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The Holy Qur'an

• Hardcover | Engels
• This edition has become among the most widely known English translations of the Qur'an. It is republished without the Arabic text and footnotes as a p... Lees meer

Dracula

Stoker Bram

• Hardcover | Engels
• Before writing Dracula, Stoker spent seven years researching European folklore and stories of vampires, being most influenced by Emily Gerard's 1885 e... Lees meer

Ten Great Religions

James Freeman Clarke

• Hardcover | Engels
• First comprehensive book on comparative religion. Born in Hanover, New Hampshire, James Freeman Clarke attended the Boston Latin School, graduated fro... Lees meer

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll

• Hardcover | Engels
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a ... Lees meer

The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

• Paperback | Engels
• The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859), were born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, in the German state of Hesse. Throughout their live... Lees meer

The Time Machine

H G Wells

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative. The work is generally credited with ... Lees meer

The Mystics of Islam

A Reynold Nicholson

• Paperback | Engels
• Sufism is a mystic tradition within Islam that encompasses a diverse range of beliefs and practices dedicated to Divine love and the cultivation of th... Lees meer

Cane

Jean Toomer

• Hardcover | Engels
• The book is structured as a series of vignettes revolving around the origins and experiences of African Americans in the United States. The vignettes ... Lees meer

Nostromo

Joseph Conrad

• Hardcover | Engels
• In his "Author's Note" in this edition of Nostromo, Joseph Conrad provides a detailed explanation of the inspirational origins of his novel. There he ... Lees meer

The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Marcus Aurelius

• Hardcover | Engels
• We do not come to Marcus Aurelius for a treatise on Stoicism. He is no head of a school to lay down a body of doctrine for students; he does not even ... Lees meer

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Victor Hugo

• Hardcover | Engels
• The medieval stained glass panels of Notre-Dame de Paris had been replaced by white glass to let more light into the church.This explains the large de... Lees meer

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Jungle Book is a collection of stories by English Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893-94. The or... Lees meer

The Benson Murder Case

S S Van Dine

• Hardcover | Engels
• New York dilettante Philo Vance decides to assist the police in investigating the death of another man-about-town because he finds the psychological a... Lees meer

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

• Hardcover | Engels
• Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulat... Lees meer

The Second Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

• Hardcover | Engels
• The tales in The Second Jungle Book includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral l... Lees meer

The Trial

Franz Kafka

• Paperback | Engels
• Heavily influenced by Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, The agents' boss later arrives and holds a mini-tribunal in the r... Lees meer

Autobiography of a Yogi

Paramahansa Yogananda

• Hardcover | Engels
• The book begins with his childhood family life, to finding his guru, to becoming a monk and establishing his teachings of Kriya Yoga meditation. The b... Lees meer

Pistis Sophia

• Hardcover | Engels
• The text as part of the Gnostic Bible proclaims that Jesus remained on earth after the resurrection for 11 years, and was able in this time to teach h... Lees meer

Swann's Way

Marcel Proust

• Hardcover | Engels
• From literal French, In Search of Lost Time, first translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past, and sometimes referred to in French as La Re... Lees meer

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

• Hardcover | Engels
• Great Expectations has a colourful cast that has entered popular culture: the capricious Miss Havisham, the cold and beautiful Estella, Joe the kind a... Lees meer

Emma

Jane Austen

• Hardcover | Engels
• The story takes place in the fictional village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls, and Donwell Abbey and involves the rela... Lees meer

The Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

• Hardcover | Engels
• Darwin's theory of evolution is based on key facts and the inferences drawn from them, which biologist Ernst Mayr summarised as follows: -Every specie... Lees meer

The Velveteen Rabbit

Margery Williams Bianco

• Paperback | Engels
• These presents are modern and mechanical, and they snub the old-fashioned velveteen rabbit. The wisest and oldest toy in the nursery, the Skin Horse, ... Lees meer

Advanced Gunsmithing

W F Vickery

• Hardcover | Engels
• A book of this character is necessarily the work of many men, each of whom contributes some methods of his own, some invention forced upon him by the ... Lees meer