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  • The Jewel of Seven Stars
    Bram Stoker
    The Jewel of Seven Stars is a horror novel by Irish writer Bram Stoker, first published by Heinemann in 1903. The story is a first-person narrative of a young man pulled into an archaeologist’s plot to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy. It explores common fin de siècle themes such as imperialism, the rise of the New Woman and feminism, and societal progress.Prepublic...
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    22,70 €

  • A Second Home
    Honoré de Balzac
    Une double famille (A Second Home) is a lengthy short story by Honoré de Balzac. The story first appeared in 1830 under the title La femme vertueuse (The Virtuous Woman). It was subsequently published in 1832 by Mame et Delaunay as part of Balzac’s Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes from Private Life). In 1835, it appeared, in an edition by Madame Béchet, in the collection Études ...
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    21,60 €

  • A Daughter of Eve
    Honoré de Balzac
    Two aristocratic sisters raised in religious seclusion by their pious mother are suddenly married off into the glittering, treacherous Paris society of the 1830’s, the younger to a domineering banker, the elder to a humane and loving count.This excellent novella from the ’private life’ collection of Balzac’s Comédie Humaine focusses on the elder daughter, Madame Felix de Vanden...
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    19,07 €

  • A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
    Honoré de Balzac
    Corruption. Deceit. Money. Publishing. Rival factions and the flippancies of rhetoric. Fortunes lost and won. Genius stumbles and greed overtakes. Is it the tale of New York City today? No it’s Balzac’s 19c Paris. (Yonina)About the author:Honoré de Balzac born Honoré Balzac; (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humai...
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    25,04 €

  • A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
    Honoré de Balzac
    Corruption. Deceit. Money. Publishing. Rival factions and the flippancies of rhetoric. Fortunes lost and won. Genius stumbles and greed overtakes. Is it the tale of New York City today? No it’s Balzac’s 19c Paris. (Yonina)About the author:Honoré de Balzac born Honoré Balzac; (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humai...
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    39,60 €

  • A Woman of Thirty
    Honoré de Balzac
    Honoré de Balzac born Honoré Balzac; (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in ...
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    21,56 €

  • A Start in Life
    Honoré de Balzac
    Un début dans la vie (A Start in Life) is a novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac. It is the sixth of the Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes of Private Life) in La Comédie humaine.The novel was serialized in the review La Législature in 1842 under the title Le Danger des mystifications (The Dangers of Gasconade). In 1845 it appeared under its present title in the second Furn...
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    21,61 €

  • Eugenie Grandet
    Honoré de Balzac
    Eugénie Grandet is a novel first published in 1833 by French author Honoré de Balzac. While he was writing it he conceived his ambitious project, La Comédie humaine, and almost immediately prepared a second edition, revising the names of some of the characters so that Eugénie Grandet then fitted into the section: Scenes from provincial life (Scènes de la vie de province) in the...
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    21,55 €

  • Eugenie Grandet
    Honoré de Balzac
    Eugénie Grandet is a novel first published in 1833 by French author Honoré de Balzac. While he was writing it he conceived his ambitious project, La Comédie humaine, and almost immediately prepared a second edition, revising the names of some of the characters so that Eugénie Grandet then fitted into the section: Scenes from provincial life (Scènes de la vie de province) in the...
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    34,80 €

  • The Lair of the White Worm
    Bram Stoker
    The Lair of the White Worm is a horror novel by the Irish writer Bram Stoker. It was first published by Rider and Son of London in 1911 - the year before Stoker’s death - with colour illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith. The story is based on the legend of the Lambton Worm. It has also been issued as The Garden of Evil.The book is widely considered one of the worst books ever w...
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    21,52 €

  • The Lair of the White Worm
    Bram Stoker
    The Lair of the White Worm is a horror novel by the Irish writer Bram Stoker. It was first published by Rider and Son of London in 1911 - the year before Stoker’s death - with colour illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith. The story is based on the legend of the Lambton Worm. It has also been issued as The Garden of Evil.The book is widely considered one of the worst books ever w...
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    34,77 €

  • The Man
    Bram Stoker
    The Man is a 1905 Victorian novel by Bram Stoker, best known for Dracula. A typical Gothic novel, it features horror and romance. The Man has also been published as The Gates of Life. The Victorian Era, the reign of Queen Victoria from her coronation on 20 June 1837 to her death on 22 January 1901, is known as a long period of peace, prosperity and national pride for the Britis...
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    25,17 €

  • The Man
    Bram Stoker
    The Man is a 1905 Victorian novel by Bram Stoker, best known for Dracula. A typical Gothic novel, it features horror and romance. The Man has also been published as The Gates of Life. The Victorian Era, the reign of Queen Victoria from her coronation on 20 June 1837 to her death on 22 January 1901, is known as a long period of peace, prosperity and national pride for the Britis...
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    39,72 €

  • The Snake’s Pass
    Bram Stoker
    The Snake’s Pass is an 1890 novel by Bram Stoker. It centers on the legend of Saint Patrick defeating the King of the Snakes in Ireland, as well as on the troubled romance between the main character and a local peasant girl. The Snake’s Pass was Stoker’s second imperial fiction novel, and was first published in the United Kingdom in 1890. The novel is a precursor to Stoker’s Dr...
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    21,36 €

  • The Snake’s Pass
    Bram Stoker
    The Snake’s Pass is an 1890 novel by Bram Stoker. It centers on the legend of Saint Patrick defeating the King of the Snakes in Ireland, as well as on the troubled romance between the main character and a local peasant girl. The Snake’s Pass was Stoker’s second imperial fiction novel, and was first published in the United Kingdom in 1890. The novel is a precursor to Stoker’s Dr...
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    37,22 €

