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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Sunken Garden and Other Poems is a collection of Walter de la Mare's hauntingly beautiful verse, filled with themes of nature, mystery, and quiet introspection. With a dreamlike quality and a deep sense of wonder, these poems evoke hidden worlds, fleeting moments, and the magic of the unseen. De la Mare's delicate use of language and rich imagery make this collection a timeless reflection on beauty, memory, and the imagination.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A lyrical and personal meditation on the Outer Beach of Cape Cod, The Great Beach blends natural observation with historical reflection. John Hay explores the evolving shoreline, the life that thrives there, and the power of wind and tide to shape land and human memory. From the legacy of the Pilgrims and shipwrecks to the mysteries of sea life and the fragility of sand dunes, this book is both a tribute and a warning. Hay's firsthand walks, encounters with wildlife, and environmental insight give the Cape's shifting coast the attention of both poet and conservationist. Originally published in 1963, this quiet classic continues to speak to the awe of nature and the need for stewardship.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A rival detective begs for help-then is stabbed to death in a taxi in broad daylight. A sinister emblem haunts every crime scene: the double dagger. Can a private eye survive a trail marked for death.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This taut science fiction thriller from 1953 combines political intrigue, resistance movements, and questions of humanity's future in a story that builds steadily to an explosive conclusion!y.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Arsène Lupin Intervenes brings together a series of ingenious short stories featuring the legendary gentleman thief posing as the detective Jim Barnett. When Inspector Béchoux hits a wall, Barnett steps in, uncovering hidden truths behind baffling crimes-from a vanished necklace to a murder disguised as misfortune. Each tale unfolds with sharp wit, unexpected twists, and Lupin's trademark flair for misdirection. Whether facing off with dishonest heirs or uncovering elaborate frauds, he navigates deception with style and cunning. These pre-WWI cases, told with flair and humor, highlight the clever mind behind the disguise and offer a classic take on the crime story.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Over a dozen spaceships had disappeared into hyperspace, never to return. The lost vessels included the Jason, the Starbird, and the Invincible. Everyone assumed they fell victim to some kind of mechanical failure. The mystery deepened when the Invincible turned up drifting in space six months after it vanished. The ship's engines were undamaged, the hull intact-yet no trace remained of its crew or its two hundred passengers. Where had they gone Clearly something ominous had happened to the ship and the people on board.Something in hyperspace-or somebody!

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In this fast-paced adventure set in the early days of flight, two young cadets uncover a reclusive inventor and his revolutionary aeroplane hidden deep in the California wilderness. Faced with government skepticism and rival interests, they take the daring step of flying the unproven aircraft cross-country to Washington, D.C. Their journey is one of life-threatening rescues, sky battles, and loyalty tested at every turn-as they fight not just for recognition, but for justice.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - He was branded an outcast, chasing wild mustangs in the desolate ranges of California. She returned home from school to find her world changed and his name disgraced. Can love survive between a girl of promise and a man the valley condemned.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Golden Dawn follows the life of Penelope, a child adopted under the shadow of her new father's desperation and her mother's indifference. As she grows, her charm and resilience create a powerful bond with her adoptive father, even as her home life fractures.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A horror-tinged frontier saga set in the wilds of 18th-century Virginia, The Wolf Demon follows a savage trail of murder and mystery. A wolf-like demon with a human face is terrorizing the Shawnee, leaving a red arrow carved into the flesh of its victims. As legendary figures like Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton investigate rumors of war and witchcraft near Point Pleasant, they unravel a tangled plot involving madness, deception, and frontier justice.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A red car flees the scene, a child lies unconscious, and only one clue is left behind: a cap. Can Dick Merriwell catch the coward who ran and hid-before justice does.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This MEGAPACK(R) assembles three of Hesse's most important works: Demian (1919), Siddhartha (1922), and Steppenwolf (1927). Each novel reflects Hesse's fascination with the inner struggles of individuals searching for meaning in a confusing and changing world.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Set in 19th-century New England and the emerging Minnesota Territory, The God-Seeker follows Aaron Gadd, a carpenter turned missionary, who leaves behind a rigid patriarch and a troubled past to spread the gospel among the Sioux. Wrestling with religious zeal, moral conflict, and human passion, Aaron must confront his deepest convictions and choose between inherited duty and the uncertain promise of a new world. A sweeping novel of personal faith, family strife, and America's westward expansion.