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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 10,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-243732-2
EAN 9780142437322
Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century American writers, whose fiction explored new and often starting territory. When her most famous story, "The Awakening", was first published in 1899, it stunned readers with its frank portrayal of the inner word of Edna Pontellier, and its daring criticisms of the limits ...
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When an Egg meets a Bean and they are bought a round of cocktails by a Crumpet, the stories fly fast and furious...there's a bit of luck for Mabel, Bingo Little manages to survive A Pekinese Crisis, and a spot of Romance at Droitwich Spa. Eggs Beans and Crumpets" is a masterpiece of comic writing.
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043905-2
EAN 9780140439052
Merry Christmas! every idiot who goes along with Merry Christmas should be boiled with his own pudding'Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has proved one of his most well-loved works. Ever since it was published in 1843 it has had ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043988-5
EAN 9780140439885
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On the Shoulders of Giants
The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy
- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1264 páginas
PVP: 26,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101571-2
EAN 9780141015712
Stephen Hawking explains how such great men of science as Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton and Einstein built on the discoveries of those who came before them, and how these works changed the course of science, ushering astronomy and physics out of the Middle Ages and into the modern world.
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101408-1
EAN 9780141014081
Combined for the first time here are Maus I: A Survivor's Tale and Maus II - the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. By addressing the horror of the Holocaust through cartoons, the author captures the everyday reality of fear and is able to explore the guilt, ...
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The Peninsular War
A New History
- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 28,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-027370-0
EAN 9780140273700
The brutal conflict that raged across Spain and Portugal between 1808 and 1814 was one of the most devastating episodes of the Napoleonic Wars. It made Wellington and his redcoats heroes, crushed Napoleon's army and set the scene for his ultimate downfall. Yet the Peninsular War was, above all, an Iberian tragedy: where a once-invincible ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101483-8
EAN 9780141014838
'A book about London; in other words, a book about everything' Peter Ackroyd, The Times Walking the streets of London, Iain Sinclair traces nine routes across the territory of the capital. Connecting people and places, redrawing boundaries both ancient and modern, reading obscure signs and finding hidden patterns, Sinclair creates a fluid snapshot of the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1024 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143996-9
EAN 9780141439969
You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want of air?'When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William ...
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Orientalism
Western Conceptions of the Orient
- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118742-6
EAN 9780141187426
For generations now, Edward W. Said's Orientalism has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition contains a preface written by Said shortly before his death in 2003. In this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118748-8
EAN 9780141187488
Sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 12,35 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118747-1
EAN 9780141187471
Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants, gradually becoming infatuated with them and the life of privilege they inhabit in particular, with Sebastian's remote sister, Julia. But he gradually comes ...
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Samuel Pepys
The Unequalled Self
- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 16,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-028234-4
EAN 9780140282344
The late seventeenth century saw a revolution in man's thought, as Newton and others began the scientific study of the universe around them. At the same time a shrewd young civil servant in London began to observe, with something of the same dispassionate curiosity, the strange object around which, for him, the universe revolved - ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 4,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143949-5
EAN 9780141439495
Edited with an introduction by Robert DeMaria, JrChronology, further reading and notesText based on the first edition of 1726 and reproduces all original illustrations I felt something alive moving on my left Leg when bending my Eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human Creature not six Inches high'Shipwrecked ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100336-8
EAN 9780141003368
Three men walk the pages of W. G. Sebald's first literary work the painter Mathias Grünewald, the botanist G. W. Steller and W. G. Sebald himself. Written as a long poem in three parts, After Nature delves into each of these lives in turn, teasing out the haunting uncertainties of the past and revealing the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118739-6
EAN 9780141187396
Shooting an Elephant is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd solely to avoid looking a fool'. The other masterly essays in this collection include classics such as My Country Right or Left', How the Poor Die' ...
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Everything Is Illuminated
Granta Best Young Americans
- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100825-7
EAN 9780141008257
A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, however, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms; a blind' ...
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The Blank Slate
The Modern Denial of Human Nature
- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-027605-3
EAN 9780140276053
In the past century many people have assumed that we are shaped by our environment: a blank slate waiting to be inscribed by upbringing and culture, with innate abilities playing little part.Steven Pinker's profound and essential book shows that this view denies the heart of our being: human nature. We are prepared for sex, aggression ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100439-6
EAN 9780141004396
For poets, critics and lovers of literature everywhere, James Fenton's An Introduction to English Poetry is a master class for both the reader and writer of poetry. Simply and elegantly written and discussing the work of poets as wide ranging as W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Tennyson, Kipling, Milton and Blake, it covers all varieties ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043785-0
EAN 9780140437850
In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on his own memories, as well as his writing experience, to create this vivid chronicle of the epidemic and its victims. 'A Journal' (1722) follows Defoe's fictional narrator as ...
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