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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-749-9
EAN 9781847497499
True History, Lucian's best-known and most entertaining work, is a parody of the tall stories of fantastic journeys narrated by famous poets and historians. With his trademark wit and humour, Lucian informs his readers that he means to tell nothing but lies and impossibilities, and warns them not to believe a word he says. The ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 12,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-729-1
EAN 9781847497291
When her wealthy family prepares to host a lavish summer party, the young, hitherto sheltered Laura Sheridan suddenly feels a kinship with the staff and the helpers hired to set up the venue for the festivities. As she learns of the death of one of their working-class neighbours, this burgeoning sense of class consciousness is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 10,85 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-727-7
EAN 9781847497277
Gilbert Markham is fascinated by Helen Graham, the beautiful and enigmatic woman who has recently moved into Wildfell Hall. He is swift to befriend her, but when local gossip calls Helen's character and behaviour into question, Gilbert begins to repent of his congeniality. It is only when Helen presents Gilbert with her diary and instructs ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84688-437-5
EAN 9781846884375
In 1930s Greater London, Shirley is a talented ballerina who dreams of becoming a principal dancer at the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company. Yet one summer, on the way back from staying with her grandparents in France, she meets a handsome young man, Alan, for a fleeting moment and her life changes for ever. Finding him ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 11,95 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-726-0
EAN 9781847497260
When Lord Petre had the effrontery of cutting off a lock of Lady Arabella Fermor's hair, a veritable war erupted between the two noble families. A mutual friend, saddened by their estrangement, asked Alexander Pope, then a young poet, to write a poem about it, in order to make a joke of it and "laugh ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-648-5
EAN 9781847496485
These five stories were collected and published as Tales of Unrest in 1898, shortly before Heart of Darkness, the first of Conrad's major novels. Ranging from the faraway and unfamiliar, where the acquisitiveness of colonial adventure is damningly exposed, to an ostensibly ordinary London household, these disparate tales display Conrad's ability to explore and lay ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 11,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-667-6
EAN 9781847496676
In order to repay a small debt, the young student Mitya is persuaded by a friend to falsify a bank bond and cash it in. Little does he suspect that this small misdemeanour will have a profound impact on the lives of many other people around him - indirectly even leading to the gravest of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 11,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-106-0
EAN 9781847491060
Alexander Pope was, at one time, the world's most celebrated poet. His trenchant satirical works - in which the foibles of all the critics, hacks and bad poets of his day are exploded - and his masterful heroi-comic poem The Rape of the Lock continue to inspire generations of writers and readers to this day. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 9,30 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-714-7
EAN 9781847497147
The well-educated daughter of a penniless clergyman, Agnes Grey is treated like a child by her family and so sets out to prove herself by seeking employment as a governess. Soon, however, her idealistic notions regarding the education and care of her wards are dashed as she battles to control the wild Bloomfield children in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 9,30 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-657-7
EAN 9781847496577
When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day, little does she know that this trip will only be completed ten years later by her husband, and that a gulf of war, grief and loss will ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-650-8
EAN 9781847496508
When the reporter Edward Malone is sent to interview the formidable Professor Challenger about his accounts of strange prehistoric beasts on a remote plateau in South America, he expects to be given short shrift by the researcher, notorious for man-handling nosy enquirers. But Challenger, impressed by the young journalist's thirst for adventure, invites Malone along ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84688-410-8
EAN 9781846884108
All children dream of having a secret house where they can live on their own, far from any rules and regulations. But not all of them are as lucky as Aglaia, who lives at the top of a magical tree together with her friend Bianca and an incredible host of flying dogs, talking cats, carnivorous ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-611-9
EAN 9781847496119
Describing Dante's second stage in his arduous journey to redemption, Purgatory features a host of unforgettable scenes and characters, and arguably some of the best poetry to be found in the Divine Comedy. The gloom, torments and evils of Hell have been left behind, but Dante's ascent of Mount Purgatory towards Paradise remains fraught with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-632-4
EAN 9781847496324
On the eve of the Crimean War, the young, headstrong Yelena, the daughter of aristocratic Russian parents, falls in love with a revolutionary from Bulgaria named Insarov. Facing the wrath and disapproval of her family, Yelena abandons her home to follow Insarov to Bulgaria. Their fateful match sets in motion a series of tragic events ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84688-429-0
EAN 9781846884290
Aarhus 39 is a collection of the best emerging writers for young people fromacross wider Europe. The authors have been selected by three of Europe's much-loved writers - Kim Fupz Aakeson (Denmark), Ana Cristina Herreros (Spain) and Matt Haig (UK) - and commissioned to write an original story to the theme of 'Journey'.The writers are ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,40 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-647-8
EAN 9781847496478
In the third and final part of The Divine Comedy, Dante recounts his journey through heaven, after the travails and torments of Hell and the arduous ascent of Mount Purgatory, creating a cosmology of the highest realm of creation which is astonishing in its complexity. In Dante's imagining, Paradise is formed out of concentric spheres ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,85 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-625-6
EAN 9781847496256
In Thomas More's hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy unprecedented social cohesion and justice. The book imagines a community in which laws, personal relations and professional ambition are based on reason, in contrast with the tradition-bound superstitions of Europe, which were, in More's eyes, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-628-7
EAN 9781847496287
A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town and proceeds to visit a succession of landowners, making each of them an unusual and somewhat macabre proposition. He offers to buy the rights to the dead serfs who are still registered on the landowner's estate, thus reducing their liability for taxes. It ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-660-7
EAN 9781847496607
As the Revolution is still raging in France, in London the barrister Sydney Carton and the exiled French nobleman Charles Darnay find themselves rivals for the affections of Lucie Manette, the daughter of a political prisoner who was released from the Bastille and moved to the English capital. Through a chain of events, they both ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 7,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-646-1
EAN 9781847496461
When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people ofthe Earth must come to terms with the prospect of the end of human ...
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