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Barchester Towers(1983) TROLLOPE, ANTHONYAfter the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the son of the old bishop, Archdeacon Grantly, resentmeVezava: Mehka13,88 € -
Last Chronicle of Barset(2002) TROLLOPE, ANTHONYWhen Mr Crawley, curate of Hogglestock, is falsely accused of theft he suffers bitterly with his family. Crawley is an ambiguous character however, and he himself seems to bring about most of his suffering.Vezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Eugenie Grandet(2004) BALZAC, HONORE DEIn a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, the miser Grandet lives with his wife and daughter, Eugenie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. Guarding his piles of glittering treasures and his only child equally closely, he wilVezava: Mehka13,88 € -
History of the Thirteen(1974) BALZAC, HONORE DEThe three short novels that make up this book are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret society in nineteenth-century France.Vezava: Mehka18,05 € -
She(2001) HAGGARD, H. RIDEROn his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the silver casket that his father has left to him. It contains a letter recounting the legend of a white sorceress who rules an African tribe and of his father's quest to find this remote race. To find out foVezava: Mehka11,11 € -
Warden(2012) TROLLOPE, ANTHONYMr Harding is a good man, the warden to an alms house which provides a peaceful home to twelve old men. The young and zealous John Bold is also a good man, but he believes he sees in Harding's comfortable existence an injustice which must be exposed. TheVezava: Mehka13,88 € -
Way We Live Now(1994) TROLLOPE, ANTHONYAugustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys on dissolute nobility - using charm to tempt the weak into making foolish investments in his dubious schemes. Persuaded to put money into a notional plot to run a railroad from San Francisco toVezava: Mehka15,27 € -
He Knew He Was Right(1994) TROLLOPE, ANTHONYOn a visit to the Mandarin Islands, Louis Trevelyan falls in love with Emily, the daughter of the governor, and they are swiftly married and return to live in London.Vezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Way We Live Now(2012) TROLLOPE, ANTHONYWhen the Melmottes arrive in London everyone agrees their manners are wanting, their taste is execrable and their lineage and background decidedly shadowy. But their money is far from revolting, and city society quickly makes allowances for the mysteriousVezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Maxims and Reflections(1998) GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VONReveals some of the author's deepest thought on art, ethics, literature and natural science, and his reactions to books, chance encounters or his administrative work.Vezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights(2010)Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riVezava: Mehka27,79 € -
Purgatorio(2007) DANTEDepicting a realm of intense sensation and physical experience, this poem transforms the traditional Christian idea of Purgatory by showing how the free will of the aspiring soul could change wordly perversions into perfection.Vezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Paradiso(2007) DANTEContinuing his soul's search for God, guided by his beloved Beatrice, Dante progresses through the spheres of Paradise. Examining eternal questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, Dante exercised all his learning and wit, wrath and tenderness in his cVezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Mating Season(2001) WODEHOUSE, P.G.The prime example is man-about-town Bertie Wooster, doing a good turn to Gussie Fink-Nottle by impersonating him while he enjoys fourteen days away from society after being caught taking an unscheduled dip in the fountains of Trafalgar Square.Vezava: Trda20,84 € -
Mr Mulliner Speaking(2005) WODEHOUSE, P.G.More stories about the incredible Mulliner clan, following on from Meet Mr Mulliner. This volume includes such classic Wodehouse tales as ‘The Man Who Gave Up Smoking’, ‘The Awful Gladness of the Mater’, ‘Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court’ and ‘The PassinVezava: Trda18,05 € -
Tales from 1,001 Nights(2011)Contains "Aladdin", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", "Sindbad the Sailor" and many other tales from the "Arabian Nights".Vezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Man Who Was Thursday(2011) CHESTERTON, G KThe Central Anarchist Council is a secret society sworn to destroy the world. The council is governed by seven men, who hide their identities behind the names of the days of the week. But when he discovers another undercover policeman on the Council, SymeVezava: Mehka11,11 € -
Spring Fever(2004) WODEHOUSE, P.G.When a man needs only two hundred pounds to marry his cook and buy a public house, one would expect his life to be trouble free, but the fifth Earl of Shortlands has to reckon with his haughty daughter, Lady Adela, and Mervyn Spink, his butler, who also hVezava: Trda18,05 € -
Luck Of The Bodkins(2002) WODEHOUSE, P.G.Monty Bodkin's pursuit of Gertude Butterwick is temporarily interrupted by his encounter with silver-screen siren Miss Lotus Blossom, who sees in him a means of restoring relations with her idol, the novelist Ambrose Tennyson.Vezava: Trda20,84 € -
Man Upstairs(2010) WODEHOUSE, P.G.Wodehouse's well-known gift for satisfying plots and comic surprises is evident on every page, but there are also signs of his debt to earlier writers in the realistic tradition.Vezava: Trda18,05 €
