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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: 19,00 €
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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 776 páginas
PVP: 22,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-376-0
EAN 9781841593760
Twain's playful exuberance and remarkable storytelling gifts are on full display as he regales readers with his real-life adventures, some of them so outrageous they cannot be true - or can they? As Richard Russo says in his fascinating introduction, Twain was an 'inspired, indeed, unparalleled, bullshitter' who himself cheerfully relates how as a cub ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 472 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-329-6
EAN 9781841593296
In "The Time Machine" an inventor travels to the remote future where he finds both love and terror. The protagonist of "The Invisible Man" struggles to come to terms with his condition in a narrative which is by turns comic and tragic. "The War of the Worlds" imagines planetary conflict from an individual point of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 696 páginas
PVP: 22,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-377-7
EAN 9781841593777
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 760 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-378-4
EAN 9781841593784
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 704 páginas
PVP: 25,15 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-350-0
EAN 9781841593500
Author of the first gothic novel and son of the first prime minister of Great Britain, Horace Walpole had wide-ranging interests that included literature, politics, world affairs, collecting, antiquities, and architecture, and to his numerous correspondents he wrote on these and other topics in prose that is celebrated for its charm, eloquence, and wit. This ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 258 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-735-2
EAN 9781857157352
This is a few magical poems by Coleridge that remain among the most celebrated works in the language: Kubla Khan, Christabel and - above all - The Ancient Mariner. All are included in this volume, together with many other superb but lesser-known poems and a selected prose extracts from the Biographia Literia and the Notebooks ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 984 páginas
PVP: 22,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-375-3
EAN 9781841593753
Politics, religion, culture, travel, science and technology, family life: nothing escaped the eye and pen of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, nineteenth-century America's most famous writer and a legend in his own lifetime. Though chiefly known today for his classic novels of childhood, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and for his short ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-101-90780-1
EAN 9781101907801
Shaken and Stirred is an enticing literary cocktail of stories about drinking and making merry by great writers from the past two centuries.In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppances at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents overimbibe in tales by Jack London and Alice Munro; riotous partying exacts a ...
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