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- Modern Library, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-0-593-23125-8
EAN 9780593231258
This edition of Gilman's work includes her best-known story, The Yellow Wall-paper, a terrifying tale about a woman driven to the brink of insanity by the rest cure she is ordered to follow by her doctor to relieve her postpartum depression. Also included is a wide range of other short stories; an abridged version of ...
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- Modern Library, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,20 €
ISBN 978-0-593-23036-7
EAN 9780593230367
The most famous autobiography written by a nineteenth-century African American woman, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a triumph of American literature and the unflinching narrative that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of African-American women I was born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy ...
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- Modern Library, 2019
Encuadernación en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 24,70 €
ISBN 978-0-385-31208-0
EAN 9780385312080
A special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century (Time), featuring a new introduction by Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow BirdsSlaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing ...
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The Dark Interval
Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
- Modern Library, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 23,80 €
ISBN 978-0-525-50984-4
EAN 9780525509844
Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke's voluminous, never-before-translated correspondence, this book collects the poet's best writings on grief and loss in one place for the first time. The result is a profound vision of the mourning process and a meditation on death's place in our lives, as well as a compilation of sensitive and moving expressions ...
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- Modern Library, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-7954-1
EAN 9780812979541
W. G. Sebald's meditation on the six artists and writers who shaped his creative mind and the last of this great writer's major works to be translated into English.A Place in the Country walks the tightrope between critical essay and memoir. In this collection of six interlocking portraits of writers and artists, we see W. ...
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- Modern Library, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1109 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-679-64560-3
EAN 9780679645603
Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, crowned co-tsar at the age of ten. The acclaimed author of "Catherine the Great, " Robert K. Massie delves deep into the life of this captivating historical figure, chronicling the pivotal events that shaped a boy ...
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- Modern Library, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-7996-1
EAN 9780812979961
Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she also warns that history can be misused and lead to misunderstanding. ...
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- Modern Library, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 892 páginas
PVP: 36,00 €
ISBN 978-0-679-64019-6
EAN 9780679640196
2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER Peter Matthiessen's great American epic-Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man's River, and Bone by Bone-was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its length it was originally broken up into three books. In this bold new rendering, Matthiessen has cut nearly a third of the overall text and collapsed ...
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- Modern Library, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,45 €
ISBN 978-0-345-48406-2
EAN 9780345484062
For lovers of dogs and lovers of literature, these never-before-told stories chronicle the extraordinary relationships between five beloved women writers and the dogs who have loved and inspired them. Annotation: For lovers of dogs and lovers of literature, these never-before-told stories chronicle the extraordinary relationships between five beloved women writers and the dogs who have ...
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- Modern Library, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 388 páginas
PVP: 11,10 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75937-6
EAN 9780375759376
Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affectionate evocation of the vital river life in the steamboat era and a melancholy reminiscence of its passing after the Civil War, a priceless ...
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- Modern Library, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 186 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-7441-6
EAN 9780812974416
Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expedition's uncanny discoveries-and their encounter with untold menace in the ...
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- Modern Library, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 214 páginas
PVP: 17,80 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-7433-1
EAN 9780812974331
Shakespeare made his unique contribution to British and world culture in the midst of Elizabeth's great reign. Here, the circumstances of each play's composition are acutely described, and set within a masterful portrait of Shakespeare's England - its early capitalism, its court, its bursting population, and its epidemics, as well as its arts - including, ...
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- Modern Library, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 225 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-7294-8
EAN 9780812972948
In his daily walks through London, notes Jeremy Treglown in his Introduction to this collection, Pritchett watched and listened to people as a naturalist observes wild creatures and birds. He knew that oddity is the norm, not the exception. This finely attuned sense, coupled with an understanding that nothing in life is mundane, is what ...
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- Modern Library, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-7137-8
EAN 9780812971378
This unique volume includes Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, a review of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (in which he suggests that Hemingway has found God), and newly collected gems, such as the acerbic essay On Criticism and the beguiling Note on A Fable. It also contains eloquently opinionated public letters on everything ...
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- Modern Library, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 261 páginas
PVP: 15,70 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-7004-3
EAN 9780812970043
The Star Rover is the story of San Quentin death-row inmate Darrell Standing, who escapes the horror of prison life and long stretches in a straitjacket by withdrawing into vivid dreams of past lives, including incarnations as a French nobleman and an Englishman in medieval Korea. Based on the life and imprisonment of Jack London's ...
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- Modern Library, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 779 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-6727-2
EAN 9780812967272
Charles Dickens's satirical masterpiece, The Pickwick Papers, catapulted the young writer into literary fame when it was first serialized in 1836 37. It recounts the rollicking adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club as they travel about England getting into all sorts of mischief.
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- Modern Library, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-6705-0
EAN 9780812967050
The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American New Barbarians and the European Old World provides much comic fodder for Mark Twain and a remarkably perceptive lens on the human condition. Gleefully skewering the ethos ...
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- Modern Library, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 6,40 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-6645-9
EAN 9780812966459
A gripping and entertaining tale of terror and suspense as well as a potent Faustian allegory of hubris and science run amok, The Invisible Man endures as one of the signature stories in the literature of science fiction. A brilliant scientist uncovers the secret to invisibility, but his grandiose dreams and the power he unleashes ...
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