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(P/B) THE PRINCESS AND THE GOBLIN
Εκδότης: HESPERUS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0957-0192

Eight-year-old Princess Irene lives a lonely life in a wild, desolate, mountainous kingdom, with only her nursemaid, Lootie for company. She is protected from the outside world and oblivious to the existence of goblins, hideous creatures that live underground and only come out at night. One day, while out walking, Irene and Lootie get lost. As night falls, strange shadows creep out from under boulders and around corners, closing in on them. Terrified, they try to run but the goblins give chase. It is then they run into Curdie, the brave mi...
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(P/B) THE CORAL ISLAND
Εκδότης: HESPERUS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0957-0194

Ralph, Jack and Peterkin find themselves the sole survivors of a shipwreck on a deserted coral island in the South Pacific. Although fate has led them to temporary safety, the three marooned lads are forced to carve out a life for themselves from what nature provides. They rapidly learn which fruit to eat, which animals to hunt, and which lagoons are best for bathing. Resourceful as they are, their desert island idyll is often disturbed and they face numerous terrifying threats - pirates, sharks, cannibalism and local tribes among them. Am...
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(P/B) POLLYANNA
Εκδότης: HESPERUS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0957-0195

"...there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it." When Pollyanna Whittier's father dies she is sent to live with her Aunt Polly in Beldingsville in Vermont. A clash of personalities ensues as Pollyanna's sunny disposition sits ill with her aunt's need for quiet, her passion for shutting windows and her obsession with quietly shut doors. The key to Pollyanna's happiness is The Glad Game - originally invented to deal with disappointing missionary boxes - and is applied to all par...
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(P/B) REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM
Εκδότης: HESPERUS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0957-0196

Often compared to L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables and published four years afterwards, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm introduces us to a charming ten-year-old heroine who changes the lives of all those she touches. Set in Riverboro, Maine, this quintessentially American story is a remarkable depiction of rural life in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. We first meet Rebecca when she is on her way to live with her spinster aunts, Miranda and Jane. She has just left behind her the beloved home she grew up in, Sunnybro...
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(P/B) DESPERATE GAMES
Εκδότης: HESPERUS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0957-0179

Predating The Hunger Games, Pierre Boulle, author of The Planet Apes, imagines a world governed by science and brutality gone mad in this long-neglected, dystopian tale. Despairing at the state of world degeneration, a group of the world's most renowned intellectuals form the new Scientific World Government, aiming to put the world to rights. Elected into power, they quickly start making changes for the better, eliminating world hunger and cancer; encouraging scientific thought and banning frivolous entertainment. But while congratulating ...
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(P/B) JO'S BOYS
Εκδότης: HESPERUS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0957-0175

Ten years on, the Plumfield boys have all grown up. Each has taken a new career in ife and set off to different corners of the earth to earn their fortune and one their trade. They nevertheless return to their home in Plumfield to tell their tales, to rekindle old flames of love and to mourn sad news that strikes their small community. Over all this presides Mother Bhaer, flanked by her ever faithful sisters and family. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE TALE
Εκδότης: HESPERUS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0957-0141

The Tale brings together in one collection four stories by the celebrated author of Heart of Darkness. Set onboard a ship during an unnamed war, the title story is a harrowing account of guilt and responsibility, showing Conrad at his most accomplished as a master of psychological insight. Accompanying this is another study of the brutal turns of fortune visited upon the unwary by war: 'The Warrior's Soul' takes place during Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and traces the interweaving relationship between a beautiful woman and the two men wh...
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(P/B) THE SPELL
Εκδότης: HESPERUS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0957-0089

When the infant Marquis of Almeida is pronounced dead, the kingdoms of Wellingtonsland and Angria are deprived of their heir. Anxious to secure the nations' future security, King Zamorna's advisers entreat him to name his successor - and when Zamorna himself succumbs to a mysterious and life-threatening sickness, the need becomes more crucial still. Yet Zamorna remains strangely unperturbed. Confusion turns to political intrigue as those closest to him wonder exactly what it is he knows, and who, precisely, are the mysterious characters t...
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IN THE CAGE
Εκδότης: HESPERUS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0957-0062

Working in a post office in Mayfair, a young woman is exposed to the cryptic but alluring correspondence of the social elite, and in particular, to lines written by the dashing Captain Everard. As she memorises the messages he telegraphs, she becomes increasingly attracted to the life described to her, fixated by scandal and gossip a world away from her more ordinary existence......
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(P/B) THE SPRING TIDE
Εκδότης: HESPERUS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0957-0171

The first in a thrilling new crime series by Cilla and Rolf B?rjlind, the scriptwriters behind the Swedish Arne Dahl and Wallander TV series. The spring tides are the highest of the year in Nordkoster; the beach will be covered in particularly deep water tonight. Three men on the beach are digging a hole, covertly watched by a young boy. His intrigue turns to horror as he makes out a fourth figure - the woman for whom the hole is intended. Buried up to her neck in the sand, the high tide is rapidly approaching. Still screaming in terror, t...
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(P/B) WAKOLDA
Εκδότης: HESPERUS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0957-0172

