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His Dark Materials
Gift Edition including all three novels: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass
Inbunden, 2011, 12-15 år
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (10)
309 kr
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Fantasy, mystery, war and love - it's all here in the magical trilogy His Dark MaterialsThis BEAUTIFUL GIFT collection features ALL THREE titles in the award-winning trilogy: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and THE AMBER SPYGLASSThe Amber SpyglassWill and Lyra, whose fates are bound together by …
Ficciones
Inbunden, 1993
199 kr
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FICTIONS is perhaps the single most mysterious and extraordinary collection of short stories written this century. Influenced by writers as disparate as Lewis Carroll, Stevenson and Cervantes, Borges is nethertheless a complete original who can turn dry logical puzzles in to enchanting fables. The …
Brave New World
Inbunden, 2013
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (8)
209 kr
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Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few …
Foundation Trilogy
Av Isaac Asimov
Inbunden, 2010
4,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (7)
249 kr
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It is the story of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psycho-historian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the future has in store: a dark age of ignorance, barbarism and violence that will last for thirty thousand …
Temple Of The Golden Pavilion
Inbunden, 1994
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
194 kr
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Generally regarded both in Japan and in the West as his most successful novel, THE TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILION brings together all Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religious life and the history of his own nation. Based on actual incident, the burning of a celebrated temple, the …
Animal Farm
Inbunden, 1993
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
179 kr
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A biting satire on dictatorship written during the Second World War and published in 1945, ANIMAL FARM is perhaps the most celebrated twentieth-century English satire after the same writer's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR. One of the very few writers to be compared in power, artistry and moral authority with …
Life and Fate
Inbunden, 2022
249 kr
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Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the Red Army, and around an extended family, the Shaposhnikovs, and their many friends and acquaintances, Life and Fate recounts the experience of characters caught up in an …
Lolita
Inbunden, 1992
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
209 kr
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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'. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? …
One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Inbunden, 1995
219 kr
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In the book which put South America on the literary map, Marquez tells the haunting story of a community lost in the depths of that almighty continent where time passes slowly. A poetic masterpiece whose rich and powerful language easily survives the translation from Spanish, this is the most …
Grapes Of Wrath
Inbunden, 1993
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
209 kr
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An epic story of the nineteen-thirties' Depression which traces the story of one destitute family among the thousands who fled the Dust Bowl to the promise of California, THE GRAPES OF WRATH awakened the conscience of a nation. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize on its appearance in 1939, Steinbeck's novel …
General in his Labyrinth
Inbunden, 2004
179 kr
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With the style and eloquent language that earned him the Nobel prize for literature, Marquez weaves a stunning story of glory and despair. Both real history and Marquez' imagination let us enter the world of Simon Bolivar, Liberator of South America, in all his humanity - good and evil. Bolivar …
I, Claudius, Claudius the God
Inbunden, 2026
246 kr
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A grandson of Mark Antony, young Claudius is mistaken for a weakling and an idiot because of his stutter and his physical infirmities and grows up learning to use his reputation for harmlessness as a shield. Dismissed as insignificant by his powerful relatives as they compete with each other for …
Second Sex
Inbunden, 1993
219 kr
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THE SECOND SEX is a hymn to human freedom and a classic of the existentialist movement. It also has claims to be the most important s ingle book in the history of feminism. In the forty years since its publication De Beauvoir's then revolutionary thesis - that the subordination of women is not a …
Sun Also Rises
Inbunden, 2022
209 kr
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The Sun Also Rises is both a tragic love story and a searing group portrait of hapless American expatriates drinking, dancing, and chasing their illusions in post-World War I Europe. The man at its centre, world-weary journalist Jake Barnes, is burdened both by a wound acquired in the war and by …
Master and Margarita
Inbunden, 1992
209 kr
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"My favorite novel -it's just the greatest explosion of imagination, craziness, satire, humor, and heart." Daniel Radcliffe.The devil with his retinue, a poet incarcerated in a mental institution for speaking the truth, and a startling re-creation of the story of Pontius Pilate, constitute the …
