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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101222-3
EAN 9780141012223
What does it mean to be royal? At a time when the monarch no longer rules by divine right and governing powers fall to our elected leaders, the concept of royalty grows ever more elusive. The intellectual argument for the abolition of the monarchy is strong, and yet public interest in the royals continues to ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 9,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103508-6
EAN 9780141035086
Horace Rumpole - cigar-smoking, claret-drinking, Wordsworth-spouting defender of some unlikely clients - often speaks of the great murder trial which revealed his talents as an advocate and made his reputation down at the Bailey when he was still a young man.Now, for the first time, the sensational story of the Penge Bungalow Murders case is ...
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The Looming Tower
Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102935-1
EAN 9780141029351
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction:Winner 2007'Wright's brilliantly constructed narrative is head and shoulders above the rest. He knows important parts of the Muslim world (including Saudi Arabia) at first hand, he understands the motors of Islamist militancy Moreover, he is a fine writer with an eye for the telling detail. Even those who think they ...
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What do you care what other people think?
Further Adventures of a Curious Character
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103088-3
EAN 9780141030883
Richard Feynman - Nobel Laureate, teacher, icon and genius - possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled gift for telling the extraordinary stories of his life. In this collection of short pieces and reminiscences he describes everything from his love of beauty to college pranks to how his father taught him to think. ...
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Iron Kingdom
The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 816 páginas
PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-029334-0
EAN 9780140293340
In the aftermath of World War II, Prussia--a centuries-old state pivotal to Europe's development--ceased to exist. In their eagerness to erase all traces of the Third Reich from the earth, the Allies believed that Prussia, the very embodiment of German militarism, had to be abolished. But as Christopher Clark reveals in this pioneering history, Prussia's ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118920-8
EAN 9780141189208
A poignant meditation on the nature of desire, and the enduring power of love, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera is translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman in Penguin Modern Classics. Florentino Ariza is a hopeless romantic who falls passionately for the beautiful Fermina Daza, but finds his love tragically rejected. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 9,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103527-7
EAN 9780141035277
The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome dominated the world for centuries and continue to intrigue and enlighten us with their inventions, whether philosophy, politics, theatre, athletics, celebrity, science or the pleasures of horse racing. Robin Lane Fox's spellbinding history spans almost a thousand years of change, from the foundation of the world's first democracy ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101713-6
EAN 9780141017136
Shakespeare is one of the greatest of all English figures, considered a genius for all time. Yet as this enthralling book shows, he was at heart a man of the theatre, one among a community of artists in the teeming world of Renaissance London from the enigmatic spy Christopher Marlowe to the self-aggrandizing Ben Jonson, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118858-4
EAN 9780141188584
Grady - beautiful, rich, flame-haired, defiant - is the sort of girl people stare at across a room. The daughter of an important man, who people want to be introduced to. A girl to whom people sense something is going to happen. But her privileged society life of parties, debutantes and dresses leaves her wanting ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118861-4
EAN 9780141188614
Set in the 1930s, this is a novel on American politics. It traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark, who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political career as an idealistic man of the people but soon becomes corrupted by success.
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144195-5
EAN 9780141441955
In these four stories, written between 1900 and 1902, Joseph Conrad bid gradual farewell to his adventurous life at sea and began to confront the more daunting complexities of life on land in the twentieth century. In 'Typhoon' Conrad reveals, in the steadfast courage of an undemonstrative captain and the imaginative readiness of his young ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144163-4
EAN 9780141441634
Nostromo, published in 1904, is one of Conrad's finest works. Nostromo - though one hundred years old - says as much about today's Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts of that region's turbulent political life. Insistently dramatic in its storytelling, spectacular in its recreation of the subtropical landscape, this picture of an ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144158-0
EAN 9780141441580
In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters instruct ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103242-9
EAN 9780141032429
Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Arizo's impassioned advances and married Dr. Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half century, Florentino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina. Having sworn his eternal love to her, he lives for ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144161-0
EAN 9780141441610
This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him ...
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Forbidden Fruit
From The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103277-1
EAN 9780141032771
The illicit relationship between Peter Abelard, a medieval philosopher, and his young pupil Heloise is one of history's most legendary and tragic love affairs. From reckless ecstasy to public scandal and cruel separation, their eloquent and intimate letters tell the story of their passionate, doomed romance.United by the theme of love, the writings in the ...
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The Eaten Heart
Unlikely Tales of Love
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103278-8
EAN 9780141032788
Ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside from the Black Death and tell stories to pass the time. From the unfaithful wife who unwittingly eats her lover's heart to the sly peasant plotting to seduce a whole nunnery, these are tales of lust, adventure and unexpected twists of fate.United by the theme of love, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103281-8
EAN 9780141032818
Johannes is an aesthete, dedicated to creating the possibility of seduction through the careful manipulation of young women. He stealthily pursues the innocent Cordelia until she becomes increasingly drawn to him. But when she is ready to give herself completely, she realizes she may have got everything wrong.United by the theme of love, the writings ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103283-2
EAN 9780141032832
As Baptista travels home to marry her parents' old neighbour, she encounters her lost lover. They elope together, but tragedy strikes unexpectedly on their wedding day and she returns to her parents to do her duty. Will her other, brief love remain a secret? United by the theme of love, the writings in the "Great ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103285-6
EAN 9780141032856
When Gurov sees the lady with the little dog on a windswept promenade, he knows he must have her. But she is different from his other flings he cannot forget her Chekhov's stories are of lost love, love at the wrong time and love that can never be.United by the theme of love, the writings ...
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