Patagonia, 1960. Jose is on the run. Having fled from him homeland Germany, he has come to South America to continue his work - Jose is a doctor, who is seeking to manipulate genes to create the 'perfect' human race'. In the small village of Chacharramendi he first meets Lilith, a child he notices from the balcony of his motel and is instantly fascinated yet repulsed by. For Lilith has a growth defect, and the disproportionate size of her features represent all he is trying to exterminate from humankind. Yet, even more fascinating is the f...
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(P/B) ON PROVENCE
Εκδότης: HESPERUS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0957-0173

Meander through Provence in the company of Henry James experiencing the sights, culture and sounds of late nineteenth-century Southern France in this new book in Hesperus's bestselling 'On' series. In 1882, a year after the publication of his wildly successful The Portrait of a Lady, which dealt with the difficulties faced by American expatriate Daisy Miller in Europe, Henry James set out a six-week tour of south-eastern France, taking in Tours, Bourges, Nantes, Toulouse and Arles. Although a sometime resident of Paris, James was convinced...
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(P/B) AFTER THE FIREWORKS
Εκδότης: HESPERUS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0957-0147

Told with all the humour and keen observation of Huxley's literary craft, this satirical novella by the author of "Brave New World" explores the dual notions of obsession and control.As an acclaimed novelist, Miles Fanning is well used to the unwanted attentions of his fans as he goes about his daily business. Yet little prepares him for the determination of the gauche Pamela Tarn who resolves to enter not only his world, but also his bed. Initially repelled by the enormity of the age gap between them, Fanning vows never to acquiesce, and ...
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(P/B) ON THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN
Εκδότης: HESPERUS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0957-0132

Convinced that the subordination of women was an irrational and outmoded social custom, John Stuart Mill and his wife Harriet Taylor Mill set about arguing for equality between the sexes. The essay they wrote is a striking and clearsighted denunciation of the status quo, carefully demolishing ancient, lingering prejudices and setting out a new agenda for human progress. At the time a radical clarion call for change, their passionate and eloquent arguments still have the power to challenge and confront the prevailing patriarchal bias in mod...
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VIRTUE
Εκδότης: HESPERUS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0957-0149

Herman and the noble and proud Ernestine, two young lovers, find themselves confronted with a pair of libertines who will stop at nothing to satisfy their desires. For Count Oxtiern, villainous and dissolute, and his accomplice Madame Scholtz, a widow of lusty temperament, no lie, no treachery is beneath them in their quest for sexual fulfilment. But does crime really never pay? Or can virtue vanquish vice? The Marquis de Sade's oft-overlooked novella Ernestine, or the Swedish Tale, published alongside the play he wrote after it, Count Oxt...
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ZASTROZZI
Εκδότης: HESPERUS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0957-0064

Exploiting the classic elements of popular Gothic horror, Shelley created a dramatic tale of romance and revenge. This short and intensely emotional novel - first published when Shelley was only eighteen - combines adolescent vigour and literary panache with occasional sparks of poetic genius....
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(P/B) TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE
A TRUE STORY OF BETRAYAL, KIDNAP AND SLAVERY
Εκδότης: HESPERUS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0957-0169

Tricked by two men offering him a job as a musician in New York State in 1841, Solomon Northup was drugged and kidnapped. His life in jeopardy, he was forced to assume a new name and fake past. Taken to Louisiana on a disease-ridden plague ship, he was initially sold to a cotton planter. In the twelve years that follow he is sold to many different owners who treat him with varying levels of savagery; forced labour, scant food and numerous beatings are his regular fare. Against all odds, Northup eventually succeeds in contacting a sympathet...
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(P/B) THE EVE OF ST VENUS
Εκδότης: HESPERUS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0957-0073

Ambrose and Diana are to be married. However, Diana is having last-minute doubts fuelled by her feminist friend and bridesmaid Julia, while Ambrose inadvertently becomes engaged to the goddess Venus, who has taken possession of the wedding ring. These obstacles present the first in a farcical series of challenges - not only to the impending wedding, but also to the most dearly held preconceptions of Ambrose, Diana, and their wedding guests. "Why can't a goddess of love be a tangible aspect of the terrible, unknowable deity? ...I don't see ...
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(P/B) A BRIEF HISTORY OF FABLES
FROM AESOP TO FLASH FICTION
Εκδότης: HESPERUS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0957-0168

In this groundbreaking work, Lee Rourke traces the long history of a form currently enjoying a resurgence online and in the works of some of the most talented young authors in print. As we begin to emerge from modernism and its aftermath, fables - the briefest of narratives given the most expansive of significations - have gained in popularity. Author and literary critic Lee Rourke here considers the permutations of the form, from Aesop's tortoise and hare, via Plato's socio-political works and the later ribald medieval tales, to Kafka's a...
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(P/B) THE MAD TOY
Εκδότης: HESPERUS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0957-0166

The first novel by one of the greatst writers of Latin American literature. First published in 1920, The Mad Toy is set in Buenos Aires in the early twentieth century. Feeling the alienation of youth, Silvio Astier's gang tours neighbourhoods, inflicting waves of petty crime, stealing from homes and shops until the police are forced to intervene. Writing in the language of the streets and basing his writings in part on his own experience, with his characters wand. (From the publisher)...
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