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- Alma Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-660-7
EAN 9781847496607
As the Revolution is still raging in France, in London the barrister Sydney Carton and the exiled French nobleman Charles Darnay find themselves rivals for the affections of Lucie Manette, the daughter of a political prisoner who was released from the Bastille and moved to the English capital. Through a chain of events, they both ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 7,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-646-1
EAN 9781847496461
When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people ofthe Earth must come to terms with the prospect of the end of human ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 300 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84688-421-4
EAN 9781846884214
Academic and bibliophile Arthur Prescott finds respite from the drudgery of his professorship in the Barchester Cathedral Library, where he devotes himself to researching the Holy Grail and writing his long-delayed guide to the history of the medieval cathedral. His peaceful existence is shattered by the arrival of a young American academic named Bethany Davis, ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-627-0
EAN 9781847496270
A Victorian scientist and inventor creates a machine for propelling himself through time, and voyages to the year AD 802701, where he discovers a race of humanoids called the Eloi. Their gently indolent way of life, set in a decaying cityscape, leads thescientist to believe that they are the remnants of a once great civilization. ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,15 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-637-9
EAN 9781847496379
Originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his children at bedtime, this compendium of witty tales imagines how animals came to be as they are now. Discover how the massive whale got a tiny throat by swallowing a mariner, how the lazy camel got a hump so that he had no excuse not to work, and ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84688-413-9
EAN 9781846884139
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 11,95 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-685-0
EAN 9781847496850
In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey's innovative, idio syncratic artistic vision found space for gruesome reportage, satire, aesthetic and literary criticism, in a work strewn with examples ranging from antiquity to his own time, including the urban serial-killer John Williams. De Quincey's seminal 1827 work was greatly influential on such ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 8,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-576-1
EAN 9781847495761
On his travels, the narrator of A Hero of Our Timechances upon a veteran soldier and storyteller who relates to him the dubious exploits of his former comrade. Causing an uproar in Russia when it was fi rst published in 1840, Lermontov's brilliant study of contemporary society remains compelling to this day
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-590-7
EAN 9781847495907
Coming back to the "nest" of his family home in Russia after years of fruitless endeavours away from his roots, Lavretsky decides to turn his back on the vacuous salons of Paris and his frivolous and unfaithful wife Varvara Pavlovna. On his return he meets Liza, the daughter of one of his cousins, whom he ...
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From his Baker Street apartment, Sherlock Holmes wields his powers of deduction in pursuit of justice and truth, venturing out into foggy Victorian London accompanied by his faithful sidekick Dr Watson. This classic collection of Holmes tales includes many of the detective's most-loved exploits: Holmes is confronted by a venomous snake in 'The Adventure of ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-605-8
EAN 9781847496058
The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature - was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful struggle against state censorship. This suppression did not only apply to his art: in 1926 his personal diary was seized by the authorities. From ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-614-0
EAN 9781847496140
Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship, ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 300 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84688-416-0
EAN 9781846884160
When the ambitious but inept clerk Frans Laarmans is offered a job managing an Edam distribution company in Antwerp, he jumps at the chance, despite his professed dislike for cheese in all its forms. He soon finds himself submerged in a bureaucratic nightmare as his complete incompetence becomes apparent. Meanwhile, his offices fill up with ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 300 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84688-412-2
EAN 9781846884122
Growing up in London in the aftermath of the Second World War, Ruth is an observant and thoughtful child who finds herself in a confusing and mysterious adult world. She seeks refuge in her memories of her idyllic stays with her grandparents in the picturesque East Anglian countryside - which provide comforting visions of a ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 9,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-609-6
EAN 9781847496096
A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of noblemen during the time of the plague, a grieving lover awakens to find himself clutching a box of his beloved blood-stained teeth, a man is obsessed with the fear of being ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-603-4
EAN 9781847496034
Constantly rebuffed from the social circles he aspires to frequent, the timid clerk Golyadkin is confronted by the sudden appearance of his double, a more brazen, confident and socially successful version of himself, who abuses and victimizes the original. As he is increasingly persecuted, Golyadkin finds his social, romantic and professional life unravelling, in a ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-608-9
EAN 9781847496089
Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most lyrical and moving pieces of poetry in any language, abounding with examples of his genius for wordplay, rhythm and metaphor and dealing with the eternal themes of love, memory, beauty and the ravishes of time. First published in 1609, after Shakespeare had written many of his most famous works, ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84688-391-0
EAN 9781846883910
An acclaimed author of novels and short stories, Tim Parks - who was described in a recent review as "one of the best living writers of English" - has delighted audiences around the world with his finely observed writings on all aspects of Italian life and customs. This volume contains a selection of his best ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 13,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84688-400-9
EAN 9781846884009
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 8,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-575-4
EAN 9781847495754
Isabel Archer, a young, independently minded young woman, rejects the marriage proposals of two suitors in her determination to stay in control of her destiny. Considered by many to be Henry James's fi nest novel, The Portrait of a Lady is a subtle examination of Victorian society and power relations.
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