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BONNIER POCKET, 2016
När Karl Oskar och Kristina kommer fram till New York möter de ett land som tar emot dem med öppna armar. Och omgaende börjar de den langa färden till Minnesota, där de ska bygga sitt nya hem.
Price: 3 275 Ft
BONNIER POCKET, 2013
Vilhelm Moberg skrev sig rakt in i den svenska folksjälen med sitt Utvandrarepos. Utvandrarna gavs ut första gangen 1949 och har lästs och älskats allt sedan dess.
Price: 7 895 Ft
TASCABALDI, 2012
Camelia vive con la madre a Leeds, una citta in cui "l'inverno e cominciato da cosi tanto tempo che nessuno e abbastanza vecchio da aver visto cosa c'era prima", in una casa assediata dalla multa.
Price: 4 425 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 1992
The Voyage out is a haunting exploration of a young woman's mind, signalling the beginning of her fascination with capturing the mysteries and complexities of the inner life.
Price: 3 750 Ft
SCRIBE PUBLICATIONS, 2017
Placing itself perfectly alongside acclaimed work by Philipp Meyer, Jane Smiley and JM Coetzee, this debut novel charts the story of Roscoe T Martin in rural Alabama in the 1920s.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2021
At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West.
Price: 4 290 Ft
VINTAGE BOOKS, 2018
ROOM OF ONE'S OWN is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928.
Price: 2 550 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2019
It is June in 1939, and the inhabitants of a country house prepare to host the annual village pageant in its grounds. It will tell the stories of English history, as it does every year.
Price: 2 995 Ft
AUSTRAL ESENCIALES, 2020
Flush es un cocker spaniel de orejas largas, cola ancha y unos «ojos atónitos color avellana».
Price: 2 395 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 1992
Virginia Woolf's third novel follows the progress of a young man as he passes from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage.
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COLLINS, 2013
One of Virginia Woolf’s most accomplished novels, Mrs Dalloway is widely regarded as one of the most revolutionary works of the 20th century in its style and the themes that it tackles.
Price: 1 450 Ft
VINTAGE BOOKS, 2016
Discover one of the most famous and ground-breaking pieces of twentieth century literature about one day in the mind of woman as she prepares to give a party.
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EVERYMAN, 1993
Bold and experimental, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway is a landmark in twentieth-century fiction and a book that gets better and better with every reading.
Price: 5 550 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 1992
Virginia Woolf's second novel, is both a love story and a social comedy in the tradition of Jane Austen; yet it also questions that tradition, recognizing that the goals of society and the individual may not necessarily coincide.
Price: 4 125 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2019
First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2016
As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court.
Price: 3 425 Ft
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2008
According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it should give pleasure...It should lay us under a spell with its first word, and we should only wake, refreshed, with its last.'
Price: 4 250 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2000
The Waves, more than any opf Virginia Woolf's other novels, conveys the complexities of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age.
Price: 2 995 Ft
VINTAGE BOOKS, 2016
The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2002
The Years is the story of the Pargiter family - their intimacies and estrangements, anxieties and triumphs - mapped out against the bustling rhythms of London's streets during the first decades of the twentieth century.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2000
To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness.
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LE LIVRE DE POCHE, 2017
Quand Julia débarque comme psychologue a la maison de retraite Les Tamaris, elle ne croit plus guere au bonheur.
Price: 6 695 Ft
FABER & FABER, 2018
In this masterful novel by the acclaimed Indian writer Vivek Shanbhag, a close-knit family is delivered from near-destitution to sudden wealth after a miraculous change in fortune.
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TUSQUETS EDITORES, 2002
En el crudo invierno de 1944, la dirección central de los campos de concentración envía un requerimiento a la oficina de la Gestapo en Buchenwald:
Price: 2 375 Ft
CORPUS, 2021
Desjat let nazad metel pomeshala doktoru Garinu dobratsja do sela Dolgogo i privit ego zhitelej ot bolivijskogo virusa, kotoryj prevraschaet ljudej v zombi.
