Editorial Penguin UK
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- Penguin UK, 1983
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-006768-2
EAN 9780140067682
The First Rumpole Omnibus - a classic collection of John Mortimer's iconic character 'One of the great comic creations of modern times' Evening Standard 'Rumpole, like Jeeves and Sherlock Holmes, is immortal' P. D. James, Mail on Sunday Who rose to enduring fame on Blood and Typewriters, told the pregnant Portia of the Chambers it ...
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- Penguin UK, 1982
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-006089-8
EAN 9780140060898
Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilization and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness.
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- Penguin UK, 1981
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 12,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044384-4
EAN 9780140443844
Writing in the eleventh century, khayyam was one of the most accomplished masters of the new and increasingly popular ruba'i, or two line stanza, that had been adopted by poets to help them shake off the artifice of conventional court poetry and express their personal feelings with wit and clarity. khayyam ranges in his stanzas ...
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- Penguin UK, 1981
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 12,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-042199-6
EAN 9780140421996
"Leaves of Grass" inaugurated a new voice, style, and optimistic, bombastic vision into American letters, one that took the nation itself as subject. Unlike many other editions of "Leaves of Grass", which reproduce various short early editions, our new "Deathbed" version presents everything Whitman wrote in its final form.
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- Penguin UK, 1980
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044387-5
EAN 9780140443875
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- Penguin UK, 1979
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 20,35 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044362-2
EAN 9780140443622
The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200-118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC, he vividly records the critical stages of Roman expansion: its campaigns throughout the ...
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- Penguin UK, 1979
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 9,96 €
ISBN 978-0-14-005090-5
EAN 9780140050905
At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody political scene was dominated by rich mercantile families, the most famous of which were the Medici. This enthralling book charts the family's huge influence on the political, economic and cultural ...
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- Penguin UK, 1979
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043133-9
EAN 9780140431339
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) won instantaneous and outstanding success in prose and poetry, in politics and oratory. His History, translated throughout Europe and achieving sales in America second only to the Bible, immediately became the canon of historical orthodoxy, replacing previous histories so completely that it is now difficult to see past its long and ...
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- Penguin UK, 1978
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1248 páginas
PVP: 29,24 €
ISBN 978-0-14-042207-8
EAN 9780140422078
"The Faerie Queene" was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united medieval romance and renaissance epic to expound the glory of the Virgin Queen. The poem recounts the quests of knights ...
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The Oresteia Trilogy
Agamemnon, the Libation-Bearers and the Furies
- Penguin UK, 1977
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044333-2
EAN 9780140443332
In the "Oresteia" - the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity - Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. Moving from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, its spirit of struggle and regeneration is ...
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- Penguin UK, 1977
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-004446-1
EAN 9780140044461
First published in 1967, this is an autobiography that is a memoir of boyhood and adolescence. Beginning with a lesson in brutality at a progressive boarding school, the book moves to a self-help settlement in Florida, a Connecticut mental hospital (where Conroy's mother and stepfather are wardens), and to New York City (where he survives ...
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- Penguin UK, 1976
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-042209-2
EAN 9780140422092
'The first poet in the world in some things', is how John Donne was described by his contemporary Ben Jonson. Yet it is only this century that Donne has been indisputably established as a great poet - and even, many feel, the greatest love poet of them all. Jonson went on to remark that 'That ...
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- Penguin UK, 1974
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 7,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043102-5
EAN 9780140431025
She has poured forth her tender tale of love in vain and exposed herself forever to the contempt of the whole world'These three short works show Jane Austen experimenting with a variety of different literary styles, from melodrama to satire, and exploring a range of social classes and settings. The early epistolary novel Lady Susan ...
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- Penguin UK, 1974
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043057-8
EAN 9780140430578
Setting out to make his fortune in a far-off country, a young traveller discovers the remote and beautiful land of Erewhon, and is given a home among its extraordinarily handsome citizens. But their visitor soon discovers that this seemingly ideal community has its faults - here crime is treated indulgently as a malady to be ...
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- Penguin UK, 1974
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 848 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043086-8
EAN 9780140430868
Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright and gentlemanly John Grey - and finds herself accepting and rejecting each of them in turn. Increasingly confused about her own feelings and unable to forgive herself for such vacillation, her situation is contrasted with that of her friend ...
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- Penguin UK, 1974
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 18,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044224-3
EAN 9780140442243
On one level the novel is about the homecoming of Lavretsky, who, broken and disillusioned by a failed marriage, returns to his estate and finds love again - only to lose it. The sense of loss and of unfulfilled promise, beautifully captured by Turgenev, reflects his underlying theme that humanity is not destined to experience ...
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The First World War
An Illustrated History
- Penguin UK, 1974
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-002481-4
EAN 9780140024814
'The First World War cut deep into the consciousness of modern man' For four years, while statesmen and generals blundered, the massed armies of Europe writhed in a festival of mud and blood. All the madness, massacres, and mutinies of the foulest war in history are brought home here by action pictures of the day ...
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- Penguin UK, 1973
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118964-2
EAN 9780141189642
Try a refreshing 'Dip in the Pool' and savour the delights of 'Skin', follow 'Galloping Foxley' and sample a little 'Poison'. This collection, one of Roald Dahl's earliest, is guaranteed to appeal to Someone Like You.In the opening story, 'Taste', the stakes of a dinner-party bet reach distasteful heights, and a wife serves up a ...
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- Penguin UK, 1973
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043044-8
EAN 9780140430448
An immortal story of love, adventure, chivalry, treachery and death. Edited and first published by William Caxton in 1485, Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's unique and splendid version of the Arthurian legend. Mordred's treason, the knightly exploits of Tristan, Lancelot's fatally divided loyalties and his love for Guenever, the quest for the Holy ...
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- Penguin UK, 1973
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 7,35 €
ISBN 978-0-14-000805-0
EAN 9780140008050
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