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- Alma Books Ltd, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 540 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-344-6
EAN 9781847493446
First published in 1859, Oblomov is an indisputable classic of Russian literature, comparable in its stature to such masterpieces as Gogol's Dead Souls, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov. The book centres on the figure of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a member of the dying class of the landed gentry, who spends most of his ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-343-9
EAN 9781847493439
After spending several years in a sanatorium recovering from an illness that caused him to lose his memory and ability to reason, Prince Myshkin arrives in St Petersburg and is at once confronted with the stark realities of life in the Russian capital from greed, murder and nihilism to passion, vanity and love. Mocked for ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 8,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-349-1
EAN 9781847493491
Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant facade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become a state councillor ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 300 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84688-313-2
EAN 9781846883132
It's early morning on New Year's Eve, and nine-year-old Massimo wakes up to a long, doleful cry and the disconcerting image of his dad being supported by two strangers. Inexplicably, his mother has disappeared, leaving only a vague trail of perfume in his room and her dressing gown bundled up at the foot of his ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 250 páginas
PVP: 11,95 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-347-7
EAN 9781847493477
Originally hand-printed at her Hogarth Press in Richmond, Monday or Tuesday is the only collection of short stories that Virginia Woolf published during her lifetime, providing a fascinating insight into the early stages of development of themes that would blossom in her later masterpieces. From the impressionist description of four groups of people walking by ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 244 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-346-0
EAN 9781847493460
Published soon after Fitzgerald's debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the author's first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in newspapers and magazines. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing: in Bernice Bobs Her Hair' the fashionable Marjorie attempts to ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 7,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-350-7
EAN 9781847493507
Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley's seminal novel has generated countless print, stage and screen adaptations, but none has ever matched the power and philosophical resonance of the original. Composed as part of a challenge with Byron and Shelley to conjure up the most terrifying ghost story, Frankenstein narrates the chilling tale ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-342-2
EAN 9781847493422
Basil and Josephine charts the coming of age of two privileged youths from quiet Midwestern towns, Basil Duke Lee and Josephine Perry based on Fitzgerald himself and a combination of his first love Ginevra King and his wife Zelda. As one struggles to gain the acceptance of his peers and becomes consumed by ambition, the ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 300 páginas
PVP: 10,55 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-324-8
EAN 9781847493248
The goddess Folly gives a speech, praising herself and explaining how much humanity benefits from her services, from politicians to philosophers, aristocrats, schoolteachers, poets, lawyers, theologians, monarchs and the clergy. At the same time, her discourse provides a satire of Erasmus's world, poking fun at false pedantry and the aberrations of Christianity. Woven throughout her ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-323-1
EAN 9781847493231
At the end of an industrious political career in conflictriven Italy, the Florentine diplomat Niccolo Machiavelli composed his masterpiece The Prince, a classic study of power and politics, and a manual of ruthlessness for any ambitious ruler. Controversial in his own time, The Prince made Machiavelli's name a byword for manipulative scheming, and had an ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84688-247-0
EAN 9781846882470
White Truffles in Winter imagines the world of the remarkable French chef Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935), who changed how we eat through his legendary restaurants at the Savoy and the Ritz. A man of contradictions - kind yet imperious, food-obsessed yet rarely hungry - Escoffier was also torn between two women: the famous, beautiful, and reckless ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 10,15 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-318-7
EAN 9781847493187
Monroe Stahr is a film producer at the height of his career, revered by the industry and in control of every aspect of his business empire. In his ruthless rise to the top, the young widower has had little time for sentiment, until he meets the beguiling Kathleen Moore, and the two embark on an ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-309-5
EAN 9781847493095
A collection of early short stories which helped make Fitzgerald's name, Tales of the Jazz Age combines period pieces - the most notable of which is the novella-length 'May Day' - with more fanciful creations, such as the fantastical 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', recently made into a Hollywood film. Also containing the now ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-304-0
EAN 9781847493040
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 11,40 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-258-6
EAN 9781847492586
Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship, ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84688-236-4
EAN 9781846882364
Short of money, the inventor Thomas Edison is captivated by the charismatic figure of J.P. Morgan, the "world's banker". Accepting Morgan's glittering offer of almost unlimited cash in return for helping the man change the way the world does business, Edison sees himself descend from being the godlike inventor of electric light to being complicit ...
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Several years after emigrating from the USSR, the author discovers the battered suitcase he had brought with him gathering dust at the back of a wardrobe. As he opens the suitcase, the seemingly undistinguished items he finds inside take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-291-3
EAN 9781847492913
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84688-233-3
EAN 9781846882333
In a place near Mozambique where no one knows the boundary, drought is changing everything. Tens then hundreds of people seek refuge in a forgotten outpost where a clinic is run by lonely souls of uncertain training, nuns staunchly determined to serve. But the inundation soon becomes too much for them, and there is no ...
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First published in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in French literature. Told in the first person by Celine's fictional alter ego Bardamu, the novel is loosely based on the author's own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa, in ...
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