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  • af Harriet Beecher Stowe
    383,95 kr.

    Uncle Tom's Cabin describes the story of Uncle Tom, an enslaved person portrayed as innocent and honorable, respectable and ethical in his beliefs. While being shifted by boat to an auction in New Orleans, Tom saves the life of Little Eva, a lovely and forgiving little girl, whose thankful dad then buys Tom. Later, Eva and Tom become great friends. Eva is always in a delicate situation and starts to decline quickly, and on her deathbed, she requests her father to free all his enslaved people. He makes arrangements to do so but then finds out that he is killed by the cruel Simon Legree, Tom's new owner, who has whipped Tom to death when he refuses to tell him about where the slaves escaped. Tom maintains his constant Christian attitude toward his own suffering.

  • af Max Brand
    168,95 kr.

    "The Seventh Man's Horse" is a western novel by Max Brand. The story follows the adventures of Dan Barry, a wild and unpredictable young man who is feared and respected by all who know him. Dan Barry is known for his exceptional horse-riding skills and his ability to train even the wildest of horses. When a group of outlaws steal his prized horse, the Seventh Man's Horse, Dan sets out to track them down and get his horse back. Along the way, Dan meets a young woman named Joan, who is in danger from the same group of outlaws. Dan is torn between his love for Joan and his desire to get his horse back, and he must navigate a treacherous landscape filled with danger and betrayal. As the story unfolds, Dan's character is tested in ways he never could have imagined, and he must confront his own demons and face the consequences of his actions. The novel is a classic western tale, full of action, adventure, and romance, and Max Brand's vivid descriptions of the Wild West and its inhabitants bring the story to life. Overall, "The Seventh Man's Horse" is a thrilling and entertaining novel that will appeal to fans of westerns and anyone who enjoys a good adventure story.

  • af Charles Dickens
    478,95 kr.

    The Old Curiosity Shop, novel by Charles Dickens, first printed sequentially in 1840-41 in Dickens's own weekly, Master Humphrey's Clock; it was later published in book form in 1841. The novel was exceptionally praised in its early days but later it was contempted for its embarrassed emotionality. The Old Curiosity Shop is the story of Little Nell Trent and the evil dwarf Quilp. When Little Nell's grandfather lost his curiosity shop to his lender Quilp, the girl and the old man run away London. Nell's friend Kit Nubbles and a mysterious Single Gentleman (who turns out to be the wealthy brother of Nell's grandfather) try to seek out them but are impeded by Quilp, who deluges while escaping the law. Little Nell passes away before Kit and the Single Gentleman arrive, and her dishearted grandfather expired later. The story depicts the escape of two from gloomy and corrupted life of city to countryside in seek of calm and happiness.

  • af E. Phillips Oppenheim
    223,95 kr.

    A powerful love tale from 1913 written by E. Phillips Oppenheim about the struggle of a young Englishman. The narrative is based on Douglas Guest, an orphan who was raised in the North of England by his strict, pious, and unyielding uncle, Gideon Strong. He is ordered by his uncle to wed his cousin and accept a position as a clergyman in their little village, but he confronts him, steals the money meant for his schooling, and flees to London. He meets the attractive Countess Emily de Reuss on the train, who shows interest in him. Douglas wants to be a writer in London but is disappointed that no publisher will take an interest in his work. It has been made known by Emily that no one should back him. Their two cousins, Cicely and Jane, have traveled to London to look for the murderer while his uncle is being investigated for murder. Will it be possible for them to solve the murder mystery? How was his uncle killed? The readers of this intriguing novel should read it to learn the answers to both of these queries!

  • af E. Phillips Oppenheim
    223,95 kr.

    The Zeppelin's Passenger is a fictional suspense story by E. Phillips Oppenheim. A Zeppelin crashes in a small English town and at first, no one realizes it was carrying a mysterious passenger. A tense melodrama about espionage and romance during World war I. The plot revolves around the residents of Dreymarsh finding an observation car from a German zeppelin and a Homburg hat nearby. When Mr. Hamar Lessingham, an Englishman, shows up at Sir Henry Cranston's home, Mainsail Haul, the mystery becomes even more difficult. Hand-carried letters from Major Richard Halstead and a British POW in Germany are carried by Lessingham. He gives them to Helen, Halstead's fiancée, and Phillipa Halstead, who haven't heard anything about Richard's whereabouts and are very worried. Sir Henry's wife Phillipa falls head over heels for Lessingham after thinking Sir Henry is a coward for not joining the war effort. Will Phillipa and Helen Halstead's letters have a cost? Will everything get revealed? To know the conclusion readers should read the book!

