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  • JANE EYRE (PAINTED EDITION)
    JANE EYRE (PAINTED EDITION)
    CHARLOTTE BRONTE
    Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is now available in an affordable softcover edition, featuring striking hand-painted cover art from Laci Fowler and distinctive interior design elements, making it ideal for classic fiction lovers, readers in high-school or college literature courses, and fans of annual reading challenges and "Required Reading" lists. Considered one of the greates...
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    13,75 €

  • THE OLD NURSE'S STORY
    THE OLD NURSE'S STORY
    ELIZABETH GASKELL
    Hester, a teenage girl, is left in charge of a young child in a cold, gloomy manor house under the looming shadows of the Cumberland fells. She hears strange organ music playing, but everyone tells her it isn't happening. She is forbidden from visiting the mysterious East Wing. She is desperate to keep her young charge safe from some unknown disaster, one she feels sure is comi...
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    7,50 €

  • A ROOM WITH A VIEW
    A ROOM WITH A VIEW
    E. M. FORSTER
    Miss Lucy Honeychurch is on a tour of Italy with her cousin and chaperone Miss Charlotte Bartlett when she encounters the young George Emerson, on a similar tour with his father. George finds himself drawn to the pretty, spirited Lucy, while Lucy is intrigued by George's rejection of "proper" behavior. Despite her attraction to George, Lucy later becomes engaged to Cecil Vyse, ...
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    9,99 €

  • EMMA - LINED JOURNAL & NOVEL
    EMMA - LINED JOURNAL & NOVEL
    JANE AUSTEN
    Chiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before: the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colors of these remarkable covers make these books feel extra special and look striking on any shelf. This elegant, yet carefully designed gift pack, comes with a copy of the novel...
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    31,25 €

  • AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
    AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
    JULES VERNE
    Chiltern Publishing was formed in 2018 with a vision to create the most beautiful classics. Using a perfect mix of tradition and the very latest in printing techniques, 19th Century quality has met 21st Century technology. With wonderfully detailed covers, sparkling gilt edges, creamy pages, and stitched binding they are the most beautiful classics ever published. Around the Wo...
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    22,95 €

  • THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
    THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
    MARK TWAIN
    Chiltern Publishing was formed in 2018 with a vision to create the most beautiful classics. Using a perfect mix of tradition an the very latest in printing techniques, 19th Century quality has met 21st Century technology. With wonderfully detailed covers, sparkling gilt edges, creamy pages, and stitched binding they are the most beautiful classics ever published. The Adventures...
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    25,00 €

  • HALLOWE'EN PARTY
    HALLOWE'EN PARTY
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    The inspiration for A Haunting in Venice - now a major motion picture. When a Hallowe'en party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer... During a night of party games, Joyce Reynolds boasts that she once witnessed a murder. No one believes her, but then she is found drowned, face down in an apple-bobbing tub. Set against a night of trickery and the o...
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    12,50 €

  • FIVE LITTLE PIGS
    FIVE LITTLE PIGS
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery, now presented as a sumptuous special edition hardback. Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects: Philip Blake (the stockbroker) who went to market; Meredith Blake (the amateur herbalist) who stayed at home; Elsa Greer (the three-time divorcee) who had roast beef; Cecilia Will...
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    18,75 €

  • THE COSSACKS
    THE COSSACKS
    LEO TOLSTOY
    'The Cossacks' by Leo Tolstoy is a short novel published in 1863 in the famous artistic magazine called 'The Russian Messenger. The novel is accepted to be fairly personal, with many accepting that the personality of Olenin, a well-off Muscovite who enlists in the military looking for a more legitimate life, was propelled by the creator's wild ways in his youth. The occasions o...
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    12,50 €

  • THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
    Arthur Conan Doyle famously killed off Sherlock Holmes in 1893, in the short story 'The Final Problem', but was tempted to bring him back to life ten years later, in the thirteen tales that comprise The Return of Sherlock Holmes. While the outcry that supposedly followed Holmes' death was mostly apocryphal (the claim that readers wore black armbands in mourning has been frequen...
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    11,25 €

  • THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES
    THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    Agatha Christie's first ever murder mystery, now presented as a sumptuous special edition hardback. 'Beware! Peril to the detective who says: "It is so small - it does not matter..." Everything matters.' After the Great War, life can never be the same again. Wounds need healing, and the horror of violent death banished into memory. Captain Arthur Hastings is invited to t...
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    18,75 €

  • JANE EYRE (PAINTED EDITION)
    JANE EYRE (PAINTED EDITION)
    CHARLOTTE BRONTE
    Featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler, this fine exclusive collector's edition of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is a must have for book lovers or literature fans. Relive the haunting gothic romance of Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester in this beloved classic. The Harper Muse Classics: Painted Edition of Jane Eyre is perfect for special-edition book collectors, Charlo...
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    25,00 €

