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  • The Gift of the Magi

    A Poor Young Couple, Two Christmas Gifts, and the Twist Ending That Made O. Henry Famous

    by O. Henry ...
    Della has one prized possession: her hair. Jim has one: his watch. With almost no money for Christmas, each secretly sells the thing they treasure most to buy the perfect gift for the other — and the ending, still one of the most famous twists in short fiction, turns a simple story about being broke into a quiet definition of what love actually costs. O. Henry's most celebrated story and a ... Read more

    R29,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Many-Colored Land

    by Julian May ...
    Series Book 1 - The Saga of Pliocene Exile
    In the year 2034, Theo Quderian, a French physicist, made an amusing but impractical discovery: the means to use a one-way, fixed-focus time warp that opened into a place in the Rhone River valley during the idyllic Pliocene Epoch, six million years ago. But, as time went on, a certain usefulness developed. The misfits and mavericks of the future—many of them brilliant people—began to seek this ... Read more

    R158,11

  • Collected Stories

    by Vladimir Nabokov ...
    Translated by Dmitri Nabokov ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    A man at his desk is interrupted by the appearance of a woodland elf in his room; the piano maestro Bachmann ends his career; a barber shaves the face of a man who once tortured him; a shy dreamer makes a deal with the Devil. In these sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy, Nabokov displays an astonishing range of inventiveness, with dazzling sleight of hand, fantastical fairy tales, ... Read more

    R303,24

  • All Quiet on the Western Front

    by Erich Maria Remarque, GP Editors ...
    ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’, the masterwork by Erich Maria Remarque, is a beautiful statement on a generation of men shattered by war. It is widely regarded as the greatest war novel of all time and was publicly burned by the Nazis for being "degenerate." Paul Bäumer and his classmates join the battle in the Western Front trenches of World War I, prodded to enroll by authoritative figures who ... Read more

    R8,73

  • Magician

    by Raymond E. Feist ...
    Series Book 1 - The Riftwar Saga
    Magician, available in ebook for the first time, is a masterwork of magic and adventure.The whole of the magnificent Riftwar Cycle, by bestselling author Raymond E. Feist, is now available in ebookThe world had changed even before I discovered the foreign ship wrecked on the shore below Crydee Castle, but it was the harbinger of the chaos and death that was coming to our door.War had come to the ... Read more

    R124,88

  • Moby- Dick

    by Herman Melville, Christopher Buckley ...
    Herman Melville's thrilling nautical adventure—a timeless allegory and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict.At the heart of Moby-Dick is the powerful, unknowable sea—and Captain Ahab, a brooding, one-legged fanatic who has sworn vengeance on the mammoth white whale that crippled him. Narrated by Ishmael, a wayfarer who joins the crew of Ahab’s whaling ship, this is the story of that ... Read more

    R80,26

  • Alistair MacLean Arctic Chillers 4-Book Collection

    Night Without End, Ice Station Zebra, Bear Island, Athabasca

    by Alistair MacLean ...
    Four classic tales of adventure in the frozen north, from the master of action and suspense, available for the first time in this e-bundle.Discover why Alistair MacLean was the most popular thriller writer of his generation in these four classic stories of the frozen north – a deadly military submarine mission in the Arctic Ocean, a murder mystery in the darkness of the Polar night, a terrorist ... Read more

    R489,43

  • The Star Chamber - An Historical Romance

    by William Harrison Ainsworth ...

    R11,78

  • East of Eden

    by John Steinbeck ...
    Good, evil, and the ability to choose between them lies at the core of John Steinbeck’s sprawling masterpiece. The story follows two of the valley’s most prominent families across several generations, from around the time of the American Civil War to the end of World War I. Will the younger generation learn from their elders’ mistakes? Or are they doomed to be repeated time and time again?Inspired ... Read more

    R48,54 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sirens Of Titan

    The science fiction classic and precursor to Douglas Adams

    by Kurt Vonnegut ...
    Series Book 10 - S.F. MASTERWORKS
    A deep and meaningful masterpiece of science fiction, full of heart and mind-bending ideas. A true classic, Vonnegut will make you laugh and have you contemplating the meaning of lifeWhen Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy and only materializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or some other planet. As a result, he ... Read more

    R227,34

  • Second Watch

    by J. A. Jance ...
    From New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance, a suspenseful mystery from the creator of Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady and Seattle homicide detective J. P. Beaumont.Getting old is hell. J. P. Beaumont is finally taking some time off to have knee-replacement surgery. But instead of taking his mind off work, the operation plunges him into one of the most perplexing and mind-blowing mysteries he ... Read more

