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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Abridged Edition
- Penguin UK, 2000
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 848 páginas
PVP: 19,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043764-5
EAN 9780140437645
Famously sceptical about Christianity, unexpectedly sympathetic to the barbarian invaders and the Byzantine Empire, constantly aware of how political leaders often achieve the exact opposite of what they intend, Gibbon was alert to both the broad pattern of events and the significant revealing detail. Attacked for its enlightened views on politics, sexuality and religion, the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118125-7
EAN 9780141181257
Few have lived their ideas so passionately and nobly as W. B. Yeats in his love affairs, politics and poetry. From his youth in the 1880s, a fertile dreamer rediscovering and remaking the Irish tradition, he grew into a great and innovative poet of the twentieth century. This selection includes the final book from the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118259-9
EAN 9780141182599
Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons. As long as Jim can survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son Bertrand.
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043754-6
EAN 9780140437546
From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ellena, he is captivated by her enigmatic beauty and grace. But his haughty and manipulative mother is against the match and enlists the help of her confessor to come between them. Schedoni, previously a leading figure of the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118319-0
EAN 9780141183190
In 1926 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (author of the classic The Little Prince) began flying for the pioneering airline Latécoère - later known as Aéropostale - opening up the first mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes. Wind, Sand and Stars (1939) is drawn from this experience. Interweaving stories of encounters with nomadic Arabs and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043606-8
EAN 9780140436068
Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. Includes "Lady Windermere's Fan", "Salome", "A Woman of No Importance", "An Ideal Husband", "A Florentine Tragedy" and "The Importance of Being Earnest", which appears in full with the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-027782-1
EAN 9780140277821
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Harshly unsentimental, this novel tells the story of the remarkable relationship between the desperate Billy, a friendless boy living in a soulless northern town, and the equally destructive, fierce kestrel, Kes, which he raises from the nest.
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1040 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118280-3
EAN 9780141182803
Literature, as Joyce tells us through the character of Stephen Dedalus, 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, Ulysses has survived bowderlization, legal action and bitter controversy. An undisputed modernist classic, its ceaseless verbal inventiveness and astonishingly wide-ranging allusions confirm its standing as an ...
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
House of Flowers / A Diamond Guitar / A Christmas Memory
- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118279-7
EAN 9780141182797
It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail-hour to breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly 'top ...
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Ada or Ardor
A Family Chronicle
- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118187-5
EAN 9780141181875
Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Nabokov's other great love story - offers even more sexual and imaginative surprises than Lolita. A romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van on his uncle's country estate, in a 'dream-bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118248-3
EAN 9780141182483
Written at the end of the World War II, this novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world which Waugh knew in his youth and recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by the austerities of war. In so doing, it provides a study of the conflict between the demands of religion and of the flesh.
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118305-3
EAN 9780141183053
'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he brings to bear all the force of ...
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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Definitive Edition
- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118275-9
EAN 9780141182759
Since its publication in 1947, Anne Frank's Diary has been read by tens of millions of people. This Definitive Edition restores substantial material omitted from the original edition, giving us a deeper insight into Anne Frank's world. Her curiosity about her emerging sexuality, the conflicts with her mother, her passion for Peter, a boy whose ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118286-5
EAN 9780141182865
A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. In magnificent revolt against the twentieth century, Ignatius propels his monstrous bulk among the flesh-pots of a fallen city, filling his ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118276-6
EAN 9780141182766
Although 'continually and bitterly ashamed' that the Arabs had risen in revolt against the Turks as a result of fraudulent British promises of self-rule, Lawrence led them in a triumphant campaign which revolutionized the art of war. Seven Pillars of Wisdom recreates epic events with extraordinary vividness. In the words of E. M. Forster, 'Round ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-081779-9
EAN 9780140817799
Penguin Student Editions are complete unabridged texts of Penguin Classics, Modern Classics and some more recent titles, packaged with reading help for the student in the form of:- accessible yet authoritative introductions- glossary of cultural references and unfamiliar words- stimulating activities and discussion points, including activities needed to prepare for essays and examinations- chapter-by-chapter summaries- ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118274-2
EAN 9780141182742
In the spring of 1948 Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind. He emerged six weeks later with the final script of Death of a Salesman - a painful examination of American life and consumerism. Opening on Broadway the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 6,13 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118285-8
EAN 9780141182858
Jean Rhys's late, literary masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea, was inspired by Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and beauty. After their marriage disturbing ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118284-1
EAN 9780141182841
As influential and revelatory in its day as Fifty Shades of Grey is now, Anais Nin's Delta of Venus is a groundbreaking anthology of erotic short stories, published in Penguin Modern ClassicsIn Delta of Venus Anais Nin conjures up a glittering cascade of sexual encounters. Creating her own 'language of the senses', she explores an ...
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