Muriel Spark
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- Polygon, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-429-8
EAN 9781846974298
Spiritualist and extortionist Patrick Seton is coming up for trial. He's been accused of forgery, and suddenly West London's bachelors are all in a tizzy. Described by Evelyn Waugh as the cleverest and most elegant of all Mrs Spark's clever and elegant books', The Bachelors is a biting comedy of English manners.
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- Polygon, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-432-8
EAN 9781846974328
1961. While on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, English teacher Barbara Vaughan becomes intent on joining her archaeologist fiance Harry, who is working on the site of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Ignoring warnings not to cross the Mandelbaum Gate - the boundary between Israel and Jordan and the division between an old land and ...
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- Canongate, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78689-001-6
EAN 9781786890016
From the cruel irony of 'A member of the Family' to the fateful echoes of 'The Go-Away Bird' and the unexpectedly sinister 'The Girl I Left Behind Me', in settings that range from South Africa to the Portobello Road, Muriel Spark probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath the veneer of human respectability, displaying the acerbic ...
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- Polygon, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-442-7
EAN 9781846974427
After young publishing assistant and war widow Mrs Hawkins crosses swords with writer Hector Bartlett the repercussions are swift. Set in postwarliterary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a mischievous and stylish tale of the cost of telling the truth.
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- Polygon, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-425-0
EAN 9781846974250
Caroline Rose has a problem. She hears voices and the incessant tapping of typewriter keys, and she seems to be a character in a novel . .. A comedy of errors, a crime novel, a book about books, Spark's debut remains as otherworldly and mischievous as it was when first published sixty years ago.
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- Polygon, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-428-1
EAN 9781846974281
A bewitching comic masterpiece, The Ballad of Peckham Rye relates the tale of one Dougal Douglas, who is taken on by a small textile firm to bring vision into the lives of the workers'. A devilishly charismatic force of nature who likes nothing better than to stir things up, he takes great delight in wreaking ...
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- Polygon, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-427-4
EAN 9781846974274
Described by David Lodge as her first masterpiece', Memento Mori opens with a telephone call and the words Remember you must die'. Over several months, a circle of elderly men and women receive similar calls and everyone becomes a suspect. As the investigating police inspector muses: Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one ...
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- Polygon, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-426-7
EAN 9781846974267
Bound for the Azores, a plane crashes onto an isolated island somewhere in the North Atlantic. January Marlow is one of the three survivors - and the only woman. She wakes to find herself being cared for by Miles Mary Robinson, the island's reclusive owner and bibliophile.Muriel Spark's second novel is a vivid tale of ...
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- Hamish Hamilton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-241-96399-9
EAN 9780241963999
Beautifully packaged reissue of one of Muriel Spark's best loved novels, The Girls of Slender Means 'Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions' In the May of Teck Club - a London hostel 'three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit' - the young lady ...
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Spark's Satire
Aiding and Abetting, The Abbess of Crewe, Robinson
- Canongate, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-767-4
EAN 9781782117674
From a fraudulent psychiatrist grappling with two equally fraudulent clients in Aiding and Abetting, to the dirty dealings of The Abbess of Crewe's band of corrupt nuns, to the three plane crash survivors of Robinson eking out an existence on an Atlantic island after its resident mystic disappears, these three satires probe the recesses of ...
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Spark's Europe
Not to Disturb, The Takeover, The Only Problem
- Canongate, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-765-0
EAN 9781782117650
From the grimly gothic Not to Disturb to the razor-sharp dissection of manners The Takeover and the mordantly brilliant The Only Problem, in a panoramic sweep taking in the shores of the Italian lakes to the castles of Geneva, Muriel Spark casts her unflinching gaze over the continent and onto some of the odder specimens ...
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- Canongate, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-757-5
EAN 9781782117575
'One of her funniest novels ...Spark at her sharpest, her purest and her most merciful' ALI SMITH In The Finishing School Muriel Spark is once again at her biting, satirical best. On the edge of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, a struggling would-be novelist and his wife run a finishing school of questionable reputation to keep ...
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- Canongate, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-755-1
EAN 9781782117551
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- Virago, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-967-3
EAN 9781844089673
Annabel Christopher is every inch the star: a glamorous actress with a devoted, handsome husband. To keep the paparazzi and her adoring public under her spell, her perfect image must be carefully cultivated, whatever the cost. Beneath the facade, though, her husband cannot bear her or their vapid existence.Envious of her success, he plots his ...
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- Virago, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-965-9
EAN 9781844089659
Robert wants nothing more than to become a serious art historian. But his hopes for an academic life are put on hold when he's driven from London to Venice to escape one lover and seek out another: the enigmatic Bulgarian refugee Lina Pancev. In Venice, Robert encounters a grand carnival of lust, lies, blackmail, cocktail ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95677-9
EAN 9780241956779
'Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life . . .' Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction. Her glamour, freethinking ideas and manipulative charm hold dangerous sway over her girls at the Marcia Blaine Academy - the 'creme ...
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- Impedimenta, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda con solapas · 184 páginas
PVP: 20,95 €
ISBN 978-84-15-13005-5
EAN 9788415130055
Ambientada en las ruinas de Londres durante la difícil primavera y el verano indigente de 1945, recién acabada la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Las señoritas de escasos medios (1963), considerada una de las mejores novelas de Muriel Spark, se ocupa del mundo deliciosamente despreocupado de unas chicas que viven en un club residencial para mujeres solteras, ...
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- Virago, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-552-1
EAN 9781844085521
Unforgettably astounding and a joy to read, Memento Mori is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark. In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone informs each, "Remember you must die." Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffled ...
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- Little&Brown, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-553-8
EAN 9781844085538
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118834-8
EAN 9780141188348
Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime. But her search for adventure, sex and the obsessional experience takes on a far darker significance as ...
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