Classic fiction: literary and general
Prakash Books Paradise Lost
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Editorial Alma Orgullo Y Prejuicio
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£13.31
Editorial Alma Alicia En El País de Las Maravillas
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£9.59
Alianza Editorial Hecuba - Helena - Ifigenia Entre Los Tauros
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£17.90
Alianza Editorial Vidas Paralelas: Demetrio - Antonio
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£18.91
Editorial Teide S.A. El libro de la selva
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£24.64
Ediciones SM Coleccion Clasicos de SM: La tribuna
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£27.04
Castalia Ediciones El caballero de Olmedo
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£16.70
NUS Press Tales of an Eastern Port: The Singapore Novellas
Book SynopsisSingapore in the writings of Joseph Conrad: a node in the networks of colonial modernity. In the 1880s, Joseph Conrad spent three extended stints in the colonial port city of Singapore, while working on ships around the region. Over the next thirty years, he would return to this place many times in his writing. Singapore is the principal, if sometimes obscured, port of call in Conrad’s fiction; it is the center of overlapping networks, colonial and commercial, religious and literary. His characters travel to upriver Borneo and to Bangkok, to Shanghai and to Sydney, and yet they tend to return to Singapore. This volume pairs for the first time two Conrad novellas that start in Singapore: The End of the Tether and The Shadow-Line.Together they provide a fleeting portrait of the developing city, through narrators who are uneasy with the trappings and workings of the colonial enterprise. These stories have renewed relevance as part of global modernist and oceanic literatures, and reading them now helps recall one chapter in Singapore’s long history as a vital site of cultural exchange, one that harbors and inspires distinctive storytelling traditions.Table of Contents Figures Introduction: Joseph Conrad's Double Visions of Singapore The End of the Tether (1902) The Shadow Line (a Confession) (1917)
£18.86
Culturea The Hairy Ape
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£12.30
Culturea Formen der Liebe
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£17.10
Culturea Au bonheur des dames (1883)
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£21.75
Independently Published His Talisman: A Dark Romance
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£12.69
Sydney University Press Joe Wilson and His Mates
Book SynopsisJoe Wilson and His Mates (1901) is a collection of many of Lawson's most celebrated classic Australian short stories. Lawson's darkly realistic work includes all four stories of Joe Wilson, a sheep shearer suffering from drinking problems and the hardship of the bush. Along the bleaker tales are more 'humorous' takes on bush life, including 'The Loaded Dog', 'The Golden Graveyard' and 'Jimmy Grimshaw's Wooing'.Table of ContentsIntroduction Christopher Lee Joe Wilson and His Mates Prefatory verses - the author's farewell to the bushmen Part 1 Joe Wilson's courtship Brighten's sister-in-law 'Water them geraniums': â 1. A lonely track â 2. 'Past carin'' A double buggy at Lahey's Creek: â 1. Spuds, and a woman's obstinacy â 2. Joe Wilson's luck â 3. The ghost of Mary's sacrifice The buggy comes home The writer wants to say a word Part 2 The golden graveyard The Chinaman's ghost The loaded dog Poisonous Jimmy gets left: â 1. Dave Regan's yarn â 2. Told by one of the other drovers The ghostly door A wild Irishman The babies in the bush A bush dance The buckjumper Jimmy Grimshaw's wooing At Dead Dingo Telling Mrs Baker A hero in Dingo-Scrubs The little world left behind Concluding verses: 'the never-never country' About the author Select bibliography
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Pocket Un jour je m'en irai sans avoir tout dit
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Editorial Alma La Metamorfosis Y Otros Relatos
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£14.28
Double 9 Booksllp The Haunted Hotel
Book SynopsisThe Haunted Hotel is a less popular work - a gothic story with fascinating characters, tormented rooms, and outrageous relationships.Without ruining the plot, there is a great deal to making it an exciting read. A secretive marriage, a hated darling, contention between siblings, missing workers, and apparition dreams - a lot of Victorian goodness!Collins makes a considerable lot of compassion toward practically every person in the book. Disdaining any character is difficult. A homicide is committed in the main portion of the book. Our criminal investigator for this situation is the despised sweetheart, accidentally maneuvered into the standard story. As a peruse, you might have proactively arranged your cast into malicious and heavenly, however, one can never be excessively certain.
