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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-1-61219-324-3
EAN 9781612193243
The bestselling story by a legendary female writer-a tale of love, slavery, and rebellion.When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko's noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-61219-279-6
EAN 9781612192796
One of the most significant novels in Latin American literature, written by Cuba's most important modern novelist--to win a bet with Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In the early 1970s, friends Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Augusto Roa Bastos and Alejo Carpentier reached a joint decision: they would each write a novel about the dictatorships then wreaking misery in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 64 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-1-61219-226-0
EAN 9781612192260
The swashbuckling story that inspired one of the world's most beloved operas The novella that was the basis for one of the most popular operas of all time, Prosper Merimee's "Carmen" is swashbuckling story of a nineteenth-century Spanish soldier who deserts his post to pursue the fiery gypsy beauty, Carmen -- who seems to love ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-1-61219-224-6
EAN 9781612192246
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,40 €
ISBN 978-1-61219-261-1
EAN 9781612192611
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-1-61219-222-2
EAN 9781612192222
The only novella by this literary giant: A thrilling sea adventure that turns increasingly bizarre Entranced by the sea and eager for adventure, sixteen-year-old Arthur Gordon Pym stows away on the Grampus, a whaling ship captained by the father of his best friend, Augustus Barnard. But a mutiny upsets the boys' plans, and when Arthur ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-61219-150-8
EAN 9781612191508
A witty yet gripping pastiche of murder mysteries set in an Argentine seaside resort, peppered with literary allusions
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-61219-166-9
EAN 9781612191669
Part expose, part instruction manual, The Right Way to Do Wrong features history's most famous illusionist revealing the methods of deception involved in everything from burglary, to pickpocketing, to swindles, forgery and tricks.Along the way, he also debunks the secrets of his own and other conjurers' tricks, including rope escape methods such as the Russian ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-61219-156-0
EAN 9781612191560
It's unclear why even many Henry James fans aren't familiar with this wicked early work, as it's James at his scathing best-- piercing, elegant, and ahead of his time.The story of an American hack journalist in Europe, The Reverberator is an early example of James' fascination with Americans confronting Europe's version of civilized society. Yet ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 529 páginas
PVP: 26,25 €
ISBN 978-1-61219-162-1
EAN 9781612191621
Based on actual events, this novel tells the story of a journalist who learns that the police have captured five hitmen on their way to kill him. Part thriller and part erotic romance, "The Story of My Assassins" is a piercing literary novel that takes us from the lavish, hedonistic palaces of India's elite to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 64 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-1-61219-111-9
EAN 9781612191119
From the master of Victorian tragedy, the surprisingly comic adventures of a man caught between romance and religion. When young Mr. Stockdale arrives in a small village to fill in for the Methodist minister, he finds himself pining for his comely new landlady. But she leads a mysterious life, keeping odd hours and speaking in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 105 páginas
PVP: 9,10 €
ISBN 978-1-933633-04-6
EAN 9781933633046
"The Dialogue of the Dogs" features, in a condensed, powerful version, all the traits the author of "Don Quixote" is famous for: It's a picaresque rich in bawdy humor, social satire, and fantasy, and it uses story tactics that were innovative at the time, such as the philandering husband who, given syphilis by his wife, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 161 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-935554-50-9
EAN 9781935554509
"Hate you!" Laevsky said quietly, breathing heavily. "I've hated you a long time!"" This new translation of the literary masterpiece-- which combines a beautiful romance with high suspense-- is here presented for the first time as a stand-alone volume. One of Chekhov's most important lengthy works, this remarkable story gives a startling twist to his ...
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With death looming, Jacques Derrida, the world's most famous philosopher, known as the father of "deconstruction," sat down with journalist Jean Birnbaum of the French daily "Le Monde." They revisited his life's work and his impending death in a long, surprisingly accessible, and moving final interview. Sometimes called "obscure" and branded "abstruse" by his critics, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 116 páginas
ISBN 978-0-9761407-1-9
EAN 9780976140719
"White men die very suddenly in Falesa." Originally censored by its British publisher, "The Beach at Falesa" is a scathing critique of colonialism and economic imperialism that bravely takes on many of the 19th Century' s strongest taboos: miscegenation, imperialism, and economic exploitation. It does so with a story that features a surprising and beguiling ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 210 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-9761407-3-3
EAN 9780976140733
The most monstrous monster is the monster with noble feelings. This remarkably edgy and suspenseful tale shows that, despite being better known for his voluminous and sprawling novels, Fyodor Dostoevsky was a master of the more tightly-focused form of the novella. "The Eternal Husband" may, in fact, constitute his most classically-shaped composition, with his most ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
PVP: 10,35 €
ISBN 978-0-9746078-0-1
EAN 9780974607801
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world--even those daunted by "Moby-Dick"--"Bartleby the Scrivener "is simply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever. Set in the mid-19th century on New York City's Wall Street, it was also, perhaps, Herman Melville's most prescient story: what if a young ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 122 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-0-9746078-4-9
EAN 9780974607849
"You know as well as you sit there that you'd put a pistol-ball into your brain if you had written my books!" Exemplifying Henry James's famous belief that "Art makes life," "The Lesson of the Master" is a piercing study of the life that art makes. When the tale's protagonist--a gifted young writer--meets and befriends ...
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