Editorial Hesperus
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- Hesperus, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84391-450-1
EAN 9781843914501
A profound and moving piece of investigative journalism, The People of the Abyss, Jack London's study of East London's underworld remains, a century after it was written, a timely tale of poverty and injustice. Best known for his fiction such as White Fang and The Call of the Wild, Jack London was also a passionate ...
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- Hesperus, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 10,39 €
ISBN 978-1-84391-436-5
EAN 9781843914365
A collection of eight powerful stories by Forster that were never published during his lifetime, due to their homosexual content.Hilda and Ernest are a typical married couple, squabbling their way through a day trip. When they meet a pair of sailors they are both disturbed and unsettled, but their initial wariness gives way in an ...
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- Hesperus, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 11,99 €
ISBN 978-1-84391-405-1
EAN 9781843914051
Told with all the humour and keen observation of Huxley's literary craft, this satirical novella by the author of "Brave New World" explores the dual notions of obsession and control.As an acclaimed novelist, Miles Fanning is well used to the unwanted attentions of his fans as he goes about his daily business. Yet little prepares ...
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- Hesperus, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 11,99 €
ISBN 978-1-84391-606-2
EAN 9781843916062
In a popular series of articles initially published in the "Daily News" in 1909, the distinguished journalist and creator of Father Brown sought to celebrate the everyday objects and activities which are frequently taken for granted and yet which enrich life inestimably. "On Tremendous Trifles" is an uplifting tour of the preoccupations of one of ...
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- Hesperus, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 11,99 €
ISBN 978-1-84391-611-6
EAN 9781843916116
As a cofounder of the Fabian society, an equal rights campaigner and an ardent socialist, Shaw was never known to shy away from controversy, and was accused of treason for the 1914 publication "Common Sense About the War", in which he affronted patriots and the government alike. His vehemently anti-war stance is almost prophetic in ...
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- Hesperus, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 11,99 €
ISBN 978-1-84391-607-9
EAN 9781843916079
The eminent wit and perennially popular author of "Three Men in a Boat" and "The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" here muses on subjects as vital to successful living as 'The Inadvisability of Following Advice' and 'The Disadvantage of Not Getting What One Wants'. With his characteristically charming anecdotal style, Jerome enlivens topics common ...
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- Hesperus, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,35 €
ISBN 978-1-84391-442-6
EAN 9781843914426
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- Hesperus, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 10,49 €
ISBN 978-1-84391-605-5
EAN 9781843916055
'For it is vain and foolish to talk of knowing Greek, since in our ignorance we should be at the bottom of any class of schoolboys, since we do not know how the words sounded, or where precisely we ought to laugh, or how the actors acted, and between this foreign people and ourselves there ...
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- Hesperus, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 10,49 €
ISBN 978-1-84391-600-0
EAN 9781843916000
Dean of St Paul's, John Donne was feted in his day not just as a poet but also as an inspired and inspiring preacher, and these four extended meditations on death are amongst his most powerful and dramatic writings. The magnificent 'Death's Duel' is published here alongside his Lent sermons for the two previous years ...
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- Hesperus, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84391-166-1
EAN 9781843911661
A poignant tale of betrayal, heartbreak, revenge and ultimately redemption, 'The Pilgrims' is an exquisite work of Gothic storytelling. It is accompanied here by four other of Shelley's short stories: 'The Dream', 'The False Rhyme', 'The Invisible Girl' and 'The Mourner'.A knight living alone in his isolated mountain fortress shows hospitality to two pilgrims who ...
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- Hesperus, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84391-174-6
EAN 9781843911746
An endearing collection of early stories, written between 1885 and 1886, by celebrated dramatist and short-story writer Anton Chekhov.A civil servant stands accused of not understand the rules of punctuation. He begins to go through the correct use of commas and semicolons before arriving at the exclamation mark, which, he realises, in forty years of ...
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- Hesperus, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84391-175-3
EAN 9781843911753
Jack London's dystopian vision of the future was first published in 1912, a century before the Scarlet Plague he envisioned destroying the human population. The deadly virus, which kills in a matter of minutes in some instances, remains a terrifying prophecy of the perils of globalisation, which are all too pertinent today.An old man walks ...
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- Hesperus, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 136 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84391-444-0
EAN 9781843914440
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With an ending that is both ironic and deeply ambiguous, Henry James's exquisite novella 'The Lesson of the Master' is an extended meditation on marriage, sacrifice and artistic integrity.On the brink of a promising career, ambitious young author Paul Overt is thrilled when he is introduced to the celebrated novelist Henry St George, and even ...
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Edited and introduced by leading Woolf scholar S.P. Rosenbaum, The Platform of Time is a new collection of largely unknown biographical sketches from one of Britain's foremost Modernist writers, including a previously unpublished piece.Taking family, friends and servants as her subjects, Virginia Woolf here presents a series of impressions of the people around her. And ...
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- Hesperus, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 300 páginas
PVP: 11,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84391-124-1
EAN 9781843911241
Mrs Lirriper is an involving story of people thrown together by chance, that moves from the squalors of Victorian London to the sunnier climes of southern France. Recently widowed, Mrs Lirriper devotes her energies to attending to the needs of her assorted lodgers. But when a new-born child is abandoned to her care, her responsibilities ...
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