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Mrs Dalloway
Häftad, 2025
105 kr
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'For there she was.'Mrs Dalloway follows a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class woman in London, in June 1923, as she prepares for a party. Clarissa's thoughts and actions are interwoven with the trauma and bereavement of Septimus Smith, a poor young man suffering from …
The Monk
Häftad, 2016
117 kr
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'He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.'The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and the first horror novel in English literature. The respected monk Ambrosio, the Abbot of a Capuchin …
Bleak House
Av Charles Dickens, Stephen Gill
Häftad, 2008
119 kr
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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - -between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society …
Walden
Av Henry David Thoreau, Stephen Allen Fender
Häftad, 2008
117 kr
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`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account …
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Häftad, 2015
117 kr
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'no one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied'As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' and the other works in this volume, Tolstoy conjures characters who, tested to the limit, …
The Count of Monte Cristo
Av Alexandre Dumas, David Coward
Häftad, 2008
141 kr
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'people get out of prison, and when they get out, and their name is Edmond Dantès, they take their revenge!'Falsely accused of treason, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on his wedding day and imprisoned in the island fortress of the Château d'If. Having endured years of incarceration, he …
Revelations of Divine Love
Häftad, 2015
129 kr
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'All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well'Julian of Norwich is one of the most celebrated figures of the English Middle Ages. She is esteemed as one of the subtlest writers and profoundest thinkers of the period for her account of the revelations that she …
The Trial
Av Franz Kafka, Ritchie Robertson
Häftad, 2009
129 kr
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'Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K. for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.'A successful professional man wakes up one morning to find himself under arrest for an offence which is never explained. The mysterious court which conducts his trial is …
The Masnavi, Book Two
Häftad, 2008
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
147 kr
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'You don't seek guidance from those drunken men,So why insist they mend their rags again?God's lovers stand beyond all faiths, as theyAre shown by God Himself a higher way.'Book Two of Rumi's Masnavi is concerned with the challenges facing the seeker of Sufi enlightenment. In particular it focuses …
The Mabinogion
Häftad, 2008
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
129 kr
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'I cannot be killed indoors,' he said, 'nor out of doors; I cannot be killed on horseback, nor on foot.' 'Well,' she said, 'how can you be killed?'Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history - these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous …
Six Tragedies
Av Seneca
Häftad, 2010
158 kr
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Phaedra * Oedipus * Medea * Trojan Women * Hercules Furens * ThyestesSeneca's plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behaviour. …
The Masnavi, Book One
Häftad, 2008
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (4)
119 kr
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'The pen would smoothly write the things it knewBut when it came to love it split in two,A donkey stuck in mud is logic's fate -Love's nature only love can demonstrate.'Rumi's Masnavi is widely recognized as the greatest Sufi poem ever written, and has been called 'the Koran in Persian'. The …
Middlemarch
Av George Eliot, David Carroll
Häftad, 2019
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
105 kr
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'the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts' The greatest 'state of the nation' novel in English, Middlemarch addresses ordinary life at a moment of great social change, in the years leading to the Reform Act of 1832. Through her portrait of a Midlands town, George Eliot …
The Complete Writings
Av Zhuāngzï
Häftad, 2024
147 kr
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'Forget the years, forget norms, let yourself be stirred by the boundless.'The Zhuangzi -- an anthology of anonymous writings produced in China between the fourth and second centuries BC -- is one of the world's great literary treasures and the single most important source for early Daoist …
The Red and the Black
A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2009
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
153 kr
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In this vigorous and fast-moving novel of post-Napoleonic France, Julien Sorel's plans to reach the higher echelons of society through the priesthood are defelected by his realization that the attainment of happiness is of greater consequence than the pursuit of ambition. Subtitled `A Chronicle of …
The Prince
Häftad, 2008
94 kr
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'A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought...but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.'When Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a …
Pride and Prejudice
Häftad, 2019
81 kr
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"He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention." Pride and Prejudice , one of the most famous love stories of all time, has also proven itself as a treasured mainstay of the English literary canon. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr. …
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Av Oscar Wilde, Joseph Bristow
Häftad, 2008
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
93 kr
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'The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.'When Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, he is captivated by his own beauty. Tempted by his world-weary, decadent friend Lord Henry Wotton, he wishes to stay forever young, and pledges his very soul to keep his good looks. Set in …
Macbeth
The New Oxford Shakespeare
Av William Shakespeare, John Jowett
Häftad, 2024
93 kr
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'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?'Dark and violent, Macbeth is a restless, haunting exploration of the human costs of violence and power. One of the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's plays, Macbeth has endured as a psychologically and supernaturally …
Frankenstein
or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text
Av Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Nick Groom
Häftad, 2019
99 kr
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By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened...Frankenstein is the most …
Mary Barton
Av Elizabeth Gaskell, Shirley Foster
Häftad, 2008
117 kr
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'It's the masters as has wrought this woe; it's the masters as should pay for it.'Set in Manchester in the 1840s - a period of industrial unrest and extreme deprivation - Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the city's working-class community. Paralleling the …
The Histories
Av Polybius
Häftad, 2010
137 kr
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'no one else in our times has attempted to write a universal history'Polybius' ambitious goal was to describe how Rome conquered the Mediterranean world in less than fifty-three years. This great study of imperialism takes the reader back to Rome's first encounter with Carthage in 264 and forward …
The Karamazov Brothers
Häftad, 2008
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
129 kr
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Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons - the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice …
The Peloponnesian War
Av Thucydides
Häftad, 2009
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
148 kr
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'The greatest historian that ever lived'Such was Macaulay's verdict on Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War, the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta as rival powers and political systems that lasted for twenty-seven years from 431 to 404 BC, involved …
Discourses on Livy
Häftad, 2008
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
129 kr
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Discourses on Livy (1531) is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference for a republican state. Comparing the practice of the ancient Romans with that of his contemporaries provided Machiavelli …
Gulliver's Travels
Av Jonathan Swift, Claude Rawson m. fl.
Häftad, 2008, 9-12 år
81 kr
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'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.'In these words Gulliver represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just set down; but …
Anna Karenina
Av Leo Tolstoy
Häftad, 2016
129 kr
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Love... it means too much to me, far more than you can understand.At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and …
Vathek
Av William Beckford, Thomas Keymer
Häftad, 2013
119 kr
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'Woe to the rash mortal who seeks to know that of which he should remain ignorant; and to undertake that which surpasseth his power!'The Caliph Vathek is dissolute and debauched, and hungry for knowledge. When the mysterious Giaour offers him boundless treasure and unrivalled power he is willing to …
About Love and Other Stories
Häftad, 2008
123 kr
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'the greatest short story writer who has ever lived'Raymond Carver's unequivocal verdict on Chekhov's genius has been echoed many times by writers as diverse as Katherine Mansfield, Somerset Maugham, John Cheever and Tobias Wolf. While his popularity as a playwright has sometimes overshadowed his …
Villette
Av Charlotte Brontë, Margaret Smith
Häftad, 2008
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
117 kr
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'I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for I have been reading Villette, a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre.' George Eliot Lucy Snowe, in flight from an unhappy past, leaves England and finds work as a teacher in Madame Beck's school in 'Villette'. Strongly drawn to …
