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Serie: Vintage classics
paperbackEngels272 blz.9781784874001
6-2-2018
Franz Kafka (18831924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence, and for many years he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating claims at the State Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. Meer
paperbackEngels160 blz.9780099532613
4-10-2024
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humour, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she haas been made executrix of a former lover's estate. Meer
paperbackEngels112 blz.9780099273967
17-9-2024
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Meer
paperbackEngels672 blz.9780099511182
25-9-2024
When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he has no idea of the horrors awaiting him out on the vast and merciless ocean. Meer
paperbackEngels352 blz.9780099582564
13-12-2024
WITH A FOREWORD BY PATRICK HEMINGWAY AND AN INTRODUCTION BY SEAN HEMINGWAYIn 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war, it is also a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion. Meer
paperbackEngels352 blz.9780099511656
4-10-2024
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Meer
paperbackEngels624 blz.9780099503927
20-8-2025
The perfect gift for Valentine’s DayPossession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. Meer
paperbackEngels320 blz.9780099466734
4-10-2024
'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel - a black man charged with attacking a white girl. Meer
paperbackEngels288 blz.9780099475019
8-10-2024
A complex, intense American novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWith an introduction by Richard HughesEver since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key novels of this century. Meer
paperbackEngels336 blz.9780099771111
4-10-2024
One September, the author set out with a field biologist to journey 250 miles through the Himalayas to the Crystal Mountain on the Tibetan plateau. They wanted to study the wild blue sheep, the bharal, but also hoped to see the snow leopard, a creature so rarely spotted as to be nearly mythical. Meer
paperbackEngels144 blz.9780099458203
20-9-2024
In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was transformed. Meer
paperbackEngels192 blz.9780099800200
20-9-2024
He is a true artist’ New York Times Book ReviewBilly Pilgrim – hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier – has become unstuck in time. Meer
paperbackEngels176 blz.9780099588115
4-10-2024
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HELEN SIMPSON From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories. Meer
paperbackEngels256 blz.9780099285663
25-9-2024
Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Meer
paperbackEngels208 blz.9780099288473
7-3-2025
'Heartstoppingly chilling' Daily ExpressAs The Woman in Black celebrates thirty years on stage, discover the truly terrifying classic English ghost story behind the play. Meer
paperbackEngels144 blz.9780099284796
4-10-2024
A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. Meer
paperbackEngels592 blz.9780099458197
27-9-2024
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAWThe dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Meer
paperbackEngels976 blz.9780099288893
15-10-2024
Gormenghast is the vast, crumbling castle to which Titus Groan, is lord and heir. Titus is expected to rule this gothic labyrinth of turrets and dungeons, and his subjects, according to age-old rituals, but things are changing in the castle. Meer
paperbackEngels432 blz.9780099572961
3-10-2024
Christmas won't be the same this year for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as their father is away fighting in the Civil War, and the family has fallen on hard times. Meer
paperbackEngels256 blz.9780099766810
25-9-2024
Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Meer