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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104273-2
EAN 9780141042732
Raised by his mother in a one-room house in the slums of Casablanca, Youssef El Mekki has always had big dreams of living another life in another world. Suddenly his dreams are within reach when he discovers that his father-whom he'd been led to believe was dead-is very much alive. A wealthy businessman, he seems ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95286-3
EAN 9780241952863
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories, edited by novelist and critic Malcolm Bradbury, is a collection of the finest short stories from our best loved authors, including Samuel Beckett, Graham Greene, William Golding, Kingsley Amis, Doris Lessing, Muriel Spark, J. G. Ballard, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Rose Tremain, Salman Rushdie, Graham ...
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Kawakami, Hiromi; Kazushige, Abe; Murakami, Haruki; Shinji, Ishii; Yoshimoto, Banana
Short Stories in Japanese
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 23,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-311833-6
EAN 9780143118336
Here is the perfect introduction to contemporary Japanese fiction. Featuring many stories appearing in English for the first time, this collection, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature without having to constantly consult a dictionary. Richly diverse in themes and styles, the stories are ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-311877-0
EAN 9780143118770
Few figures have had such an influence on the world as Jesus of Nazareth. Paul Johnson's brilliant and powerful reading of Jesus' life at once captures his transfiguring message and his historical complexity. With a superb historian's command of his subject, a masterly writer's love of language, and a believer's passion, Johnson presents a lucid ...
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It is 1908, and international tensions are mounting as the world plunges towards war. When a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in an apparent suicide, the man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 6,13 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95148-4
EAN 9780241951484
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95165-1
EAN 9780241951651
My name is Eva, which means life , according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 540 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-14514-2
EAN 9780241145142
David Foster Wallace's final and most ambitious undertaking - an audacious and hilarious look into the abyss of ordinary life. The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, IL, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees ...
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Lion of the Sun
Warrior of Rome 3
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103231-3
EAN 9780141032313
Mesopotamia, AD 260Betrayed by his most trusted adviser, the Roman Emperor Valerian has been captured by the Sassanid barbarians. The shame of the vanquished beats down mercilessly like the white sun, as the frail old emperor prostrates himself before Sharpur, King of Kings. Ballista looks on helplessly, but vows under his breath to avenge those ...
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Zero Degrees of Empathy
A New Theory of Human Cruelty
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101796-9
EAN 9780141017969
Simon Baron-Cohen, expert in autism and developmental psychopathology, has always wanted to isolate and understand the factors that cause people to treat others as if they were mere objects. In this book he proposes a radical shift, turning the focus away from evil and on to the central factor, empathy. Unlike the concept of evil, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95144-6
EAN 9780241951446
'What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence'In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?Social prophecy? Black comedy? Study ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95159-0
EAN 9780241951590
'This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs, alcoholics, sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornographers, frauds, jades, litterbugs, and lesbians . . . don't make the mistake of bothering me.'Ignatius J. Reilly: fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged, too. But is he ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 12,10 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95145-3
EAN 9780241951453
'What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits...'Meet Holly Golightly - a free spirited, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 11,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95151-4
EAN 9780241951514
'We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm 'Sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn a living. When she is orphaned at twenty, she decides her only option is to descend on relatives - the doomed Starkadders at the aptly ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95141-5
EAN 9780241951415
'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of bricks; it is most confusing. The parapet of a trench which we don't occupy is built up with ammunition boxes and corpses . . .'In ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95158-3
EAN 9780241951583
'A phalanx of motorcycles came roaring over the hill from the west the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn't quite handle what I was seeing. It was like Genghis Khan, Morgan's Raiders, the Wild One and the Rape of Nanking all at once.'In ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95146-0
EAN 9780241951460
'What we all need,' said Larry, 'is sunshine a country where we can grow.''Yes, dear, that would be nice,' agreed Mother, not really listening. 'I had a letter from George this morning - he says Corfu's wonderful. Why don't we pack up and go to Greece?''Very well, dear, if you like,' said Mother unguardedly. Escaping ...
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'What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.'Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 11,95 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95143-9
EAN 9780241951439
'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.' From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage ...
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'There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.'Everybody who is anybody is seen at the glittering parties held in millionaire Jay Gatsby's mansion in West Egg, east of New York. The ...
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