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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 480 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-280-7
EAN 9781857152807
Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,60 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-282-1
EAN 9781857152821
With the style and eloquent language that earned him the Nobel prize for literature, Marquez weaves a stunning story of glory and despair. Both real history and Marquez' imagination let us enter the world of Simon Bolivar, Liberator of South America, in all his humanity - good and evil. Bolivar drove the Spanish out of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 848 páginas
PVP: 25,50 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-276-0
EAN 9781857152760
In this edition of his collected shorter fiction we can see why Somerset Maugham, celebrated as the author of Cakes and Ale and Of Human Bondage, is also regarded as a master of the short story. Open this substantial volume at any page and you will find evidence of his extraordinary art. Without narrative tricks ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 704 páginas
PVP: 22,20 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-278-4
EAN 9781857152784
Once overshadowed by Sartre, Camus has proved the more durable of the two most celebrated French writer-philosophers of the last century. This collection of his work makes the reasons for his survival self-evident. In prose of bleak but piercing clarity, Camus cuts to the heart of each story he tells.After The Outsider (also published in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 548 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-277-7
EAN 9781857152777
Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels. The Steppe-the most lyrical of the five-is an account of a nine-year-old boy's frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia to enroll in a distant school. The Duel sets ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 512 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-274-6
EAN 9781857152746
In Muriel Spark's novels the brevity is only equalled by the brilliance. This collection of four stories, each a miniature masterpiece, illustrates her development over four decades. Despite the seriousness of their themes, all are fantastic comedies of manners, bristling with wit. Her most famous book, The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, has been made ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 192 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-272-2
EAN 9781857152722
Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-125-4
EAN 9781841591254
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1024 páginas
PVP: 23,70 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-258-6
EAN 9781857152586
When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a process of natural selection. This theory, published as The Origin of Species in 1859, is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 512 páginas
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-269-2
EAN 9781857152692
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-247-0
EAN 9781857152470
Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. She began her writing career in 1975 at the age of fifty-nine, and over the next two decades she published three biographies, nine novels, and a collection of short stories. Now three of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 1376 páginas
PVP: 29,60 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-259-3
EAN 9781857152593
Describing his collection of Essays as 'a book consubstantial with its author', Montaigne identified both the power and the charm of a work which introduces us to one of the most attractive figures in European literature. A humanist, a sceptic, an acute observer of himself and others, he reflects the great themes of existence through ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-1-4000-4022-3
EAN 9781400040223
Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are without parallel in the nineteenth century: celebrated poets, they became equally famous for their marriage. Still popular more than a century after their deaths, their poetry vividly reflects the unique nature of their relationship.This collection presents the Brownings' work in the context of their lives: the early years ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 586 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-124-4
EAN 9781857151244
Goncharov's gentle satire on the failings of 19th-century Russian gentry and bureaucracy turns into something deeper and richer than satire, as he probes the character of a protagonist whose constitutional lethargy becomes a symbol for the malaise of the human spirit in an alienating world.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 1336 páginas
PVP: 27,10 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-257-9
EAN 9781857152579
The only complete edition of stories by the undisputed master of detective literature, collected here for the first time in one volume, including some stories that have been unavailable for decades.When Raymond Chandler turned to writing at the age of forty-five, he began by publishing stories in pulp magazines such as Black Mask before later ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-256-2
EAN 9781857152562
Creator of the famous Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler elevated the American hard-boiled detective genre to an art form. His last four novels, published here in one volume, offer ample opportunity to savour the unique and compelling fictional world that made his works modern classics. The Lady in the Lake moves Marlowe out of his usual ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta
PVP: 25,90 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-255-5
EAN 9781857152555
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 680 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-254-8
EAN 9781857152548
This study of natural goodness is Dostoevsky's most touching novel. Prince Myshkin, the last, poverty-stricken member of a once great family and regarded by many as an idiot, returns to Russia from a sanatorium in Switzerland in order to collect an inheritance. Before he has even arrived home he becomes involved with Rogozhin, a rich ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-748-5
EAN 9781841597485
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 744 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-343-2
EAN 9781841593432
"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" is Anne Bronte's second and most celebrated novel. Set in the dramatic northern landscape made familiar by the author's more famous sisters, it tells the story of Helen Graham, a mysterious single woman who rents the semi-ruinous Hall of the title. With a child but no husband, Helen divides the ...
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