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Double 9 Booksllp Jerry Of The Islands
Book SynopsisJerry of the Islands: A True Dog Story is a novel by American author Jack London. Jerry of the Islands was at first distributed in 1917 and is one of the last works by Jack London. The novel is set on the island of Malaita, a piece of the Solomon Islands archipelago, which in 1893 turned into a British protectorate. The legend of the novel is Irish terrier Jerry, who was a sibling of canine named Michael, about whom London composed another novel - Michael, Brother of Jerry. In the introduction, Jack London tells about the boat Minota on which he voyaged and which destroyed in the Solomon Islands. Skipper Kellar of Eugenie transport protected Jack London after the wreck yet later passed on by the hands of the man-eaters. London makes reference to a letter that he got from C. M. Woodford, the Resident Commissioner of the British Solomons. In this letter, Woodford expounded on a correctional undertaking on the adjoining island. The second point of the activity was looking for the remaining parts of Jack London's companions. During the journey on Minota, Jack London and his significant other observed a canine on board the boat, an Irish terrier named Peggy. The couple connected to Peggy such a lot of that London's better half took the canine after the disaster area of the boat.
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Double 9 Booksllp The Valley Of The Moon
Book Synopsis'The Valley of the Moon' is an autobiographical portrait of Jack and his wife Chairman leaving working on the Oakland docks to live in Sonoma Valley. The story of Saxon and Billy is a love story that starts off with a boom and then go through difficulties and hard times. Saxon and Billy end up following a wonderful dream. This book is notable for the scenes in which the hero enjoys fellowship with the artists' colony in Carmel, and he settles in the Moon. It is Saxon, London's most fully realised heroine, who embraces these concerns.
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Double 9 Booksllp Leaves Of Grass
Book SynopsisLeaves of Grass is a wonderful poetry collection written by American poet Walt Whitman. First edition of this collection was published in 1855 with twelve poems. Through out his life, he revised this composition and after four decades, it was compiled in a collection of 400 poems. In these poems he expressed philosophy of life and humanity. He has written praiseworthy poems on nature. He didn't follow rhyme and standard rules for meter and line length rather he set his own style. He emerges as a hero in epic 'Song of Myself'. His incredible writing depicts as he has seen all the world. He has written all sorts of poems like - social, political, personal and sexual in nature. His poetic journey and self exploration are most commendable, represents his philosophy of life. He has shown an impressive comparison between fallen autumn leaves and rebirth of a new life after death. His passionate writing is delightful and pleasure giving. He expresses his deep concern for people's individuality and immortality. 'Song of the Open Road' is such a marvellous composition. In his poems as a true patriotic citizen he sings for glorious America.
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Double 9 Booksllp The Black Robe
Book SynopsisThe Black Robe is an 1881 epistolary ( series of letters) novel by famous English writer, Wilkie Collins. The book relates the adversities of Lewis Romayne, and is also noted for a recognised anti-Catholic bias. In this amazing novel of relationships, psychological convolutions, and fraud, a priest comes between an responsive man and the young woman he loves. A high ranking Catholic priest plans to recover land knowing Church property. It analyses very patiently a intense friendship between two men, Lewis Romayne and Arthur Penrose, which in some ways transforms in its power the principal heterosexual relationship depicted in the work. The Black Robe is full of Victorian England's religious views and influences Collins' general commentary about domestic issues and the condition of women. Through the description of the Church's spiritual elite, its priests, and characters' comments, England's anti-Catholicism views are apparent. This book is a kind of enigma, though nobody is murdered. It is a combination of realist late-Victorian fiction with an advice of Gothic.
