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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 · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,15 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-7041-8
EAN 9780812970418
A magnificent account of the revolution in arms and consciousness that gave birth to the American republic. When Abraham Lincoln sought to define the significance of the United States, he naturally looked back to the American Revolution. He knew that the Revolution not only had legally created the United States, but also had produced all ...
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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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- Modern Library, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 880 páginas
PVP: 15,30 €
ISBN 978-0-375-76135-5
EAN 9780375761355
The complexity and range of Robert Louis Stevenson's short fiction reveals his genius perhaps more than any other medium. Here, leading Stevenson scholar Barry Menikoff arranges and introduces the complete selection of Stevenson's brilliant stories, including the famed masterpiece Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as well as The Beach of Falesá and ...
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- Modern Library, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 18,65 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-6621-3
EAN 9780812966213
Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. In this highly acclaimed short history, Mark Mazower sheds light on what has been called the tinderbox of Europe, whose troubles have ignited wider wars for ...
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- Modern Library, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 928 páginas
PVP: 12,80 €
ISBN 978-0-375-76005-1
EAN 9780375760051
Widely regarded as Dickens's masterpiece, Bleak House centers on the generations-long lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce, through which "whole families have inherited legendary hatreds." Focusing on Esther Summerson, a ward of John Jarndyce, the novel traces Esther's romantic coming-of-age and, in classic Dickensian style, the gradual revelation of long-buried secrets, all set against the foggy backdrop ...
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- Modern Library, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,40 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75929-1
EAN 9780375759291
Like the celebrated Klondike Tales, the stories that comprise South Sea Tales derive their intensity from the author's own far-flung adventures, conveying an impassioned, unsparing vision borne only of experience. The powerful tales gathered here vividly evoke the turn-of-the-century colonial Pacific and its capricious tropical landscape, while also trenchantly observing the delicate interplay between imperialism ...
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- Modern Library, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 24,05 €
ISBN 978-0-679-64248-0
EAN 9780679642480
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeFrom the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected Short StoriesOne of William Faulkner's most admired and accessible novels, ...
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- Modern Library, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 6,00 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75906-2
EAN 9780375759062
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Abridged Edition
- Modern Library, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1312 páginas
PVP: 15,30 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75811-9
EAN 9780375758119
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- Modern Library, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 234 páginas
PVP: 10,60 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75934-5
EAN 9780375759345
Also includes Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems (1920), and The Sacred WoodIntroduction by Mary Karr First published in 1922, The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot's masterpiece, is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and ...
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- Modern Library, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 7,75 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75925-3
EAN 9780375759253
In the fall of 1920, Sinclair Lewis began a novel set in a fast-growing city with the heart and mind of a small town. For the center of his cutting satire of American business he created the bustling, shallow, and myopic George F. Babbitt, the epitome of middle-class mediocrity. The novel cemented Lewiss prominence as ...
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- Modern Library, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1096 páginas
PVP: 27,80 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75515-6
EAN 9780375755156
A masterpiece of the historian's art, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century. Revised and updated with significant new material, including new revelations about atrocities perpetrated against civilians by both sides in this epic conflict, this "definitive ...
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- Modern Library, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 11,80 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75807-2
EAN 9780375758072
Highly acclaimed at its publication in 1913, The Custom of the Country is a cutting commentary on America's nouveaux riches, their upward-yearning aspirations and their eventual downfalls. Through her heroine, the beautiful and ruthless Undine Spragg, a spoiled heiress who looks to her next materialistic triumph as her latest conquest throws himself at her feet, ...
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- Modern Library, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 254 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75846-1
EAN 9780375758461
Francis Bacon, lawyer, statesman, and philosopher, remains one of the most effectual thinkers in European intellectual history. We can trace his influence from Kant in the 1700s to Darwin a century later. The Advancement of Learning, first published in 1605, contains an unprecedented and thorough systematization of the whole range of human knowledge. Bacon's argument ...
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