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The Beetle is a horror novel that was published in 1897 and significantly outsold Dracula, which appeared in the same year. A polymorphous Egyptian creature – the Beetle – seeks revenge on the eminent British politician Paul Lessingham for crimes committed...
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Audiobook Basil by Wilkie Collins. Appearing in 1852, Basil was Wilkie Collins’s second published novel. The eponymous narrator is emotionally torn between two women: Margaret Sherwin and his sister Clara. His marriage to Margaret, a draper’s sexually precocious...
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Audiobook The White Guard written by Mikhail Bulgakov. In the Ukrainian capital Kiev (‘the City’), life has become frightening and fragile. Bulgakov’s first full-length novel is set in the harsh and chaotic winter of 1918–19, as power struggles start to play...
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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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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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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 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Single-minded and spoilt, Undine Spragg arrives in New York determined to procure for herself a social status to match her family’s wealth. Ambition, greed and an arresting beauty soon secure her path to marriage. and also to divorce. The Custom of the Country...
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Perhaps the most autobiographical of Zola’s Rougon-Macquart cycle of novels, The Masterpiece is a hard, bleak and raw portrait of unrecognised artistic genius. Claude Lantier, brother to Nana and son of Gervaise, is a struggling painter who dreams of conquering...
33.5 €