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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119209-3
EAN 9780141192093
This Faust-like and magical story of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope was described in The New York Times as a savage indictment of bourgeois society'. But, as the author notes in this edition, Steppenwolf is a book that has been consistently misinterpreted. This self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118633-7
EAN 9780141186337
Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travellers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad - now Volgograd - but through the countryside of the Ukraine and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 18,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118518-7
EAN 9780141185187
Orwell's classic satire Animal Farm continues to be an international best seller. For the first time ever, Orwell And Politics brings this major work together with the author's other works exploring the nature of politics and the Second World War.
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Orwell's England
. The Road to Wigan Pier in the Context of Essays, Reviews, Letters and Poems
- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 14,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118517-0
EAN 9780141185170
Collected together for the first time, this volume includes the complete text of The Road To Wigan Pier - Orwell's vivid and impassioned documentary of unemployment and proletarian life - as well as Orwell's best writing on the political and social condition of England.
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118631-3
EAN 9780141186313
Steinbeck's last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Reflecting back on his New England family's past fortune, and his father's loss of the family wealth, the hero, Ethan Allen Hawley, characterises success in every era and in all its forms as robbery, murder, even a kind of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118536-1
EAN 9780141185361
For Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning'. Picasso was there with his high whinnying spanish giggle', as were Cezanne and Matisse, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. As Toklas put it The geniuses came ...
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The House of Bernarda Alba and other Plays
Blood Wedding / Yerma / The House of Bernarda Alba
- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118575-0
EAN 9780141185750
The revolutionary genius of Spanish theatre, Lorca brought vivid and tragic poetry to the stage with these three powerful dramas.In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here also portray female characters whose desires are tragically and violently ...
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
A Romance
- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043759-1
EAN 9780140437591
His power did not appear so terrible to her imagination as it was wont to do: a sacred pride was in her heart, that taught it to swell against the pressure of injustice'If beautiful, orphaned Emily St Aubert is to resist the predatory demands of her new guardian, the inscrutable Signor Montoni, then she must ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118487-6
EAN 9780141184876
Is Moses Herzog philosopher, suffering romantic and cuckhold losing his mind? His formidable wife Madeleine has left him for his best friend and he is left alone with his whirling thoughts, yet he still sees himself as a survivor, raging against private disasters and those of the modern age. His head buzzing with ideas, he ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118529-3
EAN 9780141185293
A searing account of George Orwell's experiences of working- class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. His graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, slum housing, mining conditions, squalor, hunger and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118359-6
EAN 9780141183596
The French Riviera in the 1920s was 'discovered' by Dick and Nicole Diver who turned it into the playground of the rich and glamorous. Among their circle is Rosemary Hoyt, the beautiful starlet, who falls in love with Dick and is enraptured by Nicole, unaware of the corruption and dark secrets that haunt their marriage. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118282-7
EAN 9780141182827
With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl. Within the span of a few hours the irresistible, hoydenish Frankie passionately plays out her fantasies at her elder brother's wedding. Through a perilous skylight we ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118576-7
EAN 9780141185767
The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of thought. Only John Krug, a brilliant philosopher, stands up to the regime. His antagonist, the leader of the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 10,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118485-2
EAN 9780141184852
Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118486-9
EAN 9780141184869
Augie March is a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Depression. A 'born recruit', he latches on to a wild succession of occupations, then proudly rejects each one as too limiting. Not until he tangles with the glamorous Thea, a huntress with a trained eagle, is his independence seriously threatened.He goes on to ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 5 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-14-028592-5
EAN 9780140285925
At a time when most modern critics seem more concerned with theories of politics and psychology than with poetry, eminent scholar Frank Kermode takes us back to the essence of Shakespeare his words. Shakespeare's revolutionary use of language is where the true power of his plays lies. Yet how could he be so wildly experimental ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118382-4
EAN 9780141183824
The Book Of Sand was the last of Borges' major collections to be published. The stories are, in his words, 'variations on favourite themes... combining a plain and at times almost colloquial style with a fantastic plot'. It includes such marvellous tales as 'The Congress', 'Undr' and 'The Mirror and the Mask'. Also included are ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 16,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118587-3
EAN 9780141185873
The Gift is the phantasmal autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian émigré intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War. In this his last, and to many his greatest, Russian novel, Nabokov unfolds the story of a writer's pursuit; a gorgeous tapestry of literature and Lepidoptera whose ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 752 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-025255-2
EAN 9780140252552
This new edition of Brogan's superb one-volume history - from early British colonisation to the Reagan years - captures an array of dynamic personalities and events. In a broad sweep of America's triumphant progress. Brogan explores the period leading to Independence from both the American and the British points of view, touching on permanent features ...
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An Inspector Calls and Other Plays
Time and the Conways / I Have Been Here Before / An Inspector Calls / The Linden
- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118535-4
EAN 9780141185354
An Inspector Calls, first produced in 1946 when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has recently enjoyed an enormously successful revival. While holding its audience with the gripping tension of a detective thriller, it is also a philosophical play about social conscience and the crumbling of middle class values. Time and the Conways and I Have ...
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