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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 12,65 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100598-0
EAN 9780141005980
Passionately determined to write his novel whilst running College Sunrise, a finishing school for both sexes and mixed nationalities, Rowland Mahler is assisted by his wife, Nina Parker. This term there is a new star pupil - Chris, seventeen, also determined to write his masterpiece. As Chris's novel takes shape while his own flounders, Rowland ...
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-042457-7
EAN 9780140424577
Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell's ward, satirist and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of the most interesting and important poets of the seventeenth century. The Complete Poems demonstrates his unique skill and immense diversity to the full, and includes lyrical love-poetry, religious works and biting satire. From the passionately erotic ...
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 10,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101366-4
EAN 9780141013664
Prince Hal, the son of King Henry IV, spends his time in idle pleasure with dissolute friends, among them the roguish Sir John Falstaff. But when the kingdom is threatened by rebellious forces, the prince must abandon his reckless ways. Taking arms against a heroic enemy, he begins a great and compelling transformation - from ...
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 10,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101395-4
EAN 9780141013954
A noble but impoverished Venetian asks a friend, Antonio, for a loan to impress an heiress. His friend agrees, but is forced to borrow the sum from a cynical Jewish moneylender, Shylock, and signs a chilling contract to honour the debt with a pound of his own flesh. A complex and controversial comedy, The Merchant ...
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 9,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101239-1
EAN 9780141012391
When it seems that Julius Caesar may assume supreme power, a plot to destroy him is hatched by those determined to preserve the threatened republic. But the different motives of the conspirators soon become apparent when high principles clash with malice and political realism. As the nation plunges into bloody civil war, this taut drama ...
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118789-1
EAN 9780141187891
One of the masters of weird fiction', H. P. Lovecraft expanded the vast boundaries of the horror genre with his vividly imagined stories of exotic and fantastical otherworlds, nightmarish dreamscapes or the supernatural terrors lurking beneath the surface of small-town America. The shadow of New England's witch-hunting past hangs over many of the tales, as ...
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The End of Poverty
How We Can Make It Happen in Our Lifetime
- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101866-9
EAN 9780141018669
Hailed by The New York Times as probably the most important economist in the world', Jeffrey Sachs is internationally renowned for his work around the globe advising economies in crisis. Now he draws on all he has learned from twenty-five years of work to offer a uniquely informed vision of the keys to economic success ...
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 12,65 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101670-2
EAN 9780141016702
Angered by the loss of his son in battle, the Earl of Northumberland supports another rebellion against King Henry IV, bringing the country to the brink of civil war. Sick and weary, the old King sends out his forces, including the unruly Sir John Falstaff, to meet the rebels. But as the conflict grows, he ...
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 10,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101369-5
EAN 9780141013695
Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he must kill again and again, and the dead return to haunt him. A story of war, witchcraft and bloodshed, Macbeth also ...
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 10,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101389-3
EAN 9780141013893
The jealous King of Sicily becomes convinced that his wife is carrying the child of his best friend. Imprisoned and put on trial, the Queen collapses when the King refuses to accept the divine confirmation of her innocence. The child is abandoned to die on the coast of Bohemia. But when she is found and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 864 páginas
PVP: 34,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101608-5
EAN 9780141016085
Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens with Updike's autobiographical stories about a young boy growing up during the Depression in a small Pennsylvania town. There follows tales of life away from home, student days, early marriage and young families, and finally Updike's experimental ...
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Stalin and His Hangmen
An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and those Who Served Him
- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 18,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100375-7
EAN 9780141003757
Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, won and held power because he had collaborators - hangmen.Drawing on newly released archival material, Donald Rayfield gives us a fuller and more colourful picture of Stalin's inner circle than ever before. Stalin was not the sole author of Stalinism. What motivated his chiefs of police, Feliks Dzierzynski, Viacheslav ...
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 8,70 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143997-6
EAN 9780141439976
When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now ...
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144112-2
EAN 9780141441122
While walking in the Swiss Alps, two English travellers fall into a space-warp, and suddenly find themselves in another world. In many ways the same as our own - even down to the characters that inhabit it - this new planet is still somehow radically different, for the two walkers are now upon a Utopian ...
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 12,65 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144103-0
EAN 9780141441030
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag - only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon the whole of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118379-4
EAN 9780141183794
These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of humankind, finding clear continuities between our 'primitive' past and 'civilized' modernity. In Totem and Taboo he explores institutions of tribal life, tracing analogies between the rites of hunter-gatherers and the obsessions of urban-dwellers, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1024 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043622-8
EAN 9780140436228
A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighbouring squire though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. But when his amorous escapades earn the disapproval of his benefactor, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-029599-3
EAN 9780140295993
The agent: Jojo, a highflying literary agent on the up, has just made a very bad career move: she's jumped into bed with her married boss Mark ...The bestseller: Jojo's sweet-natured client Lily's first novel is a roaring success. She and lover Anton celebrate by spending the advance for her second book. Then she gets ...
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Ghost Wars
The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden
- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102080-8
EAN 9780141020808
The news-breaking book that has sent shockwaves through the White House, Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the CIA's secret involvement in al-Qaeada's evolution. Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll has spent years reporting from the Middle East, accessed previously classified government files and interviewed senior US officials and foreign spymasters. Here ...
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Portrait of a President
- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 16,24 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101965-9
EAN 9780141019659
Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has received an avalanche of praise. Now Dallek has condensed his two-volume masterpiece into what is surely the finest one-volume biography of Johnson available. Based on years of research in over 450 manuscript collections and oral histories, as well as numerous personal interviews, this biography follows Johnson, ...
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