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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-0-571-21846-2
EAN 9780571218462
Cromwell spent only nine months of his eventful life in Ireland, yet he stands accused there of war crimes, religious persecution and ethnic cleansing. In a century of unrelenting, bloody warfare and religious persecution throughout Europe, Cromwell was, in many ways, a product of his times. As commander-in-chief of the army in Ireland, however, the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,51 €
ISBN 978-0-571-25150-6
EAN 9780571251506
As an "Observer" correspondent in Vietnam before the American withdrawal in 1975, Gavin Young met many courageous Vietnamese people. He frequently stayed with one such person, Madame Bong, a woman who had lost her husband when she was only twenty-five, had recovered the mangled limbs of one son from a battlefield and watched as another ...
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This title offers a unique 15 CD box set of Seamus Heaney reading his 11 poetry collections in their entirety, produced by Radio Telefis Eireann, the Irish national broadcasting corporation. These include "Death of a Naturalist", "Door Into The Dark", "Wintering Out", "North", "Fieldwork", "Station Island", "The Haw Lantern", "Seeing Things", "The Spirit Level", "Electric ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,85 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24578-9
EAN 9780571245789
This is the complete collection of stories from one of the most original and powerful American writers of the twentieth-century. Including "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Everything That Rises Must Converge", this collection also contains several stories only available in this volume.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 136 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23342-7
EAN 9780571233427
Picking up from his earlier collection "Sleepwalk", and the precursor to his award-winning "Shortcomings", the four stories in "Summer Blonde" are quintessential Tomine. Memorably featuring characters such as Neil, Carlo and Hillary Chan, among others, these are beautiful and haunting tales that illustrate with great sympathy the loneliness and bleak humour of modern life.
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Cardiff East 'As scene melts into scene, onea?Ts appetite for knowing more and more about these people is constantly whetted, even for the ones one would avoid in real life. Each and every character rings true and resonates further. .. A play which is never less than gripping.' Mail on Sunday Certain Young Men 'The ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 7,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23380-9
EAN 9780571233809
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23493-6
EAN 9780571234936
"Sulphuric Acid" tells the story of a reality TV death camp, which has become the nation's obsession - an amoral spectacle played out through the media. It is a blackly funny and shocking satire on the modern predilection for reality television and celebrity, in which the audience at home develops a taste for blood.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24130-9
EAN 9780571241309
Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's first novel, is the story of Hazel Motes who, released from the armed services, returns to the evangelical Deep South. There he begins a private battle against the religiosity of the community and in particular against Asa Hawkes, the 'blind' preacher, and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter. In desperation Hazel founds his ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23479-0
EAN 9780571234790
Acclaimed historian Natalie Zemon Davis's accessible and dramatic biography was widely hailed as a masterpiece and tells the story of Leo Africanus, a sixteenth-century Moroccan who embodies the rich and complex exchanges between Europe and Africa during the Renaissance. Trickster Travels offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 4 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23694-7
EAN 9780571236947
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICEThe Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Alice Oswald's first collection of poems, announced the arrival of a distinctive new voice. Shortlisted for the T. S.Eliot Prize, the book introduced readers to her meditative, intensely musical style, and her breath-taking gift for visionary writing. 'The poetry of Alice Oswald arrives like a zephyr ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23271-0
EAN 9780571232710
Profiles twenty-two of the most gifted and self-destructive talents in rock history. This book offers intimate portraits of rock stars, from Brian Wilson to Syd Barrett, the Rolling Stones to Neil Young, Iggy Pop to Lou Reed, and others.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23044-0
EAN 9780571230440
Astonishing in its scale and ambition, this is the most balanced and accomplished book about the Iraq war so far. "The Assassins' Gate" recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. The consequences of that policy are shown in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22564-4
EAN 9780571225644
Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age, living out in the country, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,15 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22386-2
EAN 9780571223862
In 1965, one song defined a generation caught the questing spirit of the era and changed the rules of the possible in popular music for all time. At that point it was the longest hit single to be released, at six minutes and six seconds in length nearly three times longer than the average single. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22603-0
EAN 9780571226030
Looking at the true value of art, Carey both asks and answers many questions regarding our perception of the arts, as well as making a self-confessedly personal and subjective case for the superiority of literature over all other arts.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22960-4
EAN 9780571229604
Two men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington, their throats brutally slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently resigned Minister of the Crown, the other an alcoholic vagrant. Dalgliesh and his team, set up to investigate crimes of particular sensitivity, are faced with a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,70 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22673-3
EAN 9780571226733
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was born in Dorset. He left school at sixteen to work as an apprentice for an architect who specialized in church restoration. He made his reputation as a novelist, and it wasn't until after the publication of his last novel, The Well-beloved, in 1897, that he dedicated himself to writing poetry.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22581-1
EAN 9780571225811
Philip Larkin's second novel was first published in 1947. This story of Katherine Lind and Robin Fennel, of winter and summer, of war and peace, of exile and holidays, is memorable for its compassionate precision and for the uncommon and unmistakable distinction of its writing. 'A Girl in Winter is a beautifully constructed, funny and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22735-8
EAN 9780571227358
On 25th October 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The meeting was a disaster, their loud and aggressive confrontation became the stuff of legend. This book tells what really went on in that room.
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