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  • Simplicius Simplicissimus (Annotated and Unexpurgated Edition)

    by H.J.C. von Grimmelshausen ...
    Translated by Hellmuth Weissenborn, Lesley Macdonald ...
    Simplicius Simplicissimus the towering achievement of H.J.C. von Grimmelshausen, one of the earliest novelists in the German language charts the adventures of its hero, Simplicius, through the horrors of battle, murder, fire and famine, offering an invaluable eyewitness account of the Thirty Years War and showing how humanity can, in the end, triumph over brutality.A work of great poetic beauty ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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    by Wolfram Eschenbach ...
    Translated by A. Hatto ...
    Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left unfinished by its initiator Chrétien de Troyes. It follows Parzival from his boyhood and career as a knight in the court of King Arthur to his ultimate achievement as King of the Temple of the Grail, which Wolfram describes as a life-giving Stone. As a knight serving the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Deluge

    by Henryk Sienkiewicz ...
    Translated by Jeremiah Curtin ...
    The Deluge is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a three-volume series known to Poles as "The Trilogy," having been preceded by With Fire and Sword (1884) and followed by Fire in the Steppe (1888).Sienkiewicz combines the adventure novel with the historical love story, setting the action in the huge territory from Silesia to ... Read more

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  • The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus

    by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen ...
    Translated by J. A. Underwood ...
    'Gaudy, wild, raw, amusing, rollicking and ragged, boiling with life, on intimate terms with death and evil - but in the end, contrite and fully tired of a world wasting itself in blood, pillage and lust' Thomas MannA story of war in all its absurdity and horror, this incomparable novel describes the fortunes of a young boy travelling through a world ravaged by conflict, and the terrible things he ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Taras Bulba

    by Nikolai Gogol ...
    Series series World Classics
    "Taras Bulba" by Nikolai Gogol is a historical novella set in 16th-century Ukraine. It follows the exploits of the Cossack warrior Taras Bulba and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap. The narrative unfolds against the backdrop of a fierce conflict between the Cossacks and Poland. Taras Bulba's loyalty to his homeland and his desire for vengeance drive the story, leading to tragic consequences for his ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Pan Tadeusz, Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania: A Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812

    by Adam Mickiewicz ...
    The present translation of Pan Tadeusz is based on the editions of Biegeleisen (Lemberg, 1893) and Kallenbach (Brody, 1911). I have had constantly by me the German translation by Lipiner (ed. 2, Leipzig, 1898) and the French translation by Ostrowski (ed. 4, Paris, 1859), and am deeply indebted to them. The English translation by Miss Maude Ashurst Biggs (Master Thaddeus; or, The Last Foray in ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

    by H. Rider Haggard ...
    Series Book 3 - Delphi Parts Edition (H. Rider Haggard)
    This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard’.Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare ... Read more

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  • Simplicissimus

    by Johann Grimmelshausen ...
    Mike Mitchell�s translation of Simplicissimus was shortlisted for the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize. �It is a violent and often all-too-realistic picaresque, set in war-torn Europe during the 17th-century Thirty Years War. Simplicissimus is the eternal innocent, the simple-minded survivor, and we follow him from a childhood in which he loses his parents to the casual atrocities of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Henryk Sienkiewicz Collection

    by Henryk Sienkiewicz ...
    Translated by Jeremiah Curtin ...
    Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents.Henryk Sienkiewicz was a prominent Polish author best known for historical novels such as Quo Vadis and With Fire and Sword. This collection includes the following:NOVELS ... Read more

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  • The Life of Courage

    The notorious Thief, Whore and Vagabond

    by Mike Mitchell ...
    A companion volume to Simplicissimus: the story of young girl named Courage, caught up in the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War, who survives, even prospers, by the use of her native cunning and sexual attraction. Completely amoral, she flits through a succession of husbands and lovers and ends her life with a band of Gypsies. The conceit here is that Courage supposedly tells her story to get ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Taras Bulba

    Bilingual Edition (English – Ukrainian)

    by Nikolai Gogol ...
    Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood, Mykola Sadowski ...
    Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding Ukrainian paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot. ... Read more

    $6.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dramatic Romances

    by Robert Browning ...
    AN OLD STORY I It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad: The house-roofs seemed to heave and sway, The church-spires flamed, such flags they had, A year ago on this very day. II The air broke into a mist with bells, The old walls rocked with the crowd and cries. Had I said, "Good folk, mere noise repels— But give me your sun from yonder skies!" They had answered, ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD