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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101945-1
EAN 9780141019451
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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The Secret Life of Trees
How They Live and Why They Matter
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101293-3
EAN 9780141012933
What is a tree? As this celebration of the trees shows, they are our countryside; our ancestors descended from them; they gave us air to breathe. Yet while the stories of trees are as plentiful as leaves in a forest, they are rarely told. Here, Colin Tudge travels from his own back garden round the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118794-5
EAN 9780141187945
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118837-9
EAN 9780141188379
John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that instead of laying their ghosts to rest they become caught up in a train of increasingly strange and violent events. The ...
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The Pursuit of Victory
The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 18,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100761-8
EAN 9780141007618
The starting point of Roger Knight's magnificent new biography is to explain how Nelson achieved such extraordinary success. Knight places him firmly in the context of the Royal Navy at the time. He analyses Nelson's more obvious qualities, his leadership strengths and his coolness and certainty in battle, and also explores his strategic grasp, the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144114-6
EAN 9780141441146
Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt and later attends a charity school with a harsh regime, enduring loneliness and cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds a position as governess at Thornfield Hall.However, when she finds love with her ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143986-0
EAN 9780141439860
Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and discontent among his workers. Robert considers marriage to the wealthy and independent Shirley Keeldar to solve his financial woes, yet his heart lies with his cousin Caroline, who, bored and desperate, lives as a dependent in ...
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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
A Conversation Piece
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 16,89 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118450-0
EAN 9780141184500
An inability to control his fantasies sends Gilbert Pinfold, a well-known author, cruising on a Ceylon-bound liner to recuperate. Yet, to his horror, the hallucinations increase and life on board becomes very embarrassing. This curious and diverting novel throws new light on Evelyn Waugh's remarkable talent.
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 514 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-012041-7
EAN 9780140120417
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 17,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-303972-3
EAN 9780143039723
His mind crowded with vivid images of Africa, Graham Greene set off in 1935 to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar republic founded for released slaves. Now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, Journey Without Maps is the spellbinding record of Greene's journey. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast of ...
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Not Quite the Diplomat
Home Truths about World Affairs
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102144-7
EAN 9780141021447
Not Quite the Diplomat describes what has been happening in Britain, Europe and the world since 1997 from the perspective of one at the heart of international events. In examining how we got to where we are, Chris Patten writes candidly about many of the major players and what happened behind closed doors. In arguing ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144144-3
EAN 9780141441443
The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul - determined they will not follow their father into working down the coal mines. But conflict is evitable when Paul seeks ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-042431-7
EAN 9780140424317
Kipling's reputation as the unofficial Laureate of the British Empire has obscured the true nature and scope of his poetic achievement. His poems range from exhilarating celebrations of British expansion overseas, through vivid character sketches of soldiers and seamen, to enchanting poems for children, political invective, and artistic manifestos. Here, Kipling's poems are presented in ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118844-7
EAN 9780141188447
It's 1989, and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, are giving him cause for concern. His son Nelson is a wreck of a man, a cocaine addict with shattered self-respect. Janice, his ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 12,65 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118854-6
EAN 9780141188546
It's 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war is in full swing, and racial tension is on the rise. Things just aren't as simple as they used to be - at least, not for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife has left him with his ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118783-9
EAN 9780141187839
It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing ashtrays and discarded glasses, a young son and a futile job. With no way to fix things, he resolves ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 12,65 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043509-2
EAN 9780140435092
In 1834, Charlotte Brontë and her brother Branwell created the imaginary kingdom of Angria in a series of tiny handmade books. Continuing their saga some years later, the five 'novelettes' in this volume were written by Charlotte when she was in her early twenties, and depict an aristocratic beau monde in witty, racy and ironic ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,65 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144183-2
EAN 9780141441832
These three novellas display D. H. Lawrence's brilliant and insightful evocation of human relationships - both tender and cruel - and the devastating results of war. In The Fox, two young women living on a small farm during the First World War find their solitary life interrupted. As a fox preys on their poultry, a ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118804-1
EAN 9780141188041
Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. Here, Kapuscinski describes the tyrannical monarch, who, despite his cruel oppression of the Iranian people, sees himself as the father of a nation, who can turn a ...
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The Emperor
Downfall of an Autocrat
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,15 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118803-4
EAN 9780141188034
After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended the ancient rule of the Abyssinian monarchy, Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia and sought out surviving courtiers to tell their stories. Here, their eloquent and ironic voices depict the lavish, corrupt world they had known - from the rituals, hierarchies and intrigues at court to ...
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