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Plays Unpleasant
Widowers' Houses / The Philanderer / Mrs Warren's Profession
- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043793-5
EAN 9780140437935
With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic reality, promiscuity and marriage, and the duties of women to others and to themselves. His first play, Widowers' Houses, depicts Harry Trench's dilemma on learning that the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118508-8
EAN 9780141185088
In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits - gamblers, whores, drunks, bums, and artists - survive side by side in a jumble of adventure and mischief. Lee Chong, the astute owner of the fantastically well-stocked grocery store, is also the proprietor of the Palace Flophouse that Mack and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118506-4
EAN 9780141185064
'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.'Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic, The Grapes of Wrath, remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of Dust Bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of the Joad family, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118512-5
EAN 9780141185125
The Pearl is John Steinbeck's flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, a Mexican pearl-diver finds 'the Pearl of the World' he believes that his impoverished life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in the church and their son, Coyotito, will go to school. Obsessed by his dream, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118514-9
EAN 9780141185149
A chemist by training, Primo Levi became one of the supreme witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In these haunting reflections inspired by the elements of the periodic table, he ranges from young love to political savagery; from the inert gas argon - and 'inert' relatives like the uncle who stayed in bed for twenty-two years - ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118383-1
EAN 9780141183831
Although full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, the stories which make up The Aleph also contain some of Borges's most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her father's 'killer' and a ...
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Like most ten-year-old boys, Jody Tiflin has the urge for rebellion as well as the need to be loved. In these stories, Jody begins to learn about adulthood - its pains, its responsibilities and its problems - through his acceptance of his father's gifts. First he is given a red pony and later he is ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118507-1
EAN 9780141185071
'There is only one book to a man' Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden, his most ambitious novel. Set in the rich farmland of Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations helplessly re-enact the fall of Adam and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118390-9
EAN 9780141183909
Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trapped behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Wracked by fear, hunger and fierce rivalries, they link up, fall apart, struggle to stay ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118458-6
EAN 9780141184586
Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite and conviction, Thornton Wilder set out to bring back realism and to celebrate the innocent, simple and religious. Yet he also tried to endow individual experience with cosmic significance and Our Town is both an affectionate portrait of American life and 'an attempt to find a ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118448-7
EAN 9780141184487
A colourful, multi-facted chronicle of New York in the early 1920s, Manhattan Transfer ranks with Joyce's Ulysses as a powerful and often lyrical meditation on the modern city. Using experimental montage and collage techniques borrowed from the cinema, and the jumbled case histories of a picaresque range of characters from dockside crapshooters to high-society flappers, ...
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The Loved One
An Anglo-American Tragedy
- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118424-1
EAN 9780141184241
Following the death of a friend, poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering into the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday. There, Dennis enters the fragile and bizarre world of Aimée, the naïve Californian corpse ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118522-4
EAN 9780141185224
Carson McCullers's prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three. Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South, it is the story of John Singer, a lonely deaf-mute, and a disparate group of people who are drawn towards his kind, sympathetic nature. The owner of the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118526-2
EAN 9780141185262
The famous American poet John Shade was murdered in 1959. This book contains his last poem, Pale Fire, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he - can he possibly be - mad, bad, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 18,65 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043766-9
EAN 9780140437669
There was nothing weak about Miss Olive, she was a fighting woman, and she would fight him to the death'Basil Ransom, an attractive young Mississippi lawyer, is on a visit to his cousin Olive, a wealthy feminist, in Boston when he accompanies her to a meeting on the subject of women's emancipation. One of the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-027940-5
EAN 9780140279405
Now 301/4, Adrian's still worrying: Can he be a good father? Is Viagra cheating? Why won't the BBC produce 'The White Van', his serial killer comedy?Will he find the fulfilment he seeks as celebrity offal chef, single parent and celibate novelist? Is there a place for Adrian Mole in Blair's Brave New Britain?It is 1 ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118488-3
EAN 9780141184883
"The Dharma Bums" appeared just one year after the author's explosive "On The Road" had put the Beat Generation on the literary map and Kerouac on the best-seller list. The same expansiveness, humour and contagious zest for life that sparked the earlier novels sparks this one too, but through a more cohesive story. The books ...
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Physics and Philosophy
The Revolution in Modern Science
- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118215-5
EAN 9780141182155
Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg's classic account explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution, and his celebrated Uncertainty Principle. The theme of Heisenberg's exposition is that words and concepts familiar in daily life can lose their meaning in the world of relativity and quantum physics. This in turn has profound philosophical implications for the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 12,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118394-7
EAN 9780141183947
After being left by Mr Mackenzie (and not the other way around) Julia faces facts. Once glamorous and sought-after she is now down-at-heel after a string of unsuccessful affairs and leads a jaded, faded life in a tawdry Paris hotel. Then the maintenance cheques stop and she is forced to change her circumstances. She makes ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118490-6
EAN 9780141184906
As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Jack Kerouac breathlessly records, in prose of pure poetry, the life of the road. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; catching up with the beat night-life ...
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