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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 9,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23803-3
EAN 9780571238033
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 9,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23810-1
EAN 9780571238101
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 672 páginas
PVP: 36,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23934-4
EAN 9780571239344
Lorrie Moore's first collection of short stories, Self-Help, was published in 1985 when she was twenty-seven years old. This volume of intimate, funny, melancholic stories about lovers, loneliness and never quite belonging was hailed an instant classic and established her reputation as a writer of international distinction.Collected here for the first time are the stories ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23307-6
EAN 9780571233076
A long-haired woman moves into the priest's house and sets fire to his furniture. That Christmas, the electricity goes out. A forester mortgages his land and goes off to a seaside town looking for a wife.He finds a woman eating alone in the hotel. A farmer wakes half-naked and realises the money is almost gone. ...
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Flora Chapman is in her fifties when her dashing and infuriating husband, Edward, dies in a bizarre ballooning accident. Ever pragmatic, Flora seizes upon her new freedom and decides to finish Edward's history of Hurcott Ducis, the village where they've spent their married life. A reference to Anna of Cleves, Henry VIII's fourth wife, unkindly ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 19,99 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23894-1
EAN 9780571238941
Flora Chapman is in her fifties when her husband dies in a bizarre ballooning accident. Seizing upon her new found freedom, she decides to finish the history of their village that Edward had begun. A reference to Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII's fourth wife who he rejected for being ugly, captures her imagination as she ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22966-6
EAN 9780571229666
A train hits a snow drift in the frozen Cleveland Hills. In the process of clearing the line a body is discovered, and so begins a dangerous case for struggling Edwardian railway detective, Jim Stringer. Jim's new investigation takes him to the mighty blast furnaces of Ironopolis, to Fleet Street in the company of a ...
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The first narrative history in English of the Italian front: a major forgotten conflict of the First World War.In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire, hoping to seize its lost' territories of Trieste and Tyrol. The result was one of the most hopeless and senseless modern wars - and one that inspired ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22103-5
EAN 9780571221035
Henry Morton Stanley has come down to us in history as a cruel imperialist, a bad man of Africa, and as the person who conducted the most famous celebrity interview in history, with the words Dr Livingstone, I presume?' In this compelling biography, Tim Jeal argues that Stanley is also one of the most misunderstood ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 21,24 €
ISBN 978-0-571-20977-4
EAN 9780571209774
Jamal is a successful psychoanalyst haunted by his first love and a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. Looking back to his coming of age in the 1970s forms a vivid backdrop to the drama that develops thirty years later, as he and his friends face an encroaching middle age with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-17955-8
EAN 9780571179558
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2008. Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love.Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku - ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23206-2
EAN 9780571238576
St Petersburg in the winter of 1866.Two frozen bodies are found in Petrovsky Park - a dwarf neatly packed in a suitcase, and a burly peasant hanging from a tree. Police Detective Porfiry Petrovich begins his investigation in the city's squalid brothels and drinking dens but is soon led into an altogether more genteel stratum ...
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In the course of a routine police raid Detective Inspector Frank Frolich of the Oslo Police saves Elizabeth Faremo from getting inadvertently caught in crossfire. By the time he learns that she is the sister of Jonny Faremo, wanted member of a larceny gang, it is already too late - he is obsessed.
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Drawing both on the author's own family's stories and his years of hands-on political experience, this book offers an account of how the world might transform the Burma's future.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23945-0
EAN 9780571239450
There are two brothers Size.There is Ogun, who owns an auto-repair shop. And there is Oshoosi, fresh out of prison, who always takes the wrong track. When his ex-cell mate Elegba gives him a clapped-out car, true freedom seems just around the corner.The first part of the Brother/Sister Trilogy, The Brothers Size is the European ...
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Kate McCall's husband has been killed by her son, Luke, in a tragic bow-hunting accident. While Kate struggles with her son's surly guilt, her first love, Jack, an ex-con, reappears, along with a crew of his former colleagues. While Jack must convince his partners in crime that he really did lose the heist money, his ...
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'Cow'. 'Slob'. 'Pig'.How many insults can you hear before you have to stand up and defend the woman you love? Tom faces just that question when he falls for Helen, a bright, funny, sexy young woman who happens to be plus-sized - and then some. Forced to explain his new relationship to his shallow (although ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22157-8
EAN 9780571221578
America recognizes itself as a voice of power and righteousness, speaking to itself in a message broadcast to the whole world. This is a fundamental part of American identity - which is to say there is no American identity without a sense of portent and doom. This is the other side of the story - ...
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August 1946. One year on from surrender and Tokyo lies broken and bleeding at the feet of its American victors. Among the survivors of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, panic is spreading. Facing the threat of a second purge the officers and detectives, with their changed identities and false names, realise that they can trust ...
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I once lived among humankind, and found them in their generality to be cruel and cold, and yet could mention the names of three or four that were like angels. I suppose we measure the importance of our days by those few angels we spy among us . . .'Roseanne McNulty, perhaps nearing her 100th ...
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