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- Alma Books Ltd, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 8,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-349-1
EAN 9781847493491
Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant facade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become a state councillor ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 250 páginas
PVP: 11,95 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-347-7
EAN 9781847493477
Originally hand-printed at her Hogarth Press in Richmond, Monday or Tuesday is the only collection of short stories that Virginia Woolf published during her lifetime, providing a fascinating insight into the early stages of development of themes that would blossom in her later masterpieces. From the impressionist description of four groups of people walking by ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 244 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-346-0
EAN 9781847493460
Published soon after Fitzgerald's debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the author's first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in newspapers and magazines. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing: in Bernice Bobs Her Hair' the fashionable Marjorie attempts to ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-350-7
EAN 9781847493507
Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley's seminal novel has generated countless print, stage and screen adaptations, but none has ever matched the power and philosophical resonance of the original. Composed as part of a challenge with Byron and Shelley to conjure up the most terrifying ghost story, Frankenstein narrates the chilling tale ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-323-1
EAN 9781847493231
At the end of an industrious political career in conflictriven Italy, the Florentine diplomat Niccolo Machiavelli composed his masterpiece The Prince, a classic study of power and politics, and a manual of ruthlessness for any ambitious ruler. Controversial in his own time, The Prince made Machiavelli's name a byword for manipulative scheming, and had an ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 10,15 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-318-7
EAN 9781847493187
Monroe Stahr is a film producer at the height of his career, revered by the industry and in control of every aspect of his business empire. In his ruthless rise to the top, the young widower has had little time for sentiment, until he meets the beguiling Kathleen Moore, and the two embark on an ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-309-5
EAN 9781847493095
A collection of early short stories which helped make Fitzgerald's name, Tales of the Jazz Age combines period pieces - the most notable of which is the novella-length 'May Day' - with more fanciful creations, such as the fantastical 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', recently made into a Hollywood film. Also containing the now ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 11,40 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-258-6
EAN 9781847492586
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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Several years after emigrating from the USSR, the author discovers the battered suitcase he had brought with him gathering dust at the back of a wardrobe. As he opens the suitcase, the seemingly undistinguished items he finds inside take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he ...
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First published in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in French literature. Told in the first person by Celine's fictional alter ego Bardamu, the novel is loosely based on the author's own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa, in ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-222-7
EAN 9781847492227
Contains pictures and an extensive apparatus on Fitzgerald's life and works
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 198 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-216-6
EAN 9781847492166
Portraying the characters and events of a small Midwestern town at the end of the nineteenth century, Winesburg, Ohio is a chronological cycle of stories which reads like an episodic novel. Centring on George Willard, a young local reporter with big-city aspirations, and his conversations with fellow inhabitants, the book gives voice to a disparate ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-259-3
EAN 9781847492593
While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star Rosemary Hoyt. Her arrival causes a stir in their social circle and exposes the cracks in their fragile marriage. As their relationship unravels, the glimpses of their troubled past emerge, and a series ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 270 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84688-071-1
EAN 9781846880711
Using the credit card and identity of a handcuffs salesman, professional failure Tyndale Corbett arrives in Miami for a law enforcement conference to discover the joys of luxury hotels and above all the delight of being someone else, someone successful. Feeling his previous lack of success might be due to insufficient ambition, Tyndale decides on ...
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- Alma Books Ltd, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-438-2
EAN 9781847494382
Unique edition of some of Twains best pieces of short fiction. Lavish production, includes pictures and an extensive section on Twains life and works.
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