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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104259-6
EAN 9780141042596
John Updike was a master storyteller, and this collection, from his final years, reveals that up to the end he remained the finest short-story writer of his generation.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119439-4
EAN 9780141194394
Adolph Verloc leads a double life. As well as running his seedy Soho shop, he is also a secret agent, operating for an underground anarchist cell and his job is about to get far more dangerous. When his leaders instruct him to plant a bomb at Greenwich Observatory, his plans go terribly awry, with tragic ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119436-3
EAN 9780141194363
Young orphan Pip finds his life changed forever when he helps escaped convict Magwitch, and falls impossibly in love with Estella, the beautiful, icy charge of bitter Miss Haversham. Then an anonymous well-wisher gives him money to begin a new life in London. Are these events random? Or does Pip's fate hang on a series ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 848 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044917-4
EAN 9780140449174
Anna Karenina seems to have everything beauty, wealth, popularity, a husband and an adored son. But she risks losing it all when she meets the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Although she tries to resist, Anna is gradually drawn into a passionate, all-consuming affair that scandalizes everyone around them and threatens to destroy her.This is an ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119433-2
EAN 9780141194332
Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania is a hellish world where night is day, pleasure is pain and the blood of the innocent is priceless. When the unsuspecting Jonathan Harker is summoned there to meet the count, he has no idea of the horrors that await him. Soon an epic battle begins, in which Jonathan must ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84738-805-6
EAN 9781847388056
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101830-0
EAN 9781846143564
'No individual British victory after Trafalgar was more decisive in challenging the course of a major war than was the Battle of Britain ... In his carefully argued, clearly explained and impressively documented book ... Richard Overy is at pains to dispose of the myths and expose the real history of what he does not ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119273-4
EAN 9780141192734
AThe Snows of Yesteryear (1989) is Gregor von Rezzori's haunting evocation of his childhood in Czernowitz, in present-day Ukraine. Growing up after the First World War, Rezzori portrays a twilit world suspended between the dying ways of an imperial past and the terrors of the twentieth century. He recalls his volatile, boar-hunting father, his earthy ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119272-7
EAN 9780141192727
A Short History of Decay (1949) is E. M. Cioran's nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid-twentieth-century Europe. Touching upon Man's need to worship, the feebleness of God, the downfall of the Ancient Greeks and the melancholy baseness of all existence, Cioran's pieces are pessimistic in the extreme, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119319-9
EAN 9780141193199
Proud to be a Mammal (1942-97) is Czeslaw Milosz's moving and diverse collection of essays. Among them, he covers his passion for poetry, his love of the Polish language that was so nearly wiped out by the violence of the twentieth century, and his happy childhood. Milosz also includes a letter to his friend in ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119304-5
EAN 9780141193045
The Elephant (1957) is Slawomir Mrozek's award-winning collection of hilarious and unnerving short stories, satirising life in Poland under a totalitarian regime. The family of a wealthy lawyer keep a 'tamed progressive' as a pet; a zoo saves money for the workers by fashioning their elephant from rubber; a swan is dismissed from the municipal ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104767-6
EAN 9780141047676
The Cowards (1958) is Josef Skvorecky's blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on publication. In 1945, in Kostelec,Danny is playing saxophone for the best jazz band in Czechoslovakia. Their trumpeter has just got out of a concentration camp, their bass player is only allowed in the band since he owns the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119320-5
EAN 9780141193205
My Happy Days in Hell (1962) is Gyorgy Faludy's grimly beautiful autobiography of his battle to survive tyranny and oppression. Fleeing Hungary in 1938 as the German army approaches, acclaimed poet Faludy journeys to Paris, where he finds a lover but merely a cursory asylum. When the French capitulate to the Nazis, Faludy travels to ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104798-0
EAN 9780141047980
Malcolm Gladwell is the master of playful yet profound insight. His ability to see underneath the surface of the seemingly mundane taps into a fundamental human impulse: curiosity. From criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell takes everyday subjects and shows us surprising new ways of looking at them, and the world ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119231-4
EAN 9780141192314
Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside--and a stranger is preying on young women. The suggestively names Dix Steele, a cynical vet with a chip on his shoulder about the opposite sex, is the LAPD's top suspect. Dix knows enough to watch his step, especially since ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119219-2
EAN 9780141192192
The book behind the iconic 1947 Orson Welles film, The Lady from Shanghai, starring Rita HayworthLaurence is a young ex-sailor who can't resist the lure of the good life, andwhen he finds a job as chauffeur to the wealthy Mr and Mrs Bannister, hisoccasional work leaves him free to indulge Bannister himself is bitter histwisted ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95019-7
EAN 9780241950197
This is a famous account of growing up to be a fanatical football supporter. Told through a series of match reports, "Fever Pitch" has enjoyed enormous critical and commercial success since it was first published in 1992. It has helped to create a new kind of sports writing, and established Hornby as one of the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119283-3
EAN 9780141192833
How I Came to Know Fish (1974) is Ota Pavel's magical memoir of his childhood in Czechoslovakia. Fishing with his father and his Uncle Prosek - the two finest fishermen in the world - he takes a peaceful pleasure from the rivers and ponds of his country. But when the Nazis invade, his father and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952809-8
EAN 9780099528098
In the late eighties and early nineties, Formula One was at its most explosive, with thrilling races, charismatic drivers, nail-biting climaxes - and the most deadly rivalry ever witnessed in sport. Two of Formula One's most honoured champions and iconic figures drove together for McLaren for two seasons, and their acrimonious and hostile relationship extended ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951644-6
EAN 9780099516446
'His account of their "foodie family road trip" establishes Booth as the next Bill Bryson.' New York TimesJapan is the pre-eminent food nation on earth. The creativity of the Japanese, their dedication and ingenuity, not to mention courage in the face of dishes such as cod sperm and octopus ice cream, is only now beginning ...
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