  • af E. Phillips Oppenheim
    248,95 kr.

    The Yellow Crayon, which was written before 1903, goes into more detail on the exploits of Mr. Sabin, who is a cherished main character searching for a startling truth about whose wife Lucille has been singled out by an unidentified secret society. Lucille becomes motivated to learn the truth about her connections to the industry in her abrupt absence. Now, Mr. Sabin is back with a case involving his wife, an unanticipated victim. He is quickly drawn into a mystery surrounding the Yellow Crayon order when she disappears. The story takes a turn towards a team of influential yet occult characters battling socialism and anarchy. Then, the leader is mainly concerned with their own interests, notwithstanding their goal. Mr. Sabin is a wily character who employs his power to carry out despicable deeds. The Yellow Crayon is another enduring mystery by E. Phillips Oppenheim. This narrative is filled with disclosures based on politics, history, and greed that can put readers into an interesting turn!

  • af Samuel W. Baker
    448,95 kr.

    Ismailia (1874) can be considered an autobiography of Sir Samuel W. Baker as it describes the author's expedition to Central Africa. An exceptional narrative of Sir Samuel W. Baker's mission to stop the slave trade in Central Africa. Baker took charge of the Sudanese area in southern Egypt alongside a force of 1700 men from the Khedive Authority. He engaged in multiple conflicts with slave traders before establishing a reliable trading territory in Equatoria. The heroics of Sir Samuel are apparent throughout the novel and the realistic situation keeps the readers wanting more. The anecdotes and episodes are written beautifully as it transports the readers. Baker's second expedition, which is documented here, was to annex Sudan for Egypt and eliminate the slave trade there. He brought his second wife, who provided military and domestic assistance to the expedition party. The Bakers engaged in big game hunting and fought several fierce battles against the slave traders. The second expedition started in 1869, the same year Baker was appointed governor-general of the equatorial Nile basin for a four-year tenure by Khedive Ismailia.

  • af E. Phillips Oppenheim
    318,95 kr.

    Peter Ruff And The Double Four is a book written by E. Phillips Oppenheim. A set of short stories about the gentleman criminal and master of disguise ''Peter Ruff''. The main character, Peter Ruff, goes to great lengths to discredit a police investigator who got in his way and abducted his lady. Following a career in crime, Peter Ruff decides to use his insider knowledge to work as a private investigator. Along with action, fancy English conversation, and romance, the hilarious plot also features some humor. The 1912 book "Peter Ruff and the Double Four" by E. Phillips Oppenheim details the ascent of country squire Peter Ruff into the criminal underworld. After being chosen as the organization's replacement for the enigmatic "Double Four" organization, Peter is compelled to fully commit to his new job. With spies, global espionage, and intrigue, Oppenheim has written a fascinating book.

  • af G. A. Henty
    318,95 kr.

    G.A. Henty was a prolific English novelist born on 8 December 1832 near Cambridge. In his childhood facing the health issues, he was almost confined to bed so, he developed a good hobby of reading books. For his education he joined Westminster School London and Cambridge University. He had good interest in sports also. In 1853, Crimea war broke out, by the time he decided to join the British army and he went Crimea as war correspondent. After the Crimean War he resigned the army and began article writing for standard newspaper. As a special correspondent, he covered, Austro- Italian war, British Punitive Expedition Abyssinia, the Prussian War, Turco- Serbian War and Opening of the Suez Canal. Throughout his life he supports British Empire. He wrote his first children's book, Out On The Pampas in 1868. With children's book, he wrote fiction, non-fiction novel and short stories but he is best historical adventurous story writer. He was died in 1902. His notable works include-The March of Magdala, The Bravest of the Brave, In the Reign of Terror, The Dragon and The Raven, For the Temple, Under Drake's Flag and In Freedoms Cause, At Agincourt etc.

