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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-814-7
EAN 9781841598147
The variety of subjects is dazzling, from movie stars to bit players, from B-movies to Bollywood, from Clark Gable to Jean Cocteau. More than a hundred poets riff on their movie memories: Langston Hughes and John Updike on the theaters of their youth, Jack Kerouac and Robert Lowell on Harpo Marx, Sharon Olds on Marilyn ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-627-3
EAN 9781841596273
Russian Stories rounds up marvellous short stories by all the Russian heavyweights, including Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Babel and Nabokov, and continuing up to contemporary writers such as Tatyana Tolstaya and the recent Nobel Prize winner, Svetlana Alexievich. There is no similar one-volume collection of the best of the Russian greats ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 390 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-185-5
EAN 9781857151855
Published in 1848, MARY BARTON was the first novel of Elizabeth Gaskell, later to become celebrated as the author of CRANFORD, MARY BARTON - a better book than CRANFORD - was written after she has married a Manchester clergyman, and it combines a typically sturdy romantic plot with striking descriptions of working people and their ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1432 páginas
PVP: 33,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-388-3
EAN 9781841593883
Here in one volume is James Ellroy's first great body of work, an epic re-envisioning of postwar Los Angeles etched in red and black and film-noir grays.The Black Dahlia depicts the secret infrastructure of L.A.'s most sensational murder case. A young cop morphs into obsessed lover and lust-crazed avenger. The Dahlia claims him. She is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 328 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-950-2
EAN 9781841599502
When Heidi, a five-year-old orphan, is dumped on her reclusive grandfather who lives on a remote mountainside above a Swiss village, he is none too pleased by her arrival. But Heidi quickly wins him over with her cheerful disposition and kindness, and thoroughly enjoys her new life, spending the summer days roaming the Alpine pastures ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 664 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-390-6
EAN 9781841593906
Social realism and fairy tale combine in Lucky Per, a bildungsroman about the ambitious son of a clergyman who rejects his faith and flees a restricted life in rural Jutland for Denmark's capital city. Per is a gifted young man who firmly believes that 'you had to hunt down luck as if it were a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 840 páginas
PVP: 19,35 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-387-6
EAN 9781841593876
Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing volcanoes in the Andes, swimming with crocodiles, racing through anthrax-infected Siberia, or publishing groundbreaking bestsellers. Ahead of his time, he recognized nature as an interdependent whole and he saw before anyone ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 900 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-379-1
EAN 9781841593791
When Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) began writing in 1660 he was a young clerk living in London, struggling to pay his rent. Over the next nine years as he kept his journal, he rose to be a powerful naval administrator. He became eyewitness to some of the most significant events in seventeenth-century English history, among them, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-625-9
EAN 9781841596259
The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. This anthology gathers a dazzling variety of stories with Venetian settings, including Daphne du Maurier's haunting "Don't Look Now," Anthony Trollope's wartime romance "The Last Austrian Who Left Venice," Vernon Lee's spine-chilling "A Wicked Voice," and a scene from The Wings of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 296 páginas
PVP: 18,65 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-386-9
EAN 9781841593869
In 1914 Paul Baumer and his classmates are marched to the local recruiting office by a sentimentally patriotic form-master. On a calm October day in 1918, only a few weeks before the Armistice, Paul will be the last of them to be killed. In All Quiet on the Western Front he tells their story.A few ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 408 páginas
PVP: 24,10 €
ISBN 978-1-101-90798-6
EAN 9781101907986
On the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I: a hardcover edition of one of the best and most famous memoirs of the conflict.Good-bye to All That was published a decade after the end of the first World War, as the poet and novelist Robert Graves was preparing to leave England for good. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 504 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-383-8
EAN 9781841593838
In The Bloody Chamber, Carter's famous collection of deeply unsettling stories inspired by fairy tales, a Beauty is turned into a Beast and Little Red Riding's grandmother is stoned to death as a witch; a young music student is swept off her feet in Paris by a middle-aged aristocrat and transported to his ancestral abode ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 18,65 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-385-2
EAN 9781841593852
Written over two thousand years ago, The Art of War contains penetrating insights into the nature of power, inter-state rivalry, realpolitik and military success, relevant to any age. It was first translated into English in the early 20th century. Sun Tzu's short lines of argument and pithy aphorisms are highly accessible to modern readers, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-382-1
EAN 9781841593821
This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm among his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will, which sets in motion a chain of events that brings dark truths to light. Ambitiously conceived and stunningly written, A ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 504 páginas
PVP: 18,65 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-380-7
EAN 9781841593807
Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death. The Wartime Notebooks trace Duras's formative experiences - including her difficult childhood in Indochina and her harrowing wait for her husband's return from Nazi internment - revealing the personal ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 362 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-216-6
EAN 9781857152166
This is the story of Macon 'Milkman' Dead, heir to the richest black family in a midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically and inwards spirituality. Through the enlightenment of one man the novel recapitulates the history of slavery and liberation.
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Who is killing monks in a great medieval abbey famed for its library - and why? Brother William of Baskerville is sent to find out, taking with him the assistant who later tells the tale of his investigations. Eco's celebrated story combines elements of detective fiction, metaphysical thriller, post-modernist puzzle and historical novel in one ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 234 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-062-9
EAN 9781857150629
The fable of the scientist who creates a man-monster is one of the best known horror stories ever. It has fascinated readers ever since it was first published in 1818.
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