Price: 11 390 Ft
ARSISBOOKS, 2017
V romane Vladimira Medvedeva "Zaxxok" ozhivaet ekzoticheskij i strashnyj mir Tsentralnoj Azii.
Price: 5 695 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007
Ada or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007
The collection displays Nabokov's astonishing range of technical and formal inventiveness
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2006
Martin Edelweiss is a romantic and aminless young Russian who has fled his homeland after the revolution.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2008
Written in Berlin in 1934, Invitation to a Beheading contains all the surprise, excitement and magical intensity of a work created in two brief weeks of sustained inspiration.
Price: 3 450 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007
'If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in' - Nabokov darts a glance to the reader - 'he or she should be warned that a number of cruel traps have been set here and there...
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2008
Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2011
Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2011
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her.
Price: 3 375 Ft
ALFRED A. KNOPF, 1992
Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007
The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote.
Price: 3 750 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2010
Professor Timofey Pnin, previously of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously positioned at the heart of campus America.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007
When Lolita was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007
The Gift is the phantasmal autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War.
Price: 3 525 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007
Vladimir Nabokov's early novel is the dazzling story of the coarse, strange yet oddly endearing chess-playing genius Luzhin
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007
Nabokov's first novel written in English, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a nuanced, enigmatic potrayal of the conflict between the real and the unreal, and the futile quest for human truth.
Price: 3 450 Ft
AST, 2021
Vladimir Papernyj — kulturolog, istorik arkhitektury, dizajner, pisatel. Ego kniga o stalinskoj arkhitekture "Kultura Dva" stala intellektualnym bestsellerom.Los-Andzheles. Emigrant Aleksandr Shults, Shusha, neozhidanno poluchaet posylku.
Price: 9 125 Ft
ACT, 2015
Suprotivnykh mnogo, eto verno. Kak tolko vosstala Rossija iz pepla Serogo, kak tolko osoznala sebja, kak tolko shestnadtsat let nazad zalozhil Gosudarev batjushka Nikolaj Platonovich...
Price: 6 850 Ft
IZDATELSTVO "E", 2017
Imperator Nikolaj I vo vremja predstavlenija "Revizora" khlopal i mnogo smejalsja, a vykhodja iz lozhi, skazal: "Nu, peska! Vsem dostalos, a mne — bolee vsekh!"
Price: 4 550 Ft
AST, 2021
Dejstvie novogo romana Evgenija Vodolazkina razvorachivaetsja na Ostrove, kotorogo net na karte, no suschestvovanie ego ne vyzyvaet somnenij.
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POCKET, 2019
Comme disait parfois son précepteur Pangloss, si Candide n'avait pas été chassé d'un beau château a grands coups de pied au derriere pour l'amour de mademoiselle Cunégonde,
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LIBRIO, 2000
Formosante est princesse de Babylone. Son pere veut trouver un époux digne d'elle. Toute la noblesse de l'époque défile au palais : le pharaon d'Egypte et son bouf Apis, le roi des Indes, le grand khan des Scythes...
Price: 1 295 Ft
PAN BOOKS, 2019
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2011
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2001
Crippled sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. But then she has a vision of the Virgin, and is miraculously cured.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2001
At the age of twenty-three, Charlie Mason is endowed with good looks, good manners and a happy disposition.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2002
This classic collection of stories moves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute,...
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2002
The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham's most famous tales; 'Flotsam and Jetsam', the story of an old woman trapped for years in a loveless marriage in the remote rubber plantations; ...
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2002
The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in World War I.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2002
This final classic collection of stories reveals Somerset Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2000
Considered by Graham Greene to be Maugham's best work, Don Fernando is a paean to a golden age of enormous creative energy. It discusses the writings of St. Teresa and the paintings of El Greco, and comments with sagacity and...