  • af Anthony Partridge
    223,95 kr.

    Oppenheim, E. Phillips, using the pseudonym Partridge Anthony, is the author of The Golden Web. The Little Anna Gold Mine, which was found in South Africa by Stirling Deane, has been sold. He is now wealthy as a result of the sale and works as the Head of the business to whom he sold the mine. A former acquaintance from his time in South Africa has appeared and claims that he is the mine's owner and that he has the mine's original deed. A few times after meeting Deane, the man is found dead, and the deed he claims to have been missing. Another man who Deane used to negotiate the return of the deed to Deane was charged with the murder, found guilty, and given the death penalty. What happened to the lost deed?

  • af E. Phillips Oppenheim
    223,95 kr.

    Hugh Thomson, a surgeon-major, and Geraldine Conyers are engaged. He is in command of military counter-intelligence while being ostensibly in charge of military hospitals on the French front. He is a German master spy who appears to be able to cross borders and switch between Germany and England. After being twice captured and again escaping the Germans, Captain Granet is a wounded war hero who was recently given the DSO. He meets Geraldine Conyers and eventually falls in love with her. The development and usage of secret military weaponry designed to attack German submarines drives the plot forward. Aircraft remain novelties, and a nocturnal Zeppelin raid takes place on a top-secret armaments laboratory. There are glimpses of the brutality of Ypres and other wars, and there is still a remarkable degree of fluidity between the French battlefields and London society.

  • af Zane Grey
    208,95 kr.

    American sportsmen don't need an introduction to Buffalo Jones. He spent almost his whole life pursuing wild animals after being born on the Illinois prairie sixty-two years ago. It has been a chase that has been driven by a single passion-almost an obsession-to catch alive rather than to kill that has given it an unwavering vigor and unbreakable purpose. Every well-known wild animal that is native to western North America has been captured and had its will broken by him. He found killing disgusting. Even though he detested the sight of a sporting rifle, he had little choice but to feed the caravans traveling the plains with buffalo meat for years due to needing it. When he finally realized that the noble creatures would eventually go extinct, he shattered his rifle over a wagon wheel and resolved to safeguard the species. He toiled for ten years, hunting down, seizing, and domesticating buffalo; for this, the West made him famous and gave him the moniker Preserver of the American Bison. Buffalo Jones steadily moved westward as civilization encroached on the plains; today, he resides on a remote plateau bordered by the desert on the north rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. His buffalo remain as free as ever on the undulating plains, grazing alongside mustangs and deer.

  • af E. Phillips Oppenheim
    193,95 kr.

    The book The Double Four opens with Peter Ruff who chooses to leave the criminal underworld for the more lucrative career of a private investigator. Peter is the ideal investigator because of his connections to the underworld and his ability to appear as somebody else. Mr. Ruff is incredibly prosperous in his new job, and Violet Brown, his trustworthy and beautiful assistant, helps him out tremendously. He is seen and accepted as a leader by a large group of criminals who have decided to use their skills for good as his reputation for solving crimes increases. However, his fame makes many people hate him, including the new spouse of his ex-fiancee and a prominent German spy. This wonderful collection of short stories by a mystery author, whose brilliance, sadly, has been forgotten by many people.

  • af E. Phillips Oppenheim
    238,95 kr.

    E. Phillips Oppenheim is the author of the mystery book The Great Impersonation, which was published before 1920. German Leopold von Ragastein, who meets his English doppelganger Everard Dominey in Africa, is the main character of the story. Just before World War I, he plots to kill Dominey and steal his identity in order to spy on English high society. However, in this story of romance, political intrigue, and a (literally) haunted history, questions about the returned Dominey's true identity start to surface. The Great Impersonation begins with an unexpected encounter between two men who had previously gone to school and university together in East Africa in 1913, just before the First World War breaks out.

  • af Baroness Orczy
    183,95 kr.

