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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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- Modern Library, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 22,95 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75649-8
EAN 9780375756498
William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn't until a couple of years later, when E. B. White and James Thurber arrived, that the Talk of the Town story became what it is today: a precise piece ...
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- Modern Library, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1168 páginas
PVP: 10,20 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75699-3
EAN 9780375756993
Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they wend their way across sixteenth-century Spain. Milan Kundera calls Cervantes the founder of the Modern Era and Lionel Trilling observes that it can ...
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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 · 288 páginas
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75689-4
EAN 9780375756894
This harrowing tale of a young girl in the slums is a searing portrayal of turn-of-the-century New York, and Stephen Crane's most innovative work. Published in 1893, when the author was just twenty-one, it broke new ground with its vivid characters, its brutal naturalism, and its empathic rendering of the lives of the poor. It ...
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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 blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 9,15 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75701-3
EAN 9780375757013
Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations between his terrifying experience in a graveyard with a convict named Magwitch and his humiliating visits with the eccentric Miss Havisham's beautiful but manipulative niece, Estella, who torments him until he is elevated to wealth ...
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- Modern Library, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75688-7
EAN 9780375756887
This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights, an archetypal nineteenth-century morality tale ...
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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, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 9,10 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75693-1
EAN 9780375756931
Progressive for her time, Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of the earliest writers to offer a shockingly realistic depiction of slavery. Her stirring indictment and portrait of human dignity in the most inhumane circumstances enlightened hundreds of thousands by revealing the human costs of slavery, which had until then been cloaked and justified by the ...
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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 · 448 páginas
PVP: 7,95 €
ISBN 978-0-679-78333-6
EAN 9780679783336
The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies ...
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- Modern Library, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 896 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-679-78341-1
EAN 9780679783411
Hugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains. Praising Dickens's power of invention, Somerset Maugham wrote: "There were never such ...
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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 · 304 páginas
PVP: 7,55 €
ISBN 978-0-679-78338-1
EAN 9780679783381
A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self, internal passion and external convention, gives us the unforgettable Hester Prynne, who discovers strength in the face of ...
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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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