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- Modern Library, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75788-4
EAN 9780375757884
Twice-Told tales, originally published in 1837 and revised and republished by Hawthorne in 1851 (the edition reproduced here), is the most famous collection of Hawthorne's stories. All of Hawthorne's great gifts - and the features that make him not only one of the greatest but one of the most contemporary American authors, are on full ...
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- Modern Library, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75800-3
EAN 9780375758003
Inspired by the long-standing affair between Frieda, Lawrence's German wife, and an Italian peasant who eventually became her third husband, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the story of Constance Chatterley, who, while trapped in an unhappy marriage to an aristocratic mine owner whose war wounds have left him paralyzed and impotent, has an affair with Mellors, ...
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- Modern Library, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 4,75 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75737-2
EAN 9780375757372
'All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,' Ernest Hemingway wrote. 'It's the best book we've had.' A complex masterpiece that has spawned volumes of scholarly exegesis and interpretative theories, it is at heart a compelling adventure story. Huck, in flight from his murderous father, and Nigger Jim, in ...
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- Modern Library, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 11,65 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75721-1
EAN 9780375757211
With his beloved Gothic tales, Washington Irving is said to have created the genre of the short story in America. Though Irving crafted many of the most memorable characters in fiction, from Rip Van Winkle to Ichabod Crane, his gifts were not confined to the short story alone. He was also a master of satire, ...
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- Modern Library, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75725-9
EAN 9780375757259
A finely honed, stirring adventure about the orphan David Balfour, who is kidnapped by his villainous uncle and escapes through the Scottish highlands, only to become involved in the Scottish struggle for independence.
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- Modern Library, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75745-7
EAN 9780375757457
Melville's first and most popular novel during his lifetime, Typee is a provocative and lively account of his exploits in the exotic South Seas during the early 1840s, where he journeyed as a young sailor. This edition includes notes on the text.
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- Modern Library, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 7,85 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75740-2
EAN 9780375757402
This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition brings together one of literature's most famous ghost stories and one of Henry James's most unusual novellas. In The Turn of the Screw, a governess is haunted by ghosts from her young charges past; Virginia Woolf said of this masterpiece of psychological ambiguity and suggestion, We are afraid of ...
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The Arabian Nights
Tales from One Thousand and One Nights
- Modern Library, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 912 páginas
PVP: 17,80 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75675-7
EAN 9780375756757
Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one ...
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- Modern Library, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 10,20 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75682-5
EAN 9780375756825
Robert Louis Stevenson's cherished, unforgettable adventure magically captures the thrill of a sea voyage and a treasure hunt through the eyes of its teenage protagonist, Jim Hawkins. Crossing the Atlantic in search of the buried cache, Jim and the ship's crew must brave the elements and a mutinous charge led by the quintessentially ruthless pirate ...
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- Modern Library, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75669-6
EAN 9780375756696
'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death, ' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic "Hyperion." Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a tragic early death. ...
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- Modern Library, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 25,75 €
ISBN 978-0-679-64104-9
EAN 9780679641049
"The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and Faulkner," writes esteemed literary scholar Harold Bloom in his Introduction to the Modern Library edition. "I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given ...
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- Modern Library, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 848 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-679-78334-3
EAN 9780679783343
With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! , for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature.The selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their entirety are Walden, his indisputable masterpiece, and his two great arguments ...
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Emily Dickinson lived as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a "letter to the world"--the 1,775 poems left unpublished at her death in 1886. Today, Dickinson stands in the front rank of American poets. This enthralling collection includes more than four hundred poems that were published between Dickinson's death and 1900. They ...
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- Modern Library, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1184 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-679-78336-7
EAN 9780679783367
Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. Written in clear and incisive prose, The Wealth of Nations articulates the concepts indispensable to an understanding of contemporary society.
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- Modern Library, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 9,45 €
ISBN 978-0-679-78326-8
EAN 9780679783268
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet ...
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- Modern Library, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 880 páginas
PVP: 23,00 €
ISBN 978-0-679-78322-0
EAN 9780679783220
As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized "the splendid labyrinth of one's own perceptions." More than any writer of his time, he forged a style distinct from his European predecessors and embodied and defined what it meant to be an ...
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- Modern Library, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 11,10 €
ISBN 978-0-679-78321-3
EAN 9780679783213
Written from Wilde's prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, De Profundis explodes the conventions of the traditional love letter and offers a scathing indictment of Douglas's behavior, a mournful elegy for Wilde's own lost greatness, and an impassioned plea for reconciliation. At once a bracingly honest account of ...
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- Modern Library, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75375-6
EAN 9780375753756
A black comedy of manners about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others. The beautiful Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City-people whose millions were made in railroads, shipping, land speculation, and banking. In this morally and aesthetically bankrupt world, Lily, age twenty-nine, ...
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- Modern Library, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 12,80 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75377-0
EAN 9780375753770
With an Introduction by Caryl PhillipsCommentary by H.L. Mencken, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chiua Achebe, and Philip Gourevitch"Heart of Darkness," which appeared at the very beginning of our century, was a Cassandra cry announcing the end of Victorian Europe, on the verge of transforming itself into the Europe of ...
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- Modern Library, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-679-64011-0
EAN 9780679640110
The Varieties of Religious Experience was an immediate bestseller upon its publication in June 1902. Reflecting the pluralistic views of psychologist turned philosopher William James, it posits that individual religious experiences, rather than the tenets of organized religions, form the backbone of religious life. James's discussion of conversion, repentance, mysticism, and hope of reward and ...
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