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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102547-6
EAN 9780141025476
The English have a rich and glorious history of making trouble for themselves. One hundred and forty years before the French Revolution, the English executed their king and instituted a radical revolutionary government. In 1215, more than 570 years before the United States ratified its Bill of Rights, England's barons forced King John to accept ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 9,55 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119265-9
EAN 9780141192659
In 'The Decay of Lying' Oscar Wilde uses his decadent ideology in an attempt to reverse and therefore reject his audiences' 'normal' conceptualizations of nature, art and morality. Wilde's views of life and art are illustrated through the use of Platonic dialogue where the character Vivian takes on the persona of Wilde. Wilde's goal is ...
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The Storm of War
A New History of the Second World War
- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 792 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102928-3
EAN 9780141029283
On 2 August 1944 Winston Churchill mocked Adolf Hitler in the House of Commons by the rank he had reached in the First World War. 'Russian success has been somewhat aided by the strategy of Herr Hitler, of Corporal Hitler,' Churchill jibed. 'Even military idiots find it difficult not to see some faults in his ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 7,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104829-1
EAN 9780141048291
The latecomers are Hartmann and Fibich, brought over to England as children to escape Nazi Germany, now living close to each other in London in their 60s, and still friends. Yet they could not be more different, each having adopted different strategies to reconcile themselves with their past and to cope with an uncertain world.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104172-8
EAN 9780141041728
Margaret Drabble's The Millstone was published in 1965. Set in a London not yet quite swinging, where sexual liberation is still on its way, this prize-winning novel follows the progress of Rosamund Stacey, who becomes pregnant as a result of a one night stand, and must adapt to life as a single mother - finding ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104201-5
EAN 9780141042015
Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor was first published in 1985. Alternating between the eighteenth century, when Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Christopher Wren, builds seven London churches that house a terrible secret, and the 1980s, when London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain old churches, Hawksmoor is a brilliant ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104485-9
EAN 9780141044859
Penelope Lively's Treasures of Time was published in 1979, and is an acutely observed study of marriage and manipulation. When the BBC want to make a documentary about acclaimed archaeologist Hugh Paxton, his widow Laura, daughter Kate and her fiancé Tom are a little nervous: digging up the past can also disturb the present
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104194-0
EAN 9780141041940
Susan Hill's I'm King of the Castle was first published in 1970. Telling the story of two boys forced to live together by their widowed parents, it is a chilling portrayal of childhood cruelty and persecution, of parental blindness and of our own ambivalence to what are supposed to be the happiest days of our ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104671-6
EAN 9780141046716
Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim was published in 1954, and is a hilarious satire of British university life. Jim Dixon is bored by his job as a medieval history lecturer. His days are only improved by pulling faces behind the backs of his superiors as he tries desperately to survive provincial bourgeois society, an unbearable 'girlfriend' ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 10,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104170-4
EAN 9780141041704
Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave was published in 1968, and was made into one of the key British films of the sixties. Billy Casper is beaten by his drunken brother, ignored by his mother and failing at school. He seems destined for a hard, miserable life down the pits, but for a brief ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104668-6
EAN 9780141046686
Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman was published in 1972, and is a magical, satirical adventure. Desiderio is stricken with love for Albertina, a woman he sees only in his dreams. He must also battle against Doctor Hoffman and his mysterious machines, as they bend time and space to turn Desiderio's city ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104688-4
EAN 9780141046884
William Cooper's Scenes from Provincial Life was first published in 1950, when Joe Lunn was one of the first breed of ordinary male anti-hero protagonists to appear in English fiction. Joe's exploits and ordinariness, as he tries to avoid his mistress Myrtle's attempts to trap him into marriage, brilliantly poke fun at what were, and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104173-5
EAN 9780141041735
Keith Waterhouse's Billy Liar was published in 1959, and captures brilliantly the claustrophobic atmosphere of a small town. It tells the story of Billy Fisher, a Yorkshire teenager unable to stop lying - especially to his three girlfriends. Trapped by his boring job and working-class parents, Billy finds that his only happiness lies in grand ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104672-3
EAN 9780141046723
Ian Fleming's From Russia with Love was published in 1957 and made suave, steely secret agent James Bond an icon. Here 007 encounters the deadly machinations of Russian organisation SMERSH, the fiendish Colonel Rosa Klebb - and the irresistible beauty Tatiana Romanova - in one of the most thrilling classic novels of the Cold War.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95091-3
EAN 9780241950913
The flamboyant Frenchman Alexis Soyer was the most renowned chef in Victorian England. This is his colourful account of his time at the front in the Crimean War, where he joined British troops in order to improve the quality of the food they were eating. Divulging the secrets of preparing stew for 1000 soldiers, sharing ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 7,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95093-7
EAN 9780241950937
Whether extolling the merits of a cheerful breakfast tray, conjuring up a winter picnic of figs and mulled wine, sharing delicious Tuscan recipes, or suggesting a last-minute pre-theatre dinner, the sparkling writings of the society hostess and philanthropist Agnes Jekyll describe food for every imaginable occasion and mood. Originally published in The Times in the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95099-9
EAN 9780241950999
Travelling physician, salesman, author and self-made man, Dr Chase dispensed remedies all over America during the late nineteenth century, collecting recipes and domestic tips from the people he met along the way. His self-published books became celebrated US bestsellers and were the household Bibles of their day.Containing recipes for American-style treats, such as Boston cream ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95100-2
EAN 9780241951002
A rapturous appreciation of pork crackling, a touching description of hungry London chimney sweeps, a discussion of the strange pleasure of eating pineapple and a meditation on the delights of Christmas feasting are just some of the subjects of these personal, playful writings from early nineteenth-century essayist Charles Lamb.Exploring the joys of food and also ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 7,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95102-6
EAN 9780241951026
Firmly of the belief that a home should be run as an efficient military campaign, Mrs Beeton, the doyenne of English cookery, offers timeless tips on selecting cuts of meat, throwing a grand party and hosting a dinner, as well as giving suggestions on staff wages and the cost of each recipe. With such delicious ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119267-3
EAN 9780141192673
This poem originally published anonymously, written after Wilde's two year's hard labour in Reading prison is the tale of a man who has been sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved. The Ballad of Reading Gaol follows the inmate through his final three weeks, as he stares at the sky and ...
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