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  • THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
    Sinopsis"To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex..." The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 1892. The stories are not in...
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    5,00 €4,75 €

  • TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
    HARPER LEE
    'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes ...
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    11,65 €11,07 €

  • GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
    SWIFT, JONATHAN
    SinopsisGulliver's Travels purports to be a travel book, and describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. A consumately skilful blend of fantasy and realism makes Gulliver's Travels by turns hilarious, frightening, and profound. This new edition includes the c...
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    8,00 €7,60 €

  • BRAVE NEW WORLD
    HUXLEY, ALDOUS
    Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free.A visit to one of the few rema... ...
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    15,20 €14,44 €

  • OWC - PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
    AUSTEN, JANE
    SinopsisWith the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out. Pride encounters prejudice, upward-mobility confronts social disdain, and quick-wittedness challenges sagacity, as misconceptions and hasty judgements lead to heartache and scandal. ...
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    7,30 €6,94 €

  • RITA HAYWORTH AND SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (FORMAT B)
    KING, STEPHEN
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s beloved novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption—the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award–nominee The Shawshank Redemption—about an unjustly imprisoned convict who seeks a strangely satisfying revenge, is now available for the first time as a standalone book. ...
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    9,95 €9,45 €

  • THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES (HUNGER GAMES T
    COLLINS, SUZANNE
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    12,25 €11,64 €

  • CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, THE
    FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
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    12,00 €11,40 €

  • MARTIAN CHRONICLES, THE
    BRADBURY, RAY
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    13,95 €13,25 €

  • SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE
    VONNEGUT, KURT
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    14,75 €14,01 €

  • A STUDY IN SCARLET
    DOYLE, CONAN
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    15,00 €14,25 €

  • THE CASE BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
    ?It can?t hurt now,? was Mr. Sherlock Holmes?s comment when, for the tenth time in as many years, I asked his leave to reveal the following narrative. So it was that at last I obtained permission to put on record what was, in some ways, the supreme moment of my friend?s career...?The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve Sherlock Holmes short stories (56 in to...
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    5,00 €4,75 €

  • THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD
    JOHN LE CARRÉ
    u003cbu003eAs we publish all of le Carre's work for the first time, a special look for the books featuring his iconic character, George Smileyu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e In 1963 John le Carre published his third book, u003ciu003eThe Spy Who Came in from the Coldu003c/iu003e. Written over a period of about five weeks in response to the fear and ugliness of the Berlin W...
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    11,85 €11,26 €

  • THE PHOTOGRAPH
    PENELOPE LIVELY
    A gorgeous novel by the Booker-winning author, now a Penguin Essentialu003cbru003e u003cbru003e Searching through a little-used cupboard at home, Glyn Peters chances upon a photograph he has never seen before. Taken in high summer, many years earlier, it shows his wife, Kath, holding hands with another man.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e Glyn's work as a historian should have inured ...
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    10,00 €9,50 €

  • BEAUTIFUL RUINS
    JESS WALTER
    The gorgeous, glamorous u003ciu003eNew York Timesu003c/iu003e bestseller set in 1960s Italy and modern-day Hollywood - now a Penguin Essentialu003cbru003e u003cbru003e The story begins on the Italian coast in 1962. A young innkeeper watches in disbelief as a beautiful American girl gets out of a boat and climbs towards his hotel. She turns out to be an actress, on the run from ...
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  • SUBMARINE
    JOE DUNTHORNE
    Meet Oliver Tate, 15. Convinced that his father is depressed ('Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner') and his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher, 'a hippy-looking twonk', he embarks on a hilariously misguided campaign to bring the family back together. Meanwhile, he is also trying to lose his virginity - before he turns sixteeen - ...
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  • SWALLOWING GEOGRAPHY
    DEBORAH LEVY
    Through the voice of the irreverent and ironic narrator J.K., this story interrogates the yearning of discontented children, imagined homes and strangers and histories at the turbulent close of the 20th century. ...
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    11,00 €10,45 €

