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- Penguin UK, 1993
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-016777-1
EAN 9780140167771
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an élite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and ...
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- Penguin UK, 1993
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043330-2
EAN 9780140433302
Poet, pattern-designer, environmentalist and maker of fine books, William Morris (1834-96) was also a committed socialist and visionary writer, obsessively concerned with the struggle to achieve a perfect society on earth. News From Nowhere, one of the most significant English works on the theme of utopia, is the tale of William Guest, a Victorian who ...
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Paul Theroux invites us to join him on one of his most exotic and tantalizing adventures exploring the coasts and blue lagoons of the Pacific Islands, and taking up residence to discover the secrets of these isles.Theroux is a mesmerizing narrator - brilliant, witty, keenly perceptive as he floats through Gauguin landscapes, sails in the ...
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The Birth of Tragedy
Out of the Spirit of Music
- Penguin UK, 1993
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043339-5
EAN 9780140433395
Let us turn our eyes to the highest spheres of the world that flows around us'A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, for the philosophy of Schopenhauer and for the music of Wagner, to whom this work was dedicated. Nietzsche outlined ...
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Bradbury, Malcolm; Ruland, Richard
From Puritanism to Postmodernism
A History of American Literature
- Penguin UK, 1993
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-014435-2
EAN 9780140144352
Table of contentsPrefacePart I. The Literature of British America1. The Puritan Legacy2. Awakening and EnlightenmentPart II. From Colonial Outpost to Cultural Province3. Revolution and (In)Dependence4. American Naissance5. Yea-saying and Nay-sayingPart III. Native and Cosmopolitan Crosscurrents: From Local Color to Realism and Naturalism6. Secession and Loyalty7. Muckrakers and Early ModernsPart IV. Modernism in the American Grain8. ...
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- Penguin UK, 1993
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 1152 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-14-017059-7
EAN 9780140170597
Spycatcher, mining engineer, war hero, detective and adventurer - Richard Hannay was one of John Buchan's greatest fictional creations. This omnibus edition features The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mr Standfast, The Three Hostages and The Island of Sheep.
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- Penguin UK, 1993
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 12,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-018549-2
EAN 9780140185492
In this wry, funny, bittersweet story, love gets in the way of progress when Raman, a sign painter, meets the thrillingly independent Daisy, who wishes to bring birth control to the city of Malgudi.
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- Penguin UK, 1992
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 12,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-017218-8
EAN 9780140172188
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- Penguin UK, 1992
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1088 páginas
PVP: 14,57 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044570-1
EAN 9780140445701
The third volume of the book that changed the course of world history, Capital's final chapters were Marx's most controversial writings on the subject, and were never completed.
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- Penguin UK, 1992
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-016700-9
EAN 9780140167009
I'd always shied away from Brenan's book because everyone said it was a classic, I'm wary of these as they usually entail a great deal of fine writing' and showing off on the part of the author. I'd also heard that it included accounts by Brenan of visits to his remote Spanish village by Lytton ...
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- Penguin UK, 1992
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-14-051249-6
EAN 9780140512496
This is a revised edition of "The Penguin Atlas of Medieval History".
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- Penguin UK, 1992
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044562-6
EAN 9780140445626
Oh, would that I could describe even one hundredth part of the afflictions and calamities wrought among these innocent people by the benighted Spanish!'Bartolomé de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas ...
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Chance
A Tale in Two Parts
- Penguin UK, 1992
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 10,15 €
ISBN 978-0-14-018654-3
EAN 9780140186543
'It is a mighty force that of mere chance, absolutely irresistible yet manifesting itself often in delicate forms such for instance as the charm, true or illusory, of a human being' In Flora de Barral, the slender, dreamy, morbidly charming daughter of a parvenu financier, Conrad creates his most complex heroine and one of his ...
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- Penguin UK, 1992
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044569-5
EAN 9780140445695
The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx's theories.
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- Penguin UK, 1992
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044217-5
EAN 9780140442175
The Admiral was quite certain that they were near land He promised to give a silk doublet to the first sailor who should report it'No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus's ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 an event that paved the way for the conquest ...
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- Penguin UK, 1992
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 9,96 €
ISBN 978-0-14-018555-3
EAN 9780140185553
It is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to the comparative neglect of his poetry and sole surviving play. And yet, argues Mays in his stimulating and informative introduction, several of these works not only occupy a pivotal position in Joyce's career; they are also magnificently assured achievements in their ...
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- Penguin UK, 1991
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,65 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119182-9
EAN 9780141191829
A notice in "The Times" addressed to 'Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine' advertises a 'small mediaeval Italian Castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be let furnished for the month of April'. Four very different women take up the offer, escaping dreary London for the sunshine of Italy.
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- Penguin UK, 1991
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-014035-4
EAN 9780140140354
Haroun's father is the greatest of all storytellers. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But, one terrible day, everything goes wrong and his father runs out of stories to tell.Haroun, determined to return the storyteller's gift to his father, flies off on the back of the Hoopoe bird to the ...
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A witty, irreverent but very useful account of the peculiarities of the English language. This book is designed to appeal to all lovers of language and history. The author also wrote "The Lost Continent", "Book of Blunders" and "Dictionary of Troublesome Words"."Mother Tongue" should appeal to all lovers of language and history and also those ...
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Modernism
A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930
- Penguin UK, 1991
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 23,55 €
ISBN 978-0-14-013832-0
EAN 9780140138320
Table of contentsNotes on ContributorsPrefacePART ONE1. The Name and Nature of Modernism(Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane)2. The Cultural and Intellectual Climate of ModernismThe Double Image (Allan Bullock)The Mind of Modernism (James McFarlane)3. A Geography of ModernismThe Cities of Modernism (Malcolm Bradbury)Berlin and the Rise of Modernism 1886-96 (James McFarlane)Vienna and Prague 1890-1928 (Franz Kuna)Modernism in ...
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