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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 589 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-217-3
EAN 9781857152173
This is a history of India since independence, seen through the eyes of characters born on the day that independence was granted. The book is a multi-layered narrative, in which the complexities of the sub-continent are projected through the minds of its many characters. "Midnight's Children" was voted in the Booker of Bookers in 1993.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 160 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-219-7
EAN 9781857152197
Foreshadowing his later detailed accounts of the Soviet prison-camp system, Solzhenitsyn's classic portrayal of life in the gulag is all the more powerful for being slighter and more personal than those later monumental volumes. Continuing the tradition of the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, especially Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn is fully worthy of them in narrative ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 242 páginas
PVP: 15,45 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-218-0
EAN 9781857152180
This is an extraordinary kind of autobiography in which each of the 21 chapters takes its title and its starting-point from one of the elements in the periodic table. Mingling fact and fiction, science and personal record, history and anecdote, Levi uses his training as an industrial chemist and the terrible years he spent as ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 788 páginas
PVP: 23,90 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-187-9
EAN 9781857151879
Including all of Hemingway's shorter fiction, this collection is introduced by the poet James Fenton. The stories touch on the same themes as his novels: war, love, the nature of heroism, renunciation and the writer's life. They are arranged chronologically.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 494 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-206-7
EAN 9781857152067
Published in 1851, Harriet Beecher-Stowe's novel rapidly became world-famous and remained so. A didactic and sentimental drama set among the slaves of the American South, Uncle Tom's Cabin is nevertheless a lively and forceful story. It made a major contribution to the Emancipationist cause and probably helped to sway the outcome of the Civil War.Given ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-203-6
EAN 9781857152036
Kipling's masterpiece is perhaps the most remarkable literary product of British India. The story of a half-caste boy, part Indian part Irish who journeys throughout the subcontinent with an aged lama in search of religious enlightenment, the nominal plot revolves around the Great Game: the struggle between Britian and Russia for control of Afghanistan. But ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 484 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-036-0
EAN 9781857150360
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1952 páginas
PVP: 66,60 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-192-3
EAN 9781857151923
This boxed set of Volumes 4-6 ("The Eastern Empire") completes the Everyman set. Volumes 1-3 ("The Western Empire") were published in 1993. Even after 200 years, Gibbon's book is still an authoritative work on Roman history.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,65 €
ISBN 978-0-679-43630-0
EAN 9780679436300
To the nineteenth-century reader, George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), was the archetype of the Romantic literary hero, a figure admired and emulated as much for the revolutionary panache with which he lived his life as the brio and allure of his verse. Our century has seen him more clearly as a poet whose intellectual toughness, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 622 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-193-0
EAN 9781857151930
The Everyman Signet Shakespeare series continues with the second volume of Histories, containing HENRY IV, parts I and II, HENRY V and HENRY VIII. As before, there is an extended introduction by Tony Tanner, a bibliography and author chronology. The plays are lightly annotated and the text is therefore ideal for both students and general ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 732 páginas
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-107-7
EAN 9781857151077
Thomas Mann's first great novel, written at the age of 25, is an epic study of decadence among the merchant families of Hamburg at the end of the nineteenth century. The novel is based on Mann's own experience as the son of a German merchant prince, but it goes far beyond his own experience in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 306 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-189-3
EAN 9781857151893
Tom Paine is celebrated for the part he played in both the American and French Revolutions. Though an Englishman by birth, he reacted violently against the political order of eighteenth-century England and in favour of radical reform. So well thought of was he outside Great Britain that he became a distinguished public figure in both ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 414 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-198-5
EAN 9781857151985
THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY is probably Edith Wharton's most savage satire on the manners of late nineteenth-century America. It is the story of the exquisitely beautiful but brutally ambitious Undine Spragg who marries her way into the high aristocracy of Europe, abandoning several husbands along the way. This novel, which has scences of comedy ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 638 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-177-0
EAN 9781857151770
The Everyman Complete Shakespeare will publish the History plays in two volumes. In volume I are contained Shakespeare's first five history plays: HENRY VI parts I, II and II; RICHARD III and KING JOHN. The text of the plays is accompainied by extensive notes, author chronology, bibliography and a detailed introduction to each play and ...
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In what remains after more than a century the greatest study of American political life, Tocqueville describes American society and accounts for its nature and its conflicts in an historical analysis of the nation's origins among different parties of European settlers. Brilliantly written and vividly illustrated with vignettes and portraits, this is also more than ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-160-2
EAN 9781857151602
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 355 páginas
PVP: 17,30 €
ISBN 978-0-679-42311-9
EAN 9780679423119
Retold out of the old romances, this collection of Arthurian tales endeavors to make each adventure--"The Quest for the Round Table", "The First Quest of Sir Lancelot", "How the Holy Grail Came to Camelot", and so forth--part of a fixed pattern that effectively presents the whole story, as it does in Le Morte D'Arthur, but ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-705-5
EAN 9781857157055
It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day America and represent, at its most piercing, a universal experience of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 770 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-164-0
EAN 9781857151640
Volume 2 completes the survey of Shakespeare's tragic output with ROMEO AND JULIET, JULIUS CAESAR, ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA, CORIOLANUS, TROILUS AND CRESSIDA and TITUS ANDRONICUS. The authoritatively edited texts of the plays are supplemented with extensive bibliographies, a chronology of Shakespear's life and times and a substantial introduction in which Prosessor Tony Tanner examines Shakespeare's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 21,00 €
ISBN 978-0-679-42907-4
EAN 9780679429074
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Dickinson contains poems from The Poet's Art, The Works of Love, and Death and Resurrection, as well as an index of first lines.
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