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Readers of Mr. Oppenheim's novels may always count on a story of absorbing interest, turning on a complicated plot, worked out with dexterous craftsmanship.'-Literary Digest.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Henry James's classic details the complications following the haplessly innocent behavior of Daisy Miller, a nouveau riche American woman traveling through Switzerland and Rome. Includes the preface James wrote for the later New York edition.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge. Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel. When some time ago I published a series of hasty but sincere papers, under the name of 'Heretics,' several critics for whose intellect I have a warm respect (I may mention specially Mr. G.S. Street) said that it was all very well for me to tell everybody to affirm his cosmic theory, but that I had carefully avoided supporting my precepts with example. 'I will begin to worry about my philosophy,' said Mr. Street, 'when Mr. Chesterton has given us his.' It was perhaps an incautious suggestion to make to a person only too ready to write books upon the feeblest provocation. But after all, though Mr. Street has inspired and created this book, he need not read it. If he does read it, he will find that in its pages I have attempted in a vague and personal way, in a set of mental pictures rather than in a series of deductions, to state the philosophy in which I have come to believe. I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Circular Staircase blends classic gothic elements with early detective fiction as an unlikely heroine uncovers dark secrets buried within a stately home. Combining sharp wit with mounting suspense, the novel helped shape the American mystery genre, introducing readers to atmospheric crime-solving long before it became mainstream. At once chilling and charming, it's a tale of resilience, revelation, and the perilous path to the truth.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An English gentleman is betrayed, enslaved, and reborn as a feared corsair on the Barbary Coast. With sword in hand and fury in his heart, he sails under an enemy flag to seek justice and redemption. Set in a world of treachery and honor, The Sea-Hawk is a swashbuckling tale of identity, loyalty, and revenge.Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950) wrote some of the greatest adventure stories of the early 20th century, including Scaramouche and Captain Blood.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Six months after Arthur's attempt to purchase back his ancestral acres, a man came to him with a proposal for him to furnish on contract a large quantity of coal for the railroad. Arthur jumped at the chance.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - THE TALES in this volume are intended for children, who will like, it is hoped, the old stories that have pleased so many generations.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Vincentio di Vivaldi was the only son of the Marchese di Vivaldi, a nobleman of one of the most ancient families of the kingdom of Naples, a favourite possessing an uncommon share of influence at Court, and a man still higher in power than in rank. His pride of birth was equal to either, but it was mingled with the justifiable pride of a principled mind; it governed his conduct in morals as well as in the jealousy of ceremonial distinctions, and elevated his practice as well as his claims. His pride was at once his vice and his virtue, his safeguard and his weakness.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Henry Fielding's comic novel 'Joseph Andrews' was originally published in 1742 in two volumes. A takeoff on Samuel Richardson's 'Pamela,' it follows Pamela's brother Joseph in the model of the Tory satirists of the previous generation. Although begun as a parody, it became an accomplished novel and marks the beginning of Fielding's career as a serious novelist.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Lawrence's 1922 novel explores the ideas of Nietzsche through the character of Aaron Sisson, a coal minor and amateur flautist who dreams of greater things. Sisson, who abandons his wife and children, journeys through the intellectual and artistic circles of Italy, and ultimately finds redemption in the arms of an older woman.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The recent wedding was the third in the family; the first after a five years' respite. It ensued upon an attachment that had grown up with the young people, so that they had been entirely one with each other; and there had been little of formal demand either of the maiden's affection or her father's consent; but both had been implied from the first. The bridegroom was barely of age, the bride not seventeen, and Dr. May had owned it was very shocking, and told Richard to say nothing about it! Hector had coaxed and pleaded, pathetically talked of his great empty house at Maplewood, and declared that till he might take Blanche away, he would not leave Stoneborough; he would bring down all sorts of gossip on his courtship, he would worry Ethel, and take care she finished nobody's education. What did Blanche want with more education She knew enough for him. Couldn't Ethel be satisfied with Aubrey and Gertrude or he dared say she might have Mary too, if she was insatiable. If Dr. May was so unnatural as to forbid him to hang about the house, why, he would take rooms at the Swan. In fact, as Dr. May observed, he treated him to a modern red-haired Scotch version of 'Make me a willow cabin at your gate;' and as he heartily loved Hector and entirely trusted him, and Blanche's pretty head was a wise and prudent one, what was the use of keeping the poor lad unsettled So Mrs. Rivers, the eldest sister and the member's wife, had come to arrange matters and help Ethel, and a very brilliant wedding it had been.