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Voltaire: La princesse de Babylone

LIBRIO, 2000

Formosante est princesse de Babylone. Son pere veut trouver un époux digne d'elle. Toute la noblesse de l'époque défile au palais : le pharaon d'Egypte et son bouf Apis, le roi des Indes, le grand khan des Scythes...

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W. G. Sebald: Austerlitz

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2011

In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past.

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W. Somerset Maugham: Collected Short Stories Volume 1

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2002

This classic collection of stories moves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute,...

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W. Somerset Maugham: Collected Short Stories Volume 2

RANDOM HOUSE, 2002

The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham's most famous tales; 'Flotsam and Jetsam', the story of an old woman trapped for years in a loveless marriage in the remote rubber plantations; ...

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W. Somerset Maugham: Collected Short Stories Volume 3

RANDOM HOUSE, 2002

The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in World War I.

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W. Somerset Maugham: Don Fernando

RANDOM HOUSE, 2000

Considered by Graham Greene to be Maugham's best work, Don Fernando is a paean to a golden age of enormous creative energy. It discusses the writings of St. Teresa and the paintings of El Greco, and comments with sagacity and...

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W. Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2000

Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure.

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W. Somerset Maugham: The Moon and Sixpence

RANDOM HOUSE, 2000

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness,,....

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W. Somerset Maugham: The Painted Veil

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2001

Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend.

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W. Somerset Maugham: Then and Now

RANDOM HOUSE, 2001

Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own times in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance.

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W. Somerset Maugham: Up at the Villa

RANDOM HOUSE, 2005

Mary Panton walls up her desires in a beautiful villa high up in the hills above Florence, as she calmly contemplates her disastrous marriage. But a single act of compassion begins a nightmare of violence that shatters her serenity.

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Walter Scott: Waverley - Penguin Classics

PENGUIN BOOKS, 1985

Set against the backdrop of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, Waverley depicts the story of Edward Waverley, an idealistic daydreamer whose loyalty to his regiment is threatened when they are sent to the Scottish Highlands.

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Washington Irving: Sleepy Hollow und andere unheimliche Geschichten

INSEL VERLAG, 2009

Washington Irving ist der »Erfinder« und erster Vertreter der amerikanischen Short story. Vor allem seine unheimlichen Geschichten wie Die Legende von Sleepy Hollow und Rip van Winkle sind bis heute äußerst populär und wurden mehrfach verfilmt.

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