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New Ways to Kill Your Mother
Writers and their Families
- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104176-6
EAN 9780141041766
In this wonderfully entertaining and enlightening collection, Colm Toibin not only explores the often tense relationship between writers and their families but also conveys, with a rare tenderness and wit, the great joy of reading their work. Here is W.B. Yeats harshly responding to his own father's literary efforts; Thomas Mann ruining his children's prospects; ...
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All The King's Men
The British Redcoat in the Era of Sword and Musket
- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102793-7
EAN 9780141027937
Saul David's All The King's Men is a thrilling history of the British Redcoat from the English Civil War to Waterloo. Between 1660 and 1815 British supremacy on foreign soil was near total. Central to this success was the humble redcoat soldier who showed heroism in battle and stoicism in peace, despite appalling treatment.This is ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044999-0
EAN 9780140449990
Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. "The Persians", the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from recent Athenian history, depicts the final defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis, through the eyes of the Persian ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-039024-7
EAN 9780140390247
Angered by the values of his materialistic society, Hawk-eye lives apart from the other white men, sharing the solitude and sublimity of the wilderness with his Mohican Indian friend, Chingachgook. As the savageries of war test these exiled men, they agree to guide two sisters in search of their father through hostile Indian country - ...
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"The Upanishads" represent for the Hindu approximately what the New Testament represents for the Christian. The earliest of these spiritual treatises, which vary greatly in length, were put down in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 BC.
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Watermark
An Essay on Venice
- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139149-6
EAN 9780141391496
lWatermark is Joseph Brodsky's witty, intelligent, moving and elegant portrait of Venice. Looking at every aspect of the city, from its waterways, streets and architecture to its food, politics and people, Brodsky captures its magnificence and beauty, and recalls his own memories of the place he called home for many winters, as he remembers friends, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119866-8
EAN 9780141198668
The Bridges are an unremarkable and conservative couple who live in Kansas City with their three children. Mrs Bridge spends her time shopping, going to bridge parties and bringing up her children to have nice manners; Mr Bridge is an outwardly successful lawyer who only wants the best for his family.
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 11,45 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95648-9
EAN 9780241956489
In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the women's extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; to their backbreaking work picking fruit in ...
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Nineteen Eighty Four
The Annotated Edition
- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139170-0
EAN 9780141391700
This is the essential edition of the essential book of modern times, "1984", now annotated for students with an introduction by D. J. Taylor.Ever since its publication in 1949, George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian regime where Big Brother controls its citizens like 'a boot stamping on a human face' has become a touchstone ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-96515-3
EAN 9780241965153
New from Dave Eggers, National Book Award finalist "A Hologram for the King". In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In "A Hologram for the King", Dave Eggers takes us ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-670-92105-8
EAN 9780670921058
Following the acclaim for "The End of the Free Market", Ian Bremmer is back with "Every Nation for Itself", now in paperback, where he addresses the next big issue for the shifting world economy. "Smart and snappy ...provides the most cogent prediction of the how the politics of a post-America world will play out". ("New ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139964-5
EAN 9780141399645
The day her twins leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. For seventeen years she's wanted to yell at the world, 'Stop! I want to get off'. Finally, this is her chance. Her husband Brian, an astronomer having an unsatisfactory affair, is upset. Who will cook his dinner? Eva, he complains, is attention ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 6,13 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139303-2
EAN 9780141393032
George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, "Down and Out in Paris and London" is a moving tour of the underworld of society from the author of "1984", published with an introduction by Dervla Murphy in "Penguin Modern Classics". 'You have talked so often of going to the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 32 páginas
PVP: 4,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139306-3
EAN 9780141393063
"Politics and the English Language" is widely considered Orwell's most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to politics and to truth. 'All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.When the general atmosphere ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139302-5
EAN 9780141393025
A first hand account of the brutal conditions of the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia includes an introduction by Julian Symons in Penguin Modern Classics.'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 12,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139304-9
EAN 9780141393049
George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, "Nineteen Eighty-"Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century, making famous Big Brother, newspeak and Room 101. 'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-134614-4
EAN 9780141346144
This edition features exclusive movie cover art. A brand new film tie-in edition of the bestselling love story, "Beautiful Creatures" - a romance that is bound to capture the hearts of Twilight fans everywhere. This edition ties in to the major new "Warner Brothers" and "Alcon Entertainment" blockbuster film starring Emma Thompson, Jeremy Irons, Alice ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-134609-0
EAN 9780141346090
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-026500-2
EAN 9780140265002
Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel "On the Road" finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles ("Motorcycle Diaries") starring Sam Riley ("Control", "Brighton Rock"), Garret Hedlund, Kristen Stewart ("Twilight"), Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen. Sal Paradise (Sam Riley), ...
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