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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1024 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143996-9
EAN 9780141439969
You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want of air?'When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William ...
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Orientalism
Western Conceptions of the Orient
- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118742-6
EAN 9780141187426
For generations now, Edward W. Said's Orientalism has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition contains a preface written by Said shortly before his death in 2003. In this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118748-8
EAN 9780141187488
Sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 4,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143949-5
EAN 9780141439495
Edited with an introduction by Robert DeMaria, JrChronology, further reading and notesText based on the first edition of 1726 and reproduces all original illustrations I felt something alive moving on my left Leg when bending my Eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human Creature not six Inches high'Shipwrecked ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118739-6
EAN 9780141187396
Shooting an Elephant is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd solely to avoid looking a fool'. The other masterly essays in this collection include classics such as My Country Right or Left', How the Poor Die' ...
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Everything Is Illuminated
Granta Best Young Americans
- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100825-7
EAN 9780141008257
A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, however, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms; a blind' ...
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The Blank Slate
The Modern Denial of Human Nature
- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-027605-3
EAN 9780140276053
In the past century many people have assumed that we are shaped by our environment: a blank slate waiting to be inscribed by upbringing and culture, with innate abilities playing little part.Steven Pinker's profound and essential book shows that this view denies the heart of our being: human nature. We are prepared for sex, aggression ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043785-0
EAN 9780140437850
In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on his own memories, as well as his writing experience, to create this vivid chronicle of the epidemic and its victims. 'A Journal' (1722) follows Defoe's fictional narrator as ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-027634-3
EAN 9780140276343
Deeply funny, subversive and splendidly entertaining, The Autograph Man is a whirlwind tour of celebrity and our fame-obsessed times. Following one Alex-Li Tandem a twenty-something, Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organized religion it takes in London and New York, love and death, fathers and sons, as Alex tries to discover how ...
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Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler
Two Spanish Picaresque Novels
- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044900-6
EAN 9780140449006
Being a thief isn't just a job, it's a liberal profession'These Spanish picaresque novels focus on the adventures of two unlikely heroes delinquent pícaros living by their wits among corrupt priests and prostitutes, beggars and idle gentlemen, thieves, tricksters and murderers. The tales are sharply critical of the Church and conventions of nobility, and grotesquely ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101147-9
EAN 9780141011479
As a child, Charlie Chaplin was awed and inspired by the sight of the glamorous vaudeville stars passing by his home, and from then on he never lost his ambition to become an actor. Chaplin's film career as the Little Tramp adored by the whole world is the stuff of legend, but this frank autobiography ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104460-6
EAN 9780141044606
Captain Gault has decided that his family must leave Lahardane. They are after all Protestants living in the big house in rural Cork, and the country is in turmoil. It is 1921.But 8-year-old Lucy can't bear to leave the seashore, the old house, the woods - so she hatches a plan. It is then that ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1120 páginas
PVP: 30,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101161-5
EAN 9780141011615
Since its first publication, The Spanish Civil War has become established as the definitive one-volume history of a conflict that continues to provoke intense controversy. What was it that roused left-wing sympathizers from over the world to fight against Franco between 1936 39? Why did the British and US governments refuse to intervene? And why ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 10,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928458-1
EAN 9780099284581
Set in Provence at three different critical moments of Western Civilisation - the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, the Black Death in the fourteenth, and the Second World War in the twentieth - The Dream of Scipio follows the fortunes of three men: Manlius Hippomanes, a Gallic aristocrat obsessed with the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143982-2
EAN 9780141439822
A raging wave, mountain-like, came rowling a-stern of us we were all swallowed up in a moment'The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a desert island. In his journal he chronicles his daily battle to stay alive, as he conquers isolation, fashions shelter and clothes, first encounters another human being ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143979-2
EAN 9780141439792
What have you been judging from? Dearest Miss Morland, what ideas have you been admitting?'During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who introduces Catherine to the joys of Gothic romances, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143976-1
EAN 9780141439761
Contrariwise if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic' I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Charles Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one golden afternoon' in ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143981-5
EAN 9780141439815
And much of Madness and more of SinAnd Horror the Soul of the Plot'This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. The Fall of the House of Usher describes ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1088 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143972-3
EAN 9780141439723
Jarndyce and Jarndyce has passed into a joke. That is the only good that has ever come of it'As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143977-8
EAN 9780141439778
L d! said my mother, what is all this story about? A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick and one of the best of its kind I ever heard'Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth ...
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