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Androcles and the Lion
An Old Fable Renovated
- Penguin UK, 1987
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 14,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-045013-2
EAN 9780140450132
A retelling of the consequences following the meeting of Androcles, the slave, and a wounded lion
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- Penguin UK, 1987
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 28,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-007078-1
EAN 9780140070781
Traces the history of Rome from the time of the Etruscans to Mussolini, looks at the artists, intellectuals, and religious and political leaders who have shaped its destiny, and examines Roman society.
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- Penguin UK, 1987
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044073-7
EAN 9780140440737
Born in the Castilian town of Avila in 1515, Teresa entered the Carmelite convent of the Incarnation when she was twenty-one. Tormented by illness, doubts and self-recrimination, she gradually came to recognize the power of prayer and contemplation - her spiritual enlightenment was intensified by many visions and mystical experiences, including the piercing of her ...
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- Penguin UK, 1987
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043297-8
EAN 9780140432978
Companion in theme, period and setting to What Maisie Knew, The Awkward Age is another of Henry James's studies of innocence exposed to corrupting influences. Nanda Brookenham is 'coming out' in London society. Thrust suddenly into the vicious, immoral circle that has gathered round her mother, she even finds herself in competition with Mrs Brookenham ...
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- Penguin UK, 1987
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043269-5
EAN 9780140432695
In these two closely linked works - a travel book and a biography of its author - we witness a moving encounter between two of the most daring and original minds of the late eighteenth century: A Short Residence in Sweden is the record of Wollstonecraft's last journey in search of happiness, into the remote ...
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- Penguin UK, 1987
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043254-1
EAN 9780140432541
Henry James conceived the character of Hyacinth Robinson - his 'little presumptuous adventurer with his combination of intrinsic fineness and fortuitous adversity' - while walking the streets of London. Brought up in poverty, Hyacinth has nevertheless developed aesthetic tastes that heighten his awareness of the sordid misery around him. He is drawn into the secret ...
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- Penguin UK, 1986
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 48 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-14-009419-0
EAN 9780140094190
Raymond Briggs's comic cartoon book depicts the effects of a nuclear attack on an elderly couple, in his usual touching, yet macabre way.
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- Penguin UK, 1986
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 10,39 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043220-6
EAN 9780140432206
Whore and rogue they call husband and wife:All professions be-rogue one another'The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows, became the theatrical sensation of the eighteenth century. In The Beggar's Opera, John Gay turned conventions of Italian opera riotously upside-down, instead using traditional popular ...
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- Penguin UK, 1986
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 16,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-051153-6
EAN 9780140511536
In The Penguin Atlas of Modern History Colin McEvedy has complied an absorbing source of reference to the major developments of modern history from 1483 to 1815.
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- Penguin UK, 1986
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-008179-4
EAN 9780140081794
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- Penguin UK, 1986
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-0-14-008358-3
EAN 9780140083583
In this thoughtful and moving novel, four men find themselves inextricably bound together by their past histories. The aged Judge Clane dreams of resurrecting the confederacy, while his grandson, Jester, is involuntarily drawn to Sherman, a volatile black orphan who feels the sharp sting of racial injustice, especially when he finds out the truth about ...
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- Penguin UK, 1986
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043264-0
EAN 9780140432640
'I had but hugged the shore' until Roderick Hudson, wrote Henry James. This is his first full-length novel and executed with such blazing, confident, thirty-one-year-old talent that even if he had produced nothing else, his fame would have been assured. Roderick Hudson, egotistical, beautiful and an exceptionally gifted sculptor, but poor, is taken from New ...
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- Penguin UK, 1985
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 21,44 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043211-4
EAN 9780140432114
The most influential art theorist and critic of his age, an outstanding man of letters, a sensitive painter and draughtsman, Ruskin's social criticism shocked and angered the establishment and many of his admirers. First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto this Last is also a closely argued assault on the science of ...
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- Penguin UK, 1985
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104692-1
EAN 9780141046921
All Henderson Dores dreams of is fitting in. But America, land of the loony millionaire and the subway poet, down-home Bible-basher and sharp-suited hood, of paralysing personal frankness and surreally fantasized facilities, is hard enough for an Englishman to fit in to. Henderson could never shed enough inhibitions to become just another weirdo. Or could ...
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Shelley
Poems
- Penguin UK, 1985
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 4,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-058504-9
EAN 9780140585049
Gathers sonnets, odes, poems, and selections of Prometheus Unbound by the early-nineteenth-century British poet.IntroductionMain Dates in the Life of ShelleyTextual NoteQueen Mab. Selections from Parts I, II, and VIStanza, Written at BracknellStanzas - April 1814To HarrietTo Mary Wollstonecraft GodwinMutabilityOn DeathTo - To WordsworthFeelings of a Republican on the Fall of BonaparteLines. "The cold earth slept ...
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- Penguin UK, 1985
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-007181-8
EAN 9780140071818
After eleven years living as an American in London, Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the British are really like. It was 1982, the summer of the Falklands War and the royal baby, and the ideal time, he found, to surprise the British into talking ...
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- Penguin UK, 1985
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 23,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044346-2
EAN 9780140443462
Married to the retired magistrate of Vetusta, Ana Ozores cares deeply for her much older husband but feels stifled by the monotony of her life in the shabby and conservative provincial town. And when she embarks on a quest for fulfillment through religion and even adultery, a bitter struggle begins between a powerful priest and ...
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- Penguin UK, 1984
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 12,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-007431-4
EAN 9780140074314
Small and insignificant Bastian Balthazar Bux is nobody's idea of a hero, least of all his own. Through the pages of an old book he discovers a mysterious world of enchantment - but a world that is falling into decay. The great task of making things well again falls on Bastian and so begins a ...
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- Penguin UK, 1983
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043203-9
EAN 9780140432039
I never saw anything like you clergymen you are always thinking of fighting each other'After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the son of the old bishop, ...
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- Penguin UK, 1983
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 9,96 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044274-8
EAN 9780140442748
Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, they are then cruelly separated, and must face many dangers including plague, famine and imprisonment, ...
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