  • The Physiology of Marriage
    Honoré de Balzac
    ...La Physiologie du mariage (The Physiology of Marriage), is a humorous and satirical essay on the subject of marital infidelity, encompassing both its causes and its cure. ...About the author:Honoré de Balzac born Honoré Balzac; (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleo...
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    25,00 €

  • The Physiology of Marriage
    Honoré de Balzac
    ...La Physiologie du mariage (The Physiology of Marriage), is a humorous and satirical essay on the subject of marital infidelity, encompassing both its causes and its cure. ...About the author:Honoré de Balzac born Honoré Balzac; (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleo...
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    34,33 €

  • The Country Doctor
    Honoré de Balzac
    Le Médecin de campagne (The Country Doctor) is an 1833 novel by Honoré de Balzac. The second in his Scène de la vie de campagne series, it addresses the author’s preoccupations with social organisation, political power and religion, though Balzac’s own political principles were not those of the character Dr Benassis. None of the characters appear elsewhere in La Comédie humaine...
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    21,33 €

  • The Country Doctor
    Honoré de Balzac
    Le Médecin de campagne (The Country Doctor) is an 1833 novel by Honoré de Balzac. The second in his Scène de la vie de campagne series, it addresses the author’s preoccupations with social organisation, political power and religion, though Balzac’s own political principles were not those of the character Dr Benassis. None of the characters appear elsewhere in La Comédie humaine...
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    34,58 €

  • Letters of Two Brides
    Honoré de Balzac
    Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées (Letters of Two Brides) is an epistolary novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac. It was serialized in the French newspaper La Presse in 1841 and published by Furne in 1842 as the first work in the second volume (Scènes de la vie privée, tome II or Scenes from Private Life, Volume 2) of Balzac’s La Comédie humaine. It was dedicated to the Fre...
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    18,78 €

  • Letters of Two Brides
    Honoré de Balzac
    Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées (Letters of Two Brides) is an epistolary novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac. It was serialized in the French newspaper La Presse in 1841 and published by Furne in 1842 as the first work in the second volume (Scènes de la vie privée, tome II or Scenes from Private Life, Volume 2) of Balzac’s La Comédie humaine. It was dedicated to the Fre...
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    32,35 €

  • The Duchesse of Langeais
    Honoré de Balzac
    La Duchesse de Langeais is an 1834 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie parisienne section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. General Armand de Montriveau, a war hero, is enamored of Duchess Antoinette de Langeais, a coquettish, married noblewoman who invites him to a ball but ultimately refuses his sexual advances and ...
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    19,00 €

  • The Duchesse of Langeais
    Honoré de Balzac
    La Duchesse de Langeais is an 1834 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie parisienne section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. General Armand de Montriveau, a war hero, is enamored of Duchess Antoinette de Langeais, a coquettish, married noblewoman who invites him to a ball but ultimately refuses his sexual advances and ...
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    30,25 €

  • The Adventures of Roderick Random (Annotated)
    Tobias Smollett
    Step into the pages of literary history with 'The Adventures of Roderick Random' by Tobias Smollett, a masterful tapestry of 18th-century life that unfolds in a dazzling array of colorful characters and daring escapades. Published in 1748, this timeless classic invites readers to traverse the vivid landscapes of Roderick Random’s tumultuous life, from his early days marked by t...
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    19,10 €

  • Confidant
    Renfu Xiao
    ForQualification Yang tried very hard to accomplish his dream to become an official. He tried with every means available to him, through repeated setbacks, finally his dream came true, he became the chief of the Logistic Department from a driver and then a confidant of a director. When he was riding on the crest of his success, he went to prison for himself and the director for...
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    18,02 €

  • Peter Pan
    J M Barrie
    'Peter Pan,' written by J.M. Barrie, is a timeless classic that enchants readers with its magical tale of eternal youth, adventure, and the power of imagination. The story begins in the nursery of the Darling household in London, where the mischievous and spirited Peter Pan, a boy who can fly and never grows up, visits in search of his lost shadow. Accompanied by his loyal fair...
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    21,21 €

  • L’ingénieux Chevalier Don Quichotte De La Manche. Deuxième Partie.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    'L’ingénieux Chevalier Don Quichotte de la Manche' de Miguel de Cervantes nous transporte dans un monde où la réalité et l’imagination s’entremêlent de manière captivante. Dans cette première partie, le lecteur est entraîné dans les aventures absurdes et poignantes du chevalier errant Don Quichotte et de son fidèle écuyer Sancho Panza. Cervantes, avec sa plume ingénieuse, peint...
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    42,29 €

  • L’ingénieux Chevalier Don Quichotte De La Manche. Première Partie.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    'L’ingénieux Chevalier Don Quichotte de la Manche' de Miguel de Cervantes nous transporte dans un monde où la réalité et l’imagination s’entremêlent de manière captivante. Dans cette première partie, le lecteur est entraîné dans les aventures absurdes et poignantes du chevalier errant Don Quichotte et de son fidèle écuyer Sancho Panza. Cervantes, avec sa plume ingénieuse, peint...
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    42,39 €

  • The Business of Life
    Robert W. Chambers
    'The Business of Life' is a novel by Robert W. Chambers that was first published in 1913. The story revolves around the life of Richard Leroy, a successful New York businessman who has made a fortune in the publishing industry. At the start of the novel, Richard is facing a midlife crisis and begins to question the purpose of his life. He becomes disillusioned with his business...
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    19,80 €

  • Pep
    Clarence Hawkes
    A story of an English bull terrier saving his master.About the author:Clarence Hawkes (December 16, 1869 - January 19, 1954) was an American author and lecturer, known for his nature stories and poetry. Born in Goshen, Massachusetts, Hawkes was physically disabled at a young age; part of one leg was amputated when he was nine, and he became blind four years later after a gun di...
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    18,99 €


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