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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1102 páginas
PVP: 27,96 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-342-5
EAN 9781841593425
"Northern Lights" introduces Lyra, an orphan, who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Lyra's search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. In "The Subtle Knife" she is joined on her journey ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 263 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-339-5
EAN 9781841593395
Hana, a Canadian nurse, exhausted by death, and grieving for her own dead father; the maimed thief-turned-Allied-agent, Caravaggio; Kip, the emotionally detached Indian sapper - each is haunted in different ways by the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies in an upstairs room. His extraordinary knowledge and ...
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Amy Dorrit's father is not very good with money. She was born in the Marshalsea debtors' prison and has lived there with her family for all of her twenty-two years, only leaving during the day to work as a seamstress for the forbidding Mrs. Clennam.But Amy's fortunes are about to change: the arrival of Mrs. ...
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Anthony Trollope was well aware that the seemingly parochial power struggles that determine the action of Barchester Towers - struggles whose comic possibilities he exploits to hilarious effect - actually went to the heart of mid-Victorian English society, and had, in other times and other guises, led to civil war and constitutional upheaval. That awareness ...
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The concluding episode in Trollope's magnificent sequence of six Barsetshire novels narrates the trials of Joseph Crawley, the obsessive rector of Hogglestovk, as he struggles to clear his name from accusations of theft. But Crawley's story is only one thread in a complex tapesty which includes favourite characters from earlier novels in this delicately planned ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 409 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-307-59402-0
EAN 9780307594020
For the first time: the Nobel Prize winner's stunning short fiction collected in one volume, with an introduction by the author. Over the course of his distinguished career, V. S. Naipaul has written a remarkable array of short fiction that moves from Trinidad to London to Africa. Here are the stories from his Somerset Maugham ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 952 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-337-1
EAN 9781841593371
The first one-volume reader of the best of G. K. Chesterton's writing in the full range of genres he mastered. Chesterton was a towering literary figure of the early twentieth century, accomplished and prolific in many literary forms. A forceful proponent of Christianity and a critic of both conservatism and liberalism, he set out to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 712 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-335-7
EAN 9781841593357
George Orwell was a novelist unlike any other, fiercely devoted to presenting the truth as he saw it. The three novels in this collection date from the 1930s, before his political satires Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four made him world-famous. Compelling works in their own right, they are all studies of men at odds with ...
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PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-608-2
EAN 9781841596082
As Scheherazade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. The tales collected here represent the essence of the storyteller's art, with its ancient roots in fantastical legends and tales told around a fire. From the surreal night visions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" to the unspeakable horror that haunts two little ...
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