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2000
Far Eastern Tales is a collection of short stories born of Maugham's experiences in Malaya, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empire.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2000
Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant and bewitching, she is adored by the steady, loyal Tom. But then Liza meets Jim Blakeston, charming and worldy, new to the area, and married.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2001
Berta Ley comes of age, inherits her father's money and promptly marries a handsome, calm and unimaginative man. Bertha is wildly in love with Edward and believes she can be happy playing the role of a dutiful wife in their country home.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2006
The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2000
Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling fifteen hundred miles up the Yangtze river. Always more interested in people than places, he noted down acute and finely crafted sketches of those he met on countless scraps of paper.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 1995
Somerset Maugham is the acknowledged master of the short story, and his full range is represented in this collection. In acclaimed stories such as 'Rain', 'The Letter', 'The Vessel of Wrath' and 'The Alien Corn', ...
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2001
Whether by river to Mandalay, on horse through the mountains and forests of the Shan States to Bangkok, or onwards by sea, Maugham’s muse is in the spirit of Hazlitt, who wrote: “It is great to shake off the trammels of the world and public opinion...
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2001
Set in the bohemian café society of Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, Maugham's exploration of hypnotism and the occult was inspired by the sinister black magician Aleister Crowley.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2000
Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness,,....
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2009
Island hoping across the South Pacific, the esteemed Dr. Saunders is offered passage by Captain Nichols and his companion Fred Blake, two men who appear unsavory, yet any means of transportation is hard to resist.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2001
Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2000
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiancée Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and...
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2001
Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing his private self, The Summing Up, written when Maugham was sixty-four, is an inimitable expression of a personal credo.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2001
The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2001
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2001
Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own times in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2005
Mary Panton walls up her desires in a beautiful villa high up in the hills above Florence, as she calmly contemplates her disastrous marriage. But a single act of compassion begins a nightmare of violence that shatters her serenity.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 1985
Set against the backdrop of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, Waverley depicts the story of Edward Waverley, an idealistic daydreamer whose loyalty to his regiment is threatened when they are sent to the Scottish Highlands.
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SUHRKAMP VERLAG, 2016
Sieben Jahre Wirtschaftskrise. Sieben Jahre Beruhigungsrhetorik und Durchhalteparolen aus Politik, Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft.
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INSEL VERLAG, 2009
Washington Irving ist der »Erfinder« und erster Vertreter der amerikanischen Short story. Vor allem seine unheimlichen Geschichten wie Die Legende von Sleepy Hollow und Rip van Winkle sind bis heute äußerst populär und wurden mehrfach verfilmt.
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HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2012
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SIGNET BOOK, 2006
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BOOKS ON DEMAND GMBH, 2016
Ein Bahnangestellter bemerkt am Heiligabend eine defekte Schienenstrecke, doch niemand schenkt ihm Gehör.
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FABER & FABER, 2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the adventures of Gustave H (Ralph Fiennes), a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori), the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.
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PANMACMILLAN, 2009
Sean Courtney, who made and lost ?5 million on the goldfields of the Witwatersrand and fought his way through the bloody battlefields of the Anglo-Boer War, now makes his final appearance as soldier, statesman and power in the land.
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PAN BOOKS, 2015
The Angels Weep is the third bestselling book in Wilbur Smith's Ballantyne Novels - an epic exploration into the dark past of colonial Africa.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2002
Feeding Frenzy, Will Self's third collection of journalism and selected writings takes us through the turbulent years 1995-2000.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 1998
After a night of routine debauchery in London's clubland, the artist Simon Dykes falls asleep - only to wake up to find his girlfriend has been transmogrified into a chimp.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2001
Scabrous, vicious and unpleasant in life, Lily Blossom has not been noticeably mellowed by death.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2015
Shark turns upon an actual incident in WWII - mentioned in the film Jaws - when the ship which had delivered the fissile material to the south Pacific to be dropped on Hiroshima was subsequently sunk by a Japanese submarine with the loss of 900 men....
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LIBRARY OF AMERICA, 1987
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 1988
The New Confessions is the outrageous, extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreaking autobiography of John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of the great self-appointed (and failde) geniouses of the twentieth century.
Price: 2 725 Ft
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SHURKAMP TASCHENBUCH, 2012
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2005
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EDIZIONI ANFORA, 2010
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DOM QUIXOTE, 2006
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VIVIANE HAMY, 2005
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AMFORA, 2005
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EINAUDI, 2009
