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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-027634-3
EAN 9780140276343
Deeply funny, subversive and splendidly entertaining, The Autograph Man is a whirlwind tour of celebrity and our fame-obsessed times. Following one Alex-Li Tandem a twenty-something, Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organized religion it takes in London and New York, love and death, fathers and sons, as Alex tries to discover how ...
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
A Selection
- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1152 páginas
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143993-8
EAN 9780141439938
But Lord, what a sad sight it was by moonlight to see the whole City almost on fire'The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the main events the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Great Plague and the Fire of London Pepys provides a definitive eyewitness account. As well as recording public ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 552 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043657-0
EAN 9780140436570
One significator pressed remarkably upon our astrologer's attention. Mars, having dignity in the cusp of the twelfth house, threatened captivity, or sudden and violent death to the native'On the auspicious night that Guy Mannering is shown to the house of the Bertrams of Ellengowan, their heir is born and Mannering, a sceptical astrologer, predicts his ...
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Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler
Two Spanish Picaresque Novels
- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044900-6
EAN 9780140449006
Being a thief isn't just a job, it's a liberal profession'These Spanish picaresque novels focus on the adventures of two unlikely heroes delinquent pícaros living by their wits among corrupt priests and prostitutes, beggars and idle gentlemen, thieves, tricksters and murderers. The tales are sharply critical of the Church and conventions of nobility, and grotesquely ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101147-9
EAN 9780141011479
As a child, Charlie Chaplin was awed and inspired by the sight of the glamorous vaudeville stars passing by his home, and from then on he never lost his ambition to become an actor. Chaplin's film career as the Little Tramp adored by the whole world is the stuff of legend, but this frank autobiography ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104460-6
EAN 9780141044606
Captain Gault has decided that his family must leave Lahardane. They are after all Protestants living in the big house in rural Cork, and the country is in turmoil. It is 1921.But 8-year-old Lucy can't bear to leave the seashore, the old house, the woods - so she hatches a plan. It is then that ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1120 páginas
PVP: 30,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101161-5
EAN 9780141011615
Since its first publication, The Spanish Civil War has become established as the definitive one-volume history of a conflict that continues to provoke intense controversy. What was it that roused left-wing sympathizers from over the world to fight against Franco between 1936 39? Why did the British and US governments refuse to intervene? And why ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 10,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928458-1
EAN 9780099284581
Set in Provence at three different critical moments of Western Civilisation - the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, the Black Death in the fourteenth, and the Second World War in the twentieth - The Dream of Scipio follows the fortunes of three men: Manlius Hippomanes, a Gallic aristocrat obsessed with the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143982-2
EAN 9780141439822
A raging wave, mountain-like, came rowling a-stern of us we were all swallowed up in a moment'The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a desert island. In his journal he chronicles his daily battle to stay alive, as he conquers isolation, fashions shelter and clothes, first encounters another human being ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143979-2
EAN 9780141439792
What have you been judging from? Dearest Miss Morland, what ideas have you been admitting?'During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who introduces Catherine to the joys of Gothic romances, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 9,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143968-6
EAN 9780141439686
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older' At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143976-1
EAN 9780141439761
Contrariwise if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic' I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Charles Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one golden afternoon' in ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143981-5
EAN 9780141439815
And much of Madness and more of SinAnd Horror the Soul of the Plot'This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. The Fall of the House of Usher describes ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1088 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143972-3
EAN 9780141439723
Jarndyce and Jarndyce has passed into a joke. That is the only good that has ever come of it'As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143977-8
EAN 9780141439778
L d! said my mother, what is all this story about? A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick and one of the best of its kind I ever heard'Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 6,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143978-5
EAN 9780141439785
I've not always been what I am now'In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1312 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044926-6
EAN 9780140449266
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043901-4
EAN 9780140439014
Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!'Confessions is a remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the Church of Opium'. Thomas De Quincey consumed large daily quantities of laudanum (at the time a legal painkiller), and this autobiography of addiction hauntingly describes his surreal visions and hallucinatory ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 9,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143984-6
EAN 9780141439846
Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window'When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client and his castle. Soon afterwards, a number of disturbing incidents ...
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 10,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100916-2
EAN 9780141009162
This novel is about ambition and obsession, but primarily about blood - both in its metaphysical and its physical sense. Lord Nanther is writing a biography of his great-grandfather, physician to Queen Victoria and expert in blood diseases, when he uncovers a horrifying secret.
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