been written down at any time before. Her account of impressions and events has been kept in organized fashion in her mind for at least nine years (even she is not certain when she started), but it must be understood that certain inaccuracies in transcription could not possibly have been avoided in ...
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    14,28 €

  • The Reluctant Dragon (Illustrated Edition)
    Kenneth Grahame
    In this delightful tale an unnamed boy discovers that there is a dragon living in the downs above his house. But this is no ordinary dragon, this is an erudite, poetry-loving dragon. The boy and the dragon become friends in short order. Unfortunately, the villagers also discover that there is a dragon living in the downs and they send for the great dragon slayer St. George. The...
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    18,09 €

  • The Wind People
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Sometimes she had walked for days at a time in that dream; she would wake to find food that she could not remember gathering. Somehow, pervasive, the dream voices had taken over; the whispering winds had been full of voices and even hands. She had fallen ill and lain for days sick and delirious, and had heard a voice which hardly seemed to be her own, saying that if she died th...
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    13,89 €

  • The Sentimentalists
    Murray Leinster
    You do not always have to go looking for a guardian angel. He may be looking for you-but perhaps for somebody else’s benefit!Rhadampsicus and Nodalictha were on their honeymoon, and consequently they were sentimental. To be sure, it would not have been easy for humans to imagine sentiment as existing between them ...
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  • The Marvellous History of King Arthur in Avalon
    Geoffrey Junior
    THE writer considereth the truth of the matters which are recorded in the Historie of King Arthur concerning the site of the Island of Avalon and the family of Queen Morgan la Faye. He telleth how Morgan la Faye carried away King Arthur and his Round Table into Avalon; and how she made them pass the time there for many hundreds of years; how she put King Arthur to sleep; of the...
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  • The Wild One
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    This is a story that they tell on the solitary farms on the borders of the Catskill mountains, where I grew up. It is a mistake to think that country is settled and modern, just because the big highways stretch from city to city, and the factories hold out clean jobs that pay better than the scratch-the-soil farming on shale rock. For between every farm is a stretch of woodland...
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    13,90 €

  • The Planet Savers
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    In The Planet Savers Marion Zimmer Bradley introduced the world to her amazing Darkover series. A disease threatens all of Darkover and the only man that can save Darkover has a multiple personality disorder. He is two distinct men. But two men who hate one another and vie for possession of their one body. But to save Darkover they must work together. ...
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    17,99 €

  • Star Surgeon
    Alan E. Nourse / Alan ENourse
    A Sector General NovelIn the far future Humans are part of an intergalactic civilization populated with countless alien races. Humans are prized for their medical expertise and make up almost all of doctors in the galaxy. Dal Timgar is the first non-human to attempt to become a qualified physician recognized by the Hospital Earth. But, before he reaches his goal he and his comp...
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    17,73 €

  • Bear Trap
    Alan E. Nourse / Alan ENourse
    The Secretary of State has died and Tom Shandor discovers that the Secretary requested that he put together his official biography for national consumption. Shandor has no idea why he’s been chosen for the project nor the shocking secrets he’ll find once he starts the project. There’s more riding on the choices he will make than he could possible imagined. ...
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    14,19 €

  • Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
    Albert Pike
    Morals and Dogma is a collection of thirty-two essays which provide a philosophical rationale for the degrees (membership levels) of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. The lectures provided a backdrop for the degrees by giving lessons in comparative religion, history, and philosophy.' ...
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    41,31 €

  • Charlotte Temple
    Susanna Haswell Rowson
    The book tells of the seduction of a British schoolgirl by a dashing soldier, John Montraville, who brings her to America and there abandons her, pregnant and ill. As such, it belongs to the seduction novel genre popular in early American literature. ...
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    17,85 €

  • Four Arthurian Romances -Cliges-
    Chretien Detroys
    It tells the story of the knight Cligès and his love for his uncle’s wife, Fenice. Because of the story’s de-romanticized depiction of adultery, it has been called a criticism or parody of the Tristan and Isolde romances. Cligès scholar Lucie Polak not only verifies the Tristan and Isolde reworking found in the text, but also suggests that Cligès may be modeled after Ovid’s cha...
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    17,94 €

  • Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    Doyle felt that the Sherlock Holmes stories were taking time and public attention away from his more serious work. So, with great deliberation he killed off his detective in the 24th story in the series, the ominously entitled 'The Final Problem,' sending both Holmes and his arch-nemesis created for the occasion, the 'Napoleon of Crime,' Dr. Moriarty, over the Reichenbach Fall...
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    37,03 €

  • The Voyages of the Solar Queen
    Andre Norton
    The Solar Queen is a trader ship crewed by Dane Thorson, Tau, and Captain Jellico. These are her voyages.The Plague Ship: The Solar Queen and her crew have the trading rights to the wealthy planet Sargol, But to take advantage of them and see a any return on their investment they must fight the Reptilian Gorp, negotiate with the cat-like Salariki, and find a cure for the sleepi...
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    27,83 €

  • I Should Have Stayed Home
    Horace McCoy
    TEMPTATION and DESIRE in Hollywood!Ralph Carston, a handsome young man from Georgia, and roommate Mona Matthews work as extras and dream of Hollywood stardom when a courtroom fracas by Mona gives them a flash of notoriety. This leads to a swank Hollywood party and an introduction to Ethel Smithers, a rich older woman with a less than pure interest in Carston. ...
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    19,99 €

  • Project Mastodon
    Clifford D. Simak / Clifford DSimak
    Hudson lay in his sleeping bag, staring at the sky. It bothered him a lot. There was not one familiar constellation, not one star that he could name with any certainty. This juggling of the stars, he thought, emphasized more than anything else in this ancient land the vast gulf of years which lay between him and the Earth where he had been-or would be-born. ...
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    17,71 €

  • martyr
    Alan E. Nourse / Alan ENourse
    Rejuvenation for the millions-or rejuvenation for the five hundred lucky ones, the select ones, that can be treated each year? Tough, independent Senator Dan Fowler fights a one-man battle against the clique that seeks perpetual power and perpetual youth, in this hard-hitting novel by Alan E. Nourse. Why did it have to be his personal fight? The others would fumble it-they’d fo...
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  • Our Island Story
    H. E. Marshall / HEMarshall
    Our Island Story is the 'history' of England up to Queen Victoria’s Death. Marshall used these stories to tell her children about their homeland, Great Britain. To add to the excitement, she mixed in a bit of myth as well as a few legends. ...
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    36,64 €

  • Daisy Miller
    Henry Jr. James / Henry JrJames
    Here is Henry James classic masterpiece, Daisy Miller. Daisy is a youthful, exuberant American girl vacationing in Europe. She typifies the brashness of America—a brashness that clashes with the European society to which she finds herself drawn. This poignant tragedy plays out as these cultures collide. ...
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    18,01 €

  • Phantastes
    George MacDonald
    Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women was the first work of fiction by MacDonald. Phantastes, exerted a strong influence on fantasy authors of later generations: for example, C. S. Lewis claimed that his imagination had been baptized by reading it. The story concerns a young man, Anodos, who is pulled into a dreamlike world and there hunts for his ideal of female beaut...
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    28,05 €

  • Wonder Stories Super Pack
    Fletcher Pratt
    Wonder Stories was founded by legendary publisher Hugo Gernsback after he left Amazing Stories. Wonder Stories thrived in one form or another for more than thirty years, briefly rivaling even Astounding. This four hundred plus page anthology collects ten important stories from the magazine's zenith. ...
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    30,70 €


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