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- Modern Library, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-7222-1
EAN 9780812972221
G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown may seem a pleasantly doddering Roman Catholic priest, but appearances deceive. With keen observation and an unerring sense of man's frailties gained during his years listening to confessions Father Brown succeeds in bringing even the most elusive criminals to justice. This definitive collection of fifteen stories, selected by the American ...
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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 · 704 páginas
PVP: 14,20 €
ISBN 978-0-375-76119-5
EAN 9780375761195
Rich in playful double entendres, digressions, formal oddities, and typographical experiments, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman provoked a literary sensation when it first appeared in England in a series of volumes from 1759 to 1767. An ingeniously structured novel (about writing a novel) that fascinates like a verbal game of chess, Tristram ...
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- Modern Library, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 9,95 €
ISBN 978-0-375-76099-0
EAN 9780375760990
This new edition combines Tolstoy's most famous short tale, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, with a less well known but equally brilliant gem, Master and Man, both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In Ivan Ilyich, a bureaucrat looks back over his life, which suddenly seems ...
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- Modern Library, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 10,95 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-6714-2
EAN 9780812967142
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- Modern Library, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 10,20 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-7207-8
EAN 9780812972078
The Red and the Black, Stendhal's masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleonic ideals, whose desire to make his fortune sets in motion events both mesmerizing and tragic. Sorel's quest to find himself, and the doomed love he encounters along the way, are delineated with an ...
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- Modern Library, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 16,16 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75989-5
EAN 9780375759895
Basic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because life has no inherent meaning that humans can discover, we must determine meaning for ourselves. This anthology brings together into one volume the most influential and commonly taught works of ...
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- Modern Library, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 244 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75657-3
EAN 9780375756573
During World War Two, 131 German cities and towns were targeted by Allied bombs, a good number almost entirely flattened. Six hundred thousand German civilians died a figure twice that of all American war casualties. Seven and a half million Germans were left homeless. Given the astonishing scope of the devastation, W. G. Sebald asks, ...
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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 · 141 páginas
PVP: 10,76 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-7119-4
EAN 9780812971194
Set sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Gogol's epic tale recounts both a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles (led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology) and the trials of Taras Bulba's two sons.As Robert Kaplan writes in his Introduction, Taras Bulba has a Kiplingesque gusto . . . that makes ...
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- Modern Library, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 8,15 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-6996-2
EAN 9780812969962
This brilliant satire of the women's rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward into a celebrated activist and lifetime companion? Or will ...
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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 · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-7003-6
EAN 9780812970036
In A Tramp Abroad, Mark Twain's unofficial sequel to The Innocents Abroad, the author records his hilarious and diverse observations and insights while on a fifteen-month walking trip through Central Europe and the Alps.
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- Modern Library, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-6997-9
EAN 9780812969979
The Lost Girl, D. H. Lawrence's forgotten novel, is a passionate tale of longing and sexual defiance, of devastation and destitution.Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a widowed Midlands draper, comes of age just as her father's business is failing. In a desperate attempt to regain his fortune and secure his daughter's proper upbringing, James Houghton ...
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- Modern Library, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 9,45 €
ISBN 978-0-375-76011-2
EAN 9780375760112
Includes the complete texts of Common Sense; Rights of Man, Part the Second; The Age of Reason (part one); Four Letters on Interesting Subjects, published anonymously and just discovered to be Paine's work; and Letter to the Abbé Raynal, Paine's first examination of world events; as well as selections from The American CrisesIn 1776, America ...
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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 · 432 páginas
PVP: 14,80 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75908-6
EAN 9780375759086
Set in the islands of the Malay Archipelago, Victory tells the story of a disillusioned Swede, Axel Heyst, who rescues Lena, a young English musician, from the clutches of a brutish German hotel owner. Seeking refuge at Heyst's remote island retreat on Samburan, the couple is soon besieged by three villains dispatched by the enraged ...
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- Modern Library, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 13,30 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-6834-7
EAN 9780812968347
Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard existence of violence and ...
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