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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 17,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-045516-8
EAN 9780140455168
As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve Caesars" chronicles the lives of the men who wielded absolute power over Rome, from the foundation of the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118880-5
EAN 9780141188805
Bellow evokes all the rich colour and exotic customs of a highly imaginary Africa in this comic novel about a middle-aged American millionaire who, seeking a new, more rewarding life, descends upon an African tribe. Henderson's awesome feats of strength and his unbridled passion for life earns him the admiration of the tribe - but ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102666-4
EAN 9780141026664
Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering Professor at Wellington College. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was.Their three children passionately pursue their own paths, and faced with the oppressive enthusiasms ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144207-5
EAN 9780141442075
Wilfred Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa in 1910 and educated at Eton and Oxford. Though British, he was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life, "the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets, etc." In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence, Thesiger spent five years exploring and wandering the deserts of Arabia. ...
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Berlin
The Downfall 1945
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103239-9
EAN 9780141032399
The storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Soviet soldiers had many accounts to settle when they finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. The result was the battle for Berlin; the most terrifying example of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103241-2
EAN 9780141032412
TPost liberation Paris - an epoch charged with political and conflicting emotions. Liberation was greeted with joy but marked by recriminations and the trauma of purges. The feverish intellectual arguments of the young took place amidst the mundane reality of hunger and fuel shortages.
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Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
Winston Churchill's Famous Speeches
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144206-8
EAN 9780141442068
The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time - phrases such as 'iron curtain', 'business as usual', 'the few', and 'summit meeting' passed quickly into everyday use - Winston Churchill used language as his most powerful weapon at a time when his most frequent complaint was that the armoury was otherwise empty. In this ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7475-8546-6
EAN 9780747585466
In 1950s Paris, Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld were friends, the rising stars of the fashion world. But by the late sixties, the city was invaded by a new mood of liberation and hedonism, and dominated by intrigue, infidelities, addiction and parties. Each designer created his own mesmerizing world, so vivid and seductive that ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1440 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044793-4
EAN 9780140447934
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 24,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118878-2
EAN 9780141188782
This is the definitive collection of short stories by Saul Bellow. Abundant, precise, various, rich and exuberant, the stories display the stylistic and emotional brilliance which characterizes this master of prose. Some stories recount the events of a single day, some are contained in a wider frame; each story is a characteristic combination of observation ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118213-1
EAN 9780141182131
In "Howard's End", E.M. Forster unveils the English character as never before, exploring the underlying class warfare involving three distinct groups - a wealthy family bound by the rules of tradition and property, two independent, cultured sisters, and a young man living on the edge of poverty. The source of their conflict - Howards End, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118876-8
EAN 9780141188768
For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure, and Charlie's life has reached a low point: his career is at a standstill, and he's enmeshed in ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118879-9
EAN 9780141188799
Kenneth Trachtenberg, the witty and eccentric narrator of More Die of Heartbreak, has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to be near his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described "plant visionary." While his studies take him around the world, Benn, a restless spirit, has not been able to satisfy ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144139-9
EAN 9780141441399
Caught in the midst of England's War of the Roses, young Dick Shelton's loyalties are torn between a guardian who betrays him and the leader of the secret fellowship, "The Black Arrow". the Houses of York and Lancaster are locked in a brutal struggle for England's crown and the fate of the kingdom is at ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143970-9
EAN 9780141439709
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah, and the much-travelled philosopher Imlac. Their journey takes them to Egypt, where they study the various conditions of men's lives, before returning home in a 'conclusion in which nothing is concluded'. Johnson's tale is not ...
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The English
A Portrait of a People
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,64 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103295-5
EAN 9780141032955
Jeremy Paxman is to many the embodiment of Englishness yet even he is sometimes forced to ask: who or what exactly are the English? And in setting about addressing this most vexing of questions, Paxman discovers answers to a few others. Like: Why do the English actually enjoy feeling persecuted? What is behind the English ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-045546-5
EAN 9780140455465
The devil comes to Moscow wearing a fancy suit. With his disorderly band of accomplices - including a demonic, gun-toting tomcat - he immediately begins to create havoc.Disappearances, destruction and death spread through the city like wildfire and Margarita discovers that her lover has vanished in the chaos. Making a bargain with the devil, she ...
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A Dog's Heart
An Appalling Story
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-045515-1
EAN 9780140455151
This is Bulgakov's surreal tale of a Moscow doctor who befriends a stray dog and performs on it a human transplant - with disastrous consequences.
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 9,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103509-3
EAN 9780141035093
Late at night in a seedy hotel, Richard is drawn into a strange conversation with a fellow guest. Through a narrow strip of mosquito netting he hears for the first time of a secret beach, and island Garden of Eden hidden somewhere in the scattered islands of a Thai marine park. The next morning, Richard ...
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Making Globalization Work
The Next Steps to Global Justice
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102496-7
EAN 9780141024967
Four years after his global bestseller, Joseph Stiglitz now brings the story up to the present, examining how change has occurred even more rapidly since then, proposing solutions and looking into the future. Here he puts forward radical new ways of dealing with the crippling indebtedness of developing countries, a new system of global reserves ...
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