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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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- Modern Library, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75315-2
EAN 9780375753152
Originally published in 1915, Of Human Bondage is a potent expression of the power of sexual obsession and of modern man's yearning for freedom. This classic bildungsroman tells the story of Philip Carey, a sensitive boy born with a clubfoot who is orphaned and raised by a religious aunt and uncle. Philip yearns for adventure, ...
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- Modern Library, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 992 páginas
PVP: 17,05 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75322-0
EAN 9780375753220
The legends of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table have inspired some of the greatest works of literature--from Cervantes's Don Quixote to Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Although many versions exist, Malory's stands as the classic rendition. Malory wrote the book while in Newgate Prison during the last three years of his ...
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- Modern Library, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 9,40 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75341-1
EAN 9780375753411
"I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion." A summer evening's ghost stories, lonely insomnia in a ...
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- Modern Library, 1998
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75146-2
EAN 9780375751462
Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of scientific imagination, The Origin of Species sold out on the day it was published in 1859. Theologians quickly labeled Charles Darwin the most dangerous man in England, and, as the Saturday Review noted, the uproar over the book quickly "passed beyond the bounds of ...
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- Modern Library, 1998
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75151-6
EAN 9780375751516
Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when it first appeared in 1890. ...
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- Modern Library, 1994
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1088 páginas
PVP: 27,95 €
ISBN 978-0-679-60092-3
EAN 9780679600923
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- Modern Library, 1985
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 6,50 €
ISBN 978-0-345-33392-6
EAN 9780345333926
A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it. There is gravity, and with high walls and its proximity to the sun, a livable new planet that is three million times the area of the Earth can be formed. We can start again!
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