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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118284-1
EAN 9780141182841
As influential and revelatory in its day as Fifty Shades of Grey is now, Anais Nin's Delta of Venus is a groundbreaking anthology of erotic short stories, published in Penguin Modern ClassicsIn Delta of Venus Anais Nin conjures up a glittering cascade of sexual encounters. Creating her own 'language of the senses', she explores an ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 23,55 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118530-9
EAN 9780141185309
'The only four things that interested me were: reading books, going to the movies, tap-dancing and drawing pictures. Then one day I started writing . . .' Truman Capote began writing at the age of eight, and never looked back. A Capote Reader contains much of the author's published work: his brilliant and prolific oeuvre ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118266-7
EAN 9780141182667
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist's 'eternal imagination'.
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118267-4
EAN 9780141182674
On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes ...
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The Crucible
A Play in Four Acts
- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118255-1
EAN 9780141182551
Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the McCarthyism which gripped America in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia ...
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Animal Farm
A Fairy Story
- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 13,35 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118270-4
EAN 9780141182704
'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine', wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. Orwell wrote it at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished. Its savage ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118268-1
EAN 9780141182681
Flann O'Brien's first novel is a brilliant impressionistic jumble of ideas, mythology and nonsense. Operating on many levels it incorporates plots within plots, giving full rein to O'Brien's dancing intellect and Celtic wit. The undergraduate narrator lives with his uncle in Dublin, drinks too much with his friends and invents stories peopled with hilarious and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118260-5
EAN 9780141182605
In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?
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The Pickwick Papers
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 848 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043611-2
EAN 9780140436112
Rising rage and extreme bewilderment had swelled the noble breast of Mr Pickwick, almost to the bursting of his waistcoat'Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers a comic masterpiece that catapulted its twenty-four-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118142-4
EAN 9780141181424
Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction. Her glamour, freethinking ideas and manipulative charm hold dangerous sway over her girls at the Marcia Blaine Academy - the 'creme de la creme' - who become the Brodie Set, introduced to a privileged world of adult games ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118263-6
EAN 9780141182636
In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusion of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place, for in chronicling Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream, Fitzgerald recreates the universal conflict between illusion ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118015-1
EAN 9780141180151
'Yes, I loved her, it's the name I gave, still give alas, to what I was doing then. I had nothing to go by, having never loved before, but of course had heard of the thing, at home, in school, in brothel and at church, and read romances, in prose and verse, under the guidance ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118271-1
EAN 9780141182711
The Waves, more than any of Virginia Woolf's novels, conveys the complexities of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language ...
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In Cold Blood
A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118257-5
EAN 9780141182575
Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved. At the centre of his study are the amoral ...
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Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels
The Pursuit of Love / Love in a Cold Climate / The Blessing
- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118149-3
EAN 9780141181493
'How lovely - green velvet and silver, I call that a dream, so soft and delicious, too.' She rubbed a fold of the skirt against her cheek. 'Mine's silver lamé, it smells like a bird cage when it gets hot but I do love it. Aren't you thankful evening skirts are long again?' The dresses, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118225-4
EAN 9780141182254
It is the fiesta Day of Death in Mexico and Geoffrey Firmin - ex-consul, ex-husband, an alcoholic and a ruined man - is living out the last day of his life. Drowning himself in mescal while his former wife and half-brother look on, powerless to help him, the consul has become an enduring tragic figure. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118253-7
EAN 9780141182537
'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.' Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. This seduction is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118287-2
EAN 9780141182872
In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of 'twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. In a quest for treasure, a favourite party occupation, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118245-2
EAN 9780141182452
Joyce's first major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time. His stories are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. He writes of social decline, sexual desire and exploitation, corruption and personal failure, yet creates a ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118223-0
EAN 9780141182230
The town is Galloway in Massachusetts, birthplace of the five sons and three daughters of the Martin family in the early 1900s. The city is New York, the vast and heaving melting pot which lures them all in search of futures and identity. Nearly a decade before the publication of On the Road, the story ...
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