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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 308 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-324-4
EAN 9781590173244
Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good--a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 80 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-309-1
EAN 9781590173091
Black and Littlejack are bad men. Littlejack has a map that indicates the existence of a treasure on a far and lonely island. He needs a ship to get there. Black has a ship. So they team up and sail off on Black's vessel, the Aeiu. "A weird uncanny name," remarks Littlejack, "like a nightbird ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 139 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-59017-302-2
EAN 9781590173022
After many years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan, eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of childhood - the enigmatic ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-59017-281-0
EAN 9781590172810
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 303 páginas
PVP: 18,30 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-283-4
EAN 9781590172834
" The Liberal Imagination" is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling's essays examine the promise ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 346 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-288-9
EAN 9781590172889
Patrick McGraths revelatory new selection of du Mauriers stories shows her at her most chilling and most psychologically astute: a dead child reappears in the alleyways of Venice; routine eye surgery reveals the beast within to a meek housewife; nature revolts against mans abuse by turning a benign species into an annihilating force; a dalliance ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-59017-253-7
EAN 9781590172537
Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. "Euripides," the classicist Bernard Knox has written, was born never to live in peace with himself and to prevent the rest of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 184 páginas
PVP: 17,06 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-101-1
EAN 9781590171011
The Magic Pudding is a pie, except when it's something else, like a steak, or a jam donut, or an apple dumpling, or whatever its owner wants it to be. And it never runs out. No matter how many slices you cut, there's always something left over. It's magic.But the Magic Pudding is also alive. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,20 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-262-9
EAN 9781590172629
Christine toils in a provincial post office in post World War I Austria, a country gripped by unemployment. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from Christine's rich American aunt inviting her to a resort in the Swiss Alps. Christine is immediately swept up into a world of inconceivable wealth and unleashed desire. She feels ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 182 páginas
PVP: 14,20 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-243-8
EAN 9781590172438
1930-something: a professional hunter is passing through an unnamed Central European country that is in the thrall of a vicious dictator. The hunter wonders whether he can penetrate undetected into the dictator's private compound. He does. He has the potential target in his sites and is wondering whether to pull the trigger when security catches ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 16,16 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-251-3
EAN 9781590172513
Strange things begin to happen the minute young Kay Harker boards the train to go home for Christmas and finds himself under observation by two very shifty-looking characters. Arriving at his destination, the boy is immediately accosted by a bright-eyed old man with a mysterious message: 'The wolves are running.' Soon danger is everywhere, as ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 14,20 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-234-6
EAN 9781590172346
In The Two Cars the celebrated husband and wife team of Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, famous for their illustrated versions of Norse and Greek myths, offer young children a playful modern twist on the ancient fable of the tortoise and the hare.Two cars sit side by side in the same garage. One is fast, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 22,36 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-227-8
EAN 9781590172278
Everyone knows what modern architecture looks like, but few understand how this revolutionary new form of building emerged little more than a century ago or what its aesthetic, social, even spiritual aspirations were. Through his illuminating studies of the leading men and women who forever changed our built environment, veteran architecture critic Martin Filler offers ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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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 dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,06 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-212-4
EAN 9781590172124
The Peterkin Papers record the antics of the most memorably and hopelessly bumbling of respectable American families. Confronted by the endless challenges of daily life, the Peterkins rise to every occasion with misguided aplomb: they sit out in the sun for hours and fail to go for a ride because theyve forgotten to unhitch the ...
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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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