Fiction Books - Classic, Contemporary English, European, World Literature
Reservoir 13
11.00€
Published:6 Apr 2017 Description From the award-winning author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things and Even the Dogs. Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's loss. Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called...
Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic Stories
6.00€
Published:9 Mar 2017 Description HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. "My heart is good, but still I am a monster." A poor merchant, lost deep in the woods during a storm, seeks refuge in a forbidding castle. Thinking it is deserted, he takes advantage of the food and shelter he finds there. But when...
Mrs Dalloway
6.00€
Published:12 Sep 2013 Description HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of high-society - vivacious, hospitable and sociable on the surface, yet underneath troubled and dissatisfied with her life in post-war Britain. This disillusionment is an emotion that bubbles under the surface of all of Woolf's characters in Mrs Dalloway....
The Namesake : A Novel
10.00€
Published:1 Sep 2004 Description Dazzling...An intimate, closely observed family portrait.The New York Times Hugely appealing.People Magazine An exquisitely detailed family saga.Entertainment Weekly Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new...
The Body in the Library
7.00€
Published:4 Mar 2002 Description Agatha Christie's world-famous Miss Marple mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. It's seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now...
The Phantom of the Opera
10.00€
Format:Paperback / softback208 pages Publisher:Wordsworth Editions Ltd ISBN:9781840220735 Published:3 Mar 2008 Author: Gaston Leroux Description Based on the translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. `... the shadow turned round; and I saw a terrible death's-head, which darted a look at me from a pair of scorching eyes. I felt as if I were...
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
11.00€
Format:Paperback / softback464 pages Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd ISBN:9780140436068 Published:25 May 2000 Description Combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation, the works collected in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays are edited with an introduction, commentaries and notes by Richard Allen Cave in Penguin Classics. 'To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose...
Their Eyes Were Watching God
14.00€
Published:3 May 2018 Description She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her . . . When sixteen-year-old Janie is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly...
The Handmaid’s Tale
12.00€
Published:22 May 2017 DISCOVER the BESTSELLING DYSTOPIAN NOVEL behind the AWARD-WINNING TV SERIES in this tie-in edition introduced by Margaret Atwood. `I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.'Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was...
Crazy Like Us : The Globalization of the Western Mind
14.00€
Published:24 Mar 2011 Description It is well-known that US culture is a dominant force and a world-wide phenomenon. But it is possible that its most troubling export has yet to be accounted for? America has been the world leader in generating new mental health treatments and modern theories: it exports psychopharmaceuticals and categorises disorders, thereby defining mental illness and health....
A Doll’s House
13.50€
Description The slamming of the front door at the end of A Doll's House shatters the romantic masquerade of the Helmers' marriage. In their stultifying and infantilised relationship, Nora and Torvald have deceived themselves and each other both consciously and subconsciously, until Nora acknowledges the need for individual freedom. A revised student edition of classic set text: A Doll's House...
“The Crucible”
11.00€
Published:30 Apr 2010 Description This Student Edition of The Crucible is perfect for students of literature and drama and offers an unrivalled guide to Miller's classic play. It features an extensive introduction by Susan C. W. Abbotson which includes: a chronology of Miller's life and times; a summary of the plot and commentary on the characters, themes, language, context and...
