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Mulk Raj Anand's extraordinarily powerful story of an Untouchable in India's caste system, with a new introduction by Ramachandra Guha, author of GandhiBakha is a proud and attractive young man, yet none the less he is an Untouchable - an outcast in India's caste...
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Penguin
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2014-01-02
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From the author of the bestselling Suite Française.Hélène is a troubled young girl. Neglected by her self-absorbed mother and her adored but distant father, she longs for love and for freedom. As first the Great War and then the Russian Revolution rage in the...
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Vintage Digital
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2013-12-19
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From the author of the bestselling Suite Française.In a French courtroom, the trial of a woman is taking place. Gladys Eysenach is no longer young, but she is still beautiful, elegant, cold. She is accused of shooting dead her much-younger lover. As the witnesses take...
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Vintage Digital
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2013-12-19
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When Lolita was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century. This annotated edition, a revised and considerably expanded version of the 1970 edition, does full justice to the...
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Penguin
Parution :
2013-11-28
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The New Life, which describes the stages of Dante's tragic love for beatrice, is a real Masterpiece.
Editeur :
FV Éditions
Parution :
2013-11-27
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“Frankenstein” is a novel written by Mary Shelley, published in 1818 by a small London publishing house, Lackington, Hughes, Harding. Mary Shelley was nineteen when she wrote the novel, following “late in the night” literary games with her lover and future husband...
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Les Editions de Londres
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2013-11-17
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John Buchan’s "Greenmantle" is a 1916 adventure and espionage novel. In this second book of the Richard Hannay series (following The Thirty-Nine steps), Hannay is called to the Foreign Office by Sir Walter Bullivant at the beginning of the story. His mission: thwart...
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Les Editions de Londres
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2013-11-17
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"The Power-House" is a spy novel written by John Buchan in 1913. It is set in London, and tells the story of a lawyer and MP who discovers an incredible plot aimed at destroying the foundations of Western democracies through an anarchist organisation called The...
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Les Editions de Londres
Parution :
2013-11-17
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"A modest proposal" or “A modest proposal for preventing the children of poor people from being a burthen to their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public” is a satire (or a satirical essay) written by Jonathan Swift in 1729. In this essay,...
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Les Editions de Londres
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2013-11-17
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"The portrait of Mr W.H." is a short story written by Oscar Wilde and published in Blackwood’s magazine in 1891. The story is the attempt by Oscar Wilde to uncover the identity of W.H., the mysterious individual to whom Shakespeare dedicates his Sonnets. Is Wilde’s The...
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Les Editions de Londres
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2013-11-17
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“The Canterville Ghost” is a short story written by Oscar Wilde and first published in 1887 in“The court and society review”. It is, together with Lord Arthur Savile’s crime, one of Wilde’s most famous short stories. An American family decides to move into an English...
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Les Editions de Londres
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2013-11-17
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"The Man in the Moone" is a novel by Francis Godwin probably written in the 1620s and published for the first time under the pseudonym of Domingo Gonsales after his death in 1638. The Man in the Moone can be considered as one of the major works of the late English...
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Les Editions de Londres
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2013-11-17
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"The false Burton Combs" is a crime story written by Caroll John Daly and published in the “Black mask magazine” in December 1922. The narrator, a tough guy, “kind of private eye”, is approached by a man who wants him to travel to Nantucket under his identity. Once...
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Les Editions de Londres
Parution :
2013-11-17
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Best of Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House + Hedda Gabler + Ghosts + An Enemy of the People + The Wild Duck + Peer Gynt (Illustrated)” contains 6 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2013-11-15
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Paul Dombey is an ambitious London merchant. He pins all his hopes for the future of his shipping firm on his fragile son whilst his daughter, Florence, goes unnoticed and neglected. It is only when the firm faces ruin, and Dombey is staring at a life of desolate...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-10-31
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The unfinished manuscript ofThe First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died in 1960. Although it was not published for over thirty years, it was an instant bestseller when it finally appeared in 1994.The 'first man' is Jacques Cormery,...
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Penguin
Parution :
2013-10-31
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Is it possible to die a happy death? This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel, published posthumously and greeted as a major literary event. It tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society's rules by committing a murder and...
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Penguin
Parution :
2013-10-31
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Meursault leads an apparently unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of violence. His lack of emotion and failure to show remorse only serve to increase his guilt in the eyes of the law, and challenges the fundamental values of society - a...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-10-31
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This carefully crafted ebook: “Best of Melville” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Table of contents:
Moby-Dick
D. H. Lawrence's critique of Moby-Dick
Typee
The Piazza Tales (The Piazza; Bartleby; Benito Cereno; The...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2013-10-29
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This carefully crafted ebook: “Don Quixote (illustrated & annotated) - The Unabridged Classic Ormsby Translation fully illustrated by Gustave Doré” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Don Quixote, fully titled The Ingenious...
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e-artnow
Parution :
2013-10-25
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