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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1168 páginas
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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-375-75679-5
EAN 9780375756795
Etched against the background of a dying rural society, Tess of the d'Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy's 'bestseller,' and Tess Durbeyfield remains his most striking and tragic heroine. Of all the characters he created, she meant the most to him. Hopelessly torn between two men Alec d'Urberville, a wealthy, dissolute young man who seduces her in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 6,95 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75673-3
EAN 9780375756733
Published in 1811, Sense and Sensibility has delighted generations of readers with its masterfully crafted portrait of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Forced to leave their home after their father's death, Elinor and Marianne must rely on making good marriages as their means of support. But unscrupulous cads, meddlesome matriarchs, and various guileless and ...
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