Recommended Books
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Candide
€30.25lemen, “we ask you if you do not deeply love the King of the Bulgarians?”
“Not at all,” said he; “for I have never seen him.”
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Candide
€37.25as ripped open by the Bulgarian soldiers, after they had subjected her to as much cruelty as a damsel could survive; they knocked the Baron, her father, on the head for attempting to defend her
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Canterbury Tales and Other Poems
€40.99HE HOUSE OF FAME
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
CHAUCER’S DREAM [1]
THE PROLOGUE TO THE LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN
CHAUCER’S A.B.C.
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS -
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Men in War
€30.99nd and wife. We infantrymen must bring the child into the world when a victory is to be born. The artillery has only the pleasure, just like a man’s part in love. It is not until after the child has been baptized that he comes strutting out proudly. Am I not right, Captain?” he asked, appealing to the cavalry officer. “You are an equestrian on foot now, too.”
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Moll Flanders
€39.25But that which was worth all the rest, she bred them up very religiously, being herself a very sober, pious woman, very house- wifely and clean, and very mannerly, and with good behaviour. So that in a word, expecting a plain diet, coarse lodging, and mean clothes, we were brought up as mannerly and as genteelly as if we had been at the dancing-school.
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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
€25.99of the slaves, or to march to Mexico–see if I would go”; and yet these very men have each, directly by their allegiance, and so indirectly, at least, by their money, furnished a substitute.
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Ruth
€35.99A sensitive portrayal of relationships within small towns and an exploration of seduction and illegitimacy within a small Dissenting community where tolerance and rigid morality clash. -
Salmelan heinätalkoot
€31.25Antti Salminen aikoi ensin mennä herastuomarin jälestä kamariin, mutta pysähtyi kuitenkin pihalle. Sanoi sitten hämmästyksestä toinnuttuaan:
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Silas Marner
€31.99three large brick-and-stone homesteads, with well-walled orchards and ornamental weathercocks, standing close upon the road, and lifting more imposing fronts than the rectory, which peeped from among the trees on the other side of the churchyard:-
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Simon Called Peter
€39.20This tale of a priest’s wartime affair with a young nurse has been described as “an astounding novel, the most delicate, the most beautiful, and the most outspoken love story of modern fiction.” -
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
€31.50evil give to him with his own hands, and told him he could cure anybody with it and fetch witches whenever he wanted to just by saying something to it; but he never told what it was he said to it
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments
€41.99rely delivered from the black vapour which disturbed it. Pray do me the favour to tell me why you were so melancholy, and wherefore you are no longer so.”
The king of Tartary continued for some time as if he had been meditating and contriving what he should answer
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The Confessions
€37.50uncle Bernard, who was an engineer, went to serve in the empire and Hungary, under Prince Eugene, and distinguished himself both at the siege and battle of Belgrade. My father, after the birth of my only brother, set off, on recommendation, for Constantinople
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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
€31.25There was in the kingdom of France a gentleman called Isnard, Count of Roussillon, who, for that he was scant of health, still entertained about his person a physician, by name Master Gerard de Narbonne
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The Kingdom of God Is Within You
€32.99Christianity not as Mystical Doctrine, but as a New Life-Conception -
The Kreutzer Sonata, and Other Stories
€38.50“Everybody knows what love is,” said the lady.
“But I don’t know, and I should like to know how you define it.”
“How? It is very simple,” said the lady.
And she seemed thoughtful, and then said:
“Love . . . love . . . is a preference for one man or one woman to the exclusion of all others. . . .”
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The Lances of Lynwood
€33.99a wreath of ivy was twining up the groove by which it had once descended, and the archway, which by day stood hospitably open, was at night only guarded by two large oaken doors,
