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The Campaign For Domestic Happiness (Isabella Beeton)
Offers tips on selecting cuts of meat, throwing a grand party and hosting a dinner, giving suggestions on staff wages and the cost of each recipe. With such delicious English classics as rabbit pie, carrot soup, baked apple…
€ 9,³⁰
The Age Of Bede (Bede)
The accounts given by Bede and Eddius give the reader an idea of 6th and 7th century life in Britain as Roman Episcopal orthodoxy clashed with the monasticism that was spreading over Ireland and Northern England.
€ 11,⁹⁵
Ecclesiastical History Of The English People (Bede)
Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and history. It goes on to tell of the kings and bishops, monks and nuns who helped to develop Anglo-Saxon government and religion during…
€ 14,⁶⁰
Three Gothic Novels (Horace walpole Mary shelley William Beckford)
The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings. This volume presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels: "The Castle of Otranto",…
€ 15,⁹⁵
Vathek and Other Stories (William Beckford and Jack Malcolm)
An enthralling work of Gothic fiction, modelled on the Arabian Nights

This collection of writings features the complete text of William Beckford’s best-known book, Vathek. Beckford’s talent for satire emerges in selections…
€ 17,³⁰
The Science Fiction Of Edgar Allan Poe (Edgar Allan poe Harold Beaver)
The Science Fiction Of Edgar Allan Poe (Edgar Allan Poe Harold Beaver)
€ 17,³⁰
Perchance To Dream (Charles Beaumont)
Contains a selection of Beaumont's stories, including five stories that he later adapted for Twilight Zone episodes. This volume contains an introduction by Ray Bradbury and an afterword by William Shatner, two fellow science…
€ 13,³⁰
The Barber Of Seville And The Marriage Of Figaro (Pierre-augustin Beaumarchais)
Beaumarchais was a man of immense wit and feeling and it is our loss that his two great plays are only known to us through Rossini and Mozart. It was Beaumarchais who brought fun back into the theatre and broke the convention of…
€ 13,³⁰
The House Of Ulloa (Paul o'prey Emilia Pardo Bazán)
Follows pure and pious Father Julian Alvarez, who is sent to a remote country estate to put the affairs of the marquis, an irresponsible libertine, in order. When he discovers moral decadence, cruelty and corruption at his new…
€ 13,³⁰
The House Of Ulloa (Emilia Pardo Bazán)
Set in a Spanish mansion, this is the story of innocent and timid Father Julian Alvarez as he tries to turn the aristocratic owner away from drinking, womanizing and emptying the last of the family coffers.
€ 7,⁹⁵
Shakespearean Tragedy (A. bradley John Bayley)
Approaching the tragedies as drama, wondering about their characters as he might have wondered about people in novels or in life, the author gives us a true sense of 'the tragedies joining up with life, with all our lives; leading…
€ 17,³⁰
The Wizard Of Oz (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (L. Frank Baum)
Dorothy, together with her companions the Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow and the cowardly Lion, makes her journey along the Yellow Brick Road in search of the wonderful wizard. This book features cover art that brings a whimsical…
€ 17,³⁰
Selected Writings On Art And Literature (P. charvet Charles-pierre Baudelaire)
Discusses works by great painters such as Delacroix and Ingres. This title features writings on Poe, Flaubert and Gautier.
€ 19,⁹⁵
The Painter Of Modern Life (Charles-pierre Baudelaire)
Explores beauty, fashion, dandyism, the purpose of art and the role of the artist. This book describes the painter who expresses most fully the drama of modern life.
€ 8,¹⁰
The Tale Of Tales (Giambattista Basile)
Princess Zoza, unable to laugh no matter how funny the joke. Her father, the king, attempts to make her smile; instead he leaves her cursed whereupon the prince she is destined to marry is snatched up by another woman.
€ 17,³⁰