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Dies ist Hermann Hesses letztes, sein wichtigstes und anspruchsvollstes Werk. Es ist ein Buch der Zukunft: Der Autor transportiert das Leben seines Helden Josef Knecht in das Jahr 2200. Er entwickelt mit dem „Glasperlenspiel“, in dem nicht weniger al ..

Ein Buch müsse die Axt sein „für das gefrorene Meer in uns“, forderte Franz Kafka einmal – nur wenige Werke der Weltliteratur kommen diesem Motto so nahe wie der letzte der drei großen Romane des Prager Dichters: Eines Nachts gelangt der Landvermesse ..

Jeder Versuch, ins Schloss zu gelangen, misslingt; so bleibt es nah und fern zugleich; seine Hierarchie fordert Gehorsam, aber die Weisungen bleiben dunkel und unverständlich.

Ein Mann, Exilrusse, versucht das wahre Leben seines Halbbruders, des Schriftstellers Sebastian Knight, zu rekonstruieren. Er besitzt nichts als ein paar Jugenderinnerungen, einige magere Informationen, eine intime Kenntnis der Knightschen Bücher – u ..

Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: ‚Of all my books I like this the best‘.Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author's own enthusiasm for this greatly loved classic, possibly because of its aut ..

Dickens' great coming-of-age novel, now in a beautiful clothbound Penguin edition. This is the novel Dickens regarded as his ‚favourite child‘ and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experiences from childhood to the discov ..

A great addition to Alma Classics collection. This edi.on contains extensive notes on the text together with extra material on the author's life and works.

New edition of the SF classic, first published in 1951.

A charity murder game at a Devon house turns into the real thing…Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well known crime writer, agrees t ..

A biting satire of social pretensions and pomposity, Dead Souls, here presented in a brand new translation, is part of Alma Classics Evergreens series of popular classics.

Classic of Russian literature.

Kniha Death Comes for the Archbishop vydaná v nakladatelství UNION SQUARE & CO v roce 2023, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 320, ISBN-13: 9781454951063, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passeneger plane…

‚It is only a bruise‘ A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident… One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste ..

„The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories“ is a collection of stories that emerged from a profound spiritual crisis, during which Leo Tolstoy believed that he had encountered death itself. This „Penguin Classics“ edition is translated with an intro ..

The Death of the Gods. Julian the Apostate is a novel by Dmitry Merezhkovsky, first published in 1895 as the first instalment of „The Christ and Antichrist“ trilogy. Exploring the theme of the ‚two truths‘, those of Christianity and the Paganism, and devel

Agatha Christie's most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover to tie in with the highly anticipated 2020 film adaptation. The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been sho ..

Beloved detective Hercule Poirot embarks on a journey to Egypt in one of Agatha Christie’s most famous mysteries.The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. S ..

Agatha Christie's most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linne ..

Set against the background of the Black Death of 1348, Boccaccio's undisputed masterpiece recaptures both the tragedies and comedies of medieval life and is surely one of the greatest achievements in the history of literature. Revised reissue.

This is a collection of short stories which explore the ultimate in sexual possibility, from a female angle.

Der kleine Simplex versteht die Welt nicht mehr. Sein gefesselter Vater, dessen salzüberzogene Füße eine Ziege hemmungslos leckt, lacht zwar, doch richtig fröhlich ist er nicht. Simplex lacht „Gesellschaft halber“ mit und begreift nicht, dass die Rei ..

Eine der berühmtesten Erzählungen der modernen Literatur in neuer, zeitgemäßer Übersetzung.

Als F. Scott Fitzgeralds famoser Roman „The Great Gatsby“ 1925 erschien, erntete sein Autor von zahlreichen Schriftstellerkollegen hymnische Kritiken, doch erst die Nachkriegsjahrzehnte bescherten seinem Meisterwerk die weltweite Anerkennung, die es ..