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  • THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUE TRAIN
    THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUE TRAIN
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    The daughter of an American millionaire dies on a train en route for Nice... When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again - for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her precious rubies are missing. The prime suspect is R...
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    12,50 €

  • ANNA KARENINA: NEW TRANSLATION
    ANNA KARENINA: NEW TRANSLATION
    LEO TOLSTOY
    Leo Tolstoy’s most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic story of its eponymous heroine. Anna is desperately pursuing a good, “moral” life, standing for honesty and sincerity. Passion drives her to adultery, and this flies in the face of the corrupt Russian bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, the aristocrat Konstantin Lev...
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    9,99 €

  • PENGUIN CLASSICS CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
    PENGUIN CLASSICS CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
    FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
    'A truly great translation . . . This English version really is better' - A. N. Wilson, The SpectatorTIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014This acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky's 'psychological record of a crime' gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato urgency and fevered atmosphere as never before. ...
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    12,50 €

  • MODERN CLASSICS KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING
    MODERN CLASSICS KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING
    GEORGE ORWELL
    Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-faithful Rosemary, has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way...
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    11,25 €

  • MRS MCGINTY'S DEAD
    MRS MCGINTY'S DEAD
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    The old children's game now seemed rather tasteless. The real Mrs McGinty was killed by a crushing blow to the back of the head and her pitifully small savings were stolen.Suspicion falls immediately on her lodger, hard up and out of a job. Hercule Poirot has other ideas - unaware that his own life is now in great danger... ...
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    11,25 €

  • DEAD MAN'S FOLLY
    DEAD MAN'S FOLLY
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    A charity murder game at a Devon house turns into the real thing. Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well known crime writer, agrees to organise their murder hunt. Despite weeks of meticulous planning, at the last minute Ariadne calls her friend Hercule Poirot for ...
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    12,50 €

  • HERCULE POIROT'S CHRISTMAS
    HERCULE POIROT'S CHRISTMAS
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    CRIME & MYSTERY. It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. But when Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the village with a friend for Christmas, offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning b...
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    12,50 €

  • THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES
    THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    CRIME & MYSTERY. With impeccable timing Hercule Poirot, the renowned Belgian detective, makes his dramatic entrance on to the English crime stage. Recently, there had been some strange goings on at Styles St Mary. Evelyn, constant companion to old Mrs Inglethorp, had stormed out of the house muttering something about 'a lot of sharks'. And with her, something indefinable had go...
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    12,50 €

  • PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY THE HOUND OF BASKERVILLES
    PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY THE HOUND OF BASKERVILLES
    ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
    The Penguin English Library Edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle"Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body: this classic horror story pits detective against dog, rationalism against the supernatural, good against evil. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found ...
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    9,99 €

  • THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD
    THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2). Each reader...
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    9,95 €

  • THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
    THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
    HENRY JAMES
    The Penguin English Library edition of The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 'She knew of no wrong that he had done; he was not violent, he was not cruel; she simply believed that he hated her' When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy her freedom,...
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    12,50 €

  • KING SOLOMON'S MINES
    KING SOLOMON'S MINES
    HENRY RIDER HAGGARD
    'Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere; for a moment our wings are seen in the light of the fire, and, lo! we are gone again into the Nowhere.' An amazing adventure set in Africa, against the backdrop of endless deserts and snowy mountains, Kings Solomon's Mines follows Allan Quartermain, in his quest to find h...
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    3,15 €

  • THE CASE-BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    THE CASE-BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
    In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written, and he can be seen to take advantage of new, more open conventions in fiction. Suicide as a murder weapon and homosexual incest are some of the psychological tragedies whose consequenc...
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    11,25 €

  • NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND, AND THE GAMBLER
    NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND, AND THE GAMBLER
    FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
    Notes from the Underground (1864) is one of the most profound works of nineteenth-century literature. A probing, speculative book, often regarded as a forerunner of the Existentialist movement, it examines the important political and philosophical questions that were current in Russia and Europe at the time. The Gambler (1866), set in the fictional town of Roulettenberg, explor...
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    11,25 €

  • THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH AND OTHER STORIES
    THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH AND OTHER STORIES
    LEO TOLSTOY
    Here are some of Tolstoy's extraordinary short stories, from "The Death of Ivan Ilyich." in a masterly new translation, to "The Raid," "The Wood-felling," "Three Deaths," "Polikushka," "After the Ball," and "The Forged Coupon," all gripping and eloquent lessons on two of Tolstoy's most persistent themes: life and death. More experimental than his novels, Tolstoy's stories are e...
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    12,50 €

  • GREAT IDEAS A CONFESSION
    GREAT IDEAS A CONFESSION
    LEO TOLSTOY
    Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. It describes his search for 'a practical religion not promising future bliss but giving bliss on earth'. Although the Confession led to his excommunication, it also resulted in a large following of Tolstoyan Christians springing u...
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    7,50 €

  • WUTHERING HEIGHTS
    WUTHERING HEIGHTS
    EMILY BRONTE
    One of English literature's classic masterpieces—a gripping novel of love, propriety, and tragedy. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadEmily Brontë's only novel endures as a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. The Penguin Classics edition is the definitive version of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor. ...
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    9,99 €

  • COLLECTED SHORTER FICTION
    COLLECTED SHORTER FICTION
    LEO TOLSTOY
    The world-famous Chopra Center for Well Being in La Jolla, California, is a healing place where people come from all over the world to learn how to prevent and heal stress and disease through nutrition, meditation, and spirituality. Chopra's co-authors for this cookbook are David Simon, MD, Medical Director of the Chopra Center for Well Being; and Leanne Backer, Executive Chef ...
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    25,00 €

  • THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
    THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
    ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
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    4,95 €

  • HERCULE POIROT
    HERCULE POIROT
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    At Last All The Poirot Short Stories In A Single Volume My Name Is Hercule Poirot And I Am Probably The Greatest Detective In The World. The Dapper, Moustache-Twirling Little Belgian With The Egg-Shaped Head, Curious Mannerisms And Inordinate Respect For His Own Little Grey Cells Has Solved Some Of The Most Puzzling Crimes Of The Century. Appearing In Agatha Christie S Very Fir...
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    24,99 €

  • THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
    THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent of fate. The sensatio...
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    4,95 €

  • HAMLET
    HAMLET
    WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
    Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The Textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest p...
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    4,95 €

  • D'AULAIRES BOOK OF GREEK MYTHS
    D'AULAIRES BOOK OF GREEK MYTHS
    INGRI D'AULAIRE / EDGAR PARIN D'AULAIRE
    "I doubt I would have grown up to be the writer and artist I became had I not fallen in love with D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths at the age of seven."—R. J. Palacio, author of Wonder Kids can lose themselves in a world of myth and magic while learning important cultural history in this beloved classic collection of Greek mythology. Now updated with a new cover and an afterword...
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    31,25 €

  • MIDWINTER MURDER: FIRESIDE MYSTERIES FROM THE QUEEN OF CRIME
    MIDWINTER MURDER: FIRESIDE MYSTERIES FROM THE QUEEN OF CRIME
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    An all-new collection of winter-themed mysteries from the master of the genre, just in time for the festive period. There's a chill in the air and the days are growing shorter... It's the perfect time to curl up in front of a crackling fireplace with this winter-themed collection from legendary mystery writer Agatha Christie. But beware of deadly snowdrifts and dangerous gifts...
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    18,75 €

  • ANNA KARENINA
    ANNA KARENINA
    LEO TOLSTOY
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    24,95 €

  • FIVE LITTLE PIGS
    FIVE LITTLE PIGS
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
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    11,25 €

  • MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD
    MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
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    12,50 €

  • THE ABC MURDERS
    THE ABC MURDERS
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
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    12,50 €

  • EVIL UNDER THE SUN
    EVIL UNDER THE SUN
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
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    11,25 €

  • COLLECTED STORIES
    COLLECTED STORIES
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    18,75 €