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Zanoni

Edward Bulwer-Lytton · English

Zanoni explores immortality, occult initiation, love, ambition, and forbidden knowledge.

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Claude Gueux

Victor Hugo · French

Un récit bref et puissant sur la prison, la misère, la justice pénale et la responsabilité de la société.

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Der Prozeß

Franz Kafka · German

Ein rätselhafter Gerichtsprozess verwandelt einen gewöhnlichen Morgen in eine endlose Erfahrung von Schuld, Macht und Ausweglosigkeit.

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Die Kunst des Krieges

Sunzi · German

Eine neue deutsche Ausgabe von Sunzis klassischem Traktat über Strategie, Führung, Täuschung, Gelände und den Sieg ohne unnötige Gewalt.

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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë · Spanish

Una nueva edición española de la novela de Charlotte Brontë sobre independencia, conciencia, amor, clase y dignidad personal.

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L’Ingénu

Voltaire · French

Un conte philosophique mordant sur l’innocence, le pouvoir religieux, la guerre et les absurdités de la société.

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Tao Te Ching

Laozi · Italian

Una nuova versione italiana del classico taoista su Dao, virtù, non-agire, natura e arte del governare.

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The Call of Cthulhu

H. P. Lovecraft · English

A cosmic-horror story in which an ancient presence reaches into dreams, cults, and the fragile limits of human knowledge.

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The Colour Out of Space

H. P. Lovecraft · English

A rural New England tragedy caused by an influence that falls from the sky and resists every ordinary explanation.

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The Dunwich Horror

H. P. Lovecraft · English

A rural Massachusetts family attempts to bring an impossible birth and an older-than-human power into the world.

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The Sleeper Awakes

H. G. Wells · English

A man wakes after centuries of sleep to find that technology has created a wealthy ruling class and a deeply unequal future.

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The War in the Air

H. G. Wells · English

A speculative war novel that imagines aviation transforming modern conflict, cities, and political power.

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The World Set Free cover

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The World Set Free

H. G. Wells · English

A visionary science-fiction history of atomic energy, world war, and the political reconstruction of civilization.

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Israel Potter cover

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Israel Potter

Herman Melville · English

A wandering Revolutionary War veteran’s life story, shaped by exile, disguise, memory, and the unstable promises of national glory.

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Redburn

Herman Melville · English

A young sailor’s first voyage from New York to Liverpool, told through shipboard labor, hunger, class, and uneasy encounters abroad.

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The Duke’s Children

Anthony Trollope · English

A late Palliser novel about a widowed duke, his headstrong children, marriage choices, and the changing values of Victorian society.

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The Paris Sketch Book

William Makepeace Thackeray · English

A lively Parisian notebook of satire, art criticism, street observation, and cosmopolitan sketches.

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The Piazza Tales

Herman Melville · English

A collection of Melville’s most atmospheric short fiction, from quiet pastoral mystery to the moral darkness of “Benito Cereno.”

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White-Jacket

Herman Melville · English

A sailor’s detailed account of life aboard a man-of-war, combining nautical adventure with an indictment of military discipline and cruelty.

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Die natürliche Tochter

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · German

Ein dramatisches Gedicht über Stand, Herkunft, politische Macht und die Suche einer jungen Frau nach Selbstbestimmung.

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