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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 848 páginas
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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as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a "letter to the world"--the 1,775 poems left unpublished at her death in 1886.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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 896 páginas
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1184 páginas
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 896 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-679-78339-8
EAN 9780679783398
One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche's most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; The Case of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 880 páginas
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-375-75534-7
EAN 9780375755347
Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both " monumental" (The Boston Globe) and " utterly romantic" (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff's Ve ra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir Nabokov--the e migre author of "Lolita"; " ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 752 páginas
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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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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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