  • LITTLE WOMEN
    LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
    u003cbu003eIncluding an introduction from writer and feminist activist Scarlett Curtis, curator of Sunday Times Bestseller u003ciu003eFeminists Don't Wear Pink.u003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbu003eu003ciu003e u003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e Meet the March Sisters: u003cbru003e- u003cbu003eMegu003c/bu003e is the eldest and on the brink of love.u003cbru003e- Then t...
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    10,00 €9,50 €

  • THE CHRYSALIDS
    JOHN WYNDHAM
    'WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT!' u003cpu003eIt is many years since God sent the Tribulation to punish the forebears for their sins, and in the rural settlement of Waknuk David Strorm's father decries any and all blasphemies against nature. Little does he realise that David and his cousin Rosalind, have their own secret aberration which would label them as mutants. But as they grow ...
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  • LITTLE WOMEN
    LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
    ogether they're the March sisters. Their father is away at war and times are difficult, but the bond between the sisters is strong. The family may not have much money, but that doesn't stop them from creating their own fun and forming a secret society. Through sisterly squabbles, happy times and sad, their four lives follow very different paths, and they discover that growing u...
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  • SKIN AND OTHER STORIES
    ROALD DAHL
    u003cbu003eHOWu003c/bu003e would you dispose of a murder weapon without causing suspicion?u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbu003eWHEREu003c/bu003e would you hide a diamond where no one else would think of looking?u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbu003eWHATu003c/bu003e if you discovered the tattoo on your back was worth a million dollars?u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbu003eELEVEN T...
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  • THE SIGN OF THE FOUR
    SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
    Sinopsis"Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle and rolled back his left shirtcuff..." The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....
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  • THE MILLSTONE
    MARGARET DRABBLE
    u003cbu003eA celebration of the drama and intensity of the mother-child relationship, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. u003cpu003eu003c/bu003eIt is the Swinging Sixties, and Rosamund Stacey is young and inexperienced at a time when sexual liberation is well on its way. She conceals her ignorance beneath a show of independence, and becomes pregnant as a resul...
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  • LITTLE MEN
    LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
    With two young sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the unusual school at Plumfield, Jo March - now Mrs Jo Bhaer - couldn't be happier. But the boys have a habit of getting into scrapes, and their mischievous antics call for the warm and affectionate support of the whole March family to help avoid disaster... ...
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    11,60 €11,02 €

  • THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE
    PHILIP K. DICK
    u003cpu003eu003cbu003eNOW AN AMAZON ORIGINAL SERIESu003c/bu003eu003c/pu003e u003cpu003eu003cbu003e'Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.'u003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanes...
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  • THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS
    JOHN WYNDHAM
    u003cbu003eThe most famous catastrophe novel of the twentieth century, John Wyndham's u003ciu003eThe Day of the Triffidsu003c/iu003e, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.u003c/bu003eu003cpu003eu003ciu003e'When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.'u003c/iu003e u003cpu003eWhen ...
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  • PENGUIN CLASSICS ANIMAL FARM
    GEORGE ORWELL
    'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others'u003cbru003eu003cbru003eWhen the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless élite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take co...
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    12,40 €11,78 €

  • NORTHANGER ABBEY
    AUSTEN, JANE
    u003cbu003eThe Penguin English Library Edition of u003ciu003eNorthanger Abbey u003c/iu003eby Jane Austenu003cbru003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbu003e'To look u003ciu003ealmost u003c/iu003epretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive'u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu...
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    10,85 €10,31 €

  • DR JEKYLL ADN MR HYDE
    ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
    u003cbu003eThe Penguin English Library Edition of u003ciu003eDr Jekyll and Mr Hyde u003c/iu003eby Robert Louis Stevensonu003cbru003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbu003e'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil'u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003ePublished as a 'shilling shocker', Robert ...
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  • BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
    TRUMAN CAPOTE
    u003cbu003e'What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits . . . 'u003c/bu003eMeet Holly Golightly - a free spirited, lop-sided romantic girl about town. With her tousled blond hair and u...
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    12,50 €11,88 €


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