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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-374-53171-3
EAN 9780374531713
Just before her death in 2007 at the age of eighty-four, Grace Paley completed this wise and poignant book of poems. Full of memories of friends and family and incisive observations of life in both her beloved hometown, New York City, and rural Vermont, the poems are sober and playful, experimenting with form while remaining ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 19,80 €
ISBN 978-0-374-10866-3
EAN 9780374108663
It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset district of San Francisco, caring not only for her husband's fragile health but also for her son, who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger appears on her doorstep and everything changes. All the certainties by which Pearlie ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-374-53116-4
EAN 9780374531164
What do we really know about Burma and its history? And what can Burma's past tell us about its present and even its future? For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been frustrated in their attempts to bring about a freer and more democratic Burma through sanctions and tourist boycotts ...
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Succinct, with a brace of original documents following each chapter, Christopher J. Olsen's The American Civil War is the ideal introduction to American history's most famous, and infamous, chapter. Covering events from 1850 and the mounting political pressures to split the Union into opposing sections, through the four years of bloodshed and waning Confederate fortunes, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,30 €
ISBN 978-0-374-53087-7
EAN 9780374530877
First published in 1955, The Violent Bear It Away is now a landmark in American literature. It is a dark and absorbing example of the Gothic sensibility and bracing satirical voice that are united in Flannery O'Conner's work. In it, the orphaned Francis Marion Tarwater and his cousins, the schoolteacher Rayber, defy the prophecy of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-374-53068-6
EAN 9780374530686
The Man with Night Sweats is a haunting depiction of a world ravaged by illness that is part elegy for those who have been lost and part evocation of the changes that await those who survive. It is also one of the few works of literature that have fully met both the aesthetic and the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1216 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-374-53032-7
EAN 9780374530327
Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled the definitive edition of Robert Lowell's work, from his first, impossible-to-find collection, Land of Unlikeness; to the early triumph of Lord Weary's Castle, winner of the 1946 Pulitzer Prize; to the brilliant willfulness of his versions of poems by Sappho, Baudelaire, Rilke, Montale, and other masters in Imitations; ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 888 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-374-53034-1
EAN 9780374530341
One of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, Robert Lowell was also a prolific letter writer who corresponded with many of the remarkable writers and thinkers of his day, including Elizabeth Bishop, Ezra Pound, Hannah Arendt, William Carlos Williams, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and Edmund Wilson. These letters, conversations in writing, document ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-374-53063-1
EAN 9780374530631
Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. Focused on the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate fate, this tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdoms gives us one of the most riveting characters in twentieth-century ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 440 páginas
PVP: 23,25 €
ISBN 978-0-374-53006-8
EAN 9780374530068
Selected Poems includes over 200 works culled from Robert Lowell's books of verse Lord Weary's Castle, The Mills of the Kavanaughs, Life Studies, For the Union Dead, Near the Ocean, History, For Lizzie and Harriet, and The Dolphin. Edited and with a foreword by the poet Frank Bidart, who also edited Collected Poems of Robert ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-374-53111-9
EAN 9780374531119
Drawing from every stage of his career, Derek Walcott's Selected Poems brings together famous pieces from his early volumes, including "A Far Cry from Africa" and "A City's Death by Fire," with passages from the celebrated Omeros and selections from his latest major works, which extend his contributions to reenergizing the contemporary long poem. Here ...
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Five decades of essays by the revered writer are collected here, with writings on war, human nature, faith, communism, and Polish culture, among other topics.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-0-374-53050-1
EAN 9780374530501
As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know, is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story part shocking reality, part feverish dream ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 78 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-0-374-14092-2
EAN 9780374140922
Seamus Heaney's new collection starts "In an age of bare hands and cast iron" and ends as "The automatic lock / clunks shut" in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 120 páginas
PVP: 8,30 €
ISBN 978-0-374-50001-6
EAN 9780374500016
A New Translation From The French By Marion WieselNight is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 6,95 €
ISBN 978-0-374-43718-3
EAN 9780374437183
As the Henry family sets sail for a new life on Cape Hatteras, fourth-grader Jack is struggling to chart a course between his parents' contradictory advice on making friends and influencing people. Just tell people what they want to hear, Dad advises. Just tell the truth, Mom cautions. Jack finds there are no easy answers ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-374-52996-3
EAN 9780374529963
In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the ...
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