    The Scarlet Pimpernel series by Baroness Orczy includes the novel The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel. The story begins in Paris in April 1794, when Theresia Cabarrus is betrothed to Citizen Tallien, a popular Representative in the Convention and member of Robespierre's inner circle. Later, a handsome, impulsive young man named Bertrand Moncrief looks prepared to commit himself in opposition to the revolutionary government. In order to do this, he enlisted Régine de Serval's siblings in his scheme to accuse Robespierre of being one of the Fraternal suppers. It is a classic collection of ideas compiled into a single draft to be read by readers of several age groups. The protagonist's character is so indulging that readers are compelled to continue reading. The novel leaves the reader with an overwhelming sea of emotions.

  • af Edgar Rice Burroughs
    238,95 kr.

    'The Gods of Mars' is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs and it was printed in a complete book form in 1918. The main characters in this novel are John Carter and Carter's wife Dejan Thoris. After the long deportation on Earth, John Carter returned to his beloved Mars. But Dejan Thoris, the woman he loved, had disappeared. Now he was confined in the famous Eden of Mars. This book also holds most probably the first-ever epic air battle between flying battleships. The Black Men of Mars are aggressive democrats who eat the white men and kidnap white women to turn into slaves. They worship an old bat who calls herself the Goddess Issus. John Carter narrates the Black Men as having characteristics that are handsome in the extreme and says their bodies are spiritual. John Carter makes two new friends, Thusia the Red Maid, who likes him so much she wants to be his slaves and Xodar the Black Pirate who is pure awesomeness and the best character. Most of the first three quarters of this book are one exhausting battle scene after another or the capture of the protoganìst and his friends and their escaping. They battle, they are captured, and escape several times. In the last quarter they do escape and their captivity again. The ending is another big battle.

  • af Rafael Sabatini
    208,95 kr.

    The Strolling Saint, a swashbuckler romance set in 16th-century Italy, was first published in 1913. The narrative revolves around Agostino d' Anguissola, whose mother raised him as a devout Catholic and whose father is Lord of Mondolfo and Carmina. He is pledged to become a priest or monk by a misguided yet determined mother who one feels should have never married imposes this on him. Agostino is segregated and under strict surveillance, until he becomes 18 and is then taken to a nearby man of letters to continue his education rather than to Pavia or Bologna, where the universities are. But then what will he do? How will he get his birthright? Will he ever become a priest? What will he do with his father? This story charts the young man's development from innocence to becoming the Ruler but How? How a young man is coerced into a career in the clergy makes this novel a strong theory of religious hypocrisy. To read about the life of Agostino, readers should go through this novel by Rafael Sabatini!

  • af Rabindranath Tagore
    153,95 kr.

    Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali, a collection of poems, the most popular work by Rabindranath Tagore, was published in India in 1910. Later, he translated it into prose poetry in English as Gitanjali, Song Offerings, and it was published in 1912 with an introduction by William Butler Yeats. Medieval Indian lyrics of affection gave Tagore's model to the poems of Gitanjali, as well as he composed music for these lyrics. Love is the essential subject, even though some poems are about the internal journey between spiritual longings and earthly desires. More of his imagination is drawn from nature, and the commanding mood is minor-key and muted. This collection helped him win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. However, a few later critics disagreed that it addressed Tagore's best work.

  • af Alexis De Tocqueville
    408,95 kr.

    Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America was published between 1835 and 1840 and is viewed as one of the most extensive and intuitive books ever written in the United States. Seeing the failed trials of a democratic government in his native France, Tocqueville decided to study a balanced and prosperous democracy to get to know every detail of how it worked. Democracy in America is the result of all his studies. The book was and still is famous because it manages issues that include religion, the press, class structure, money, racism, the role of government, and the judicial system, all of which are just as relevant today as they were during those days. Various colleges in the U.S. have begun to use Democracy in America in political science and history courses.

  • af Rudyard Kipling
    343,95 kr.

    Indian Stories is a collection of interesting short stories. Kipling's incredible strength was as a short story writer. Moreover, this particular collection of short stories focused on the British Raj is one of the better efforts at bringing together his best works. which includes "The Man Who Would Be King," "The Phantom Rickshaw," and many more favorites. But mostly, it is linked together with a few of Kipling's short stories about the three armies' enlisted men, Mulvaney, Learoyd, and Otheris. A few of the Mulvaney stories are surely better than others. In any case, taken together, they provide an extraordinary perspective on a social class serving in India that is rarely mentioned in most contemporary fiction. After reading all these stories, readers can also understand Kipling's incredible strength. It was his sarcastic voice. He could merge romantic idealism with realistic surroundings.

