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Jill(2013) DILLWYN, AMYJill is an unconventional heroine a lady who disguises herself as a maid and runs away to London. Life above and below stairs is portrayed with irreverent wit in this fast-paced story. But at the centre of the novel is Jills unfolding love for her mistVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Botchan (Penguin Classics)(2012) SOSEKI, NATSUMEBotchan is a modern young man from the Tokyo metropolis, sent to the ultra-traditional Matsuyama district as a Maths teacher after his the death of his parents. Cynical, rebellious and immature, Botchan finds himself facing several tests.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Confessions of an Italian (Penguin Classics)(2014) NIEVO, IPPOLITOAt the age of eighty-three and nearing death, Carlo Altoviti has decided to write down the confessions of his long life. He remembers everything: his unhappy childhood in the kitchens of the Castle of Fratta; romantic entanglements during the siege of GenVezava: Mehka28,03 € -
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Immoralist(2000) GIDE, ANDREMichel had been a blindfold scholar until, newly married, he contracted tuberculosis. His will to recover brings self-discovery and the growing desire to rebel against his background of culture, decency and morality. But the freedom from constraints thatVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes(2009) DOYLE, ARTHUR CONANCollects together Sherlock Holmes' intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked strangers, ingenious heists, murderous plots and hidden jewels, which take the famous detective and his faithful sidekick Dr Watson from the streets of LondonVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings (Penguin Classics)(2003) DICKENS, CHARLESTells the story of the solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by the three ghosts of Christmas. This title also includes: "The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton", and the short story from "The Pickwick Papers" oVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
A Christmas Carol(2013) DICKENS, CHARLESMiserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited on Christmas Eve by the threeghosts of Christmas. They show him the joy of Christmas, and wretchednessof his own legacy. Inspired and chastened by what he hasseen, Scrooge resolves to change and from then on embraces anVezava: Mehka9,80 € -
Confusions of Young Master Torless(2013) MUSIL, ROBERTA new translation of Robert Musil's first novel, a fresco of psychoanalysis, philosophy, eroticism, snobbery, sado-masochism and schoolboy humour, a hothouse of alternately repressed and unchained desires that prefigure the carnage of both World Wars.Vezava: Mehka11,20 € -
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Romola(1996) ELIOT, GEORGEAlthough not among George Eliot's most admired works, this story is set in Florence at the end of the 15th century. It re-creates the picturesque complexion of the city and the characters of the historical figures, Charles VIII, Machiavelli and SavanorolaVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Folded Leaf(2012) MAXWELL, WILLIAMThe path to adulthood is littered with broken relationships. In the suburbs of 1920s Chicago two boys form an unlikely friendship. Spud Latham is slow at school but quick to fight and a natural athlete - Lymie Peters, thin, pigeon-chested and terrible aVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
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Sons and Lovers(2006) LAWRENCE, D. H.The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul - determined they will not follow their fatheVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
After Leaving Mr Mackenzie(2000) RHYS, JEANFor six months, Julia has lived alone in a drab Parisian hotel on an allowance from her ex-lover, Mr Mackenzie. When his cheques stop, Julia decides to leave France and return to London. Past her prime, exhausted by broken love affairs and addled by drinkVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
They Were Found Wanting and They Were Divided(2013) BANFFY, MIKLOSThe liberal hero, Balint, is at odds with the politics of his time; he describes the idyllic pre-industrial world of Hungarian Transylvania, later to fall into the hands of first the Nazis and then the Communists, his love for Adrienne, married to an unplVezava: Trda28,04 € -
Gogol Collected Tales(2008) GOGOL, NIKOLAICollected here are Gogol's finest tales - stories which combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller - allowing readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who pavedVezava: Trda23,82 €