    R130,86

  • Ansichten eines Clowns

    by Heinrich Böll ...
    Mit Hans Schnier, dem »Clown«, der in der Maske des Pantomimen die äußerste Wahrheit sagt, hat Heinrich Böll eine Reizfigur geschaffen.Selten hat ein Buch der Nachkriegszeit derart erregte Diskussionen ausgelöst wie die Ansichten eines Clowns, die die Moral und den Lebensstil der bürgerlich-katholischen Gesellschaft in ihrem Nerv trafen.Die Geschichte vom langsamen gesellschaftlichen Abstieg des ... Read more

    R219,00

  • An Old Captivity

    by Nevil Shute ...
    An Old Captivity tells the story of a young pilot named Donald Ross, who is hired to fly a wealthy American archaeologist, John Mathewson, and his beautiful daughter, Jean, to a remote part of Greenland in search of Viking relics. Along the way, Ross and Jean develop a romantic relationship, and they uncover a secret about the Vikings that could rewrite history. The novel combines adventure, ... Read more

    R18,95 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Works of Jane Austen (In One Volume) Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady ... Sandition, and the Complete Juvenilia

    by Jane Austen ...
    The Complete Works of Jane Austen includes all six novels, and Austen's shorter works; Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sandition, and her complete Juvenilia. Jane Austen is famous for her six novels, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. Her works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely ... Read more

    R14,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tom Brown's Schooldays

    by Thomas Hughes, Andrew Sanders ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    A classic of Victorian literature, and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys, Tom Brown's Schooldays has long had an influence well beyond the middle-class, public school world that it describes. An active social reformer, Hughes wrote with a freshness, a lack of cant, and a kind, relaxed tolerance which keeps this novel refreshingly distinct from other schoolboy adventures. This ... Read more

    R129,82

  • The Lord of the Rings

    The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King

    by J. R. R. Tolkien ...
    Darkness Will Bind Them… watch The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 on Prime VideoAll three parts of the epic masterpiece The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers & The Return of the King – available as one download, featuring the definitive edition of the text, hyperlinked footnotes and page references, and 3 maps including a detailed map of Middle-earth.S. ... Read more

    R348,78

  • Death of a Dormouse

    by Reginald Hill ...
    ‘So far out in front that he need not bother looking over his shoulder’ Sunday TelegraphThe balding policeman on Trudi Adamson’s doorstep brings the worst news possible: her husband Trent has been burned to death in a freak car accident.Suddenly a widow after years of marriage, Trudi soon discovers there’s a lot she didn’t know about her late husband. Why did he resign from his job without telling ... Read more

    R123,73

  • King Solomon's Mines

    by H. Rider Haggard ...
    King Solomon's Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party.It is the first English adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered to be the genesis of the Lost World literary genre. ... Read more

    R38,03 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Joy for Mourning (Mills & Boon Silhouette)

    by Dorothy Clark ...
    In a move that shocks nineteenth-century Philadelphia society, wealthy widow Laina Brighton turns her grand house into an orphanage for homeless children. Staid and stuffy teas quickly give way to peals of happy laughter echoing through the stately halls.With the support of handsome doctor Thaddeous Allen, Laina is determined to give these waifs a better life, despite the malicious gossip that ... Read more

    R73,24

  • The Inside Ring

    by Mike Lawson ...
    The West Wing meets 24 in a pace-ridden thriller of conspiracy, corruption and cold-blooded murder.Joe De Marco is running out of time.Someone has made an attempt on the president’s life, but the wrong man is dead. How could this happen when the president and those nearest to him are protected by a group of men known as The Inside Ring? Is there is a chink in the armour? A break in the circle? Is ... Read more

    R89,92

  • The Odyssey

    by Homer ...
    Translated by Emily Wilson ...
    Homer’s great epic of a hero’s journey home—inspiration for the major motion picture by Christopher Nolan—in a bold, contemporary, and refreshingly readable translation."Wilson’s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean. . . . It is rare to find a translation that is at once so effortlessly easy to read and so rigorously considered." —Madeline Miller, author of CirceComposed at the rosy-fingered ... Read more

    R275,30

  • The Pilgrim's Progress

    by John Bunyan ...
    'The ultimate English classic ... The story of a man in search of truth' ObserverIn John Bunyan's timeless allegory, Christian sets off on a journey to find salvation. His path is not easy, and he is beset by trials, including the destructive Apollyon and the Giant Despair, as he pursues his pilgrimage through the Slough of Despond, the Delectable Mountains and Vanity Fair towards the Celestial ... Read more

    R170,53

  • The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine

    by John Fox, Jr ...
    The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine by John Fox, Jr. ... Read more

    R11,78

  • The Fellowship of the Ring

    by J. R. R. Tolkien ...
    Series Book 1 - The Lord of the Rings
    Darkness Will Bind Them… watch The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 on Prime Video The first part of J. R. R. Tolkien’s epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS‘A most remarkable feat’GuardianIn a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit is entrusted with an immense task. He must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ruling Ring of ... Read more

    R147,30