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A classic depiction of exile, estrangement, paralysis, and the disintegration of a society, Ulysses records the events of one average day, June 16, 1904, in the lives of three central figures.
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ISBN 978-1-84159-143-8
EAN 9781841591438
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Here--for the first time in one volume--are two classic, brilliantly original works on the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. In both books the acclaimed author mines her family's past and her culture's stories, weaving myth and memory to fashion works of enormous revelatory power.The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, which won ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 520 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85715-281-4
EAN 9781857152814
Chilean writer Isabel Allende's classic bestseller is a richly symbolic family saga that is also the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American country's turbulent history. In a triumph of magic realism, Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colourful and all-too-human inhabitants - the Trueba family, whose passions, struggles and secrets span ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 260 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84159-137-7
EAN 9781841591377
The one thing that could be expected to disturb the peace of life at Blandings is the incursion of imposters. Blandings has imposters like other houses have mice. On this occasion there are two of them - both intent on a dangerous enterprise.
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ISBN 978-1-84159-136-0
EAN 9781841591360
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 480 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85715-280-7
EAN 9781857152807
Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 272 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85715-282-1
EAN 9781857152821
With the style and eloquent language that earned him the Nobel prize for literature, Marquez weaves a stunning story of glory and despair. Both real history and Marquez' imagination let us enter the world of Simon Bolivar, Liberator of South America, in all his humanity - good and evil. Bolivar drove the Spanish out of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 848 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85715-276-0
EAN 9781857152760
In this edition of his collected shorter fiction we can see why Somerset Maugham, celebrated as the author of Cakes and Ale and Of Human Bondage, is also regarded as a master of the short story. Open this substantial volume at any page and you will find evidence of his extraordinary art. Without narrative tricks ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 704 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85715-278-4
EAN 9781857152784
Once overshadowed by Sartre, Camus has proved the more durable of the two most celebrated French writer-philosophers of the last century. This collection of his work makes the reasons for his survival self-evident. In prose of bleak but piercing clarity, Camus cuts to the heart of each story he tells.After The Outsider (also published in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 548 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85715-277-7
EAN 9781857152777
Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels. The Steppe-the most lyrical of the five-is an account of a nine-year-old boy's frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia to enroll in a distant school. The Duel sets ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 512 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-274-6
EAN 9781857152746
In Muriel Spark's novels the brevity is only equalled by the brilliance. This collection of four stories, each a miniature masterpiece, illustrates her development over four decades. Despite the seriousness of their themes, all are fantastic comedies of manners, bristling with wit. Her most famous book, The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, has been made ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 192 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85715-272-2
EAN 9781857152722
Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this ...
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Edgar Allan Poe's gift for the macabre influenced Baudelaire and French symbolism, Freudian analysis, the detective novel and the Hollywood film. His psychologically profound stories, which comprise this book, represent the darker side of the 19th-century American sensibility.
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ISBN 978-1-84159-125-4
EAN 9781841591254
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1024 páginas
PVP: 23,70 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-258-6
EAN 9781857152586
When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a process of natural selection. This theory, published as The Origin of Species in 1859, is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 512 páginas
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-269-2
EAN 9781857152692
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-247-0
EAN 9781857152470
Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. She began her writing career in 1975 at the age of fifty-nine, and over the next two decades she published three biographies, nine novels, and a collection of short stories. Now three of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1152 páginas
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-266-1
EAN 9781857152661
For the first time in one volume--30 years' worth of Waugh's inimitable travel writings. Spanning the years from 1929 to 1958, these accounts describe his journeys through the West Indies, Mexico, South America, the Holy Land, and Africa.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 1376 páginas
PVP: 29,60 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-259-3
EAN 9781857152593
Describing his collection of Essays as 'a book consubstantial with its author', Montaigne identified both the power and the charm of a work which introduces us to one of the most attractive figures in European literature. A humanist, a sceptic, an acute observer of himself and others, he reflects the great themes of existence through ...
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