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Double 9 Booksllp The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Book SynopsisBritish author Arthur Conan Doyle's collection of short stories titled The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes was originally released in the latter part of 1893 under the year 1894. It was first released by G. Newnes Ltd. in the UK and Harper & Brothers in the US in February 1894. Following The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, it was the second anthology to feature the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes. It featured Sidney Paget's illustrations, the same as the first. The Adventures numbers 13 to 24 were the titles of the twelve tales when they were first published in The Strand Magazine in December 1892 and December 1893. The subtitle XXIV.-The Adventure of the Final Problem was used when The Final Problem was released, for example. With the exception of The Final Problem, which first appeared in McClure's Magazine, all of the pieces were first published in Harper's Weekly in the United States. He was inspired by reader demand to write The Hound of the Baskervilles, a Holmes tale that takes place before The Final Problem, in 1901-1922. The aftermath of The Final Problem, in which it is revealed that Holmes actually survived, serves as the opening episode of a new series the following year called The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
£14.24
Double 9 Booksllp Acres Of Diamonds
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Double 9 Booksllp William Tell Told Again
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£7.99
Double 9 Booksllp The Spirit of the Border
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Double 9 Booksllp The Trojan women of Euripides
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Double 9 Booksllp Demian
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Double 9 Booksllp Hunger
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Double 9 Booksllp The Man -Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African
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Double 9 Booksllp The Great Impersonation
Book SynopsisE. Phillips Oppenheim is the author of the mystery book The Great Impersonation, which was published before 1920. German Leopold von Ragastein, who meets his English doppelganger Everard Dominey in Africa, is the main character of the story. Just before World War I, he plots to kill Dominey and steal his identity in order to spy on English high society. However, in this story of romance, political intrigue, and a (literally) haunted history, questions about the returned Dominey's true identity start to surface. The Great Impersonation begins with an unexpected encounter between two men who had previously gone to school and university together in East Africa in 1913, just before the First World War breaks out.
£14.44
Double 9 Booksllp The Sorrows of Satan
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Double 9 Booksllp Won By The Sword: A Tale Of The Thirty Years' War
Book SynopsisWon By The Sword is an interesting novel written by G. A. Henty. This novel is set in France under the reigns of Mazarin, Richelieu, and Anne of Austria. Hector Campbell, orphaned child of a Scottish captain serving in the French Army. Won By The Sword (the 1640s) is described in the book, which also recounts the years when France assumed command of the conflict after the deaths of the generals Gustavus Adolphus and Wallenstein. A series of adventures that include battles, captures, and escapes, a meeting with Mazarin, and high honors and awards for his prowess and bravery in battle begin with the appointment of young Hector Campbell. How Hector came to the attention of Marshal Turenne and the Prince of Conde? How Hector advanced to the rank of Colonel, and how he was ultimately forced to flee France? The deadly enmity of the Due de Beaufort is all details that this book has and it can engage readers with the utmost interest.
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Double 9 Booksllp Tremendous Trifles
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Double 9 Booksllp The Rover Boys On The Great Lakes Or, The Secret
Book SynopsisThe Rover Boys on the Great Lakes is the fifth volume of the Rover Boys Series for readers of all ages and is a stand-alone novel. The brother's Dick, Tom, and Sam of the rowdy Rover Boys continue their adventure in the northern United States Great Lakes region. Readers can expect the typical adventure and eventually heroic clashes with villains, such as archenemies, in addition to a number of other adventures. This series has thirty novels released between 1899 and 1926, and the books were still available decades later. Published in 1901 was The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes, or, The Secret of the Island Cave. The series frequently included cutting-edge inventions from the time, like the automobile, airplanes (in The Rover Boys in the Air), and current affairs like World War I.
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Double 9 Booksllp Heretics
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Double 9 Booksllp In Freedom's Cause
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£13.29
Double 9 Booksllp The Rover Boys On Treasure Isle or, The Strange
Book SynopsisThe Rover Boys, also known as The Rover Boys Series for readers of all ages, was a well-known children's book series authored by Edward Stratemeyer using the pen name Arthur M. Winfield. This collection of stories by Arthur M. Winfield attempts to compile many of his classic thoughts and offer them at an affordable price, consolidated in a single draft so that everyone can read them. Some stories are gruesome and bizarre; others softly creep up on you and pull you in. With an eye-catching new cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Rover Boys On Treasure Isle is both modern and readable. The plot has so many twists and turns that can engage a reader.
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Double 9 Booksllp The Wisdom Of Father Brown
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£10.44
Double 9 Booksllp Operation: Outer Space
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Double 9 Booksllp Erewhon
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Double 9 Booksllp Herland
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£11.39
Double 9 Booksllp The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories
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Double 9 Booksllp Stories Of King Arthur And His Knights
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Double 9 Books The Adventures Of Pinocchio
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Double 9 Books Little Wars; A Game For Boys From Twelve Years Of
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Double 9 Booksllp The Enchanted Island Of Yew
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£10.44
Double 9 Booksllp The Road To Oz
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Double 9 Booksllp Plague Ship
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