  • MOBY DICK
    MOBY DICK
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individua...
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    11,25 €

  • WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS?
    WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS?
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    Agatha Christie's classic mystery reissued with a new cover to tie in with Hugh Laurie's highly anticipated 2022 TV adaptation. While playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices his ball over the edge of a cliff. His ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds the crumpled body of a dying man. The man opens his eyes and, with his last breath, says, 'Why didn't they ...
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    11,25 €

  • THE BODY IN THE LIBRARY
    THE BODY IN THE LIBRARY
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    Now with a beautiful new series look, the iconic Miss Marple must investigate the case of a girl found dead in Agatha Christie's classic mystery. It's seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing an evening dress and heavy makeup, which is now smeared across her cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what ...
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    18,75 €

  • EMMA
    EMMA
    JANE AUSTEN
    'I wonder what will become of her!' So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful, and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own he...
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    8,75 €

  • WUTHERING HEIGHTS
    WUTHERING HEIGHTS
    EMILY BRONTE
    Explore Bronte's world of crime and punishment, nature and culture, and love and loss. Since its original publication in 1847, the tempestuous relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine has long echoed on the moors. After being spurned by his lover and degraded by his adoptive family, Heathcliff leaves his home in Yorkshire, only to return wealthy, educated, and seeking r...
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    9,99 €

  • PASSING
    PASSING
    NELLA LARSEN
    Clare Kendry has severed all ties to her past. Elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, she is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-American heritage. When she renews her acquaintance with her childhood friend Irene, who has not hidden her origins, both women are forced to reassess their marriages, the lies they have told - and to confront the secret fears they have...
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    9,99 €

  • ANIMAL FARM
    ANIMAL FARM
    GEORGE ORWELL / ANDREW PALMER
    In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain's ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and criticism of Stalin's brutal regime was either censored or discouraged. In any case, many intellectuals on the left still celebrated the Soviet Union, claiming that the terrors of its show trials, summary executions and secret police were either exa...
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    4,95 €

  • THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
    Having firmly established the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in the novels A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was retained by The Strand Magazine to contribute a series of twelve short stories, which began with 'A Scandal in Bohemia' in 1891 and were published monthly for the next year. The stories, in which the master sleuth receiv...
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    12,50 €

  • DEATH ON THE NILE
    DEATH ON THE NILE
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    Agatha Christie's most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. ...
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    8,75 €

  • MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS [B1.1]
    MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS [B1.1]
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    A murder is discovered on the Orient Express, just as snow stops the train in the mountains for days. There is a killer on board - but who is ti ? World famous detective Hercule Poirot promises to find the truth, in one of Agatha Christie's greatest and most popular mysteries. ...
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    16,95 €

  • PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
    PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
    JANE AUSTEN
    Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible ...
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    12,50 €

  • THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
    THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
    MARK TWAIN
    Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. One of the most irrepressible and exuberant characters in t...
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    13,75 €

  • WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS?
    WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS?
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    When a man plunges down a cliff, two adventurous young friends decide to find his killer... While playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices his ball over the edge of a cliff. His ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds the crumpled body of a dying man. With his final breath the man opens his eyes and says, 'Why didn't they ask Evans?' Haunted by these words, Bo...
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    11,25 €

  • THE SECRET OF CHIMNEYS
    THE SECRET OF CHIMNEYS
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    A young drifter finds more than he bargained for when he agrees to deliver a parcel to an English country house... Little did Anthony Cade suspect that a simple errand on behalf of a friend would make him the centrepiece of a murderous international conspiracy. Someone would stop at nothing to prevent the monarchy being restored in faraway Herzoslovakia. The combined forces...
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    12,50 €

  • IS THIS A DAGGER WHICH I SEE BEFORE ME?
    IS THIS A DAGGER WHICH I SEE BEFORE ME?
    WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
    'And when I shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars.'This collection of Shakespeare's soliloquies, including both old favourites and lesser-known pieces, shows him at his dazzling best.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range an...
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    3,75 €

  • WHITE NIGHTS
    WHITE NIGHTS
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?'A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around t...
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    5,00 €

  • THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH
    THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH
    LEO TOLSTOY
    'It is only a bruise'A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident...One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, hea...
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    3,75 €

  • SPARKLING CYANIDE
    SPARKLING CYANIDE
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    A beautiful heiress is fatally poisoned in a West End restaurant... Six people sit down to dinner at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary - in solemn memory of Rosemary Barton who died at the same table exactly one year previously. No one present on that fateful night would ever forget the woman's face, contorted beyond recognition - or...
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    12,50 €