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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118393-0
EAN 9780141183930
In 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very like another, a young woman is teaching herself indifference. She has escaped personal tragedy and has come to France to find courage and seek independence. She tells herself to expect nothing, especially not kindness, least of all from men. Tomorrow, she resolves, she will dye ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118395-4
EAN 9780141183954
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Embracing Defeat
Japan in the Aftermath of the World War II
- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 28,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-028551-2
EAN 9780140285512
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 9,96 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118217-9
EAN 9780141182179
This epoch-making book cuts through confused thinking and forces us to re-examine many cherished ideas about knowledge, imagination, consciousness and the intellect. The result is a classic example of philosophy.
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
ISBN 978-0-14-118363-3
EAN 9780141183633
Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Two men - Kim, a boy growing into early manhood and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are fired by a quest. Kim is white, a sahib, although born in India. While he wants to play the Great Game ...
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Three Plays for Puritans
. The Devil s Disciple/Caesar and Cleopatra/Captain Brassbound s Conversion
- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043792-8
EAN 9780140437928
'I am as fond of fine music and handsome buildings as Milton was, or Cromwell, or Bunyan; but if I found that they were becoming the instruments of a systematic idolatry of sensuousness, I would hold it good statesmanship to blow up every cathedral in the world to pieces with dynamite' Disgusted and bored by ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118374-9
EAN 9780141183749
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, an intrepid and eccentric adventurer, transferred his passion for flying to the written word by writing several classics of aviation literature, including Southern Mail and Night Flight. Based on Saint-Exupéry's trail-blazing flights for the French airmail service over the Sahara and later, the Andes, these two novels evoke the tragic courage and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 19,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118311-4
EAN 9780141183114
Joyce's final work, Finnegans Wake, is his masterpiece of the night as Ulysses was of the day. Supreme linguistic virtuosity conjures up the dark underground worlds of sexuality and dream. Joyce undermines traditional storytelling and all official forms of English and confronts the different kinds of betrayal - cultural, political and sexual - he saw ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118398-5
EAN 9780141183985
'We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way.' When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill-informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are rife. However, with the aid if Minister of ...
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Home Truths
A Novella
- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 12,65 €
ISBN 978-0-14-029013-4
EAN 9780140290134
Adrian Ludlow, a novelist with a distinguished reputation and a book on the A-level syllabus, is now seeking obscurity in a cottage beneath the Gatwick flight path, with his wife Eleanor. Their old university friend Sam Sharp, now a hugely successful screenwriter, drops in on the way to Los Angeles, fuming over a vicious profile ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118306-0
EAN 9780141183060
This outstanding collection brings together Orwell's longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes My Country Right or Left', Decline of the English Murder', 'Shooting an Elephant' and A Hanging'. With great originality and wit Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from the moral enormity of Jonathan Swift's strange genius ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118598-9
EAN 9780141185989
Nabokov said of his chess-playing genius Luzhin, that despite his coarseness and grubby plainness, he is a lovable creation. Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood, rising to the rank of international Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passion for chess that renders the real world a phantom. As he confronts the fiery, swift-swooping Italian Grandmaster, Turati, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 6,13 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043796-6
EAN 9780140437966
The gripping first-hand story of the disaster that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick and is the basis for a major new feature film, In the Heart of the Sea. In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was sailing in the South Pacific when it was rammed by an angry sperm whale. The ship sank, leaving twenty crew members ...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Abridged Edition
- Penguin UK, 2000
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 848 páginas
PVP: 19,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043764-5
EAN 9780140437645
Famously sceptical about Christianity, unexpectedly sympathetic to the barbarian invaders and the Byzantine Empire, constantly aware of how political leaders often achieve the exact opposite of what they intend, Gibbon was alert to both the broad pattern of events and the significant revealing detail. Attacked for its enlightened views on politics, sexuality and religion, the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-14-027652-7
EAN 9780140276527
Cathy and Si, though total opposites, have been best friends since university.He is impossibly tidy, bitchy and desperate to fall in love with a man like Brad Pitt. She is scatty, messy and not so desperate. They live near to each other and to Lucy and Josh (other best friends) their devilish child Max and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118125-7
EAN 9780141181257
Few have lived their ideas so passionately and nobly as W. B. Yeats in his love affairs, politics and poetry. From his youth in the 1880s, a fertile dreamer rediscovering and remaking the Irish tradition, he grew into a great and innovative poet of the twentieth century. This selection includes the final book from the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044761-3
EAN 9780140447613
Created by an Irish clergyman, Melmoth is one of the most fiendish characters in literature. In a satanic bargain, Melmoth exchanges his soul for immortality. The story of his tortured wanderings through the centuries is pieced together through those who have been implored by Melmoth to take over his pact with the devil.Influenced by the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118259-9
EAN 9780141182599
Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons. As long as Jim can survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son Bertrand.
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043754-6
EAN 9780140437546
From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ellena, he is captivated by her enigmatic beauty and grace. But his haughty and manipulative mother is against the match and enlists the help of her confessor to come between them. Schedoni, previously a leading figure of the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118319-0
EAN 9780141183190
In 1926 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (author of the classic The Little Prince) began flying for the pioneering airline Latécoère - later known as Aéropostale - opening up the first mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes. Wind, Sand and Stars (1939) is drawn from this experience. Interweaving stories of encounters with nomadic Arabs and ...
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