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Francis Monkman

Classical Concussion / Predictions

Classic Summer Stories

Boats, beaches, magic, mysteries and more abound in this sun-drenched collection of summer stories.Two strangers embark on a feverish, dreamlike encounter abroad in Algernon Blackwood's 'The Olive'. A man…

Irmgard Keun

Nach Mitternacht

<<Der beste satirische Roman über Nazideutschland>> Arthur KoestlerFrankfurt, 1936: Menschenmassen strömen auf den Opernplatz und warten auf den Besuch Hitlers. Mittendrin und doch abseits ver…

Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen's Complete Fairy Tales

Enjoy these classic tales of mermaids, princesses, ducklings, and dancing shoes from master storyteller Hans Christian Andersen.All the best-loved fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, including "T…

Karen Blixen

The Dreaming Child

'As for me I have one ambition only: to invent stories, very beautiful stories'Gothic, expansive and truly spellbinding, Karen Blixen's short stories offer incisive psychological portraits and imaginative…

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath, then to Southampton and finally to Chawton in Hampshire. She began writing Pride and Prejudice when she was t…

Vladimir Nabokov

Revenge

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'And this is fantasy, the flutter, the rapture of fantasy!'A bashful dragon, a lost wood-sprite, the prophet Elijah and the Devil disguised as a mid…

Margaret Cavendish

The Blazing World

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security'In 1666, Margaret Cavendish had a vision: there …

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Principito, El

Forced to make an emergency landing in the desert, an aviator is trying to repair his aircraft when a little voice says to him: "Please... draw me a sheep!" It is a boy dressed as a prince, who …

Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility. Anniversary Edition

One of six new delightful and collectible hardback editions from Penguin Classics, publishing to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th anniversary'The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shal…

Irmgard Keun,

The Artificial Silk Girl

This enthralling tale of a "material girl" in 1930s Berlin is the masterpiece of a literary icon, rediscovered and restored to the same heights as such luminaries as Isherwood and Brecht.In 1931…

Jane Austen

Emma. Anniversary Edition

One of six new delightful and collectible hardback editions from Penguin Classics, publishing to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th anniversary'I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I …

Virginia Woolf

Orlando

Virginia Woolf's fantastical novel about an Elizabethan nobleman who lives for three centuries and transitions into a woman, with a new introduction by Carmen Maria Machado.The long-lived protagonist of O…

Edgar Allan Poe,

Der Untergang des Hauses Usher (illustrierter Roman)

Das imposante Haus Usher wird einzig vom letzten Stammhalter der Familie, Roderick, und seiner Zwillingsschwester Madeline bewohnt. Roderick behauptet seit einiger Zeit, er leide unter einer schweren Kran…

Henry Miller

Plexus

Explores a mans desperate desire for freedom. It finds him in the midst of his stormy marriage to the volatile, duplicitous Mona, and joyfully quitting his dreary job for a hand-to-mouth existence in Broo…

Nancy Jardine, Ocelot Press

Tailored Truths

Tailored Truths, Book 2 of the Silver Sampler Series, continues the life story of the main character Margaret Law from Book 1, Novice Threads.Tailored Truths: An engrossing Victorian Scotland Saga (The Si…

Ingeborg Bachmann,

The Honditsch Cross

Written when Ingeborg Bachmann was only eighteen, The Honditsch Cross, her second-longest completed work of prose, is a historical novella set during the final days of the Napoleonic occupation of Austria…

Thomas Mann,

Death in Venice

A sumptuous new translation of the sublime novella of desire, obsession, and one man's downfall; another classic from the author of THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN."Probably the greatest of modern German novelist…

Jane Austen

Persuasion. Anniversary Edition

One of six new delightful and collectible hardback editions from Penguin Classics, publishing to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th anniversary'Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every en…