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Lion of the Sun
Warrior of Rome 3
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103231-3
EAN 9780141032313
Mesopotamia, AD 260Betrayed by his most trusted adviser, the Roman Emperor Valerian has been captured by the Sassanid barbarians. The shame of the vanquished beats down mercilessly like the white sun, as the frail old emperor prostrates himself before Sharpur, King of Kings. Ballista looks on helplessly, but vows under his breath to avenge those ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95144-6
EAN 9780241951446
'What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence'In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?Social prophecy? Black comedy? Study ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95159-0
EAN 9780241951590
'This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs, alcoholics, sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornographers, frauds, jades, litterbugs, and lesbians . . . don't make the mistake of bothering me.'Ignatius J. Reilly: fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged, too. But is he ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 12,10 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95145-3
EAN 9780241951453
'What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits...'Meet Holly Golightly - a free spirited, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 11,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95151-4
EAN 9780241951514
'We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm 'Sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn a living. When she is orphaned at twenty, she decides her only option is to descend on relatives - the doomed Starkadders at the aptly ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95158-3
EAN 9780241951583
'A phalanx of motorcycles came roaring over the hill from the west the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn't quite handle what I was seeing. It was like Genghis Khan, Morgan's Raiders, the Wild One and the Rape of Nanking all at once.'In ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95146-0
EAN 9780241951460
'What we all need,' said Larry, 'is sunshine a country where we can grow.''Yes, dear, that would be nice,' agreed Mother, not really listening. 'I had a letter from George this morning - he says Corfu's wonderful. Why don't we pack up and go to Greece?''Very well, dear, if you like,' said Mother unguardedly. Escaping ...
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'What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.'Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95155-2
EAN 9780241951552
'There is no looking glass here and I don't know what I am like now Now they have taken everything away. What am I doing in this place and who am I?'If Antoinette Cosway, a spirited Creole heiress, could have foreseen the terrible future that awaited her, she would not have married the young Englishman. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95161-3
EAN 9780241951613
'I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. That was unavoidable for, from his first week, he was the most conspicuous man of his year by reason of his beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behaviour, which seemed to know no bounds'. Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7181-9141-2
EAN 9780718191412
A startling diagnosis of how modern Western societies have failed and how they can be reformed.Something has gone amiss in public affairs over the past thirty years In the West we have forgotten how to think ethically about communal life When we consider a policy we only consider its efficiency or profitability...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 8,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95089-0
EAN 9780241950890
In 1615 the poet and writer Gervase Markham published an extraordinary handbook for housewives, containing advice on everything from planting herbs to brewing beer, feeding animals to distilling perfume, with recipes for a variety of dishes such as trifle, pancakes and salads (not to mention some amusingly tart words on how the ideal wife should ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95103-3
EAN 9780241951033
In this memoir-turned-cookbook, Alice B. Toklas describes her life with partner Gertrude Stein and their famed Paris salon, which entertained the great avant-garde and literary figures of their day. With dry wit and characteristic understatement Toklas ponders the ethics of killing a carp in her kitchen before stuffing it with chestnuts; decorating a fish to ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 7,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95113-2
EAN 9780241951132
Writing for domestic servants in a conversational, accessible way, eighteenth-century housewife Hannah Glasse disapproved of French terminology and fussiness, instead favouring simple dishes that are still cooked today - a preference that has earned her the reputation of 'the first Domestic Goddess'. With recipes for rice pudding, beef rump, barbecued pork, trifle and even the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95108-8
EAN 9780241951088
Legendary cook and writer Elizabeth David changed the way Britain ate, introducing a postwar nation to the sun-drenched delights of the Mediterranean, and bringing new flavours and aromas such as garlic, wine and olive oil into its kitchens. This mouthwatering selection of her writings and recipes embraces the richness of French and Italian cuisine, from ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 7,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95193-4
EAN 9780241951934
Acclaimed New Yorker journalist, novelist and poet, Calvin Trillin is also America's funniest and best-loved writer about food. This selection of some of his wittiest articles sees him stalking a peripatetic Chinese chef, campaigning to have the national Thanksgiving dish changed to Spaghetti Carbonara and sampling the legendary Louisiana boudin sausage - to be consumed ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,51 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95183-5
EAN 9780241951835
As well as being the author of The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas was also an enthusiastic gourmand and expert cook. His Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine, published in 1873, is an encyclopaedic collection of ingredients, recipes and anecdotes, from Absinthe to Zest via cake, frogs' legs, oysters, Roquefort and vanilla. Included here are recipes for bamboo ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144239-6
EAN 9780141442396
Plain Tales from the Hills , Rudyard Kipling's first collection of short stories, established his reputation and brought India to the British imagination. Including the stories Lispeth , Beyond the Pale and In the Pride of His Youth , they tell of soldiers, wise children, exiles, forbidden romances and divided identities, creating a rich portrait ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-96777-5
EAN 9780241967775
Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom. Estranged from his father, newly divorced, unable to communicate with his only daughter, he realizes that while he may have seventy-four friends on Facebook, there is nobody in the world with whom he can actually share his problems.Then a business proposition comes his way - a strange ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95154-5
EAN 9780241951545
'Connie was aware, however, of a growing restlessness...It thrilled inside her body, in her womb, somewhere, till she felt she must jump into water and swim to get away from it; a mad restlessness. It made her heart beat violently for no reason...'Lady Constance Chatterley is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who ...
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