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The Moon and Sixpence
ISBN: 9781512381771 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Said to be loosely based on the life of artist Paul Gaugin, The Moon and Sixpence tells the story of a wealthy stockbroker in middle age, with a wife and children, who leaves his settled life to pursue painting. He abandons everything he has ever known in order to follow a passionate impulse that takes him from France to Tahiti, into the arms of a mistress (his French benefactor's wife, no less) and then steeped in poverty, far away from civilization. While it might read like a cautionary tale for some, The Moon and Sixpence depicts the kind of madness necessary for some to fully realize...
Said to be loosely based on the life of artist Paul Gaugin, The Moon and Sixpence tells the story of a wealthy stockbroker in middle age, with a wife ...
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45,50 |
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Regina: The Monster Inside
ISBN: 9781514106709 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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48,49 |
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Pierre; or The Ambiguities
ISBN: 9781514228395 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THERE are some strange summer mornings in the country, when he who is but a sojourner from the city shall early walk forth into the fields, and be wonder-smitten with the trance-like aspect of the green and golden world. Not a flower stirs; the trees forget to wave; the grass itself seems to have ceased to grow; and all Nature, as if suddenly become conscious of her own profound mystery, and feeling no refuge from it but silence, sinks into this wonderful and indescribable repose.
THERE are some strange summer mornings in the country, when he who is but a sojourner from the city shall early walk forth into the fields, and be won...
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29,89 |
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Return To The Dark Tower
ISBN: 9780982489932 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Return once more to the gothic realm of Joseph Vargo and discover the passion, mystery and horror that lie in wait deep within the shadows of the Dark Tower.
In the ancient catacombs beneath the Dark Tower, a slumbering evil has been awakened. Fearsome creatures born of shadow rise from the infernal depths to serve the Dark Queen as the legion of the Black Dawn. As a sacred prophecy comes to light, the fate of mankind rests upon a lone guardian who stands at the threshold between the realms of the living and the dead, an immortal knight sworn to defend the world he once knew and all he... Return once more to the gothic realm of Joseph Vargo and discover the passion, mystery and horror that lie in wait deep within the shadows of the Dark...
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71,80 |
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The Cruel Painter: and other Gothic Tales and Poems
ISBN: 9781512305074 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a collection of the Victorian master of fantasy's shorter Gothic pieces. In these pages you will meet a ghosts, animated skeletons, a witch, a werewolf, and a man who pretends to be a vampire. You will look through an occult mirror, visit a haunted house, and spend Halloween in Scotland. In short, you will experience all the thrills your nerves desire; but, this being George MacDonald, you will at the same time find nourishment for your soul. Contents: 1)The Dead Hand, 2)Cosmo, 3)The Homeless Ghost, 4) A Gruesome Dance, 5) The Unseen Model, 6) The Gray Wolf, 7) The Haunted House, 8) A...
This is a collection of the Victorian master of fantasy's shorter Gothic pieces. In these pages you will meet a ghosts, animated skeletons, a witch, a...
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31,13 |
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Wieland, or the Transformation
ISBN: 9781514322154 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wieland: or, The Transformation: An American Tale, usually simply calledWieland, is the first major work byCharles Brockden Brown, published in 1798, Wielandis the first - and most famous - AmericanGothic novel Set sometime between theFrench and Indian Warand theAmerican Revolutionary War, Wielanddetails the horrible events that befall Clara Wieland and her brother Theodore's family. Clara and Theodore's father was a German immigrant who founded his own religion; he came to America just before the American Revolution with the conviction to spread his religion to the indigenous people."
Wieland: or, The Transformation: An American Tale, usually simply calledWieland, is the first major work byCharles Brockden Brown, published in 1798, ...
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58,86 |
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Dracula
ISBN: 9781514866832 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written in a letter/diary format, Dracula tells the story of the vampire, Count Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.
Written in a letter/diary format, Dracula tells the story of the vampire, Count Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he may find ...
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55,67 |
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The pit and the pendulum
ISBN: 9781515169338 / Angielski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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39,91 |
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
ISBN: 9781515277231 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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43,70 |
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Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus
ISBN: 9781515325710 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unabridged & Original version with all 362 pages Includes: 15 Illustrations and Biography Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about the young student of science Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823. Shelley had travelled...
Unabridged & Original version with all 362 pages Includes: 15 Illustrations and Biography Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel ...
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51,84 |
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The Pit and the Pendulum
ISBN: 9781515353164 / Angielski / Miękka / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edgar Allan Poe's short story about a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition who is strapped to a wooden table and tortured, while a razor sharp pendulum dangles from the ceiling.
Edgar Allan Poe's short story about a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition who is strapped to a wooden table and tortured, while a razor sharp pendulum...
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27,90 |
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The Evil in Pemberley House: The Memoirs of Pat Wildman, Volume 1
ISBN: 9780983746195 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Patricia Wildman, the daughter of the world-renowned adventurer and crimefighter of the 1930s and '40s, Dr. James Clarke "Doc" Wildman, is all alone in the world when she inherits the family estate in Derbyshire, England-in true Gothic tradition, old, dark, and supposedly haunted. But is the ghost real, or a clever sham perpetrated by others to scare her off? As Patricia contends with the questionable motives of her distant relatives, attempts to discern friend from foe, and battles to overcome mysterious attackers, she struggles to reconcile the supernatural with her rational scientific...
