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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118512-5
EAN 9780141185125
The Pearl is John Steinbeck's flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, a Mexican pearl-diver finds 'the Pearl of the World' he believes that his impoverished life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in the church and their son, Coyotito, will go to school. Obsessed by his dream, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118514-9
EAN 9780141185149
A chemist by training, Primo Levi became one of the supreme witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In these haunting reflections inspired by the elements of the periodic table, he ranges from young love to political savagery; from the inert gas argon - and 'inert' relatives like the uncle who stayed in bed for twenty-two years - ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118383-1
EAN 9780141183831
Although full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, the stories which make up The Aleph also contain some of Borges's most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her father's 'killer' and a ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118507-1
EAN 9780141185071
'There is only one book to a man' Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden, his most ambitious novel. Set in the rich farmland of Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations helplessly re-enact the fall of Adam and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118458-6
EAN 9780141184586
Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite and conviction, Thornton Wilder set out to bring back realism and to celebrate the innocent, simple and religious. Yet he also tried to endow individual experience with cosmic significance and Our Town is both an affectionate portrait of American life and 'an attempt to find a ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118448-7
EAN 9780141184487
A colourful, multi-facted chronicle of New York in the early 1920s, Manhattan Transfer ranks with Joyce's Ulysses as a powerful and often lyrical meditation on the modern city. Using experimental montage and collage techniques borrowed from the cinema, and the jumbled case histories of a picaresque range of characters from dockside crapshooters to high-society flappers, ...
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The Loved One
An Anglo-American Tragedy
- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118424-1
EAN 9780141184241
Following the death of a friend, poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering into the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday. There, Dennis enters the fragile and bizarre world of Aimée, the naïve Californian corpse ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118522-4
EAN 9780141185224
Carson McCullers's prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three. Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South, it is the story of John Singer, a lonely deaf-mute, and a disparate group of people who are drawn towards his kind, sympathetic nature. The owner of the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118526-2
EAN 9780141185262
The famous American poet John Shade was murdered in 1959. This book contains his last poem, Pale Fire, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he - can he possibly be - mad, bad, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 18,65 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043766-9
EAN 9780140437669
There was nothing weak about Miss Olive, she was a fighting woman, and she would fight him to the death'Basil Ransom, an attractive young Mississippi lawyer, is on a visit to his cousin Olive, a wealthy feminist, in Boston when he accompanies her to a meeting on the subject of women's emancipation. One of the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118488-3
EAN 9780141184883
"The Dharma Bums" appeared just one year after the author's explosive "On The Road" had put the Beat Generation on the literary map and Kerouac on the best-seller list. The same expansiveness, humour and contagious zest for life that sparked the earlier novels sparks this one too, but through a more cohesive story. The books ...
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Physics and Philosophy
The Revolution in Modern Science
- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118215-5
EAN 9780141182155
Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg's classic account explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution, and his celebrated Uncertainty Principle. The theme of Heisenberg's exposition is that words and concepts familiar in daily life can lose their meaning in the world of relativity and quantum physics. This in turn has profound philosophical implications for the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118490-6
EAN 9780141184906
As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Jack Kerouac breathlessly records, in prose of pure poetry, the life of the road. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; catching up with the beat night-life ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118393-0
EAN 9780141183930
In 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very like another, a young woman is teaching herself indifference. She has escaped personal tragedy and has come to France to find courage and seek independence. She tells herself to expect nothing, especially not kindness, least of all from men. Tomorrow, she resolves, she will dye ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 9,96 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118217-9
EAN 9780141182179
This epoch-making book cuts through confused thinking and forces us to re-examine many cherished ideas about knowledge, imagination, consciousness and the intellect. The result is a classic example of philosophy.
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 19,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118311-4
EAN 9780141183114
Joyce's final work, Finnegans Wake, is his masterpiece of the night as Ulysses was of the day. Supreme linguistic virtuosity conjures up the dark underground worlds of sexuality and dream. Joyce undermines traditional storytelling and all official forms of English and confronts the different kinds of betrayal - cultural, political and sexual - he saw ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118398-5
EAN 9780141183985
'We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way.' When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill-informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are rife. However, with the aid if Minister of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118306-0
EAN 9780141183060
This outstanding collection brings together Orwell's longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes My Country Right or Left', Decline of the English Murder', 'Shooting an Elephant' and A Hanging'. With great originality and wit Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from the moral enormity of Jonathan Swift's strange genius ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118598-9
EAN 9780141185989
Nabokov said of his chess-playing genius Luzhin, that despite his coarseness and grubby plainness, he is a lovable creation. Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood, rising to the rank of international Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passion for chess that renders the real world a phantom. As he confronts the fiery, swift-swooping Italian Grandmaster, Turati, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 6,13 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043796-6
EAN 9780140437966
The gripping first-hand story of the disaster that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick and is the basis for a major new feature film, In the Heart of the Sea. In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was sailing in the South Pacific when it was rammed by an angry sperm whale. The ship sank, leaving twenty crew members ...
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