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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118537-8
EAN 9780141185378
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, Burmese Days describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives interesting, no doubt, but finally only a "subject" people, an inferior people with black faces'.Against the prevailing orthodoxy, Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118688-7
EAN 9780141186887
Things Fall Apart is one of the modern age's defining books - the book that marked African independence and in one leap created a powerful, vivid Nigerian literature. An incomparable story, told in a way that still seems radical and extraordinary, Things Fall Apart is essential reading.
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The Annotated Alice
The Definitive Edition: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass
- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-028929-9
EAN 9780140289299
The bestselling Annotated Alice was the first work to decode the wordplay and mathematical riddles in Carroll's classic stories.This Definitive Edition comgines the notes of Gardner's 1960s edition, together with hundreds of newer discoveries.
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Answered Prayers
The Unfinished Novel
- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118593-4
EAN 9780141185934
Truman Capote's great unfinished novel blisters with scandal and malice. His candid exposé of the exclusive world of the very rich teems with beautiful, spiteful women, psychotic and sadistic husbands, and other thinly disguised friends and acquaintances of the author. At its centre is one P. B. Jones, an amoral bisexual of unknown parentage, who ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118635-1
EAN 9780141186351
Considered an 'audacious' second novel, Giovanni's Room is set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence. This now-classic story of a fated love triangle explores, with uncompromising clarity, the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity.
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118591-0
EAN 9780141185910
James Baldwin's electrifying first novel. 'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.'Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes.Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father, Gabriel, at the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118438-8
EAN 9780141184388
George Orwell's first published work, Down and Out in Paris and London, is a vivid, sensitive account of the time he lived as one of the poor in the late twenties. In a bug-infested hotel, surviving only between the pawnbroker and a little teaching and writing, Orwell shocked the middle-class establishment with his observation of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043767-6
EAN 9780140437676
First published as a scholarly translation from an ancient Italian text, this tale of a fatal prophecy set in the time of the crusades inspired terror in its early readers. On receiving a copy, the poet Thomas Gray wrote to Walpole admitting that he was "afraid to go to bed o'nights", little suspecting that his ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118333-6
EAN 9780141183336
From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Karen Blixen spent her happiest years on the farm and her experiences and friendships with the people around her are vividly recalled in these memoirs. Out of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 816 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118684-9
EAN 9780141186849
In this final volume of "The Forsyte Saga", Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the Forsytes. For centuries, the Cherrell sons have left their home of Condaford Grange to serve the state as soldiers, clergymen and administrators, but the 1930s bring uncertainty in a world of rapidly altering ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118637-5
EAN 9780141186375
Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race and liberal America in the 1960s. Set in Greenwhich Village, Harlem and France, Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz-musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his life and death, discovering uncomfortable truths about ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118667-2
EAN 9780141186672
Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War...Philip K. Dick trips the switches of our minds with his vision of the world as it might have been: the African continent virtually wiped out, the Mediterranean drained to make farmland, the United States divided between the Japanese and the Nazis...In the neutral ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118442-5
EAN 9780141184425
'It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves'Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published in 1952 when American society was in the cusp of immense change, the powerfully depicted adventures ...
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Innumeracy
Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences
- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-029120-9
EAN 9780140291209
Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated bestseller first published in 1988, argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the probabilities associated with them results in misinformed governmental policies, confused personal decisions, and ...
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The Rose Tattoo and Other Plays
The Rose Tattoo / Camino Real / Orpheus Descending
- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118650-4
EAN 9780141186504
In these exotic, steamy dramas, Tennessee Williams portrays loss, faded lives and passionate love affairs. The title play, "The Rose Tattoo", is set in a bustling Sicilian-American community, where new widowed Serafina is paralysed by grief.
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118678-8
EAN 9780141186788
'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'.In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the rest of the country collapsed into a civil war that was in the author's words 'sloppy, dogged ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119209-3
EAN 9780141192093
This Faust-like and magical story of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope was described in The New York Times as a savage indictment of bourgeois society'. But, as the author notes in this edition, Steppenwolf is a book that has been consistently misinterpreted. This self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118633-7
EAN 9780141186337
Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travellers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad - now Volgograd - but through the countryside of the Ukraine and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118631-3
EAN 9780141186313
Steinbeck's last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Reflecting back on his New England family's past fortune, and his father's loss of the family wealth, the hero, Ethan Allen Hawley, characterises success in every era and in all its forms as robbery, murder, even a kind of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118536-1
EAN 9780141185361
For Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning'. Picasso was there with his high whinnying spanish giggle', as were Cezanne and Matisse, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. As Toklas put it The geniuses came ...
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