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  • The Red Room
    August Strindberg / Peter Graves
    August Strindberg (1849-1912) is best known outside Sweden as a dramatist, but he was also a prolific writer of novels, short stories, essays, journalism and poetry - as well as a notable artist and photographer. Although he spent many years abroad, Strindberg was born, grew up and died in Stockholm and The Red Room is perhaps the quintessential Stockholm novel. A satire of the...
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    19,41 €

  • The Emperor of Portugallia
    Selma Lagerlof / Peter Graves
    For poverty-stricken farm labourer Jan, the birth of his daughter Klara gives life a new meaning; his devotion to her develops into an obsession that excludes all else. We are taken from the miracle of a newborn child and a father’s love of his baby girl into a fantasy world emerging as a result of extreme external pressures, in which Jan creates for himself the role of Emperor...
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    19,85 €

  • A Manor House Tale
    Selma Lagerlöf / Peter Graves
    Written in 1899, Selma Lagerlöf’s novella A Manor House Tale is at one and the same time a complex psychological novel and a folk tale, a love story and a Gothic melodrama. It crosses genre boundaries and locates itself in a borderland between reality and fantasy, madness and sanity, darkness and light, possession and loss, life and death. Lagerlöf’s two young characters, Gunna...
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    18,44 €

  • Nils Holgersson’s Wonderful Journey Through Sweden, Volume 2
    Selma Lagerlof / Peter Graves
    Nils Holgersson’s Wonderful Journey through Sweden (1906-07) is truly unique. Starting life as a commissioned school reader designed to present the geography of Sweden to nine-year-olds, it quickly won the international fame and popularity it still enjoys over a century later. The story of the naughty boy who climbs on the gander’s back and is then carried the length of the cou...
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    19,15 €

  • Nils Holgersson’s Wonderful Journey Through Sweden, Volume 1
    Selma Lagerlof / Peter Graves
    Nils Holgersson’s Wonderful Journey through Sweden (1906-07) is truly unique. Starting life as a commissioned school reader designed to present the geography of Sweden to nine-year-olds, it quickly won the international fame and popularity it still enjoys over a century later. The story of the naughty boy who climbs on the gander’s back and is then carried the length of the cou...
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    19,26 €

  • The People of Hemso
    August Strindberg / Peter Graves
    August Strindberg (1849-1912, Sweden’s internationally recognised dramatist, was an astonishingly prolific all-rounder. The new National Edition of his works will run to seventy-two volumes: he was a writer of novels, short stories, essays, journalism and satire, he experimented with early photography, and in recent years his paintings have achieved the recognition they deserve...
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    18,34 €

  • The Phantom Carriage
    Selma Lagerlof / Peter Graves
    ’Written in 1912, Selma Lagerlöf’s The Phantom Carriage is a powerful combination of ghost story and social realism, partly played out among the slums and partly in the transitional sphere between life and death. The vengeful and alcoholic David Holm is led to atonement and salvation by the love of a dying Salvation Army slum sister under the guidance of the driver of the death...
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    18,52 €

  • Pade Approximants
    Baker George a. / George Augustus Jr. Baker / George Augustus JrBaker / Peter Graves-Morris
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    184,57 €