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'The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.' In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly ...
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'So Ursula became the child of her father's heart.' The Rainbow tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family and their struggles with each other and themselves. Beautiful, strange and with a power all its own, The Rainbow redefined the English novel. This is a new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics ...
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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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-26173-6
EAN 9780241261736
'The train ran on without a driver, on and on, like some mindless, unseeing beast...' One of Zola's darkest and most violent works - a tense thriller of political corruption and a graphic exploration of the criminal mind, as a murder is committed on the new railways of the Second Empire. This is a new ...
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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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-96787-4
EAN 9780241967874
This title was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2015. Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two. Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words.Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102617-6
EAN 9780141026176
In "Climbing Mount Improbable", Richard Dawkins, author of "The God Delusion", builds a powerful and carefully reasoned argument for evolutionary adaptation as the force behind all life on earth. What drives species to evolve? How can intricate structures such as the human eye, the spider's web or the wings of birds develop, seemingly by chance? ...
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Conlon, Catherine; Phelan, Mary
Dear Cathy ... Love, Mary : The Year We Grew Up
Tender, Funny and Revealing Letters from 1980s Ireland
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97522-0
EAN 9780241975220
"Poignant, funny and highly readable." (Sue Leonard, Examiner). "A real snapshot in time...a celebration of female friendship...fantastic - such a good read." (Irish Times Women's Podcast). "Engaging...tender and true and spiced with wit and no little wisdom." (RTE Guide)."Heart-warming...nostalgic...the letters brim over with the kind of humour and honest reflection that only best friends exchange." ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 26,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-25091-4
EAN 9780241250914
In Find Your Extraordinary, Jessica Herrin shows that you don't need to have it all to live an extraordinary life - you need to have what matters most to you. What if you could, with a little effort, live an extraordinary life? A life in which you felt deep passion for everything you did and ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
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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