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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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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 Heysts remote island retreat on Samburan, the couple is soon besieged by three villains dispatched by the enraged ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-679-64242-8
EAN 9780679642428
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin's honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-8129-6719-7
EAN 9780812967197
Set amid the splendor of London drawing rooms and gilded Venetian palazzos, The Wings of the Dove is the story of Milly Theale, a naïve, doomed American heiress, and a pair of lovers, Kate Croy and Merton Densher, who conspire to obtain her fortune. In this witty tragedy of treachery, self-deception, and betrayal, Henry James ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75558-3
EAN 9780375755583
Make your characters want something right away even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. Kurt Vonnegut The cat sat on the mat' is not the beginning of a story, but the cat sat on the dog's mat' ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 9,50 €
ISBN 978-0-375-76138-6
EAN 9780375761386
Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to entertain ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass have delighted generations of readers in more than eighty languages. The clue to the enduring fascination and greatness of the Alice books, writes A. S. Byatt in her Introduction, ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-8129-6622-0
EAN 9780812966220
Featuring the brilliantly drawn Roxanna, a mulatto slave who suffers dire consequences after switching her infant son with her master's baby, and the clever Pudd'nhead Wilson, an ostracized small-town lawyer, Twain's darkly comic masterpiece is a provocative exploration of slavery and miscegenation. Leslie A. Fiedler described the novel as half melodramatic detective story, half bleak ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 7,20 €
ISBN 978-0-375-76122-5
EAN 9780375761225
Washington Square follows the coming-of-age of its plain-faced, kindhearted heroine, Catherine Sloper. Much to her father's vexation, a handsome opportunist named Morris Townsend woos the long-suffering heiress, intent on claiming her fortune. When Catherine stubbornly refuses to call off her engagement, Dr. Sloper forces Catherine to choose between her inheritance and the only man she ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-375-76014-3
EAN 9780375760143
Joseph Conrad's first novel, is a tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism. Set in the lush jungle of Borneo in the late 1800s, it tells of the Dutch merchant Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,20 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75656-6
EAN 9780375756566
Austerlitz, the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by one of the most gripping writers imaginable (The New York Review of Books), is the story of a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, one Jacques Austerlitz is told ...
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Drawn from Melville's own adolescent experience aboard a merchant ship, Redburn charts the coming-of-age of Wellingborough Redburn, a young innocent who embarks on a crossing to Liverpool together with a roguish crew. Once in Liverpool, Redburn encounters the squalid conditions of the city and meets Harry Bolton, a bereft and damaged soul, who takes him ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 10,95 €
ISBN 978-0-375-76087-7
EAN 9780375760877
Set during the French and Indian Wars, The Deerslayer vividly captures the essence of both the murderous humanity and the natural beauty that distinguished America's founding. The last of Cooper's famous Leatherstocking Tales, it is first chronologically in the frontier adventures of the backwoods scout Natty Bumppo. Amid a terrain largely inspired by Cooper's own ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-0-375-76096-9
EAN 9780375760969
Written in 1896, The Island of Dr. Moreau is one of the earliest scientific romances. An instant sensation, it was meant as a commentary on Darwin's theory of evolution, which H. G. Wells stoutly believed. The story centers on the depraved Dr. Moreau, who conducts unspeakable animal experiments on a remote tropical island, with hideous, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 9,95 €
ISBN 978-0-375-76007-5
EAN 9780375760075
After reading an 1836 newspaper account of a shipwreck and its two survivors, Edgar Allan Poe penned his only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, the story of a stowaway on a Nantucket whaleship who finds himself enmeshed in the dark side of life at sea: mutiny, cannibalism, savagery even death. As ...
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