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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-231-5
EAN 9781590172315
This is a classic memoir by one of the most famous landscape gardeners of the 20th century which describes the author's training and the development of his many celebrated gardens. Russell Page was born in 1906 and studied art at the Slade School in London before a love of plants drew him to garden design. ...
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Spain has produced two books that changed world literature: Don Quixote and Lazarillo de Tormes, the first picaresque novel ever written and the inspired precursor to works as various as Vanity Fair and Huckleberry Finn. Banned by the Spanish Inquisition after publication in 1554, Lazarillo was soon translated throughout Europe, where it was widely copied. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 28,95 €
ISBN 978-0-940322-89-9
EAN 9780940322899
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 278 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-199-8
EAN 9781590171998
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-169-1
EAN 9781590171691
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-161-5
EAN 9781590171615
Oakley Hall's legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality. First published in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era, Warlock is not only one of the most original and entertaining of modern American novels but a lasting ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 321 páginas
PVP: 19,90 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-165-3
EAN 9781590171653
At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey--to walk to Constantinople." A Time of Gifts" is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which "Between the Woods and the Water" continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 346 páginas
ISBN 978-1-59017-142-4
EAN 9781590171424
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 255 páginas
PVP: 15,26 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-103-5
EAN 9781590171035
"She saw: first, a square opening, about eight inches wide, in the lowest step...finally she saw that there was a walnut shell, or half one, outside the nearest door...she went to look at the shell but looked with the greatest astonishment. There was a baby in it."So ten-year-old Maria, orphaned mistress of Malplaquet, discovers the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-070-0
EAN 9781590170700
Norman Moonbloom is a loser, a drop-out who can't even make it as a deadbeat. His brother, a slumlord, hires him to collect rent in the buildings he owns in Manhattan. Making his rounds from apartment to apartment, Moonbloom confronts a wildly varied assortment of brilliantly described urban characters, among them a gay jazz musician ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-1-590-17071-7
EAN 9781590170717
European history of the past century is full of examples of philosophers, writers, and jurists who, whether they lived in democratic, communist, or fascist societies, supported and defended totalitarian principles and horrific regimes. But how can intellectuals, who should be alert to the evils of tyranny, betray the ideals of freedom and independent inquiry? How ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 76 páginas
PVP: 14,15 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-042-7
EAN 9781590170427
Based on Nathanial Hawthorne's journal, this funny, insightful book shows the great American writer playing Mr. Mom with his five-year-old son when his wife and daughters take a trip to visit relatives.
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Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 120 páginas
PVP: 10,80 €
ISBN 978-1-590-17057-1
EAN 9781590170571
Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of The Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 440 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-051-9
EAN 9781590170519
John Collier's edgy, sardonic tales are works of rare wit, curious insight, and scary implication. They stand out as one of the pinnacles in the critically neglected but perennially popular tradition of weird writing that includes E.T.A. Hoffmann and Charles Dickens as well as more recent masters like Jorge Luis Borges and Roald Dahl. With ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 370 páginas
PVP: 15,26 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-005-2
EAN 9781590170052
Storytelling as a fundamental human impulse, one that announces itself at the moment, hidden in infancy, that dreams begin this is what the poet and critic Randall Jarrell set out to illuminate in this extraordinary book. Here Jarrell presents ballads, parables, anecdotes, and legends along with some of the finest work of Chekhov, Babel, Elizabeth ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1392 páginas
PVP: 29,90 €
ISBN 978-0-940322-66-0
EAN 9780940322660
One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it "the greatest work of prose of the greatest period of English prose-writing," while the celebrated surgeon William ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-0-940322-54-7
EAN 9780940322547
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-0-940322-50-9
EAN 9780940322509
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