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Crime And Punishment
Inbunden, 1993
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (4)
239 kr
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Dostoesky's drama of sin, guilt and redemption transmutes the sordid story of an old woman's murder by a desperate student into the nineteenth century's profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel. Grim in theme and setting, the book nevertheless seduces by its combination of superbly drawn …
Count of Monte Cristo
Inbunden, 2009
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309 kr
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On the day of his wedding, Edmond Dantes, master mariner, is arrested in Marseille on trumped-up charges and spirited away to the cellars of the Chateau d'If, an impregnable sea fortress in which he is imprisoned indefinitely. Escaping from the chateau by a series of daring manoeuvres, he unearths …
Les Miserables
Av Victor Hugo
Inbunden, 1998
299 kr
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Tolstoy is said to have called Les Miserables the greatest novel ever written, and it exerted a powerful influence on the creation of War and Peace. At one level a detective story in which the relentless Inspector Javert obsessively pursues the escaped convict Jean Valjean, culminating in a …
On Liberty and Utilitarianism
Inbunden, 1992
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166 kr
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How can the individual be both free and happy? What are freedom and happiness and how do they relate to each other? These are the questions that Mill aims to answer from both a political and a philosophical perspective.
Moby-Dick
Inbunden, 1991
209 kr
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This is about the quest of Captain Ahab, a man consumed by his obsession with a legendary, giant white whale, Moby Dick. As the ship sails into dangerous waters, The captain's hysterical pursuit becomes a symbol for the inherent, often destructive, nature of human ambition. "Moby-Dick" is not …
Idiot
Inbunden, 2002
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229 kr
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This study of natural goodness is Dostoevsky’s most touching novel. Prince Myshkin, the last, poverty-stricken member of a once great family and regarded by many as an idiot, returns to Russia from a sanatorium in Switzerland in order to collect an inheritance. Before he has even arrived home he …
Pride And Prejudice
Av Jane Austen
Inbunden, 1991
215 kr
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Probably the popular favourite among Jane Austen's novels, Pride and Prejudice was the first to be written (1796-7), when the author was just twenty-one. Revised for publication thirteen years later, it combines the freshness of youth with the skill of maturity, not least in the brilliance of the …
Brothers Karamazov
Inbunden, 1997
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
251 kr
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A magnificent new translation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece, which when first published in 1991 was described by the TIMES as 'a miracle' and by THE INDEPENDENT as a near 'ideal translation'. The BROTHERS KARAMAZOV - Dostoevsky's most widely read novel - is at once a murder mystery, a mordant comedy …
On War
Inbunden, 1993
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
261 kr
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ON WAR is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. Since the work's first appearance in 1832 it has been read throughout the world, and has stimulated generations of soilders statemen, and intellectuals from …
Tom Sawyer And Huckleberry Finn
Av Mark Twain
Inbunden, 1991
209 kr
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Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, establishing the innocence of the man wrongly accused, …
Middlemarch
A Study of Provinicial Life
Av George Eliot
Inbunden, 1991
241 kr
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Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, published 1871-2, is set in the imaginary county of Loamshire during the years of unrest preceding the 1832 Reform Bill. With its complex plot, broad canvas and huge cast of characters, it has long been recognized as one of the few truly classic English …
Complete Works
Essays, Travel Journal, Letters
Inbunden, 2003
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
316 kr
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Describing his collection of Essays as ‘a book consubstantial with its author’, Montaigne identified both the power and the charm of a work which introduces us to one of the most attractive figures in European literature. A humanist, a sceptic, an acute observer of himself and others, he reflects …
Complete Short Novels
Av Anton Chekov
Inbunden, 2004
249 kr
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Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels. The Steppe-the most lyrical of the five-is an account of a nine-year-old boy's frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia to enroll in a distant …
Tale of Two Cities
Inbunden, 1993
209 kr
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This brilliantly coloured tale of the French Revolution is an historical romance set in Paris and London. Famous for the character of Sidney Carton who sacrifices himself upon the guillotine' it is a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done '- the novel is also a powerful study of crowd …
Annals and Histories
Av Tacitus
Inbunden, 2009
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
251 kr
