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Two Years Before the Mast (EN)
Two Years Before the Mast is Richard Henry Dana Jr’s captivating account of life as a common sailor on board a merchant ship in the early 1830s. Initially an attempt to remedy the author’s eye fatigue, the two-year voyage from Boston to California had a transformative effect on Dana, whose diary gives a fascinating snapshot of pre-Gold Rush California.
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37,00 €
Looking Backward: 2000–1887 (EN)
Published in 1888 to immediate popularity (it was the second-ever novel to sell over one million copies in the United States), Looking Backward: 2000–1887 is a dynamic rejection of industrial capitalism, and presents a depiction of a socialist utopia. The book’s influence was such that a large number of ‘Bellamy clubs’ were established in America to discuss the book’s main ideas.
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20,50 €
The Shooting Party (EN)
In Moscow an unknown author approaches a publisher (the narrator), asking him to read and publish his manuscript. The narrator agrees to read it before the author returns three months later. At the heart of the story in the manuscript is a love triangle and themes of corruption, concealed love and fatal jealousy.
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20,50 €
The Way of Perfection (EN)
The 16th-century Spanish Carmelite nun St Teresa of Ávila was a prominent figure in the Catholic Reformation, and her writings have continued to inspire philosophers, theologians, historians and countless others interested in Christian spirituality and mysticism. She distilled her own experience into this beautifully direct and accessible ‘living book’, The Way of Perfection, as a guide for nuns in her convent.
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18,50 €
The Poetic Edda (EN)
The Poetic Edda is the most important collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry, covering the creation of the world and the coming of Ragnarok, The Doom of the Gods. The mythological poems are an exploration of the wisdom of gods and giants, and tell of the adventures of the god Thor, against hostile giants, and rivalries amongst the gods.
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20,50 €
Hide and Seek (EN)
Appearing in 1854, Hide and Seek was Wilkie Collins’s third published novel. At the centre of the plot is the mystery surrounding a deaf and dumb girl known as Madonna, whom the painter Valentine Blyth rescues from her life as a circus performer. But it is only when Blyth’s friend Zack Thorpe rebels against his disciplinarian father and falls into bad company that the secret of Madonna is revealed.
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33,50 €
A Simple Story (EN)
Published in 1791, A Simple Story concerns Miss Milner, who announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, thereby breaking through the barriers of his religious vocation and society’s standards for proper female behaviour. Central themes of the novel include the importance of proper education for women.
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28,50 €
O Pioneers! (EN)
The first part of Willa Cather’s Great Plains trilogy, O Pioneers! follows the tragedies and triumphs of Alexandra Bergson, a strong and independent young woman who inherits the family farm following the death of her father. Alexandra’s passion and shrewd instinct guide her towards success as she continues to buy more of the surrounding land and resist the challenges imposed by the harsh Nebraskan prairie.
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14,50 €
Essays (EN)
Sir Francis Bacon, sometimes known as the father of empiricism, was one of the major political figures of his day, his career culminating as Lord Chancellor under King James I in 1617. Bacon wrote widely, but it is the Essays (published in its third edition in 1625, the year before his death) for which he is best known.
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18,50 €
Nature for children, part 2
Moja kniha s názvom -Nature 2 for children- obsahuje okrem 70 fotiek slovenských motýľov nafotených z bezprostrednej vzdialenosti aj jednu anglickú rozprávku, ktorú som sám napísal a dal som ju do úvodu, aby som oživil moju druhú e-knihu. Fotky sú podľa mňa veľmi pekné, a preto som sa rozhodol, že vydám túto knihu, aby som si tieto fotky nenechal len pre seba. S pozdravom, Ján
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5,00 €
The Republic (EN)
In The Republic Socrates is asked the question ‘What is justice?’ And in order to answer it, he draws a long and detailed analogy between the individual and the city. Plato’s work forms the foundation of Western philosophy and covers a wide range of topics including political theory and ethics, with extended digressions into artistic and literary criticism, the theory and practice of education as well as epistemology and metaphysics.
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28,50 €
Clea (EN)
‘I knew that Clea would share everything with me, withholding nothing – not even the look of complicity which women reserve only for their mirrors.’ In Clea, the concluding part of The Alexandria Quartet, Darley returns to Alexandria now caught by war-fever. The conflagration has its effect on his circle – on Nessim and Justine, Balthazar and Clea, Mountolive and Pombal – and a clarity of purpose emerges as the story moves towards its cadence.
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24,00 €
Kam se poděla
Napínavý thriller o nejděsivější noční můře každého rodiče. Whitney měla jisté obavy, když vysadila svou stále náladovější dospívající dceru Amelii u domu její kamarádky. Původně ji chtěla doprovodit až ke dveřím a seznámit se s rodiči, ale Amelia odmítla dopustit něco tak trapného a ponižujícího, a tak Whitney místo toho dceři pouze zamávala z auta. Když se však druhý den vrací, otevře jí starší pár, který přísahá, že tu děvčata nejsou a nikdy ani nebyla. Whitney pátrá po Amelii a odhaluje při tom nános lží, které jí dcera namluvila. Zná vůbec tuhle dívku, kterou vychovala? Amelia ovšem není jediná, kdo má tajemství.
Mohou mít Whitneyini vlastní démoni něco společného se zmizením Amelie a dokáže matka najít svou dceru dřív, než bude pozdě?
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14,66 €
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Paradise Regained (EN)
Audiobook Paradise Regained, written by John Milton. In Paradise Regained, Satan again is on the prowl, having successfully tempted Adam and Eve and forced their departure from the Garden of Eden, here he sets out to tempt again – this time Jesus himself as he comes to the end of his forty days in the desert. The magisterial poetry of Milton enriches the encounter and, while not matching the greatness achieved in Paradise Lost, provides drama and depth.
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8,00 €
Paradise (EN)
Audiobook Paradise, written by Dante. I have been in the Heaven that takes up most of his light, and saw things there that those who descend from that height cannot speak of or forget…’ Led by his guide Beatrice, Dante leaves the Earth behind and soars through the heavenly spheres of Paradise. In this third and final part of The Divine Comedy, he encounters the just rulers and holy saints of the Church.
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12,50 €
Just So Stories (EN)
I am the cat who walks by himself and all places are alike to me’ Here are the delightful stories which Kipling first told his own children before setting them down on paper. How the Camel got his Hump, How the Leopard got his spots, How the Elephant got his Trunk, The Butterfly that Stamped, and many others.
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10,50 €
Great Ghost Stories (EN)
Audiobook Great Ghost Stories. A spine-tingling collection of classic ghost stories – a perfect way to pass those long winter nights! This set contains The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, The Horla by Guy de Maupassant, Sredni Vashtar by Saki, The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling, Lost Hearts by M. R. James and The Furnished Room by O.
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8,00 €
The Count of Monte Cristo (EN)
Audiobook The Count of Monte Cristo written by Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo is a tale of revenge and retribution. Edmond Dantes, a young, energetic sailor, is falsely accused of treason on his wedding day and incarcerated in the forbidding Château d’If. His escape and ultimate revenge on those who wronged him makes this one of the most thrilling stories in French literature, as compelling now as when it was first published in 1846.
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8,00 €
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (EN)
Alice’s adventures, funny, inventive and disturbing, have fascinated children and adults alike since their publication. This is a new unabridged recording using many voices to take the parts of The White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts and the Cheshire Cat – and, of course, Alice herself.
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10,50 €