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Monsieur Lecoq
Audiobook Monsieur Lecoq, written by Émile Gaboriau. Monsieur Lecoq, created in 1866 by Émile Gaboriau, is the first police detective hero in fiction. A meticulous and relentless investigator, the character of Lecoq influenced the creation of later fictional detectives and is cited in Conan-Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes adventure, A Study in Scarlet.
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55,00 €
Orlando
Audiobook Orlando, written by Virginia Woolf. Published in 1928, Orlando is a fictional biography that spans several centuries and follows the protagonist, Orlando, an Elizabethan nobleman who undergoes a mysterious gender transformation.
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22,00 €
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Victory
Audiobook Victory, written by Joseph Conrad. Set in the Dutch East Indies in 1900, Joseph Conrad’s last major novel, Victory, tells the story of Axel Heyst, a European who has retreated to the island of Samburan following a business misadventure. Heyst’s aim to live a solitary existence is cut short when he meets an enchanting English violinist named Lena and brings her back to his island, rescuing her from her predatory patron Schomberg.
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31,00 €
Babbitt
Audiobook Babbitt, written by Sinclair Lewis. George Babbitt has it all:** a successful real estate job, a shiny car, a modern house equipped with all the latest technology, and a devoted wife and three children. However, underneath his public persona, he’s beginning to feel that something is missing, and when a tragic incident occurs Babbitt revolts against his hollow life. Can he overthrow everything he values, or will he remain trapped in the machinery of modern life?
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28,50 €
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The World My Wilderness
Audiobook The World My Wilderness, written by Rose Macaulay. Macaulay's most sophisticated novel explores the spiritual dilemmas of the postwar world. One of the most evocative novels of London immediately after the Second World War.
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18,50 €
Elizabeth and Her German Garden
Audiobook Elizabeth and Her German Garden, written by Elizabeth von Arnim. Elizabeth von Arnim, who is best known for her later novel The Enchanted April, married a Prussian aristocrat and, with their five children, lived in Nassenheide, Pomerania. Elizabeth and Her German Garden is a semi-autobiographical novel about the joy that the protagonist finds in the delights of her Pomeranian garden, which provides relief from the stifling environment of her household.
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12,50 €
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The Hollow Needle: The Further Adventures of Arsene Lupin
Audiobook The Hollow Needle: The Further Adventures of Arsene Lupin, written by Maurice Leblanc. An exciting and entertaining listen for fans of detective fiction, The Hollow Needle features the popular character Arsene Lupin. Gentleman-burglar and master of disguise finds himself playing an intense game of cat and mouse with the young, surprisingly apt amateur-detective Isidore Beautrelet.
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20,50 €
The Lair of the White Worm
Audiobook The Lair of the White Worm, written by Bram Stoker. The Lair of the White Worm was published in 1911, shortly before Bram Stoker’s death. Set in rural England, the novel follows Adam Salton, recently returned from Australia, who encounters a mysterious series of events, all of which seem to be connected to the legend of the white worm.
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18,50 €
Potterism
Audiobook Potterism, written by Rose Macaulay. Rose Macaulay was a fascinating and influential British writer, known for her wit and intellect. She wrote numerous novels, essays and biographies, and she was highly regarded for her versatility as a writer. Her works often explored themes of social change, women’s rights and the complexities of human relationships.
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18,50 €
The Song of the Lark
Audiobook The Song of the Lark, written by Willa Cather. "The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire." A story of a young woman's awakening as an artist and her struggle to escape the constraints of a small town in Colorado.
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37,00 €
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Tales of the Elders of Ireland
Audiobook Tales of the Elders of Ireland, written by Oxford University Press. Tales of the Elders of Ireland (Acallam na Senórach) represents the largest literary text surviving from 12th-century Ireland, the most comprehensive early collection of Fenian stories and poetry. Three parallel worlds interact: the contemporary Christian world of Saint Patrick with his scribes, clerics, occasional angels, and souls rescued from Hell; the earlier pagan world of the ancient, giant Fenians and an array of Irish kings; and the timeless Otherworld, peopled by ever-young, shape-shifting fairies.
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22,00 €
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Audiobook The Thirty-Nine Steps, written by John Buchan. The Thirty-Nine Steps begins John Buchan’s series of spy novels featuring adventurer Richard Hannay. Having just returned from South Africa, he finds life dull until a mysterious American tells him about an assassination plot before being murdered in Hannay’s London flat.
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10,50 €
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Manon Lescaut
Audiobook Manon Lescaut, written by Abbé Prévost. ‘The sweetness of her glance – or rather, my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to my ruin – did not allow me to hesitate for a moment…’ So begins the story of Manon Lescaut, a tale of passion and betrayal, of delinquency and misalliance, which moves from early 18th-century Paris – with its theatres, assemblies, and gaming-houses – via prison and deportation to a tragic denouement in the treeless wastes of Louisiana.
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18,50 €
Twenty Years After
Audiobook Twenty Years After, written by Alexandre Dumas. The four dauntless comrades in arms from The Three Musketeers and The Man in the Iron Mask are reunited in this extraordinary tale. Dumas brilliantly weaves the story into the tapestry of both French and English history. In Paris the four protect Queen Anne and the young Louis XIV from swelling revolution. In England they take on the ambitious Oliver Cromwell.
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55,00 €
813
Audiobook 813, written by Maurice Leblanc. One evening, wealthy diamond merchant Rudolph Kesselbach is visited at the Palace Hotel by Arsene Lupin. The next day, Kesselbach is found dead from a gunshot wound, with Lupin’s card pinned to his shirt. The wanted Lupin is forced to use all his guile to outwit the gendarmerie and find the real murderer.
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31,00 €
Vathek
Audiobook Vathek, written by William Beckford. Written in 1786, this Oriental fantasy tells the story of a dissolute and debauched Caliph, Vathek. Having become obsessed with power and immortality, Vathek embarks on a journey to obtain supernatural powers, in pursuit of which he proves willing to renounce his religion and sacrifice both his children and his soul.
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12,50 €
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