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Turn of the Screw and Other Stories(2007) JAMES, HENRY*The inspiration behind Netflix's The Haunting of Bly Manor*Discover Henry James's most famous and terrifying story in an edition which also includes a unique selection of his best loved ghost stories. A young governess is sent to a great country houseVezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea(2011) VERNE, JULESAn adventure classic of deep-sea volcanoes, giant squid and the renegade scientist Captain Nemo. Professor Aronnax embarks on an expedition to hunt down and destroy a menacing sea monster. However, he discovers that the beast is metal - it is a giant suVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Northanger Abbey(2008) AUSTEN, JANE'Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire' J. Her naivety and love of sensational novels lead her to approach the fashionable social scene in Bath and her stay at nearby Northanger Abbey with preconceptions that have embarrassing andVezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Portrait of a Lady(2011) JAMES, HENRYWhen Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy her freedom, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. Then she findsVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Mansfield Park(2008) AUSTEN, JANEBut when the glamorous and exciting Henry and Mary Crawford arrive in the area, Edmund starts to grow close to Mary and Fanny finds herself dealing with feelings she has never experienced before. 'Full of the energies of discord - sibling rivalry, greedVezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Sense and Sensibility(2007) AUSTEN, JANEbut, like everybody else, it must be in my own way’Discover the beloved story of sisters, love and society that launched Jane Austen’s career. Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous.Vezava: Mehka9,80 € -
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth(2012) TOLSTOY, LEOOffers an account of a young person's emerging awareness of the world and of his place within it.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Emma(2007) AUSTEN, JANEDiscover the classic story behind the major new film'Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility' Observer Emma is young, rich and independent.Vezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Les Miserables(1998) HUGO, VICTOROut of extreme poverty Jean Valjean steals a loaf of bread and then spends many years trying to escape his reputation as a criminal. In later years he rises socially and is a respectable member of society; but policeman Javert will not allow him to forgetVezava: Trda30,84 € -
Bostonians(2000) JAMES, HENRYBasil Ransom, a young Mississippi lawyer arrives to Boston in search of a career. Through his cousin, Olive Chancellor, Ransom comes to meet Verena, the beautiful daughter of a charlatan faith-healer. Olive hopes to win the girl over to the feminist causeVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio(2006) SONGLING, PUAct as miniatures that aim to be regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. These tales with their prose and wordplay, include 104 stories that reveal a world, in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist monk conjures up a pear tree, a schoVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Manuscript Found in Saragossa(1996) POTOCKI, JANAlphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stVezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Roderick Hudson(1986) JAMES, HENRYWhen Rowland Mallet first sees a sculpture by Roderick Hudson, he is astounded and pronounces it to be a work of genius. He wishes to give the artist the opportunity to develop his talent. But Roderick soon loses his inspiration and Rowland loses controlVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Washington Square(2007) JAMES, HENRYWhen timid and plain Catherine Sloper is courted by the dashing and determined Morris Townsend, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter, delivers an ultimatum: break off her engagement, or be stripped of her inheritaVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Awakening(2011) CHOPIN, KATEThe Pontellier family are spending a hot, lazy holiday on the Gulf of Mexico. When an illicit summer romance awakens new ideas and longings in Edna, she can barely understand herself, and cannot hope for aid or acceptance in the stifling attitudes of LouiVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Tale of Two Cities(1993) DICKENS, CHARLESFamous 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 psychology and the dark emotions aroused by the Revolution, illumVezava: Trda23,82 € -
Lorna Doone(2006) BLACKMORE, R. D.John Ridd is a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of seventeenth-century England. He is just a boy when his father is slain by the Doones, a lawless clan inhabiting wild Exmoor on the border of Somerset and Devon. Seized by curiosVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Life(2009) MAUPASSANT, GUY DEThe first of Maupassant's six novels, A Life (Une Vie) (1883) is the story of Jeanne de Lamare, the only daughter of wealthy Norman aristocrats whose life is beset by treachery and disillusion.Vezava: Mehka10,68 € -
Cranford(2011) GASKELL, ELIZABETHCranford is a vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, dominated by its independent and refined women, a blend of social comedy and astute observation. This edition includes two related short works by Gaskell and coVezava: Mehka11,20 €
