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Les Miserables - Volume I (Hugo, V.)
The first part of classic novel rich in both character portrayal and historical description. Characters such as the Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the detective Javert, and the figure of the prostitute…
€ 3,³⁵
Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Hugo, V.)
Set in 1482, this novel presents a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age.
€ 3,³⁵
Odyssey (Homer)
Describes the adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War. This poem also describes his endurance, his love for his wife and son.
€ 3,³⁵
Iliad (Homer)
A translation of Homer's poem of war which is a magnificent testimony to the power of the Iliad. This volume retells the story of Achilles, the great warrior, and his terrible wrath before the walls of besieged Troy, and the…
€ 3,³⁵
Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Hogg, J.)
In early years of 18th century, Scotland is torn by religious and political strife. The sinner, justified by his Calvinist conviction that his own salvation is pre-ordained, is suspected of involvement in a series of crimes. A…
€ 3,³⁵
100 Selected Stories (Henry, O.)
A collection of 100 of author's finest stories; it describes life south of the Rio Grande and chronicles the activities and concerns of 'the four million' ordinary citizens who inhabited turn-of-the-century New York.
€ 3,³⁵
Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne, N.)
A young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. This book describes the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed.
€ 3,³⁵
Woodlanders (Hardy, T.)
Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles Winterborne. Her alternative choice proves disastrous.
€ 3,³⁵
Wessex Tales (Hardy, T.)
Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers.
€ 3,³⁵
Well-Beloved (Hardy, T.)
Jocelyn Pierston, celebrated sculptor, tries to create an image of his ideal woman - his imaginary "Well-Beloved" - in stone, just as he tries to find her in the flesh.
€ 3,³⁵
Under the Greenwood Tree (Hardy, T.)
A portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with gentle humour and irony, it is Hardy's most bright, confident and optimistic novel.
€ 3,³⁵
Trumpet-Major (Hardy, T.)
The novel is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars. It interweaves a romantic love story of the rivalry of two brothers for the hand of the heroine Anne Garland. It also contains elements of sadness and even tragedy.
€ 3,³⁵
Return of the Native (Hardy, T.)
The central figure of this novel is the returning "native", Clym Yeobright, and his love for the beautiful but capricious Eustacia Vye.
€ 3,³⁵
Pair of Blue Eyes (Hardy, T.)
Rich with biographical echoes, this novel reveals the emergence of the schematic ironies which characterise the author's later works
€ 3,³⁵
Mayor of Casterbridge (Hardy, T.)
Set in the heart of the Wessex, this book charts the rise and downfall of a single 'man of character'. It's moving and contrived narrative is Shakespearian in its force, and features some of the author's episodes and passages of…
€ 3,³⁵