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'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ...'The famous opening words of Dickens's most exciting and popular novel perfectly captures the essence of the French Revolution. Swept up in the tide of cruelty and bloodshed are Charles Darnay, the innocent victim condemned for the monstrosities of his aristocratic uncle, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100757-1
EAN 9780141007571
Are we now so self-absorbed that we take little interest in the world beyond our own lives? Or has public life left no place for individuals to participate?The Fall of Public Man examines the imbalance between private and public experience, and the decline of involvement in political life in recent decades. Tracing the changing nature ...
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Laurie isn't sure what to make of 'The Wave'. It had begun as a simple history experiment to liven up their World War II studies and had become a craze that was taking over their lives. Laurie's classmates were changing from normal teenagers into chanting, saluting fanatics.'The Wave' was sweeping through the school - and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118712-9
EAN 9780141187129
One of the most liberating books of our time'NewsweekWhen diagnosed with breast cancer Susan Sontag discovered the extent to which we have developed a mythology to cope with disease, which can often distort the truth about illness and isolate the patient. In Illness as Metaphor she strips away the myths and presents the true significance ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 9,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-081769-0
EAN 9780140817690
Penguin Student Editions are complete unabridged texts of Penguin Classics, Modern Classics and some more recent titles, packaged with reading help for the student in the form of:- accessible yet authoritative introductions- glossary of cultural references and unfamiliar words- stimulating activities and discussion points, including activities needed to prepare for essays and examinations- chapter-by-chapter summaries- ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101087-8
EAN 9780141010878
THE MONARCHY HAS BEEN DISMANTLEDWhen a Republican party wins the General Election, their first act in power is to strip the royal family of their assets and titles and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands.Exchanging Buckingham Palace for a two-bedroomed semi in Hell Close (as the locals dub it), caviar ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 16,15 €
ISBN 978-0-14-051348-6
EAN 9780140513486
Now in a completely revised edition, this bestselling historical atlas has long been established as one of the most clear and comprehensive guides to the evolution of ancient cultures. In a chronological series of maps and accompanying text it traces the movements of races in Europe, the Mediterranean area and the Near East from 50,000 ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 10,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101083-0
EAN 9780141010830
Wednesday June 10thPandora and I are in love! It is official! She told Claire Nelson, who told Nigel, who told me. I told Nigel to tell Claire to tell Pandora that I return her love. I am over the moon with joy. I can overlook the fact that Pandora smokes five Benson and Hedges a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118719-8
EAN 9780141187198
'Luminous ... rich, strange and free' John UpdikeRomantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven intricately interwoven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore, to a dhow on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar.Proclaimed a masterpiece on its publication in 1934, this collection is shot ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 101 páginas
PVP: 15,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7352-1668-6
EAN 9780735216686
The 1987 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for DramaFrom August Wilson, author of "The Piano Lesson" and the 1984-85 Broadway season's best play, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom"," " is another powerful, stunning dramatic work that has won him numerous critical acclaim including the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. The protagonist ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-0-14-044966-2
EAN 9780140449662
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1004 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043546-7
EAN 9780140435467
'"Dombey and Son" ... Those three words conveyed the one idea of Mr Dombey's life. The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, the sun and moon were made to give them light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships'To Paul Dombey, business is everything. He runs his domestic affairs ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 928 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-043752-2
EAN 9780140437522
When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, is accused of theft it causes a public scandal, sending shockwaves through the world of Barsetshire. The Crawleys desperately try to remain dignified while they are shunned by society, but the scandal threatens to tear them, and the community, apart.Drawing on his own childhood experience of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-026574-3
EAN 9780140265743
Situated in an area roughly corresponding to present-day Iraq, Mesopotamia is one of the great, ancient civilizations, though it is still relatively unknown. Yet, over 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, the very first cities were created. This is the first book to reveal how life was lived in ten Mesopotamian cities: from Eridu, the Mesopotamian ...
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Charting the rise and fall of an ambitious young social climber in a cruel, monarchical society, Stendhal's The Red and the Black is translated with an introduction and notes by Roger Gard in Penguin Classics.Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon realizing that success can only be achieved ...
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Arranged in an easy-to-use A-Z form, "The New Penguin Concise Thesaurus" offers a vast selection of synonyms for a whole host of words, ranging from the everyday to the comparatively esoteric and from standard vocabulary to contemporary slang and jargon ('e-tailer', 'chill out'). Each entry is simplicity itself to follow, and where a particular word ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-016664-4
EAN 9780140166644
'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New StatesmanWith a lucid and clear narrative style William Chester Jordan has turned his considerable talents to composing a standard textbook of the opening centuries of the second millennium in Europe. He brings this period of dramatic social, political, economic, cultural, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044733-0
EAN 9780140447330
As a playwright Chekhov was subversive, even revolutionary, breaking away from the prevailing fashions of contemporary theatre to create an exhilarating new form of drama. He created many plays without heroes and villains, and focused instead on the individual grappling with a moral dilemma. In place of the happy ending came ambiguity, in place of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118706-8
EAN 9780141187068
Credited with inventing the modern horror tradition, H. P. Lovecraft remade the genre in the early twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisaging mankind at the mercy of a chaotic and malevolent universe.This selection of stories ranges from early tales of nightmares and insanity such as The Outsider' and Rats in the Walls', ...
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