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A Dictionary of the English Language
An Anthology
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144157-3
EAN 9780141441573
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, published in 1755, marked a milestone in a language in desperate need of standards. No English dictionary before it had devoted so much space to everyday words, been so thorough in its definitions, or illustrated usage by quoting from Shakespeare and other great writers. Johnson's was the dictionary used by Jane Austen ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-303952-5
EAN 9780143039525
Hans Christian Andersen was the profoundly imaginative writer and storyteller who revolutionized literature for children. He gave us the now standard versions of some traditional fairy tales with an anarchic twist but many of his most famous tales sprang directly from his imagination.The thirty stories here range from exuberant early works such as "The Tinderbox" ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-303965-5
EAN 9780143039655
Introducing this collection of stories, R. K. Narayan describes how in India 'the writer has only to look out of the window to pick up a character and thereby a story'. Malgudi Days is the marvellous result. Here Narayan portrays an astrologer, a snake-charmer, a postman, a vendor of pies and chappatis - all kinds ...
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A Treatise of Human Nature
Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043244-2
EAN 9780140432442
Hume's Treatise was published before he was thirty (after its publication in 1739-40 he wrote that it 'fell dead-born from the press'). It is nothing less than an attempt to extend the Copernican Revolution to philosophy - to put to the test of experience a complete system of the moral sciences which had hitherto gone ...
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The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
Poetry of the First World War
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118190-5
EAN 9780141181905
This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains: the poems are arranged thematically and the themes reflect the different experiences of war not just for the soldiers but for those left behind. This is what makes this volume more accessible and satisfying than others. In addition to the established canon there are poems rarely ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,49 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118894-2
EAN 9780141188942
Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of Copacabana Beach, and presents her with a ring. Their flight into marriage takes them from urban banality to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west....
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118896-6
EAN 9780141188966
Ben Turnbull is a 66 year-old retired investment consultant living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and China has thinned the population and brought social chaos. Nevertheless, Ben's life, traced by his journal entries over the course of the year, retains much of its accustomed comforts.Something of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101609-2
EAN 9780141016092
A fully revised, expanded and updated edition of this masterly portrayal of contemporary Spain. The restoration of democracy in 1977 heralded a period of intense change that continues today. Spain has become a land of extraordinary paradoxes in which traditional attitudes and contemporary preoccupations exist side by side. Focussing on issues which affect ordinary Spaniards, ...
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S.
A Novel
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118901-7
EAN 9780141189017
In a moment of sudden inspiration Sarah Worth - S. - has walked out on her husband to join the Ashram Arhat. Famous for his transcendent wisdom and divine immobility, the Arhat has transferred his ahram from India to Arizona, where he and his enthusiastic entourage are attempting to make the desert fruitful.
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144159-7
EAN 9780141441597
When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos, preaching fire and damnation; their sons, lustful Seth and despairing Reuben; child ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103008-1
EAN 9780141030081
How can your name affect how well you do in life? What do estate agents and the Ku Klux Klan have in common? Why do drug dealers live with their mothers?The answer: Freakonomics. It's at the heart of everything we do and the things that affect us daily: from sex to crime, parenting to politics, ...
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Goodbye Columbus
And 5 Short Stories
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-949815-5
EAN 9780099498155
Philip Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of his characters.Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one summer ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102689-3
EAN 9780141026893
The revolutionary international bestseller that will stop you smoking - for good. 'If you follow my instructions you will be a happy non-smoker for the rest of your life.' That's a strong claim from Allen Carr, but as the world's leading and most successful quit smoking expert, Allen was right to boast! Reading this book ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 17,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-310440-7
EAN 9780143104407
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118865-2
EAN 9780141188652
David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother's arms to begin his new life as an immigrant in the Golden Land. David is hated by his father - an angry, violent man unable to find his niche in the New World - but is fiercely loved and protected by his Yiddish-speaking mother. An innovative, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 436 páginas
PVP: 19,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-303955-6
EAN 9780143039556
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7475-8523-7
EAN 9780747585237
The setting is Great Falls, Montana, where the Rockies end and where, in 1960, the promise of good times seems as limitless as the sweep of the prairies beyond. This is where the Brinson family hopes to find a better life. Instead, sixteen-year-old Joe Brinson watches his parents discover the limits of their marriage and, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7475-8496-4
EAN 9780747584964
Robard Hewes has driven across the country in search of a woman named Buena who, twelve years ago, infused him with a feeling that has now turned into obsession. Sam Newel has travelled from Chicago seeking the missing piece of himself. They both find themselves on an uncharted hunting island in the Mississippi owned by ...
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