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1	Number the Stars more books like this by Lois Lowry add to wishlist A powerful story set in Nazi occupied Denmark in 1943. Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen is called upon for a selfless act of bravery to help save her best-friend, Ellen -- a Jew. It is 1943 and for ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen life is still fun -- school, family, sharing fairy stories with her little sister. But there are dangers and worries ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.16! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Hamlet more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist The core of the ground-breaking, three text edition, this self-contained, free-standing volume gives readers the Second Quarto text (1604-5) and includes in its Introduction, notes and Appendices all the reader might expect to find in any standard Arden edition. As well as a full, illustrated Introduction to the play's historical, cultural and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Hornet Flight more books like this by Ken Follett add to wishlist In separate locations across the war-ravaged landscape of northern Europe in 1941, a plot is slowly being uncovered. The trouble is that no one person--a policeman in Copenhagen, a teenager on a remote island in the North Atlantic, and a British agent in London--has all the clues, and if the pieces aren't put together, and soon, Britain will ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Andersen's Fairy Tales more books like this by Hans Christian Andersen add to wishlist This collection of over forty of Anderson's most popular stories includes "The Ugly Duckling", "The Red Shoes", and "The Little Match Girl." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.52! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Fairy tales more books like this by Hans Christian Andersen add to wishlist A new selection of 30 tales to mark the 200 year anniversary of Andersen's birth in 2005. Tiina Nunnally's sparkling translation captures the rawness and immediacy of Andersen's style, for the first time enabling English readers to be as startled and amazed as his original readers were, and revealing the unique inventiveness of Andersen's genius. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Smilla's Sense of Snow more books like this by Peter Hoeg add to wishlist A literary mystery that unravels the knotty puzzle of who killed Isaiah, a young boy who "fell" from the window of his parents' Copenhagen apartment. Isaiah's neighbor Smilla Qaavigaaq refuses to accept the police verdict of accidental death and begins to investigate the case on her own. Witty and self-assured, Smilla brings her own original ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Gertrude and Claudius more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist Using details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that were the inspiration for Hamlet, John Updike brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik, her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King Hamlet, and her middle-aged affair with her husband's younger brother. As only he could, Updike recasts a tale of medieval violence ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Snow Queen more books like this by Hans Christian Andersen add to wishlist A picture-book edition of Andersen's classic fairy tale. Kay is abducted and bewitched by the chillingly beautiful Snow Queen, and his loyal sister is prepared to face anything to find her brother and bring him home. So she undertakes the nightmarish journey to the Snow Queen's icy labyrinth. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.70! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Copenhagen more books like this by Michael Frayn add to wishlist In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. They were old friends and close colleagues, and they had revolutionised atomic physics in the 1920s with their work together on quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle. But now the world had changed, and the two men ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist The "Longman Study Texts" are designed to cover a wide range of classics and modern writers and the full range of literary genres. They are geared to both examination and coursework requirements at GCSE level with many texts for A level study and they aim to avoid examination short cuts such as plot summaries or potted character sketches. This ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Sharpe's Prey: Richard Sharpe and the Expedition to Denmark, 1807 more books like this by Bernard Cornwell add to wishlist The 18th installment in Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series. In this one, Sharpe is part of the British Army Expedition to Copenhagen in 1807. see all copies from $5.01! new only from $8.26! \| SVS
12 view cover	The Ultimate Lego Book: Discover the Lego Universe more books like this by Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen (Foreword by) add to wishlist Colorful photographs of some amazing LEGO sculptures highlight one of the world's bestselling toys--from life-size dinosaurs to a time machine. see all copies from $15.98! new only from $98.50!
13 view cover	Music & Silence more books like this by Rose Tremain add to wishlist In the year 1629, a young English lutenist named Peter Claire arrives at the Danish Court to join King Christian IV's Royal Orchestra. From the moment when he realises that the musicians have to perform in a freezing cellar underneath the royal apartments, he understands that he's come to a place where the opposing states of light and dark, good ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Hamlet Prince of Denmark more books like this by William Shakespeare (Editor) add to wishlist Lively, instructive access to Shakespeare's rich and complex works. Philip Edwards aims to bring the reader, playgoer and director of Hamlet into the closest possible contact with Shakespeare's most famous and most perplexing play. In his Introduction Edwards considers the possibility that Shakespeare made important alterations to Hamlet as it ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Quiet Girl more books like this by Peter Hoeg, Nadia Christensen (Translator) add to wishlist Set in Denmark in the here and now, Hoegs masterful, inventive novel centers around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.39! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Sharpes Prey more books like this by Bernard Cornwell add to wishlist It is 1807 and Sharpe has joined the newly formed Greenjackets - but his future in the army seems hopeless. He is rescued from disgrace by General Sir David Baird, who needs a "disposable" man for a mission in Copenhagen. But unless Sharpe can complete the mission, the army will meet disaster. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $11.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	The Torso more books like this by Helene Tursten, Katarina E Tucker (Translator) add to wishlist When part of a human torso that is so mutilated that its gender can only be established by DNA testing washes up on a beach near Goteborg, Sweden, Detective Inspector Irene Huss is dispatched to Copenhagen to liaise with police there in pursuing the killer. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.53! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Women's Realities, Women's Choices: An Introduction to Women's Studies more books like this by Ulku U Bates, Hunter College Women's Studies Collective add to wishlist This is the third edition of the Hunter College Women's Studies Collective's landmark introduction to women's studies, "Women's Realities, Women's Choices". The authors, specialists in fields ranging from anthropology to classics to medicine, have updated this volume to incorporate the latest research and statistics in women's studies, as well as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $41.99! \| first editions
19 view cover	Princess and the Pea more books like this by Hans Christian Andersen add to wishlist A young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves that she is a real princess. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.64! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command more books like this by Andrew Gordon add to wishlist When hundreds of warships belonging to the two most powerful fleets in the world clashed off the coast of Denmark in 1916, the encounter had the potential to reshape the political map forever. However, there were devastating failures of communication and command and, while the Battle of Jutland met Britain's strategic need for continued maritime ... see all copies from $16.68! new only from $16.68! \| first editions
21 view cover	Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales more books like this by Hans Christian Andersen, Lily Owens (Editor) add to wishlist More than 156 of the great Dane's best-loved fairy tales. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $62.49!
22 view cover	Four Tragedies more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist The theme of the great Shakespearean tragedies is the fall from grace of a great man due to a flaw in his nature. Whether it is the ruthless ambition of Macbeth or the folly of Lear, the irresolution of Hamlet or the suspicion of Othello, the cause of the tragedy - even when it is the murder of a king - is trifling compared to the calamity that it ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.93! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Ophelia more books like this by Lisa M Klein add to wishlist Those who think they know the story of Ophelia and Hamlet can think again, because when bloody deeds turn the court of Elsinore into a place of treachery and madness, Ophelia alone will find the means to escape, with nothing more than the clothes on her back . . . and one very dangerous secret. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.53! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	North to freedom more books like this by Anne Holm add to wishlist The adventures of a 12-year-old boy who escapes from an Eastern European concentration camp and travels to Denmark and freedom. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $71.87! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Niels Lyhne more books like this by J. P. Jacobsen add to wishlist Niels Lyhne is an aspiring poet, torn between romanticism and realism, faith and reason. Through his relationships with six women - including his young widowed aunt, a seductive free spirit, and his passionate cousin who marries his friend - his search for purpose becomes a yielding to disillusionment. One of Danish literature's greatest novels, ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS

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