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  • The Worshippers
    Damon Knight
    Destiny reached out a hand to Algernon Weaver-but he was a timid man, at first. But on the strange world of Terranova, there was much to be learned-of destiny, and other things.… ...
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    14,24 €

  • Space Science Fiction Super Pack
    Philip K. Dick
    Space Science Fiction was launched in may of 1952. During it's impressive run it published many of Science Fictions top writers. Collected here in this massive six hundred plus page anthology are all of the most important stories that were published during its distinguished run. ...
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    29,95 €

  • Archibald Malmaison
    Julian Hawthorne
    A must-read for fans of strange or gothic literature!Every seven years, Archibald Malmaison falls into a trance-like state to emerge with one of two alternate personalities. Within these pages you will find insanity, death, ghosts, revenge, duels, star-crossed lovers-everything fans of the gothic will love, written by Julian Hawthorne (June 22, 1846 - July 21, 1934), son of the...
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    27,84 €

  • Across India
    Oliver Optic
    A fascinating adventure tale with exciting non-stop action for both young teens and adults alike.Across India is the first volume of the third series of the 'All-Over-the-World Library,' in which the voyage of the Guardian-Mother is continued from Aden, where some important changes were made in the current of events, including the disposal of the little steamer Maud, which figu...
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    27,93 €

  • The Sound of His Horn
    Sarban
    The legendary 1952 dystopian/alternative history novel about British naval lieutenant Alan Querdillon, who becomes a POW during the Battle of Crete during World War II, and awakens in a Nazi-controlled world 102 years after the war. He is hunted by a 'Reichsforester' and takes refuge with genetically mutilated 'undesirables'-one of the first fictional descriptions of genetic ma...
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    20,36 €

  • The Soft Arms of Death
    Richard Hayward
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    28,01 €

  • A Shooter’s Moon
    D.J. Power
    This is the continuation of Jim Colemans inner battle with his morals to decide what is right and wrong. Jim had spent most of his teen years in parochial schools, and he cant get out of his mind what the nuns taught him. The worst commandment to break is Thou Shall Not Kill.  He has been sent on temporary duty to a top secret unit of the CIA, which only the most powerful and i...
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    13,36 €

  • Anne’s House of Dreams
    Lucy Maud Montgomery
    The book begins with Anne and Gilbert’s wedding, which takes place in the Green Gables orchard. Gilbert finds them a small house on the seashore at Four Winds Point, an area near the village of Glen St. Mary, where he is to take over his uncle’s medical practice. After the wedding, they move to their first home together, which Anne calls their 'house of dreams.' ...
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    27,91 €

  • The Golden Fleece
    Padraic Colum
    In Greek mythology, the Golden Fleece is the fleece of the gold-haired winged ram, which can be procured in Colchis. It figures in the tale of Jason and his band of Argonauts, who set out on a quest by order of King Pelias for the fleece in order to place Jason rightfully on the throne of Iolcus in Thessaly. The story is of great antiquity - it was current in the time of Homer....
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    28,03 €

  • Shadows and Acts
    Wilson Roberts
    Born in Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theater in 1849, George Berrell died in 1933, after a life he often described as one of growing up with the country. His travels of self-discovery and those of his life on the stage are illustrative of a nation moving from travel on foot and horseback to that of automobiles and Boeings first major airliner, the 247. Berrell saw it all and ...
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    35,88 €

  • Red-Headed Sinners
    Jonathan Craig
    A MAN WITH A CRAVING HE COULD NEITHER ACCEPT OR DESTROY!Jeff Stoner was a cop who kept the law during the day. But the night drove him into whiskey-drenched rooms and the arms of a redhead -any redhead. ...
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    28,06 €

  • The Amazing Quest of Doctor Syn
    Russell Thorndyke
    The sixth book in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike, in which the doctor travels to Wales to compete with another smuggler. ...
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    27,98 €

  • The Cheaters
    Orrie Hitt
    The 1960 Sleaze-Noir classic!Clint Mayer is a big man with big dreams. Or so he thinks. When Clint leaves Beaverkill for the rough and tumble dock town of Wilton, he hooks up with Charlie Fletcher, good time saloon owner and businessman. One of the businesses Charlie runs out of the bar involves a string of working girls, but he has to pay off Detective Red Brandon and it’s wea...
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    28,10 €

  • The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights
    James Knowles
    Herein awaits the glorious adventures of King Arthur and the Knights of the Table Round. Journey back to a time of old when chivalry and magic ruled the day. King Arthur and his Knights must stand against the forces of evil that threaten to split their beloved England asunder. ...
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    27,89 €

  • The Time Machine
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    H. G. Wells’ classic science fiction masterpiece The Time Machine explores human nature. The Time Traveler finds himself in 802,701 A.D., where he meets the peaceful Eloi and encounters the violent Morlocks. Wells uses these two descendants of man to explore evil and its causes, drawing conclusion that might surprise you in this riveting tale that has stood the test of time. Th...
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    24,34 €

  • The Dark World
    Henry Kuttner
    World War II veteran Edward Bond’s recuperation from a disastrous fighter plane crash takes a distinct turn for the weird when he encounters a giant wolf, a red witch, and the undeniable power of the need-fire, a portal to a world of magic and swordplay at once terribly new and hauntingly familiar. In the Dark World, Bond opposes the machinations of the dread lord Ganelon and h...
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    20,44 €

  • The Time Machine
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    H. G. Well’s classic science fiction masterpiece The Time Machine explores human nature. The Time traveler finds himself in 802,701 A.D., where he meets the Eloi and encounters the violent Morlocks. Well uses these two descendants of man to explore evil and it’s causes. He draws conclusion that might surprise you. A riveting tale that has stood the test of time. ...
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    20,52 €

  • The Island of Doctor Moreau
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    Edward Prendick finds himself adrift at sea, a lone survivor of a ship wreck. He spends more than a week drifting without food or water. Pendrick consigns himself to death, but fate intervenes and delivers him to an unknown Island. The terrors that await him on Doctor Moreau’s island are far worse than what he has just been rescued from or anything that he could have imagined. ...
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    20,42 €

  • The Egoist
    George Meredith
    The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and his attempts at marriage; jilted by his first bride-to-be, he vacillates between the sentimental Laetitia Dale and the strong-willed Clara Middleton. More importantly, the novel follows Clara’s attempts to escape from her engagement to Sir Willoughby, who desires women to serve as a mirror for him and con...
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    35,99 €

  • The Time Machine
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    H. G. Well’s classic science fiction masterpiece The Time Machine explores human nature. The Time traveler finds himself in 802,701 A.D., where he meets the Eloi and encounters the violent Morlocks. Well uses these two descendants of man to explore evil and it’s causes. He draws conclusion that might surprise you. A riveting tale that has stood the test of time. ...
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    20,52 €

  • Belinda
    Maria Edgeworth
    Being unwed, Belinda is sent to live with Lady Delacour, whom Belinda considers fascinating and charming. Lady Delacour believes herself to be dying of breast cancer. She hides her emotional distress from Belinda through wit and charm. The first half of the novel is concerned with the blooming friendship between Belinda and Lady Delacour, which is eventually broken, 'I see...th...
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    36,23 €

  • Young Goodman Brown
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    The story begins at sunset in Salem, Massachusetts, as young Goodman Brown leaves Faith, his wife of three months, for an unknown errand in the forest. Faith pleads with her husband to stay with her but he insists the journey into the forest must be completed that night. In the forest he meets a man, dressed in a similar manner to himself and bearing a resemblance to himself. T...
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    14,27 €

  • The Phantom of the Opera
    Gastón Leroux
    During Christine’s childhood, which is described retrospectively in the early chapters of the book, her father tells her many stories featuring an ’Angel of Music’, who, like a muse, is the personification of musical inspiration. On his deathbed, Christine’s father tells her that from Heaven, he will send the Angel of Music to her. Christine is eventually given a position in th...
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    27,87 €

  • The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
    Christopher Marlowe
    The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge. Doctor Faustus was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe’s death and at least twelve years after the first performance of the pl...
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    18,08 €

  • She Stoops to Conquer
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Wealthy countryman Mr. Hardcastle arranges for his daughter Kate to meet Charles Marlow, the son of a wealthy Londoner, hoping the pair will marry. Unfortunately Marlow is nervous around upper-class women, yet the complete opposite around lower-class females. On his first acquaintance with Kate, the latter realises she will have to pretend to be common, or Marlow will not woo h...
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    18,01 €

  • The House of Seven Gables
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    The house of the title is a gloomy New England mansion, haunted from its foundation by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft, and sudden death. The current resident, the dignified but desperately poor Hepzibah Pyncheon, opens a shop in a side room to support her brother Clifford, who is about to leave prison after serving thirty years for murder. ...
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    36,91 €

  • The Amateur Cracksmen
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung
    Arthur Raffles is a prominent member of London society, and a national sporting hero. As a cricketer he regularly represents England in Test matches. He uses this as a chance to commit a number of burglaries, primarily stealing valuable jewelry from his hosts. In this he is assisted by his friend, the younger, idealistic Bunny Manders. Both men are constantly under the surveill...
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    20,39 €

  • Villette
    Charlotte Brontë
    After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both adventure and romance. The novel is celebrated not so much for its plot as its acute tracing of Lucy’s psychology, particularly Brontë’s use of Gothic doubling to represent externally what her protagonis...
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    36,05 €

  • The History of the Caliph Vathek
    William Jr. Beckford / William JrBeckford
    The novel chronicles the fall from power of the Caliph Vathek (a fictionalized version of the historical Al-Wathiq), who renounces Islam and engages with his mother, Carathis, in a series of licentious and deplorable activities designed to gain him supernatural powers. At the end of the novel, instead of attaining these powers, Vathek descends into a hell ruled by the demon Ebl...
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    20,54 €

  • Troilus and Criseyde
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    Troilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war in the Siege of Troy. It was composed using rime royale and probably completed during the mid 1380s. Many Chaucer scholars regard it as the poet’s finest work. ...
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    36,84 €


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