Patricia Wildman, the daughter of the world-renowned adventurer and crimefighter of the 1930s and '40s, Dr. James Clarke "Doc" Wildman, is all alone i...
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85,14 |
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Nightmare Abbey
ISBN: 9781517495442 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nightmare Abbey is a Gothic topical satire in which the author pokes light-hearted fun at the romantic movement in contemporary English literature, in particular its obsession with morbid subjects, misanthropy and transcendental philosophical systems. Most of the characters in the novel are based on historical figures whom Peacock wishes to pillory.
Nightmare Abbey is a Gothic topical satire in which the author pokes light-hearted fun at the romantic movement in contemporary English literature, in...
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23,91 |
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Russian Roulette
ISBN: 9781514619131 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A porcelain doll feels emotions after observing a growing girl's behavior-and reciprocates unexpressed love for the girl's father. A woman steps out of herself to cut the back of her hair, hurriedly hopping back in when she fears another version of her will jump inside instead. A man gets high on life after playing Russian roulette-but can't put the gun down when he realizes love is hit-and-miss as well. This is just a peek into the Gothic world of Jane Kim, a Los Angeles author and illustrator who specializes in the macabre. Kim shares six of her fantasy stories in... A porcelain doll feels emotions after observing a growing girl's behavior-and reciprocates unexpressed love for the girl's father. A woman ... |
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64,38 |
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Game of Nightmares
ISBN: 9781502846969 / Angielski / Miękka / 750 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A series of unexplained deaths has the entire city of Albany on edge. Otherwise normal, healthy people have been discovered dead in their beds with expressions of extreme terror or agony on their faces. The only common link between all the victims is that each one is seventeen years old. At the same time, a strange rumor has been circulating that if someone falls in their dreams, and doesn't wake up before landing, they'll die in real life. When Karsten's best friend, neighbor, and classmate Perdita is discovered dead in her bed one morning, Karsten's world is plunged into a sleep-like daze,...
A series of unexplained deaths has the entire city of Albany on edge. Otherwise normal, healthy people have been discovered dead in their beds with ex...
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98,18 |
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
ISBN: 9780692537459 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ..".Stevenson's short novel, written in 1885, is one of the ancestors of the modern mystery story...not only a good 'bogey story, ' as Stevenson exclaimed when awakening from a dream in which he had visualized it...It is also, and more importantly, a fable that lies nearer to poetry than to ordinary prose fiction, and therefore belongs to the same order of art as, for instance, Madame Bovary or Dead Souls. VLADIMIR NABOKOV "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde is a double triumph. It has the outside excitement that belongs to Conan Doyle with the inside excitement... ..".Stevenson's short novel, written in 1885, is one of the ancestors of the modern mystery story...not only a good 'bogey story, ' as Stevenson ex... |
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22,95 |
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Frankenstein
ISBN: 9780692536490 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I busied myself to think of a story...one which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature, and awaken thrilling horror -- one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart." MARY SHELLEY (introduction to the 1831 edition) "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a remarkable work...a unique blending of Gothic, fabulist, allegorical, and philosophical material...fueled by the kind of grotesque, faintly absurd, and wildly inventive images that spring direct from the unconscious..." JOYCE CAROL OATES " The monster is,... "I busied myself to think of a story...one which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature, and awaken thrilling horror -- one to make the ... |
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34,92 |
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The pit and the pendulum: (low cost). limited edition
ISBN: 9781516834747 / Angielski / Miękka / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story depicts the Spanish Inquisition. An unnamed narrator is brought to trial before sinister judges. Poe provides no explanation of why he is there or what he has been arrested for. Before him are seven tall white candles on a table, and, as they melt, his hopes of survival also diminish. He is condemned to death and finds himself in a pitch black compartment. At first the prisoner thinks that he is locked in a tomb, but then he discovers that he is in a cell. He decides to explore the cell by placing a hem from his robe against a wall so that he can count the paces around the room, but...
The story depicts the Spanish Inquisition. An unnamed narrator is brought to trial before sinister judges. Poe provides no explanation of why he is th...
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33,93 |
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The Castle of Otranto (Deseret Alphabet Edition)
ISBN: 9781517726843 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Horatio (Horace) Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797), was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. He was the youngest son of the British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole. Walpole was an early enthusiast of the Gothic revival, an archtectural movement looking back to the Middle Ages for inspiration. This enthusiasm also manifested itself in his "Gothic" novel, "The Castle of Otranto." "The Castle of Otranto" was a huge success and created the literary genre of Gothic literature. By way of books like "The Mysteries of Udolpho," "The Monk,"... Horatio (Horace) Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797), was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. He was the... |
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31,93 |
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Keepers: The Beginnings: The Keepers Prequel
ISBN: 9781517778415 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before anyone discovered Hell's Island. Before the Cauldron was used for power. Before the Keeper of the West gate knew what was in store, they all had someone willing to do anything to gather the powers granted to these families by God. Who will weild the power of THE KEEPERS?
Before anyone discovered Hell's Island. Before the Cauldron was used for power. Before the Keeper of the West gate knew what was in store, they all ha...
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31,89 |
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