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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-852-2
EAN 9781590178522
It's not terribly unusual for a boy to have an imaginary friend, but Matthew's parents have to agree that his nicknamed Chocky is anything but ordinary. Why, Chocky demands to know, are there twenty-four hours in a day? Why are there two sexes? Why can't Matthew solve his math homework using a logical system like ...
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ISBN 978-1-59017-840-9
EAN 9781590178409
In the 1930s Europe is tangoing to the tune of a new age, but in rural Czechoslovakia golden-haired Maryska dances to a rhythm all her own. Not even her husband, Francin the brewery manager, can control her as Maryska shocks the populace with her scandalous behavior, and incurs the disapproval of a sheltered little town ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
ISBN 978-1-59017-848-5
EAN 9781590178485
'Are we to go on until we are old, with just these odd moments here and there and danger always so narrowly evaded? Love draining away our vitality, our hold on life, never adding anything to us.'Blindness and betrayal are Elizabeth Taylors great subjects, and in A View of the Harbour she turns her unsparing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-59017-862-1
EAN 9781590178621
Walt Whitman worked as a nurse in an army hospital during the Civil War and published "Drum-Taps," his war poems, as the war was coming to an end. Later, the book came out in an expanded form, including "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," Whitman's passionate elegy for Lincoln. The most moving and enduring ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-59017-826-3
EAN 9781590178263
A Legacy is the tale of two very different families. The Merzes are members of the Jewish upper bourgeoisie of Berlin and direct descendants of Henriette Merz, friend of Goethe and Mirabeau. But this imposing legacy has long since ceased to mean much of anything in the Merzes huge town house, where the family devotes ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 136 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-59017-759-4
EAN 9781590177594
Ending Up is a grotesque and memorable dance of death, full of bickering, bitching, backstabbing, drinking (of course), and idiocy of all sorts. It is a book about dying people and about a dying England, clinging to its memories of greatness as it succumbs to terminal decay.Everyone wants a comfortable place to die, and Kingsley ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 17,80 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-760-0
EAN 9781590177600
Kingsley Amis's most ambitious reckoning with his central theme-the degradation of modern life-Take a Girl Like You also introduces one of the rare unqualified good guys in Amis's rogue-ridden world: Jenny Bunn, a girl from the North English country has come south to teach school in a small smug town where she hopes to find ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-59017-767-9
EAN 9781590177679
An NYRB Classics OriginalSilvina Ocampo is undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's great masters of the short story. Italo Calvino once said about her, "I don't know another writer who better captures the magic inside everyday rituals, the forbidden or hidden face that our mirrors don't show us." Thus Were Their Faces collects a wide ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 20,95 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-779-2
EAN 9781590177792
In the winter of 1933, eighteen-year-old Patrick ("Paddy") Leigh Fermor set out to walk across Europe, starting in Holland and ending in Constantinople, a trip that took the better part of a year. Decades later, Leigh Fermor told the story of his journey in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-59017-765-5
EAN 9781590177655
An NYRB Classics OriginalThe tale of a high-spirited, ambitious young woman or man breaking free from stifling provincial constraints to pursue a life of independence is a staple of the novel. In Tristana the great Spanish novelist Benito Pe rez Galdo s disconcertingly reverses the formula. His beautiful and brilliant and very winning heroine breaks ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-59017-764-8
EAN 9781590177648
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country is vintage William H. Gass: two novellas and three short stories, set in the Midwest, exhibiting Gass's characteristic and wildly original verbal brilliance and philosophical acuity. The volume includes The Pedersen Kid, a story originally published a few years before the 1965 publication of Gass's first ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 17,90 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-727-3
EAN 9781590177273
An NYRB Classics OriginalNearly forty years after her death, Elizabeth Taylor is only beginning to gain the recognition due to her as one of the finest English writers of the postwar period, notwithstanding the praise she has received from writers as different as Sarah Waters and Hilary Mantel. Inheriting Ivy Compton-Burnett's uncanny sensitivity to the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-809-6
EAN 9781590178096
Publishing during the 100th Anniversary of the First World WarAn NYRB Classics OriginalThe budding young Hungarian artist Béla Zombory-Moldován was on holiday when the First World War broke out in July 1914. Called up by the army, he soon found himself hundreds of miles away, advancing on Russian lines and facing relentless rifle and artillery ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-59017-725-9
EAN 9781590177259
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-59017-722-8
EAN 9781590177228
An NYRB Classics OriginalShakespeare, Nietzsche once wrote, was Montaigne's best reader. It is a typically brilliant Nietzschean insight, capturing the intimate relationship between the ever-changing record of the mutable self constituted by Montaigne's Essays and Shakespeare's kaleidoscopic register of human character. For all that, how much Shakespeare actually read Montaigne remains a matter of uncertainty ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-671-9
EAN 9781590176719
Josep Pla, a budding young writer, was studying law in Barcelona in 1918 when the university was shut down because of the Spanish flu epidemic. Pla returned to his parents' house in the coastal town of Palafrugell, and with nothing to do he decided to keep a journal in which he would describe-as a way ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-718-1
EAN 9781590177181
On Being Blue is a book about everything blue-sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things-and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary American writers, can do.Gass writes:Of the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range. Sad reds and melancholy yellows are ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-59017-620-7
EAN 9781590176207
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Sifton, Elisabeth; Stern, Fritz
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
ISBN 978-1-59017-681-8
EAN 9781590176818
During the twelve years of Hitler's Third Reich, very few Germans took the risk of actively opposing his tyranny and terror, and fewer still did so to protect the sanctity of law and faith. In No Ordinary Men, Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern focus on two remarkable, courageous men who did-the pastor and theologian Dietrich ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-59017-624-5
EAN 9781590176245
The whimsical, macabre tales of British writer H. H. Munro-better known as Saki-deftly, mercilessly, and hilariously skewer the banality and hypocrisy of polite upper-class English society between the end of Queen Victoria's reign and the beginning of World War I. Their heroes are clever, amoral children and other enfants terribles who marshal their considerable wit ...
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