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Elämän viulut

Miltä mennyt elämä näyttää vanhuuteen ehtineen silmin? Entä miten lapsi katsoo samaa maailmaa? Ihmisten tiet ovat täynnä omituisia mutkia, sotia ja sattumuksia, ja viulut on makset ...


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Vanity Fair

For fans of Bridgerton, this classical gossip novel follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley as they deal with relationships with both friends and family. Set during the ...


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Tartuffe, or The Hypocrite

In this witty and charming French play, the audience follows Madame Pernelle, whose self-importance leads her to leave her son Orgon's house because no one pays any attention to he ...


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Lady Windermere's Fan

A searing satire on the British class system, social hypocrisy, and keeping up appearances, ‘Lady Windemere’s Fan’ is one of Wilde’s best-loved plays. Such is its popularity that i ...


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Mountain-Laurel and Maidenhair

Friendship can transcend class and background.Take the movie 'Napoleon Dynamite', Dory's friendship with Nemo in 'Finding Nemo' or chalk-and-cheese buddies Barbara Hershey and Bett ...


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Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories

In a preface to this collection, Louisa May Alcott calls these eight stories her 'various waifs and strays' and they all beautifully demonstrate her wry sense of humour, sharp obse ...


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Comic Tragedies

Louisa May Alcott's most popular novel, ´Little Women´, featured the March sisters, who were based on her own family. In this collection of short plays, originally written by Alcot ...


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A Modern Cinderella

Louisa May Alcott has penned a sparkling collection of novels, short stories and poems. In this collection of short stories, you get four little gems, written with Alcott's unmista ...


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Pygmalion

Do you like 'Pretty Woman', with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere? Do you love 'Maid in Manhattan', starring Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes? And how about little orphan 'Annie'? We ...


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Viehättävä professori

Palvelusväki on innoissaan saadessaan tietää professori Greystonen palaavan kotiin. Tämän paluuta on odotettu jo yli kahden vuoden ajan. Kun Greystone vihdoin saapuu, palvelusväki ...


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Irma

Irma är inte bara sekreterare i Socialdemokraternas Utrikespolitiska grupp. Hon är även rumänsk ambassadör, tysk byggentreprenör och norskt polisbefäl, i alla fall när partnern och ...


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Juhli ja kuole

Ihastuttava taiteilija Paula Valentin pyytää yksityisetsivä Allan Karvelta apua karistaakseen ympärillään pörräävän ihailijan. Niinpä Karve osallistuu Paula Valentinin seurassa täm ...


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A Cynic Looks At Life

In this collection of satiric essays, Ambrose Bierce offers his provoking outlook on a series of subjects. This collection includes, "Civilization", "Immortality", "The Death Penal ...


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Claudius Bombarnac

Claudius Bombarnac is a reporter, tasked with writing a travelogue while aboard the Great Trans-Asiatic Railway. Hoping to spice up his story, he befriends a group of travellers, w ...


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The Hermit and the Wild Woman

‘The Hermit and the Wild Woman' is a collection of short stories through which Wharton explores the themes of choice and morality. A surprising read, the stories feature a wide var ...


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The Spark

‘The Spark’ is the third of four books set in Old New York. When Hayley Delane discovers that there’s more to his mentor than meets the eye, he realises that he needs to change his ...


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Xingu

‘Xingu’ lampoons the leisurely lives of six ladies who lunch. Having formed a literary club, the six pseudo-intellectuals are thrown into panic at the prospect of being visited by ...


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The Greater Inclination

The earliest collection of short stories from Edith Wharton, ‘The Greater Inclination’ documents the beginning of an outstanding literary career. The book contains seven short stor ...


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No Thoroughfare

What happens if two boys are given the exact same name? If you guessed 'disaster in adulthood', you would be right. When one of the men dies, there is an exciting adventure to find ...


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The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices

"If you were to go up in a balloon, you would make for heaven; and if you were to dive into the depths of the earth, nothing short of the other place would content you."These are t ...


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The Lamplighter

Charles Dickens’ ‘The Lamplighter’ is a short story that will take the reader on a comical adventure bringing together the philosopher's stone, some fortune-telling stars, an eccen ...


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The Melodramatists

Nemerov’s first novel, ‘The Melodramatists’ is a parody of life in 20th Century America. When wealthy Nicholas Boyne is committed to a mental health facility, his two daughters, Cl ...


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The Triumphs of a Taxidermist

Who would have known that 'the father of Science Fiction' also wrote satire about stuffed animals? H.G. Wells' short story 'The Triumphs of a Taxidermist' was first published anony ...


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Profeten och idioten

Svensk sensommar 2011. Petra, självlärd astrofysiker, har räknat ut att atmosfären kollapsar den 21 september samma år, omkring klockan 21.20. Nu är hon, domedagsprofeten, on the r ...


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Jeremy at Crale

Setting the template for almost every subsequent novel set at school, ‘Jeremy at Crale’ follows the trials and tribulations of our eponymous hero. The third in the series, Jeremy i ...