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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119283-3
EAN 9780141192833
How I Came to Know Fish (1974) is Ota Pavel's magical memoir of his childhood in Czechoslovakia. Fishing with his father and his Uncle Prosek - the two finest fishermen in the world - he takes a peaceful pleasure from the rivers and ponds of his country. But when the Nazis invade, his father and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952809-8
EAN 9780099528098
In the late eighties and early nineties, Formula One was at its most explosive, with thrilling races, charismatic drivers, nail-biting climaxes - and the most deadly rivalry ever witnessed in sport. Two of Formula One's most honoured champions and iconic figures drove together for McLaren for two seasons, and their acrimonious and hostile relationship extended ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951644-6
EAN 9780099516446
'His account of their "foodie family road trip" establishes Booth as the next Bill Bryson.' New York TimesJapan is the pre-eminent food nation on earth. The creativity of the Japanese, their dedication and ingenuity, not to mention courage in the face of dishes such as cod sperm and octopus ice cream, is only now beginning ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103928-2
EAN 9780141039282
Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women:Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104219-0
EAN 9780141042190
It is summer and a stranger has come to quiet Rathmoye. He is noticed by Ellie, the young convent girl, who is married to Dillahan, a farmer still mourning his first wife. Over the long and warm days, Ellie and the stranger form an illicit attachment. And those in the town can only watch, holding ...
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The Frock-Coated Communist
The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102140-9
EAN 9780141021409
Friedrich Engels is one of the most attractive and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous mercantile family in west Germany, he spent his career working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and enjoying the comfortable, middle-class life of a Victorian gentleman. Yet Engels was also the co-founder ...
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This is the tragic tale of the rise and fall of Camelot - but seen through the eyes of Camelot's women: the devout Gwenhwyfar, Arthur's Queen; Vivane, High priestess of Avalon and the Lady of the Lake; above all, Morgaine, possessor of the sight, the wise, the wise-woman fated to bring ruin on them all.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,05 €
ISBN 978-0-14-018901-8
EAN 9780140189018
Sinclair Lewis' barbed portrait of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, shattered the myth of the American Middle West as God's Country and became a symbol of the cultural narrow-mindedness and smug complacency of small towns everywhere. At the center of the novel is Carol Kennicott, the wife of a town doctor, who dreams of initiating social reforms ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 9,55 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119265-9
EAN 9780141192659
In 'The Decay of Lying' Oscar Wilde uses his decadent ideology in an attempt to reverse and therefore reject his audiences' 'normal' conceptualizations of nature, art and morality. Wilde's views of life and art are illustrated through the use of Platonic dialogue where the character Vivian takes on the persona of Wilde. Wilde's goal is ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 7,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104829-1
EAN 9780141048291
The latecomers are Hartmann and Fibich, brought over to England as children to escape Nazi Germany, now living close to each other in London in their 60s, and still friends. Yet they could not be more different, each having adopted different strategies to reconcile themselves with their past and to cope with an uncertain world.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104172-8
EAN 9780141041728
Margaret Drabble's The Millstone was published in 1965. