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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, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 15,45 €
ISBN 978-0-679-64036-3
EAN 9780679640363
Beginning with the piece that made Mark Twain famous--"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"--and ending with his fanciful "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper," this treasure trove of an anthology, an abridgment of the 1888 original, collects twenty of Twain's own pieces, in addition to tall tales, fables, and satires by forty-three of Twain's ...
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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 · 304 páginas
PVP: 11,77 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75320-6
EAN 9780375753206
Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the companion of his needs--tender and impressionable, with equal purity of mind and manners. The engagement was announced discreetly, but all of New York society was soon privy to this most perfect ...
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- Modern Library, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 11,06 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75313-8
EAN 9780375753138
Before Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and Richard Ford, there was Sherwood Anderson, who, with Winesburg, Ohio, charted a new direction in American fiction--evoking with lyrical simplicity quiet moments of epiphany in the lives of ordinary men and women. In a bed, elevated so that he can peer out the window, an old writer contemplates the ...
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- Modern Library, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 752 páginas
PVP: 15,49 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75321-3
EAN 9780375753213
Long before she was seduced by the cautious and ordinary man whose life she would unravel with no malice and only intermittent interest, the young Carrie Meeber was seduced by the promise of the city--its vitality and reckless possibility, the thrill of material luxury, and the spectacle of power and industry. Banned on publication for ...
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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 · 368 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75215-5
EAN 9780375752155
From the pages of The Paris Review andedited by George Plimpton, the "Writers at Work" interviews, with the great figures of the Beat and Black Mountain movements " Mr. Plimpton and his able cohorts at The Paris Review have cannily chosen this historical moment for the retrieval of this archive, viz., the fortieth anniversary of ...
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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, 1996
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-679-60237-8
EAN 9780679602378
Taking its place next to Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood on the Modern Library bookshelf is this new and original edition of Capote's most famous short stories: "A Christmas Memory, " "One Christmas, " and "A Thanksgiving Memory." All three stories are distinguished by Capote's delicate interplay of childhood sensibility and recollective vision.
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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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