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- Alma Books Ltd, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 9,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-810-6
EAN 9781847498106
"Written after Woolf had finished her emotionally draining work on The Waves, Flush purports to be an autobiography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's eponymous cocker spaniel, charting the dog's early days in the countryside, his adoption by the famous poet, his subsequent life in London and his travels with his owners to Italy. While the resulting ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-212-8
EAN 9781847492128
The heir to his grandfather's considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations of the 1920s Jazz Age. His descent into dissolution and profligacy is accelerated by his marriage to the attractive but turbulent Gloria, and the couple soon discover the dangerous flip side of a life ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 7,35 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-806-9
EAN 9781847498069
After doubts are raised concerning the trustworthiness of Magua, Cora and Alice Munro's Native American guide, the warrior slips away into the wilderness, and the vulnerable sisters turn to the scout Hawk-eye and the Mohicans Chingachgook and Uncas to lead them to Fort William Henry, where their father is in command. Yet Magua is sure ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 10,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-824-3
EAN 9781847498243
Having crash-landed in the Sahara desert, a pilot comes across a young boy who introduces himself as the Little Prince and tells him the story of how he grew up on a tiny asteroid before travelling across the galaxies and coming to Earth. His encounters and discoveries, seen through childlike, innocent eyes, give rise to ...
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Call me Zebra
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Prize 2019
- Alma Books Ltd, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-1-84688-458-0
EAN 9781846884580
After the death of her father, an exiled Iranian man of letters, the bookish twenty-two-year-old Zebra finds herself alone in New York and decides to retrace the steps of her traumatic flight with her family from their homeland in the 1980s, hoping that in the process she will be inspired to write a major manifesto ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 382 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-803-8
EAN 9781847498038
"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."Blind, broken by the death of his wife and bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, Milton dictated his sweeping biblical epic Paradise Lost to a series of helpers. While the struggle between God and Satan rages across the cosmos, the human tragedy of Adam and Eve - the ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-755-0
EAN 9781847497550
First published in 1855 and extended by the author over the course of more than three decades, Leaves of Grass embodies Walt Whitman's lifetime ambition to create a new voice that could capture the spirit and vibrancy of the young American nation, while celebrating at the same time "Nature without check with original energy". Famously ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-801-4
EAN 9781847498014
"Part wolf, part dog, White Fang learns to survive in the freezing wilderness. As well as being forced to confront the harsh realities of nature, the young cub experiences the cruelties of humans - but when his fortunes change, will love and civilization set him on the path to happiness?Set in the Yukon territory of ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 101 páginas
PVP: 9,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-793-2
EAN 9781847497932
"Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money. So when he becomes aware of the potential value of a series of passionate love letters written to him by the recently deceased author Margaret Aubyn, he sells them and marries the beautiful Alexa Trent. However, his shame and guilt at building a new life on the ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 382 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-750-5
EAN 9781847497505
William Wordsworth's verse was the embodiment of the Romantic age, with its evocation of a unifying spirit running through all things. This collection brings together a rich and diverse selection of his works, from the epic autobiographical masterpiece The Prelude to much-loved shorter poems such as I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' and She Was ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 9,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-792-5
EAN 9781847497925
"Famed for having killed his cousin Alessandro, the Duke of Florence, in 1537, but also for writing accomplished literary works, including a comedy and several poems, Lorenzino de' Medici remains one of the most enigmatic figures of Italian literature. In his masterpiece, Apology for a Murder, he reveals the inner motives behind his act, portraying ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-784-0
EAN 9781847497840
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 11,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-817-5
EAN 9781847498175
A celebrated journalist in his lifetime, Ambrose Bierce's began circulating his own sardonic, mischievous definitions of words in his various columns for San Francisco newspapers. Over several years these were then compiled and expanded into entries for a mock dictionary originally published as The Cynic's Word Book. One of the most popular satirical works of ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-786-4
EAN 9781847497864
In 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on the island of Sakhalin. Now collected here in one volume are the fully annotated translations of his impressions of his trip through Siberia and the account of his ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 8,95 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-781-9
EAN 9781847497819
A commercial and critical success when it was first published in 1931, and now considered by some to be Virginia Woolf's most ambitious novel. This new edition includes pictures and a section on Virginia Woolf's life and works. Through a series of connected monologues, The Waves tells the story of six very different friends - ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 114 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-774-1
EAN 9781847497741
Under the pseudonyms of Francis Goodchild and Thomas Idle, Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins set off on a walking tour of the north-west of England, reporting back on their adventures for Dickens's magazine Household Words. A unique insight into the friendship of two of the towering figures of Victorian literature, and featuring a pair of ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 12,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-748-2
EAN 9781847497482
First published in 1846 under the pseudonym "Old Derry down Derry", A Book of Nonsense is a collection adapted from the limericks and illustrations Edward Lear created to amuse the grandchildren of Lord Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby, while he was staying with the family at Knowsley Hall. Embodying Lear's passion for nonsense, the limericks, ...
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Ichabod Crane is a young schoolmaster from Connecticut now living in Sleepy Hollow, a settlement in New York State notorious for rumours of ghostly visitations, especially from the infamous Headless Horseman. Considered an outsider by the local inhabitants, he falls in love with the eighteen-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, but has to contend with the loutish ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 11,95 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-728-4
EAN 9781847497284
Candide is an innocent young nobleman who leads an idyllic, sheltered life and has adopted the optimistic mindset promoted by his tutor Dr Pangloss. But after committing an indiscretion and being expelled from his family home, Candide finds himself on a journey that will take him to Portugal, Argentina, Britain and Turkey and expose him ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-652-2
EAN 9781847496522
Rich in allegory and symbolism, and suffused with darkness and tragedy, satire and touching humour, these tales, written by a master of the short-story genre, delve into the conflict between good and evil, explore the concept of Original Sin and repeatedly invite the reader to make their own judgements concerning what they can and cannot ...
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