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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 17,30 €
ISBN 978-0-374-52978-9
EAN 9780374529789
Though she wrote only one novella, one short play, and fewer than a dozen short stories over a roughly twenty-year span from the early 1940s to the mid-1960s, Jane Bowles has long been regarded by critics as one of the premier stylists of her generation. Enlivened at unexpected moments by sexual exploration, mysticism, and flashes ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
ISBN 978-0-374-52980-2
EAN 9780374529802
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Libro · 504 páginas
PVP: 26,50 €
ISBN 978-0-374-53002-0
EAN 9780374530020
One of the world's leading woman politicians tells her inspiring storyAt forty-one, Gro Harlem Brundtland, physician and mother of four, was appointed prime minister of Norway-the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that office. In this refreshingly forthright memoir, Brundtland traces her unusual and meteoric career. She grew up with strong role ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-86547-712-4
EAN 9780865477124
What is taste? Is it individual or imposed on us from the outside? Why are so many of us so intimidated when presented with the wine list at a restaurant? In The Accidental Connoisseur, journalist Lawrence Osborne takes off on a personal voyage through a little-known world in pursuit of some answers. Weaving together a ...
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In The Conquest of the Sahara, Douglas Porch tells the story of France's struggle to explore and dominate the great African desert at the turn of the century. Focusing on the conquest of the Ahaggar Tuareg, a Berber people living in a mountain area in central Sahara, he goes on to describe the bizarre exploits ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 11,10 €
ISBN 978-0-374-52941-3
EAN 9780374529413
August Kleinzahler's new poems stretch and go places he has never gone before: They have his signature high color and rhythmic jump, but they take on a breadth of voice and achieve registers that his earlier work only hinted at. Ranging from Las Vegas and Mayfair to contemporary Berlin, these poems touch down at will ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-374-52927-7
EAN 9780374529277
Published in 1931, Axel's Castle was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism--a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six major twentieth-century writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. As Alfred Kazin later wrote, "Wilson was ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-374-52855-3
EAN 9780374528553
The work of Federico García Lorca, Spain's greatest modernist poet, has long been admired for its emotional intensity and metaphorical brilliance. The revised Selected Verse, which incorporates changes made to García Lorca's Collected Poems, is an essential addition to any poetry lover's bookshelf. In this bilingual edition, García Lorca's poetic range comes clearly into view, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 120 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-374-52884-3
EAN 9780374528843
Paul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since Hay (1998), finds him working a rich vein that extends from the rivery, apple-heavy County Armagh of the 1950s, in which he was brought up, to suburban New Jersey, on the banks of a canal dug by Irish navvies, where he now lives. Grounded, glistening, as ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,00 €
ISBN 978-0-374-52899-7
EAN 9780374528997
Luc Sante's "Low Life "is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city's slums; the teeming streets--scene of innumerable cons and crimes whose cramped and overcrowded housing ...
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Libro · 128 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42168-7
EAN 9780312421687
In simple, mesmerizing prose, Hermann Hesse tells of a journey both geographic and spiritual. H.H., a German choirmaster, is invited on an expedition with the League, a secret society whose members include Paul Klee, Mozart, and Albertus Magnus. The participants traverse both space and time, encountering Noah's Ark in Zurich and Don Quixote at Bremgarten. ...
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Libro · 192 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-374-52858-4
EAN 9780374528584
All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 10,60 €
ISBN 978-0-374-52735-8
EAN 9780374527358
Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are a thrice-blessed couple--handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Yet, alomst at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful facade. With mingled anger and compassion, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1056 páginas
PVP: 29,24 €
ISBN 978-0-374-52691-7
EAN 9780374526917
Federico García Lorca was the most beloved poet of twentieth-century Spain and one of the world's most influential modernist writers. His work has long been admired for its passionate urgency and haunting evocation of sorrow and loss. Perhaps more persistently than any writer of his time, he sought to understand and accommodate the numinous sources ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-374-52838-6
EAN 9780374528386
The poems of the legendary Nobel Laureate, in one volume at last One of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned eighteen months in an Arctic labor camp, expulsion from his native country, and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Such ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 568 páginas
PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-0-374-52849-2
EAN 9780374528492
Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryThe Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Well Holmes, Jr., future associate justice of the United States Supreme Court; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-374-52816-4
EAN 9780374528164
With a poetic flair for transforming the earthly into the surreal, the critically acclaimed Vera sets out in these two chaotic novellas to describe life during Zimbabwe's civil war in the late 1970s. Cadence and enigmatic descriptions are her obsessions; characters and plot are not. As a result, the cracked earth is more palpable than ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 11,40 €
ISBN 978-0-374-52798-3
EAN 9780374527983
A sequel to I. B. Singer's classic memoir In My Father's Court, these stories, published serially in the Daily Forward, depict the beth din in his father's home on Krochmalna Street in Warsaw. A unique institution, the beth din was a combined court of law, synagogue, scholarly institution, and psychologist's office where people sought out ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 6,95 €
ISBN 978-0-374-43717-6
EAN 9780374437176
A prequel toHeads or Tails: Stories from the Sixth GradeInspired by the author's childhood diaries, this new collection of Jack Henry stories depicts a fifth-grade year to end all fifth-grade years. Living in a Miami rental home with a busy railroad track running a stone's throw from the backyard, the author's alter ego is plagued ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,40 €
ISBN 978-0-374-51238-5
EAN 9780374512385
Extravagaria marks an important stage in Neruda's progress as a poet. The book was written just after he had returned to Chile after many wanderings and moved to his beloved Isla Negra on the Pacific coast. These sixty-eight poems thus denote a resting point, a rediscovery of sea and land, and an "autumnal period" (as ...
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