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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118461-6
EAN 9780141184616
At the centre of Music for Chameleons is Handcarved Coffins, a nonfiction novel' based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer.Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America, it offers chilling insights into the mind of a killer and the obsession of the man bringing him to justice. Also in this volume are ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-027633-6
EAN 9780140276336
One of the most talked about fictional débuts of recent years, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of ...
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Saint Joan
A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue
- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043791-1
EAN 9780140437911
I might almost as well have been a man I should not have bothered you all so much then'With Saint Joan, Shaw reached the height of his fame as a dramatist, and it was this play that led to his Nobel Prize for Literature for 1925. This powerful historical drama distils many of the ideas ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118569-9
EAN 9780141185699
George Bowling, forty-five, mortgaged, married with children, is an insurance salesman with an expanding waistline, a new set of false teeth - and a desperate desire to escape his dreary life. He fears modern times - since, in 1939, war is imminent - foreseeing food queues, soldiers, secret police and tyranny. So he decides to ...
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Scoop
A Novel about Journalists
- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118402-9
EAN 9780141184029
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may, in a moment of weakness, make another. Acting on a dinner party tip from Mrs Algernon Stitch, he ...
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Memoirs of Hadrian
And Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian
- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118496-8
EAN 9780141184968
In her magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenor recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. The Emperor Hadrian, aware his demise is imminent, writes a long valedictory letter to Marcus Aurelius, his future successor. The Emperor meditates on his past, describing his accession, military triumphs, love of poetry and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,35 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118553-8
EAN 9780141185538
In this remarkable novel of human courage and defiance, Steinbeck celebrates democracy and the power of the individual against tyranny. A North European country has been invaded. In one small town the people's initial confusion crystallizes into a silent, sullen anger that gradually undermines the conquerors until they too come to know what fear means. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118474-6
EAN 9780141184746
This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book, the ingenious possibilities of a nail, a piece of string or a ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95724-0
EAN 9780241957240
dozen of the most successful and popular writers today including: Helen Fielding, Robert Harris, Patrick Marber, Zadie Smith, John O'Farrell, Roddy Doyle, Melissa Bank and Irvine Welsh have written 6000-word fictional monologues along the lines of Alan Bennet's Talking Heads. And Colin Firth makes his début as a fiction writer. The result is a book ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118449-4
EAN 9780141184494
In these macabre, acid and very funny short stories, Saki drives a knife into the upper crust of English Edwardian life. Here we meet in particular two of his most brilliant creations, the self-possessed Clovis and the vain and supremely stylish Reginald. There is tea on the lawn, the smell of gunshot, the tinkle of ...
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Speak, Memory
An Autobiography Revisited
- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118322-0
EAN 9780141183220
'Speak, memory' said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers-on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in pre-revolutionary Russia. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118372-5
EAN 9780141183725
Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-faithful Rosemary, has the strength to challenge his ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118341-1
EAN 9780141183411
To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. Its use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence and shifting perspectives, give the novel an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it ...
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Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as 'useful corrective to the romantic conception of war', R.C. Sherriff's Journey's End is an unflinching vision of life in the trenches towards the end of the First World War. Set in the First World War, Journey's End concerns a group of British officers on the front line and opens ...
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Man and Superman
A Comedy and a Philosophy
- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043788-1
EAN 9780140437881
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth'After the death of her father, Ann Whitefield becomes the joint ward of two men: the respectable Roebuck Ramsden and John Tanner, author of The Revolutionist's Handbook'. Believing marriage would prevent him from achieving his higher intellectual and political ambitions, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118459-3
EAN 9780141184593
In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118510-1
EAN 9780141185101
The compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world.Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except each other and a dream - a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118384-8
EAN 9780141183848
Jorge Luis Borge's Fictions introduced an entirely new voice into world literature. It is here we find the astonishing accounts of Funes, the man who can forget nothing; the French poet who recreated Don Quixote word for word; the fatal lottery in Babylon; the mysterious planet of Tlön; and the library containing every possible book ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118508-8
EAN 9780141185088
In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits - gamblers, whores, drunks, bums, and artists - survive side by side in a jumble of adventure and mischief. Lee Chong, the astute owner of the fantastically well-stocked grocery store, is also the proprietor of the Palace Flophouse that Mack and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118506-4
EAN 9780141185064
'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.'Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic, The Grapes of Wrath, remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of Dust Bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of the Joad family, ...
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