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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 32,55 €
ISBN 978-0-7145-4998-9
EAN 9780714549989
A gifty shrink-wrapped pack containing three volumes of Sherlock Holmes stories: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Homes and The Return of Sherlock Holmes. These beautifully illustrated editions have a fresh and contemporary feel and contain extra material, including a profile of the author, a section on the book, a list of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-843-4
EAN 9781847498434
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-852-6
EAN 9781847498526
On a cold morning, at daybreak, the 304th New York Regiment is waiting to engage with the Confederate army by a river. Among the soldiers is eighteen-year-old volunteer Henry Fleming, who has enlisted against his mother's wishes and is now shaken by a sense of fear and regret at the prospect of battle. But when ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-833-5
EAN 9781847498335
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Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergueevich
The pioneer of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted - through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, his plays, his short stories and his narrative poetry - a lasting influence well beyond the borders of his motherland. A slightly lesser-known, but by no means less important aspect of his writing is his vast production ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-837-3
EAN 9781847498373
Towards the middle of the nineteenth century, following the example of the Brothers Grimm in Germany, Alexander Afanasyev embarked on the ambitious task of sifting through the huge repository of tales from Russian folklore and selecting the very best from written and oral sources. The result, an eight-volume collection comprising around 600 stories, is one ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 114 páginas
PVP: 9,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-766-6
EAN 9781847497666
On a visit to a provincial town to see his sister Nina who is suffering from cancer, Alexei Laptev, who works for his father's Moscow haberdashery business, falls in love with Yulia, the daughter of her doctor, and proposes to her. Although she does not reciprocate his feelings, she agrees to marry him and live ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 11,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-844-1
EAN 9781847498441
When Buck is smuggled from his beloved home in the Santa Clara Valley and forced to work as a sled-dog in the frozen wilderness of the Yukon, he must forget the long, lazy Californian days and face a life of constant toil and danger under the whip of cruel or inept masters, where survival itself ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-808-3
EAN 9781847498083
Presented through an ingeniously overlapping and intertwining series of letters written by six very different characters, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker is the story of Squire Matthew Bramble and his family's journey across England and Scotland. From the gouty hypochondriac squire eager to take the waters in various spa towns to his malapropistic sister Tabitha, ...
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From his childhood on the wild, windswept shores of Cornwall and his college days at Cambridge to his life as a lawyer in London and a fateful journey to the Mediterranean, Jacob Flanders's story is told by the women in his life, whether through his mother's correspondence, the conversations of a friend or the thoughts ...
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"In Finnegans Wake, which ostensibly describes a single night through the consciousness of a Dublin publican, James Joyce took his approach to literary modernism into new territories of experimentation and stream-of-consciousness, eschewing conventional syntax and punctuation and writing in a language of neologisms, puns and portmanteaux. While the result is puzzling and avant-garde, it is ...
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Having lived in the city of Orphalese for twelve years, the revered Prophet is about to board a ship taking him back to the isle of his birth. Before he departs, a group of people gather round and ask him to share his wisdom. Written as a collection of poetic essays, and detailing such diverse ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-812-0
EAN 9781847498120
Written as a passionate riposte to Talleyrand's report to the French National Assembly, in which he declared that women needed only a domestic education, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the traditional view of decorative femininity and deplored the educational restrictions and the "mistaken notions of female excellence" that degraded women and kept ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,96 €
ISBN 978-0-7145-4915-6
EAN 9780714549156
First published in French magazines in the 1960s, the essays and interviews collected in this volume tackle two of Sartre's most enduring concerns as a philosopher: politics and literature. With regard to the former, they develop the notion of the intellectual not only as an aloof theoretician, but also as a constructive agent of change. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7145-4849-4
EAN 9780714548494
This selection of plays by Luigi Pirandello contains some of his best-known works, such as Six Characters in Search of an Author - an absurdist piece in which the characters, actors and Pirandello himself interact during the rehearsal of a fictional play within the play - and Henry IV - a tragicomic tale of a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 9781847498229
EAN 9781847498229
Written for the poet John Addington Symonds's young daughter Janet while she was ill and confined to her bed, 'The Owl and the Pussycat' sees the two enamoured animals sail away in a boat "for a year and a day / To the land with the bong tree grows", where they get married. Long considered ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 896 páginas
PVP: 11,40 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-798-7
EAN 9781847497987
"One of the most famous and celebrated Victorian coming-of-age novels, David Copperfield charts the adventures and vicissitudes of its eponymous hero's life, from the misery of his childhood after his mother's marriage to the tyrannical Mr Murdstone, through to his first steps as a writer and his search for love and happiness. Along the way ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 520 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-756-7
EAN 9781847497567
Already with thee! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays; But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways. Despite his tragically short life, John Keats, a self-confessed "rebel Angel", ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-815-1
EAN 9781847498151
The mayor and local officials of a small provincial town in Russia have got it made: corruption is rife and they have all the power. Yet, when they learn that an undercover government inspector is about to make a visit, they face a mad dash to cover their tracks. Soon, the news that a suspicious ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 9,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-810-6
EAN 9781847498106
"Written after Woolf had finished her emotionally draining work on The Waves, Flush purports to be an autobiography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's eponymous cocker spaniel, charting the dog's early days in the countryside, his adoption by the famous poet, his subsequent life in London and his travels with his owners to Italy. While the resulting ...
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