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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 912 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118418-0
EAN 9780141184180
"The Forsyte Saga" is the first part of John Galsworthy's magnificent, well-loved "Forsyte Chronicles", which trace the changing fortunes of the wealthy Forsyte dynasty through fifty years of material triumph and emotional disaster. "The Forsyte Saga" begins as the nineteenth century is drawing to a close, and the upper middle classes, with their property and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 864 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118683-2
EAN 9780141186832
In this second part of John Galworthy's trilogy of love, power, money and family feuding, a new generation has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions.
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 816 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118684-9
EAN 9780141186849
In this final volume of "The Forsyte Saga", Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the Forsytes. For centuries, the Cherrell sons have left their home of Condaford Grange to serve the state as soldiers, clergymen and administrators, but the 1930s bring uncertainty in a world of rapidly altering ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118637-5
EAN 9780141186375
Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race and liberal America in the 1960s. Set in Greenwhich Village, Harlem and France, Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz-musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his life and death, discovering uncomfortable truths about ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118667-2
EAN 9780141186672
Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War...Philip K. Dick trips the switches of our minds with his vision of the world as it might have been: the African continent virtually wiped out, the Mediterranean drained to make farmland, the United States divided between the Japanese and the Nazis...In the neutral ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 19,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-029519-1
EAN 9780140295191
Wagner was one of the few major composers who studied philosophy seriously. Bryan Magee places the composer's artistic development in the context of the philosophy of his age, and gives us the first detailed and comprehensive study of the close links between Wagner and the philosophers - from the pre-Marxist socialists to Feuerbach and Schopenhauer. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118686-3
EAN 9780141186863
Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity to explain himself. He feared the enthusiasm for his ideas tended to exceed a deeper ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1184 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118581-1
EAN 9780141185811
In this experimental trilogy, Dos Passos uses "camera eye" and "newsreel" sections to create a fragmented atmosphere. Through the testimony of numerous characters, both fictional and historical figures, he buids up a composite picture of American society in the first quarter of the 20th century.
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118442-5
EAN 9780141184425
'It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves'Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published in 1952 when American society was in the cusp of immense change, the powerfully depicted adventures ...
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Innumeracy
Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences
- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-029120-9
EAN 9780140291209
Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated bestseller first published in 1988, argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the probabilities associated with them results in misinformed governmental policies, confused personal decisions, and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1280 páginas
PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-042366-2
EAN 9780140423662
Rossetti is unique among Victorian poets for the sheer range of her subject matter and the variety of her verse form. This collection brings together fantasy poems, such as Goblin Market, and terrifyingly vivid verses for children, love lyrics and sonnets, and the vast body of her devotional poetry. Rossetti's poems weave connections between love ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118416-6
EAN 9780141184166
Against a background of life in the Staffordshire Potteries, this is a novel about a gossipy, myopic, savage community and at its heart a young girl dominated by her miserly father. Bennett's portrait of Anna as a complex modern woman makes this book as moving today as when it was first written.
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 14,35 €
ISBN 978-0-14-027850-7
EAN 9780140278507
Every new government promises to represent a new dawn, but for New Labour it was the Covenant that Tony Blair made with Britain. The party that won a landslide victory on May Day 1997 made the special claim that it represented a decisive break with the disappointments of the old left and the old right: ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 11,04 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043771-3
EAN 9780140437713
This collection includes many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance - that made the legendary Sherlock Holmes one of fiction's most popular creations. With his devoted amanuensis, Dr Watson, Holmes emerges from his smoke filled rooms in Baker Street to grapple with the forces of treachery, intrigue and evil in such ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 11,68 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118090-8
EAN 9780141180908
Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather embarks on a series of bizarre adventures that start in a minor public school and end in one of HM prisons. In this, his first and funniest novel, Evelyn Waugh immediately caught the ear of the public with his account of an ingénue abroad in the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 18,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118592-7
EAN 9780141185927
An incomparable satirist, Ambrose Bierce became the "laughing devil" of the San Francisco news media, for he was about as discreet as a runaway locomotive, according to H.L.Mencken, and nowhere are his uninhibited irony and gift for verse parody more in evidence than in this "dictionary".
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The Rose Tattoo and Other Plays
The Rose Tattoo / Camino Real / Orpheus Descending
- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118650-4
EAN 9780141186504
In these exotic, steamy dramas, Tennessee Williams portrays loss, faded lives and passionate love affairs. The title play, "The Rose Tattoo", is set in a bustling Sicilian-American community, where new widowed Serafina is paralysed by grief.
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 14,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118675-7
EAN 9780141186757
Rudyard Kipling is undoubtedly among the great short story writers in the English language. This collection opens with "The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows," the first story Kipling published as a young journalist in India, and ends with an acknowledged masterpiece, "The Gardener," written 50 years later in the aftermath of the Great War. The ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118678-8
EAN 9780141186788
'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'.In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the rest of the country collapsed into a civil war that was in the author's words 'sloppy, dogged ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118531-6
EAN 9780141185316
A group of well-bred English people react violently when they are confronted by a situation outside their experience. The widowed Lilia marries an Italian, and the contrast between the vitality of disreputable Gino, and the narrowness of the English, forms the central theme of the story.
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