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Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women
€24.99My interest in woman and our common humanity is my only apology for writing this book.
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At the Mountains of Madness
€39.99On an expedition to Antarctica, Professor William Dyer and his colleagues discover the remains of ancient half-vegetable, half-animal life-forms.
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Billy Budd
€35.20uld this well have been otherwise. Cast in a mould peculiar to the finest physical examples of those Englishmen in whom the Saxon strain would seem not at all to partake of any Norman or other admixture
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Clarimonde
€22.50I felt life rising within me like a subterranean lake, expanding and overflowing; my blood leaped fiercely through my arteries; my long-restrained youth suddenly burst into active being, like the aloe which blooms but once in a hundred years, and then bursts into blossom with a clap of thunder.
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Collected Works of Poe
€19.99- The Unparalled Adventures of One Hans Pfall
- The Oval Portrait
- The Balloon Hoax
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Collected Works of Poe Volume 1, the Raven Edition
€41.25ly analyzing the mysteries of the human mind; such tales of illusion and banter as “The Premature Burial” and “The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether”; such bits of extravaganza as “The Devil in the Belfry” and “The Angel of the Odd”; such tales of adventure as “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym”
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Father Goriot
€25.99The central space between the walls is filled with artichokes and rows of pyramid fruit-trees, and surrounded by a border of lettuce, pot- herbs, and parsley.
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Gulliver’s Travels
€29.99A satire on human nature and a parody of the “travellers’ tales” literary genre, this is widely considered Swift’s greatest work as well as one of the indisputable classics of English literature. Transcribed from the 1892 George Bell and Son edition. -
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Jack Winters’ Campmates or, Vacation Days in the Woods
€22.50That must be the little stream you told us was close by, and which would supply all our wants. Why, I’m as thirsty as a fish out of water right now, boys; me for a drink!”
With that he hurled himself over the side of the wagon and went on a run in the direction of the soft sweet murmur which he had rightly guessed could only proceed from running water.
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Pygmalion
€39.75ion, and perhaps enabled him to popularize his subject, but for his Satanic contempt for all academic dignitaries and persons in general who thought more of Greek than of phonetics. Once, in the days when the Imperial Institute rose in South Kensington
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The Count of Monte Cristo
€25.50quite right to refuse. If you mean as responsible agent when you ask me the question, I believe there is nothing to say against him, and that you will be content with the way in which he has performed his duty.”
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The Idiot
€28.50Translated by Eva Martin. This is one of the most influential works by Dostoyevsky. The story revolves around Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, who upon his return to Russia finds himself in a very complicated situation.
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The River War
€29.99The reconquest of the Egyptian Sudan was a military achievement remarkable first of all for the fact that unvarying and complete success attended every movement form the advance from Wady Halfa