  • af Franz Kafka
    113,95 kr.

    The Metamorphosis is a novel by Franz Kafka that was first published in 1915. This book describes the story of Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, who wakes up one day and finds that he has transformed into a bug. The Metamorphosis is a book that concerns itself with the themes of separation, frustration, and existentialism. As Samsa struggles to accommodate his humanity with his change, Kafka, proficiently, twists his readers into a web that deals with the craziness of existence, the isolated experience of modern life, and brutality, leaving them at once amazed and influenced. In this way, it begins The Metamorphosis, referred to as one of the influential works of fiction of the 20th century.

  • af Benedictus Figulus
    183,95 kr.

    The first edition of this work appeared in Latin in Strasbourg in 1608. Containing the Revelation of the Most Illuminated Egyptian King and Philosopher, translated by German Hermes, the Noble Beloved Monarch and Philosopher Trismegistus, a. Ph. Theophrastus Paracelsus; Also Tinctura Physicorum Paracelsica, With an Excellent Explanation by the Noble and Learned Philosopher, Alexander Von Suchten, M.D. Along with theology and teaching in divine matters, the Chaldeans, Hebrews, Persians, and Egyptians have always held and developed this knowledge. Men get all Natural Art and Wisdom from the Stars, and we are the Stars' students. Our natural tutors are the constellations. We must learn from the light of nature as we would from our biological father, from whom we are created and derived. The Stars are our legitimate teachers since they are where all knowledge and creativity originate. This is undoubtedly the devil's ploy to prevent the exposure of his juggling and falsehoods, which he used to mislead the world for many years. Adam, who was endowed by God with wisdom and perfect knowledge of the natural world, undoubtedly was aware of the things that may extend human life and confer protection from sickness.

  • af Mark Twain
    263,95 kr.

    Mark Twain's own autobiography remains the last of Twain's incredible long stories. Here he expresses his story in his own specific way, freely sharing his joys and sorrows, his bitterness and honors, and his likes and dislikes, as always jokingly. Not often, this is the story, and some of it is true. More than the tale of a literary person, this memoir is anchored in his relationship with his family and what they all meant to him as a husband, father, and artist. It also includes various of Twain's best comic tales about his rowdy childhood in Hannibal, his misadventures in the Nevada region, his famous Whittier birthday speech, his travel abroad stories, and many more.

  • af George Eliot
    408,95 kr.

    The Mill on the Floss, a novel by George Eliot, was published in three sections in 1860. It thoughtfully portrays the vain attempts of Maggie Tulliver to adapt to her small-town world. The disaster of her situation is highlighted by her brother Tom's actions, who forbids her from communicating with the one friend who values her knowledge and imagination. While she is trapped in a compromising situation, Tom denies her altogether, but the siblings are accommodated in the end as they were trying in vain to survive the climactic flood. This novel is considered one of George Eliot's best achievements. The Mill on the Floss is famous for its accurate, expressive portrayal of English rural life and its significantly persuasive analysis of a woman's psychology.

  • af H. P. Lovecraft
    113,95 kr.

    The Dunwich Horror is a horror story titled by an American Author H. P. Lovecraft. It was initially printed in the April 1929 edition of Weird Tales after being written in 1928. (pp. 481-508). It happens in the fictitious Massachusetts town of Dunwich. It is regarded as one of the Cthulhu Mythos' central tales. Only an elderly university librarian can stop a strange family from conjuring and nurturing an evil thing from another universe in a dilapidated farmhouse close to remote, rural Dunwich with the intention of destroying the planet and giving it to old gods to reign. Weird Tales originally published The Dunwich Horror in 1929. The Dunwich Horror tells the odd events that led to Wilbur Whateley's birth and early development. This topic is written on a real-world issue and contains accurate information. While HPL served as a reference, the information on this topic is drawn from the "Lovecraft Circle" Myth Cycles rather than being solely based on his writings. H. P. Lovecraft wrote a short story titled "The Dunwich Horror." One of the rare stories Lovecraft wrote where the protagonist triumph over the story's antagonistic creature or monster is "The Dunwich Horror."

