Editorial Abacus UK
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- Abacus UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 244 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11447-7
EAN 9780349114477
Dr Johnson, having completed his life's major work (the first ever Dictionary of the English Language) is running an increasingly chaotic life, torn between his strict morality and his undeclared passion for Mrs Thrale, the wife of an old friend. Her daughter, Queeney, narrates.
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This biography tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are as sensational as a novel. There is Nancy, whose bright social existence masked a doomed obsessional love, which soured her success; Pam, a countrywoman maried to one of the best brains in Europe; Diana, ...
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- Abacus UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11391-3
EAN 9780349113913
Anyone that has read NAKED and BARREL FEVER, or heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a new collection from him is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious new pieces, including 'Me Talk Pretty One Day', about his attempts to learn ...
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Gore Vidal's fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was an inveterate dabbler in arcane hocus-pocus, a prig, a bigot, and a dazzling and brilliant leader.
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- Abacus UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11302-9
EAN 9780349113029
BANDITS is a study of the social bandit or bandit-rebel - robbers and outlaws who are not regarded by public opinion as simple criminals, but rather as champions of social justice, as avengers or as primitive resistance fighters. Whether Balkan haiduks, Indian dacoits or Brazilian congaceiros, their spectacular exploits have been celebrated and preserved in ...
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- Abacus UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11188-9
EAN 9780349111889
David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person', a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World', which reveals a woman's agonised consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men', ...
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- Abacus UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11102-5
EAN 9780349111025
In these stories, the author renders the bizarre normal and the absurd hilarious, from the eerily real , almost holographic evocations of historical figures, to overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians. In the title story, punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism.
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Uncommon People
Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz
- Abacus UK, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11228-2
EAN 9780349112282
This collection of 26 essays range over the history of working men and women between the late 18th century and the present day, and brings back into print a selection of this celebrated historian's pioneering studies into labour history, together with more recent reflections previously unpublished in book form. Eric Hobsbawm's penetrating essays on labour ...
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- Abacus UK, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,99 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11215-2
EAN 9780349112152
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In these essays, the author reflects on the theory, practice and development of history and its relevance to the modern world. The wide-ranging papers demonstrate Hobsbawm's concern with the relations between past, present and future, including the writing of history.
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A collection of essays taken from 40 years of the author's work. It is divided into three sections: "State of the Art", which covers literature; "State of the Union", which deals with politics and public life; and "State of Being", which gives his personal responses to people and events.
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- Abacus UK, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,30 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11166-7
EAN 9780349111667
The history of nations is a history of haves and have-nots, and as we approach the millennium, the gap between rich and poor countries is widening. In this engrossing and important new work, eminent historian David Landes explores the complex, fascinating and often startling causes of the wealth and poverty of nations. The answers are ...
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- Abacus UK, 1998
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 353 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11001-1
EAN 9780349110011
This collection brings together novelist Wallace's musings on a wide range of topics, from his early days as a nationally ranked tennis player to his trip on a commercial cruiseliner. His observations and analyses expose the faultlines in American culture.
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- Abacus UK, 1997
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1104 páginas
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12108-6
EAN 9780349121086
Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state of ...
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- Abacus UK, 1996
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 18,35 €
ISBN 978-0-349-10838-4
EAN 9780349108384
Flamboyant, mercurial Alistair Dodge and steadfast, cautious Roger Sansarc are second cousins who are both gay and whose lifelong friendship begins when they first meet as nine-year-old boys in 1954. At crucial moments in their personal histories their lives intersect, and each discovers his own unique - and uniquely gay- identity. Through the lends of ...
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- Abacus UK, 1996
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11314-2
EAN 9780349113142
What were pirates really like? How much, if any, of the piratical stereotype - of a dashingly handsome man with an eye-patch, peg-leg and a parrot on his shoulder - is based on the documented fact. In this revealing and highly original study David Cordingly sets out to discover the truth behind the piracy myth, ...
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- Abacus UK, 1994
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-10600-7
EAN 9780349106007
'Leo the African' is based on the true life-story of Hasan al-Wazzan, the 16th-century traveller and writer who came to be known as Leo Africanus, or Leo the African. This is a story of pirates, slave-girls and princesses, in a world in a state of religious flux.
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- Abacus UK, 1992
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 20,95 €
ISBN 978-0-349-10452-2
EAN 9780349104522
The Man Who Knew Infinity is the true story of a friendship between Srinivasa Ramanujan and G.H. Hardy that forever changed mathematics. In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the pre-eminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers.Realising the letter was the work of ...
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