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PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-403-0
EAN 9781847494030
One of Twain's most celebrated novellas, 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' is a satirical retelling of the Garden of Eden story in the Bible, in which the author, mocking the supposed honesty and incorruptibility of the inhabitants of an imaginary American town, shows how man is fundamentally bad and cannot resist the temptations of gold. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84688-370-5
EAN 9781846883705
A journalist for National Public Radio in the US, David Greene decides to travel thousands of kilometres from Moscow to Vladivostok on the iconic Trans-Siberian line. On the train and in the many Siberian outposts he stops as he meets a wide range of ordinary Russian people - from a group of Beatles-singing babushkas to ...
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ISBN 978-1-84749-286-9
EAN 9781847492869
In this collection of short stories, drawing heavily from the author's own experiences as a medical graduate on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Bulgakov describes a young doctor's turbulent and often brutal introduction to his practice in the backward village of Muryovo.Using a sharply realistic and humorous style, Bulgakov reveals his doubts about his ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84688-366-8
EAN 9781846883668
In this compelling memoir his first wife, Jane Hawking, relates the inside story of their extraordinary marriage. As Stephen's academic renown soared, his body was collapsing under the assaults of motor neurone disease, and Jane's candid account of trying to balance his 24-hour care with the needs of their growing family will be inspirational to ...
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ISBN 978-1-84749-387-3
EAN 9781847493873
Begun in 1920 while Bulgakov was employed in a hospital in the remote Caucasian outpost of Vladikavkaz, and continued when he started working for a government literary department in Moscow, Notes on a Cuff is a series of journalistic sketches which show the young doctor trying to embark on a literary career among the chaos ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-84749-385-9
EAN 9781847493859
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-384-2
EAN 9781847493842
While he is now mostly associated with his Sherlock Holmes stories, the prolific Arthur Conan Doyle was also celebrated for the many masterful tales he wrote outside of that cycle. In this collection, published in 1922, he compiled various pieces of short fiction which fall into the categories of horror and detective fiction, two genres ...
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ISBN 978-1-84749-383-5
EAN 9781847493835
In the Twilight, the third collection of short stories compiled by Anton Chekhov himself, was his first major success and won him the prestigious Pushkin Prize when it was published in 1887. This volume represents a clear milestone in the writer's passage from the youthful Antosha Chekhonte, author of slight comic sketches, to the mature ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-84749-382-8
EAN 9781847493828
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,40 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-582-2
EAN 9781847495822
An NYRB Classics OriginalVenice between the wars, a Hungarian couple on their honeymoon. But "Venice is where the trouble began"-where Miha ly finds that he prefers wandering backalleys to the company of his bride, Erzsi. In Ravenna they are interrupted at an outdoor cafe by a man who zooms up on a motorcycle. It is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84749-380-4
EAN 9781847493804
Set in the year after the 1929 crash and incorporating many autobiographical elements, 'Babylon Revisited' tells the story of the widower Charlie Wales, a reformed alcoholic and successful businessman returning to Paris to convince his in-laws to give him back the daughter he abandoned. As the old haunts of the city he used to carouse ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-704-8
EAN 9781847497048
Conflict between father and son is one of the oldest themes in literature, and in this open letter to his father - a letter which was never sent - Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obsessions of his troubled soul. Written as a long, tense and dramatic confession ...
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ISBN 978-1-84749-374-3
EAN 9781847493743
The unnamed narrator of the novel, a former government official, has decided to retire from the world and lead a life of inactivity and contemplation. His fiercely bitter, cynical and witty monologue ranges from general observations and philosophical musings to memorable scenes from his own life, including his obsessive plans to exact revenge on an ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 300 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84688-332-3
EAN 9781846883323
The Hundred-foot Journey is the story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai who embarks, along with his boisterous family, on a picaresque journey first to London and then across Europe, before they ultimately open a restaurant opposite a famous chef, Madame Mallory, in the remote French village of Lumiere. A culinary war ensues, pitting ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-375-0
EAN 9781847493750
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-84749-371-2
EAN 9781847493712
Professor Persikov, an eccentric zoologist, stumbles upon a new light ray that accelerates growth and reproduction rates in living organisms. In the wake of a plague that has decimated the country's poultry stocks, Persikov's discovery is exploited as a means to correct the problem. As foreign agents, the state and the Soviet media all seize ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 9,30 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-372-9
EAN 9781847493729
Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in ...
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ISBN 978-1-84749-352-1
EAN 9781847493521
Translated by Christopher Moncrieff Brand-new translation of one of the most popular classics of all time Includes a generous selection of the most acclaimed stories by Kafka Includes a section on the author's life and works
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ISBN 978-1-84749-353-8
EAN 9781847493538
After being saved from a suicide attempt by the appearance of a literary editor, the journalist and failed novelist Sergei Maxudov has a book suddenly accepted for stage adaptation at a prestigious venue and finds himself propelled into Moscow's theatrical world. In a cut-throat environment tainted by Soviet politics, censorship and egomania epitomized by the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-333-0
EAN 9781847493330
As a Fabian and lifelong socialist, Shaw believed that economic inequality was a poison destroying every aspect of our lives. Family affections and relations between the sexes were perverted by it. From Parliament to eduction our institutions were "corrupted at the root by pecuniary interest".Idealism, integrity and piecemeal attempts at political reform were all futile ...
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