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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-617-4
EAN 9781841596174
Stories of Art and Artists gathers two centuries of stories from around the world. From Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Artist of the Beautiful" and Albert Camus' "The Artist at Work" to Bernard Malamud's "Rembrandt's Hat" and Aimee Bender's "The Color Master," the tales collected here range from haunting fables about the power of art to vivid ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 424 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-360-9
EAN 9781841593609
On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 952 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-361-6
EAN 9781841593616
The Arabian Nights - stories told by Queen Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights, to beguile the Sultan into deferring her execution - first began to appear in the West in the early 18th century, firing in the European imagination an appetite for the mysterious and exotic which has never left it. Collected over ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-796-6
EAN 9781841597966
In 2009 Knopf published a new translation of Cavafy's Complete Poems by the brilliant and award-winning writer and scholar Daniel Mendelsohn. Now Mendelsohn has made a selection of the poet's best-loved works for a Pocket Poets edition, including such favorites as "Waiting for the Barbarians," "Ithaca," and "The God Abandons Antony." Whether advising Odysseus as ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-797-3
EAN 9781841597973
James Joyce is most celebrated for his remarkable novel Ulysses, and yet he was also an accomplished poet. Chamber Music, his debut collection, fused the styles of the Celtic Revival with his own brand of ironic exuberance. Pomes Penyeach, a collection written when Joyce had published Dubliners and was completing A Portrait of the Artist ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 568 páginas
PVP: 25,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-355-5
EAN 9781841593555
Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-359-3
EAN 9781841593593
A towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society-and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity.Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-352-4
EAN 9781841593524
When Catherine Sloper falls for Maurice Townsend, her father, a wealthy New York doctor, believes that Townsend is a fortune hunter after his daughter's inheritance. He forbids the marriage but Catherine persists in her affection, encouraged by her foolish aunt Lavinia who has a weakness for Maurice herself. Dr Sloper takes Catherine abroad to distract ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-794-2
EAN 9781841597942
One of the foremost American novelists of the early twentieth century, Willa Cather (1873-1947) was born in Virginia but grew up in Nebraska. Before she wrote the novels that would make her famous, she was known as a poet, the most popular of her poems reprinted many times in national magazines and anthologies. In such ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-349-4
EAN 9781841593494
An elegant Everyman's Library hardcover edition of the universally acclaimed novel-winner of the Booker Prize, a bestseller and a perpetually strong backlist title, and the basis for an award-winning film-with full-cloth binding, a silk ribbon marker, a chronology, and a new introduction by Salman Rushdie.Here is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 299 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-073-5
EAN 9781857150735
This edition of Hard Times includes an introduction by Philip Collins. It tells the tragic story of Louisa, starved of the graces of the imagination so essential to emotional well-being, and trapped in a loveless marriage.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
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ISBN 978-1-85715-115-2
EAN 9781857151152
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 488 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-348-7
EAN 9781841593487
Flaubert's Parrot, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984, concerns the attempts of an increasingly bemused researcher to establish certain facts about a famous French novelist and the stuffed bird which used to sit on his desk.A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters blends fact and fiction in a virtuoso kaleidoscope of vignettes ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-347-0
EAN 9781841593470
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 776 páginas
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-346-3
EAN 9781841593463
These sixty satirical, rollicking, uproarious tales by the greatest yarn-spinner in our literary history are as fresh and vivid as ever more than a century after their author's death.Mark Twain's famous novels "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn" have long been hailed as major achievements, but the father of American literature also made his mark as ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-792-8
EAN 9781841597928
With its intricate rhyme scheme and dance-like pattern of repeated lines, its marriage of recurrence and surprise, the villanelle has fascinated poets ever since it was introduced almost two centuries ago. Many well-known names in the past have tried their hand at it, and the villanelle is enjoying a revival among writers today. The poems ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 728 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-344-9
EAN 9781841593449
Inspired by the Indian Mutiny of 1857, "The Siege of Krishnapur" is set in the fictional town of that name where a British garrison withstands a four-month siege by mutineers. Eventually rescued after undergoing terrible privations, the leading characters all find their ideals tested and their smug assumptions of military and moral superiority severely shaken. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-180-3
EAN 9781841591803
St Austin's school (as featured in The Pothunters) is the setting for twelve delightful early Wodehouse stories. The familiar ingredients - and some of the same characters - are present: cricket and rugby loom large, school colours are gained, tricks are played, exams avoided, revenge wreaked upon enemies, and the honour of School and House ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-611-2
EAN 9781841596112
In this beautifully packaged anthology A. S. Byatt, Alice Munro, Elizabeth Bowen, Sherwood Anderson, Edith Wharton, Anita Desai, Colm Toibin, Lorrie Moore and many others reflect upon all aspects of motherhood in stories lyrical and satirical, realistic and fantastic, hilarious and heartbreaking.Here at last is a gift-book that is neither sentimental nor 'inspirational', offering instead ...
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