  • af Father Jerome Lobo
    153,95 kr.

    A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson is without a doubt the travel writing genre's most well-known and much-debated work (1775). But this chapter mostly focuses on Johnson's previous A Voyage to Abyssinia and just briefly mentions his travels in Scotland (1735). The book contains Johnson's most in-depth reflection on the function and ethics of the traveler, although he never visited Abyssinia (modern-day Ethiopia), and the text is a translation of a travelogue written by the Portuguese Jesuit Jerónimo Lobo on his journeys in Ethiopia between 1621 and 1634. (and travel writer). He also takes into account the dangerous confluence of travel and religion, as well as the narrow line between exploration and dominance. Following a brief introduction to Johnson and his travel works, this chapter explores the intricate history of A Voyage to Abyssinia and demonstrates how Johnson, through the travelogue's significant Preface and other changes, adds his vivid layer of meaning to the Portuguese original material. Johnson admires Lobo as a travel writer because of his honest and objective firsthand description of his travels, but he also consistently criticizes travel that is undertaken to demonstrate the superiority of a certain culture or confession or the might of a particular deity.

  • af Johanna Spyri
    223,95 kr.

    Heidi is a book of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss writer Johanna Spyri. It was initially published in two sections Heidi: Her years of wandering and learning and Heidi: How She Used What She Learned. It is a book about the incidents of the life of a 5-year-old girl in her concerned grandfather's care in the Swiss Alps, which describes the story of a little orphan girl, Heidi, who has been sent to stay with a lonely, irritating man at the highest point of a mountain in the Swiss Alps. This man is her grandfather. Heidi had been previously living with her Auntie Dete, but now Dete has been selected for a job in Frankfurt. The story also has five series that show Heidi as a grown-up, a mother, and, afterward, a grandmother, despite the fact that they were written after Spyri's death and involve her writings as inspiration.

  • af Ida B. Wells-Barnett
    128,95 kr.

    The Red Record tabulates these instances of cruelty in clear, impartial figures. Ida B. Wells' original goal for the brochure was to humiliate and shock the lethargic public-and spur change-alongside the total by describing actual instances of lynching and listing the common justifications for these arbitrary executions. The practice of lynching was so pervasive in the postbellum American South that the majority of Southern politicians and leaders chose to ignore it. This lethal brand of vigilante "justice" was really a thinly veiled racist justification for homicidal brutality. With charges ranging from "attempted stock poisoning" to "insulting whites," more than 200 African Americans were killed in 1892 alone. In order to let the dreadful statistics speak for themselves. The anti-lynching movement in the US was led by investigative journalist and activist Ida B. Wells, later Wells-Barnett. A Red Record used mainstream white newspapers to document a resurgence of white mob violence, building on her ground-breaking exposé Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892), and discovered that more than 9,000 African Americans had been killed by lynching in the South between 1864 and 1894. The novel aimed to make space for one aspect of a crucial discussion about power, violence, and race in the US.

  • af Edwin Arnold
    183,95 kr.

    The Light of Asia was published in 1879. The book is renowned as a classic and has been published in various editions and different languages. In this poetic masterpiece, Sir Edwin Arnold tells the life and lessons of Buddha. The man who was to become known as Buddha to the world was born Prince Gautama of India. However, he rejected the wealthy and lavish lifestyle and abandoned all the powers he had gotten when he began his journey to find the importance of life. This poem uncovers Buddha's life according to the Buddhist point of view, so you don't need to be a Buddhist to see the value in this wonderful work. As soon as you read about Buddha, you will start discovering your own life. Not just the philosophical part, but because of its poetic form, the story of the dramatic incidents in Buddha's life is delightful to read.

  • af A. W. Tozer
    113,95 kr.

    A.W. Tozer's The pursuit of God is basically his efforts to walk through the disciplines, or ways of pursuit, or how to resolve your inner conflicts. As per the glowing reviews, "Pursuit of God" is one of the nicest books that portrays religious philosophy and practical methods on how to seek God by yourself. Millions of Christians today face the problem of having theoretical knowledge of God but lacking internal experience of God in their lives.

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