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- Penguin UK, 1997
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 23,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-025900-1
EAN 9780140259001
By the end of 1914, the battered British forces were bogged down, yet hopeful that promised reinforcements and spring weather would soon lead to a victorious breakthrough. A year later, after appalling losses at Aubers Ridge, Loos, Neuve Chapelle, Ypres and faraway Gallipoli, fighting seemed set to go on for ever. Drawing on extensive interviews, ...
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- Penguin UK, 1996
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-026101-1
EAN 9780140261011
Misha Glenny's acclaimed account of the war in former Yugoslavia contains substantial new material that discusses the end of the five-year conflict and looks ahead to an uneasy future in this turbulent region. Writing in the "Evening Standard", Fitzroy Maclean said 'Misha Glenny's deeply disturbing book is, to my mind, essential reading for anyone trying ...
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- Penguin UK, 1996
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-023590-6
EAN 9780140235906
This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a "five-pound note" with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch.
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The cradle of Western civilisation, Ancient Greece was a land of contradictions and conflict. Intensely quarrelsome and competitive, the Greek city-states consistently proved unwilling and unable to unite. Yet, in spite of or even because of this internal discord, no ancient civilization proved so dynamic or productive.The Greeks not only colonized the Mediterranean and Black ...
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- Penguin UK, 1996
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043446-0
EAN 9780140434460
Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie, Master of Ballantrae, abandons his ancestral home to support the Scottish rebellion - leaving his younger brother Henry, who is faithful to the English crown, to inherit the title of Lord Durrisdeer. But he is to ...
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- Penguin UK, 1996
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 14,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-026168-4
EAN 9780140261684
The Death of Yugoslavia, which accompanied the highly acclaimed BBC television series of the same name, was the first account to go behind the public face of battle and into the closed worlds of the key players in the war. In this updated edition, which takes the story through the Dayton Accord, the authors consider ...
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- Penguin UK, 1996
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043470-5
EAN 9780140434705
One of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels, Romola is set in Renaissance Florence during the turbulent years following the expulsion of the powerful Medici family during which the zealous religious reformer Savonarola rose to control the city. At its heart is Romola, the devoted daughter of a blind scholar, married to the clever ...
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- Penguin UK, 1996
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-018970-4
EAN 9780140189704
When the Countess Olenska, separated from her husband and bearing an independence and impulsive awareness of life, returns into the old New York society, she stirs the educated sensitivity of Newland Archer, who is engaged to be married to May Welland, the Countess' cousin
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The Old Patagonian Express
By Train Through the Americas
- Penguin UK, 1996
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-024979-8
EAN 9780140249798
A witty and sharply observed journey down the length of North and South America.Beginning his journey in Boston, where he boarded the subway commuter train, and catching trains of all kinds on the way, Paul Theroux tells of his voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts and Illinois to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip. Sweating ...
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- Penguin UK, 1996
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 3,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-062416-8
EAN 9780140624168
This novel charts the relationships of Ursula Brangwen and her sister Gudrun (first introduced in "The Rainbow") with their lovers Rupert and and Gerald. Through a series of scenes Lawrence creates a critical vision of modern society and values.
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- Penguin UK, 1996
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1232 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043393-7
EAN 9780140433937
Although it covers no less than thirteen centuries of history, writes David Womersley, Gibbon's Decline and Fall 'is never routine, always alert with humanity and intelligence, often surprising in its sympathies'. It counts, quite simply, as 'one of the greatest narratives in European literature'. This definitive three-volume edition presents a complete and unmodernized text, the ...
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- Penguin UK, 1996
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 23,65 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044580-0
EAN 9780140445800
The traveller, aristocratic adventurer, political activist, ethnographer and publisher Jan Potocki (1761-1815) is a legendary figure in Poland, not least for his literary masterpiece The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.The novel's narrator Alphonse van Worden, a young Walloon officer journeying to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739, is diverted into the Sierra Morena and mysteriously ...
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- Penguin UK, 1996
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 11,65 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043474-3
EAN 9780140434743
I no longer love my husband I HATE him! The word stares at me in the face like a guilty confession'Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when ...
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- Penguin UK, 1996
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043424-8
EAN 9780140434248
How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?'When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially ...
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This is Dickens's earliest work - his collection of sketches of London life and manners, first published in various periodicals
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- Penguin UK, 1995
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 896 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043427-9
EAN 9780140434279
To say that Deronda was romantic would be to misrepresent him; but under his calm and somewhat self-repressed exterior there was a fervour'As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of ...
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The fourth edition of The Penguin Dictionary of Building has proved its claim to be the most popular and unique work of reference of its kind, being comprehensive, up-to-date and inexpensive. Illustrated throughout with clear, explanatory line drawings, it offers: Clear definitions of terms used by architects, builders, DIY centres, planners and surveyors in the ...
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- Penguin UK, 1995
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043507-8
EAN 9780140435078
'The charm of certain vacant grassy spaces, in Italy, overfrowned by masses of brickwork that are honeycombed by the suns of centuries, is something that I hereby renounce once for all the attempt to express; but you may be sure that whenever I mention such a spot enchantment lurks in it.' - Henry James In ...
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- Penguin UK, 1995
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043554-2
EAN 9780140435542
Few novels can match Rob Roy for suspense and narrative daring, or in the swirl of colour of its characters. Scott's tour de force of family intrigue has two heroes. Francis Osbaldistone, dispatched in disgrace from London, joins his foxhunting cousins at their ancestral seat in Northumberland. His suspicions of villainous Rashleigh Osbaldistone, and the ...
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