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'Nowhere could she discover the dens of iniquity about which she had dreamed...' Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty-three tales in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant short stories in ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
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PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-26179-8
EAN 9780241261798
'Sally stopped; picked a flower; kissed her on the lips.' On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering ...
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'Manuscripts don't burn'. In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil - to say nothing of his retinue of demons, from a loudmouthed, gun-toting tomcat, to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev - is very much alive. As death and destruction spread through the city like wildfire, condemning Moscow's cultural elite to prison cells and ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
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PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-26197-2
EAN 9780241261972
Aristocracy, liberalism, progress, principles...useless words! A Russian doesn't need them' Returning home after years away at university, Arkady is proud to introduce his clever friend Bazarov to his father and uncle. But their guest soon stirs up unrest on the quiet country estate - his outspoken nihilist views and his scathing criticisms of the older ...
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'What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise...' Mad, macabre tales of demonic spirits, hideous rites, ancient curses and alien entities lurking beneath the surface of rural New England, from the man who created the modern horror story. This is a new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
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PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-26065-4
EAN 9780241260654
'I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.' This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication.It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; ...
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Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and "Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems" is a collection of his finest work published in "Penguin Modern Classics", including "Howl", whose vindication at an obscenity trial was a watershed moment in twentieth-century history. 'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
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PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97459-9
EAN 9780241974599
This is a richly inventive new collection of stories from Ali Smith, author of How to be both, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize and the Costa Novel Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives - our own personal ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97501-5
EAN 9780241975015
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95122-4
EAN 9780241951224
ECONOMIST, FINANCIAL TIMES and EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015. Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award From the renowned and entertaining behavioural economist and co-author of the seminal work Nudge, Misbehaving is an irreverent and enlightening look into human foibles. Traditional economics assumes that rational forces shape ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-0-241-20033-9
EAN 9780241200339
Night after night, chefs and their crews are able to multi task and produce in a way that puts deskbound workers to shame. In Work Clean, Dan Charnas uncovers their secret: mise-en-place - the organizational system that transforms the lives of its practitioners through focus and self-discipline. Through interviews with top chefs working in professional ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
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PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-23862-2
EAN 9780241238622
This is a 50th anniversary edition of the classic crime novel that inspired the Oscar-winning film starring Sidney Poitier. 'They call me Mr Tibbs!' A small southern town in the 1960s. A musician found dead on the highway.It's no surprise when white detectives arrest a black man for the murder. What is a surprise is ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
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PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-27884-0
EAN 9780241278840
Today, hundreds of thousands of people, desperate to escape war, violence and poverty, are crossing the Mediterranean to seek refuge in Europe. Our response from our protected European standpoint, argues Slavoj Zizek, offers two versions of ideological blackmail: either we open our doors as widely as possible; or we try to pull up the drawbridge. ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
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PVP: 26,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-14547-0
EAN 9780241145470
Twenty years after his best-selling debut Essays in Love, internationally acclaimed author Alain de Botton returns to fiction with a brilliant new novel about modern relationships. What does it mean to live happily ever after? At dinner parties and over coffee, Rabih and Kirsten's friends always ask them the same question: how did you meet? ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97145-1
EAN 9780241971451
"A reading experience that hums with an electric energy that never gets boring and feels shockingly, painfully real." (The Times). 'There's different ways to do it: I can slowly move closer step by step, or I can do it in one movement and bump into them. Easiest is in a pub then I can put ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97169-7
EAN 9780241971697
Part mystery, part psychological drama, Julia Rochester's The House at the Edge of the World is a darkly comic, unorthodox and thrilling debut. When I was eighteen, my father fell off a cliff. It was a stupid way to die.John Venton's drunken fall from a Devon cliff leaves his family with an embarrassing ghost. His ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
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ISBN 978-0-241-96705-8
EAN 9780241967058
'A sparkling tale of seduction and suspense' - Tatler 'Her prose buzzes with pitch-perfect modernity' Observer Outsiders see things others don't. Blessed with status, love, wealth and connections the Tennisons seemed the most enviable of families - until Antonella and Matteo Fullardi, dangerously attractive Italian siblings and offspring of an Italian fashion dynasty, enter their ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
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PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198122-2
EAN 9780141981222
Why has inequality increased in the Western world - and what can we do about it? In The Great Divide, Joseph E. Stiglitz expands on the diagnosis he offered in his best-selling book The Price of Inequality and suggests ways to counter this growing problem. With his characteristic blend of clarity and passion, Stiglitz argues ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197802-4
EAN 9780141978024
In Why Information Grows, rising star Cesar Hidalgo offers a radical interpretation of global economics What is economic growth? And why, historically, has it occurred in only a few places? Previous efforts to answer these questions have focused on institutions, geography, finances, and psychology. But MIT professor Cesar Hidalgo argues that in order to fully ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-135660-0
EAN 9780141356600
The first book in a new series about an orphan boy who discovers he is part of a secret army that protects the world from a race of shadowy monsters. Grey placed his finger in the middle of the shadow. 'What's this?' he asked.Denizen frowned. 'It's a shadow.' 'No, it isn't,' Grey said. 'It's a ...
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