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Tacitus was the greatest historian of the Roman empire. Born in about AD 55, he served as administrator and leading senator. This career gave him an intimate view of the empire at its highest levels, experience brought to bear on his writing.His major works are the Annals and the Histories, both of …
Sense And Sensibility
Av Jane Austen
Inbunden, 1992
190 kr
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Jane Austen seems to have been born with the comic precision and other-worldly insight she everywhere displays in Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel (1811), which, though revised later, was completed in 1797 at the age of twenty-two. This meticulously constructed story of two sisters …
Anna Karenina
Av Leo Tolstoy
Inbunden, 1992
251 kr
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Anna Karenina is the story of a woman who abandons her empty existence as a society wife and embarks on a doomed love affair with the passionate but emotionally bankrupt Vronsky. It is widely acknowledged as the greatest novel in any language.One of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina …
Agnes Grey/The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Av Anne Bronte
Inbunden, 2012
215 kr
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is Anne Bronte's second and most celebrated novel. Set in the dramatic northern landscape made familiar by the author's more famous sisters, it tells the story of Helen Graham, a mysterious single woman who rents the semi-ruinous Hall of the title. With a child but no …
Villette
Inbunden, 1992
203 kr
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The narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young …
Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
Av Samuel Johnson, James Boswell
Inbunden, 2002
173 kr
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When James Boswell persuaded Samuel Johnson to embark on a tour of Boswell’s native Scotland in 1773, the adventure resulted in two magnificent books, Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and Boswell’sJournal of a Tour to the Hebrides. Johnson offers a magisterial account of what …
War And Peace
3 vols
Av Leo Tolstoy
Inbunden, 1992
738 kr
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Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the national history that is …
Tess Of The D'urbervilles
Av Thomas Hardy
Inbunden, 1991
187 kr
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When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D’Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her ‘cousin’ Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether …
Daniel Deronda
Av George Eliot
Inbunden, 2000
190 kr
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George Eliot’s last novel, published in 1876, weaves together two stories, one about Gwendolen Harleth, the spoilt beauty who marries for money, the other concerning the mysterious hero of the title whose search for his true destiny leads him towards Zionism. All Eliot’s great themes – moral …
Hero Of Our Time
Inbunden, 1992
190 kr
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Set in the Caucasus, the scene of Russia's military campaigns in the 19th century, this is both an adventure story and a sardonic look at the heroic ideals of the author's contemporaries - which makes it all the more ironic that the main character, Pushkin, (like the author) was killed in a duel.
Great Expectations
Inbunden, 1992
209 kr
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Young Pip lives with his sister and her husband the blacksmith, with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefaction takes him from the Kent marshes to London. Pip is haunted by figures from his past - the escaped convict Magwitch, the time-withered Miss Havisham and her proud and …
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Vols 4-6
Volumes 4,5,6 The Eastern Empire
Inbunden, 1994
661 kr
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The first three volumes of Gibbon's DECLINE AND FALL (the western empire) were published by Everyman in 1993. Volumes 4-6 complete the set which is now available for the first time in many years. This year is the bicentenary of Gibbon's death, which has been widely noticed in the press, but even …
History of My Life
Inbunden, 2006
217 kr
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The name of Giacomo Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-1798), in now synonymous with amorous exploits, and there are plenty of these, vividly narrated, in him memoirs. But Casanova was not just an energetic lover. In his time he was diplomat, business man, trainee priest, traveller, prisoner, …
Complete Short Stories Of Mark Twain
Av Mark Twain
Inbunden, 2012
239 kr
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Mark Twain’s famous novels, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (available in Everyman) have long been hailed as major masterpieces, but it is less well known that the father of American literature also made his mark as a master of the short story. This is the only edition in hardcover of his complete …
Collected Shorter Fiction Boxed Set (2 Volumes)
Av Leo Tolstoy
Inbunden, 2001
656 kr
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Written over a period of more than half a century, Tolstoy’s enchanting short stories and novellas reflect every aspect of his developing art and outlook. Volume 1 of the Everyman Collected Shorter Fiction is dominated by the characteristic experiences of his early life as soldier, land-owner, …
Candide And Other Stories
Av Voltaire
Inbunden, 1992
190 kr
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The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment, and its crowning achievement was Voltaire's "Candide". It follows the worldwide encounters - with shipwrecks, earthquakes, pestilence and human insanity - of its hero and his absurd tutor, Dr Pangloss.
