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Against the backdrop of political and legal corruption in Second Empire France, La Bete Humaine (1890) contrasts the technological advancements of the Machine Age with the primitive and timeless human impulse to possess through killing and to kill through possession....
33.5 €
First published in 1924, Beau Geste tells the story of a stolen sapphire and three brothers, who consequently join the Foreign Legion. Michael ‘Beau’ Geste, as his nickname suggests, represents honour and bravery in the midst of deceit and treachery. An action-packed...
33.5 €
Appearing in 1854, Hide and Seek was Wilkie Collins’s third published novel. At the centre of the plot is the mystery surrounding a deaf and dumb girl known as Madonna, whom the painter Valentine Blyth rescues from her life as a circus performer. But it is...
33.5 €
Audiobook Childhood, Boyhood and Youth, written by Leo Tolstoy. Blending fact and fiction, this trilogy by a very young Tolstoy centres on the inner life of Nikolai as he navigates the universal challenge of growing up. In relating his thoughts and feelings,...
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Audiobook Victory, written by Joseph Conrad. Set in the Dutch East Indies in 1900, Joseph Conrad’s last major novel, Victory, tells the story of Axel Heyst, a European who has retreated to the island of Samburan following a business misadventure. Heyst’s aim...
31 €
Audiobook The Law and the Lady, written by Wilkie Collins. Incorrectly signing her name in the marriage registry leads Valeria Woodville to discover further disturbing information about her husband, Eustace Macallan. Each revelation leads to further questions...
31 €
Audiobook 813, written by Maurice Leblanc. One evening, wealthy diamond merchant Rudolph Kesselbach is visited at the Palace Hotel by Arsene Lupin. The next day, Kesselbach is found dead from a gunshot wound, with Lupin’s card pinned to his shirt. The wanted...
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AudiobookFairy Tales written by George MacDonald, who was described by W.H. Auden as ‘one of the most remarkable writers of the 19th century’, was valued in his own time as an original thinker and spiritual guide. Of all his writing it is the fairy tales that...
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Jane Austen’s most popular novel, originally published in 1813, some 17 years after it was first written, presents the Bennet family of Longbourn. Against the background of gossipy Mrs Bennet and the detached Mr Bennet, the quest is on for husbands for the...
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Self-made American millionaire Christopher Newman arrives in Paris brimming with hope and optimism, excited to experience the culture and, hopefully, find the perfect woman to become his wife. After a chance encounter with American expatriate friends his attention...
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Hörbuch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray von Oskar Wilde. England, Ende des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts: Lord Henry Wotton, ein geistreicher englischer Aristokrat und Dandy, ist fasziniert vom Aussehen des jungen Dorian Gray. Im Atelier seines Freundes, dem Maler Basil...
29.99 €
Audiokniha Egypťan Sinuhet, kterou napsal Mika Waltari. „Toto vše jsem napsal já, Sinuhet, Egypťan, pro sebe sama. Nikoli pro bohy, ani pro lidi, ani pro zachování svého jména navěky, nýbrž pro sebe sama, ubohého a ztrápeného, a pro své srdce, jež dostalo svou...
29.56 €
Audiobook Babbitt, written by Sinclair Lewis. George Babbitt has it all:** a successful real estate job, a shiny car, a modern house equipped with all the latest technology, and a devoted wife and three children. However, underneath his public persona, he’s...
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A masterful blend of Gothic drama and romance, Wilkie Collins’s mystery novel is an exploration of illegitimacy and inheritance. Set in Cornwall, the plot foreshadows The Woman in White with its themes of doubtful identity and deception, and involves a broad...
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Published in 1791, A Simple Story concerns Miss Milner, who announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, thereby breaking through the barriers of his religious vocation and society’s standards for proper female behaviour. Central themes of the...
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Audiokniha Hrabě Monte Cristo (či Christo), kterou napsal Alexandre Dumas. Generacemi milovaná klasika v audioknižním zpracování kompletního šestidílného románu Alexandra Dumase. Osudovou souhrou nepříjemných náhod je mladý lodní důstojník Edmond Dantes bez...
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Audiokniha Bratia Karamazovovci, ktorú napíal Fjodor Michajlovič Dostojevskij. Bratia Karamazovovci je vrcholné filozofické dielo Fiodora Michajloviča Dostojevského, ktoré skúma zložité morálne, duchovné a psychologické otázky ľudskej existencie.
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Audiobook Love, written by Elizabeth von Arnim.Romance blossoms when Catherine, a 47-year-old widow, and the 25-year-old Christopher meet at repeated performances of a poorly attended play. However, 1920s London society is shocked by such a match, its disapproval...
26 €