House on Mango Street
Av Sandra Cisneros, John Phillip Santos
Inbunden, 2024
190 kr
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The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fiftyyears. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of EsperanzaCordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she willbecome. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it …
I Write to Find Out What I am Thinking
Collected Non Fiction
Av Joan Didion
Inbunden, 2025
209 kr
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This hardcover omnibus edition of Didion's collected nonfiction contains her final four books: Blue Nights, South and West, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, and her bestselling and most famous work, The Year of Magical Thinking In her essay “Why I Write” (included in this volume), Joan Didion explained …
Ulysses
Av James Joyce
Inbunden, 1992
251 kr
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James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on one day in June 1904. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature and was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest …
Beloved
Inbunden, 2006
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
190 kr
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It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the …
Border Trilogy
All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain
Inbunden, 2008
312 kr
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This handsome edition of McCarthy's completed Border Trilogy in one volume gives the reader one of the most important works of American fiction of the last decades. McCarthy's work is far more than a western, but crosses the borders between fiction and philosophy, the real and the world of dream. …
Samuel Beckett Trilogy
Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable
Inbunden, 2015
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
239 kr
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Samuel Beckett is the greatest Irish novelist of the later twentieth century, and this trilogy of novels is his masterpiece -which makes it perhaps the outstanding literary work of our time. Because Beckett has a reputation for being difficult, even obscure, readers of the trilogy are bound to be …
African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart No Longer at Ease Arrow of God
Inbunden, 2010
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
251 kr
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Chinua Achebe is considered the father of African literature in English, the writer who 'opened the magic casements of African fiction' for an international readership. Following the 50th anniversary of the publication of his ground-breaking Things Fall Apart, Everyman republish Achebe's first and …
Goodbye to all that
Inbunden, 2018
159 kr
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Robert Graves, aged nineteen, left school within a week of the outbreak of World War I, and immediately volunteered with the Royal Welch Fusiliers. His experiences as a junior officer form the heart of this compelling autobiography. Beginning with an ironic overview of his Edwardian childhood, he …
Independent People
Inbunden, 2020
199 kr
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Set in the early decades of the twentieth century, Independent People is a masterly realist novel evoking in rich detail a family and a rural community struggling to survive in the starkest of landscapes. At the same time it is infused with an intense awareness of Iceland's saga tradition and …
Stories of Ray Bradbury
Av Ray Bradbury
Inbunden, 2010
309 kr
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p-Included here are famous tales like 'Sound of Thunder', in which the carelessness of a group of time-travellers leads to disastrous consequences, and 'The Veldt', in which two seemingly innocent young children transform their nursery into a lethal trap. Here are the Martian stories, tales that …
Atonement
Av Ian McEwan
Inbunden, 2014
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
190 kr
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On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By …
All Quiet on the Western Front
Inbunden, 2018
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
203 kr
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In 1914 Paul Bäumer and his classmates are marched to the local recruiting office by a sentimentally patriotic form-master. On a calm October day in 1918, only a few weeks before the Armistice, Paul will be the last of them to be killed. In All Quiet on the Western Front he tells their story.A few …
Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Av Oliver Sacks
Inbunden, 2023
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
187 kr
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Neurologist Oliver Sacks investigates the complex relationship between the brain and the mind and, almost impossibly, manages to make his subject matter not only accessible to the general reader, but utterly absorbing. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals …
Flann O'Brien The Complete Novels
Inbunden, 2007
300 kr
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In the five novels by Ireland's greatest comic writer we can explore the full range of his invention, from the multi-layered madness of At Swim-Two-Birds to the piercing realism of The Hard Life and the surreal logic of The Third Policeman. This is a world where bicycles listen to conversations, …
Ada
or Ardor
Inbunden, 2025
209 kr
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This story of a man’s lifelong entanglement with his sister is not only a love story; it manages also to be a fairy tale, an epic, a philosophical treatise on the nature of time, a parody of the history of the novel, and an erotic catalogue. It concludes with an ingenious appendix by the author, …
