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Cranford - By The Author Of 'Mary Barton', 'Ruth', Etc.

de Elizabeth Gaskell

90,58€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Originally published as a magazine serial and then printed in novel form in 1853, Cranford is a playful tour of a peculiar country town. From the stately, stern Miss Jenkyns to the timid Miss Betsy Barker and her flannel-wearing cow, the inhabitants are all acquainted, and all poised to overhear scandal.
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Vanity Fair - A Novel Without A Hero

de William Makepeace Thackeray

147,35€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 After first appearing as a serial in brilliant yellow covers, Vanity Fair, 'a novel without a hero', was published in full in 1848. A panoramic and biting satire, it was the first of William Makepeace Thackeray's works to bear his own name. This edition includes his original illustrations and preface.
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In Memoriam

de Alfred Tennyson

59,47€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 'Next to the Bible, In Memoriam is my comfort.' Queen Victoria's reliance, after the death of Prince Albert, on Tennyson's 1850 elegy for his friend Arthur Henry Hallam - who died in Vienna in 1833 of a cerebral haemorrhage - epitomises its place at the heart of Victorian public and private life.
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Dracula

de Bram Stoker

102,74€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 While serving as actor Henry Irving's business manager at the Lyceum Theatre in London, Bram Stoker (1847â€"1912) also pursued his literary interests. In this Gothic horror novel of 1897, which brought him international fame, he presents the chilling vampire Count Dracula, modelled in part on Irving's powerful personality.
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Treasure Island

de Robert Louis Stevenson

82,46€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 First published in book form in 1883, this classic adventure tale is the best-known work of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850â€"94). Telling the story of Jim Hawkins' search for the buried treasure of Captain Flint, it had an enormous impact on popular perceptions of pirates, and continues to delight readers of all ages.
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Prometheus Unbound - A Lyrical Drama In Four Acts, With Other Poems

de Percy B. Shelley

168,98€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This one-volume collection contains five editions of poems and verse dramas from the final years in the life of the radical and visionary Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792â€"1822). These are Prometheus Unbound (1820), Hellas (1822); The Cenci (second edition, 1821), Rosalind and Helen (1819), and Posthumous Poems (1824).
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Poems

de Dante Gabriel Rossetti

66,23€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Few collections of verse have been associated with such drama as these poems, published by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828â€"82) in 1870. Following attacks on their explicit content, Rossetti broke down and attempted suicide. Behind the sensation, however, lies Rossetti's subtle intelligence attempting to find modes of expression for the central importance of the libido.
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Tales Of Mystery, Imagination, And Humour - And Poems

de Edgar Allan Poe

73,00€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Although Edgar Allan Poe (1809â€"49) is best known for his horror stories and a preoccupation with the macabre, this charming 1852 collection of stories and poems offers a broader selection of his work, ranging from the whimsical beginnings of his detective fiction to his mesmerising love poetry.
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The Rainbow

de D. H. Lawrence

110,85€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Only a month after its original publication in 1915, this novel was banned. Its sensual and explicit themes, by now characteristic of D. H. Lawrence (1885â€"1930), were considered particularly offensive in wartime by many reviewers, and the saga of the Brangwen family would not reappear in Britain until 1926.
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Sons And Lovers

de D. H. Lawrence

118,97€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Originally rejected for publication on the grounds of indecency, Sons and Lovers finally appeared in 1913. It is the first major portrayal of a mining community from an insider's perspective. Incorporating many elements of Lawrence's own difficult youth, it explores the difficult relationships of its protagonist, Paul Morel.
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Kim

de Rudyard Kipling

102,74€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Best known for The Jungle Book and the poem 'If-', Rudyard Kipling (1865â€"1936) became the first British recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Widely regarded as his masterpiece, and described by him as 'a labour of great love', this picaresque, nostalgic novel was first published in 1901.
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Jude The Obscure

de Thomas Hardy

109,49€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Thomas Hardy's last novel charts the life of Jude Fawley from his parochial childhood to his death in the collegiate city of Christminster, the centre of his intellectual dreams and their failure. Initially published as a much-abridged serial, the text first appeared in its full and present form in 1895.
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Silas Marner - The Weaver Of Raveloe

