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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 · 288 páginas
PVP: 8,10 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75251-3
EAN 9780375752513
Generally considered to be London's greatest achievement, The Call of the Wild brought him international acclaim when it was published in 1903. His story of the dog Buck, who learns to survive in the bleak Yukon wilderness, is viewed by many as his symbolic autobiography. "No other popular writer of his time did any better ...
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- Modern Library, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 7,00 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75966-6
EAN 9780375759666
Originally published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1878 and in book form in 1879, Daisy Miller brought Henry James his first widespread commercial and critical success. The young Daisy Miller, an American on holiday with her mother on the shores of Switzerland's Lac Leman, is one of James's most vivid and tragic characters. Daisy's friendship ...
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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 · 272 páginas
PVP: 9,95 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75789-1
EAN 9780375757891
Defoe's account of the bubonic plague that swept London in 1665 remains as vivid as it is harrowing. Based on Defoe's own childhood memories and prodigious research, A Journal of the Plague Year walks the line between fiction, history, and reportage. In meticulous and unsentimental detail it renders the daily life of a city under ...
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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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- 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 · 480 páginas
PVP: 6,95 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75784-6
EAN 9780375757846
Dickens's classic morality tale of a starving orphan caught between opposing forces of good and evil is a powerful indictment of Victorian England's Poor Laws. Filled with dark humor and an unforgettable cast of characters Oliver Twist, Fagin, Nancy, Bill Sykes, and the Artful Dodger, to name a few Dickens's second novel is a compelling ...
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- Modern Library, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 14,36 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75766-2
EAN 9780375757662
Galileo's Dialogue, published in Florence in 1632, was the most proximate cause of his being brought to trial before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, a genre common in classical philosophical works, Galileo masterfully demonstrates the truth of the Copernican system over the Ptolemaic one, proving, for the first time, that the earth revolves around ...
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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 · 1520 páginas
PVP: 21,95 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75799-0
EAN 9780375757990
Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle's works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon's The Basic Works of Aristotle constituted out of the definitive Oxford translation and in print as a Random House hardcover for sixty years has long been considered the best available ...
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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 · 368 páginas
PVP: 7,20 €
ISBN 978-0-679-64217-6
EAN 9780679642176
Dickens's widely read satirical account of the Industrial Revolution. Dickens creates the Victorian industrial city of Coketown, in northern England, and its unforgettable citizens, such as the unwavering utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the factory owner Josiah Bounderby, and the result is his famous critique of capitalist philosophy, the exploitative force he believed was destroying human ...
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- Modern Library, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 9,10 €
ISBN 978-0-679-64223-7
EAN 9780679642237
Hailed by Victor Hugo as 'the real epic of our age, ' "Ivanhoe was an immensely popular bestseller when first published in 1819. The book inspired literary imitations as well as paintings, dramatizations, and even operas. Now Sir Walter Scott's sweeping romance of medieval England has prompted a lavish new television production. In the twelfth ...
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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 · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,60 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75753-2
EAN 9780375757532
Hailed as a classic upon its first publication in 1934, The Valleys of the Assassins firmly established Freya Stark as one of her generation's most intrepid explorers. The book chronicles her travels into Luristan, the mountainous terrain nestled between Iraq and present-day Iran, often with only a single guide and on a shoestring budget. Stark ...
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