de George Eliot

90,58€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Although her previous work tends toward tragedy and a focus on fallen women, George Eliot (1819â€"80) reached a turning point in her career with Silas Marner (1861). This uplifting novel charts the life of the cataleptic outcast Silas as he finds meaning and tranquillity in raising an adopted daughter.
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The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale

de Joseph Conrad

105,45€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This classic novel delves into the grimy world of Mr Verloc, anarchist and spy. First published in 1907 and varyingly received as prescient, elliptical and indecent, it was inspired by the attempted Greenwich Observatory bombing of 1894. It represents one of the first thorough treatments of terrorism in the twentieth century.
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Casa Guidi Windows - A Poem

de Elizabeth Barrett Browning

59,47€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 First published in 1851, this is a poem in two parts. The first explores the hope glimmering in Florence during the early years of the Risorgimento. The second acknowledges the difficulties on the long road to independence. Together, they form one of the finest works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806â€"61).
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Wuthering Heights And Agnes Grey

de Anne Brontë e Emily Brontë

110,85€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 These two classics of English literature - one an impassioned tale of doomed love, the other a quietly intense portrait of the governess in Victorian society - were published together with poetry and commentary in this revised 1851 edition prepared by the authors' sister and fellow novelist, Charlotte BrontÃ«.
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Peter And Wendy

de J. M. Barrie

75,69€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Originally published in 1911, Peter and Wendy is J. M. Barrie's novel adaptation of his wildly successful play. This illustrated version charts the adventures of the three unsuspecting Darling children and Peter Pan on the fantastical island of Neverland, home of lost boys, fairies and detachable shadows.
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Alice'S Adventures In Wonderland

de Lewis Carroll; Ilustração: John Tenniel e Sir John Tenniel

64,89€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This world-famous classic with its cast of much-loved characters transformed children's literature and brought lasting fame to Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832â€"98), writing as Lewis Carroll. First published in 1865, with illustrations by Punch cartoonist Sir John Tenniel, the book remains unsurpassed in its universal appeal.
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The Thirty-Nine Steps

de John Buchan

73,00€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This 1915 spy story by John Buchan (1875â€"1940) is archetypal of the genre in which a British hero thwarts foreign enemies. Although the book is an exciting, if occasionally implausible, adventure story, it may be marred for a modern readership by the racism and anti-Semitism it expresses.
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Tales Of Mystery, Imagination, And Humour - And Poems

de Edgar Allan Poe

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Although Edgar Allan Poe (1809â€"49) is best known for his horror stories and a preoccupation with the macabre, this charming 1852 collection of stories and poems offers a broader selection of his work, ranging from the whimsical beginnings of his detective fiction to his mesmerising love poetry.
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The Thirty-Nine Steps

de John Buchan

35,15€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 This 1915 spy story by John Buchan (1875â€"1940) is archetypal of the genre in which a British hero thwarts foreign enemies. Although the book is an exciting, if occasionally implausible, adventure story, it may be marred for a modern readership by the racism and anti-Semitism it expresses.
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Casa Guidi Windows - A Poem

de Elizabeth Barrett Browning

31,09€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 First published in 1851, this is a poem in two parts. The first explores the hope glimmering in Florence during the early years of the Risorgimento. The second acknowledges the difficulties on the long road to independence. Together, they form one of the finest works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806â€"61).
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In Memoriam

de Alfred Tennyson

33,80€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 'Next to the Bible, In Memoriam is my comfort.' Queen Victoria's reliance, after the death of Prince Albert, on Tennyson's 1850 elegy for his friend Arthur Henry Hallam - who died in Vienna in 1833 of a cerebral haemorrhage - epitomises its place at the heart of Victorian public and private life.
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Silas Marner - The Weaver Of Raveloe

de George Eliot

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Although her previous work tends toward tragedy and a focus on fallen women, George Eliot (1819â€"80) reached a turning point in her career with Silas Marner (1861). This uplifting novel charts the life of the cataleptic outcast Silas as he finds meaning and tranquillity in raising an adopted daughter.
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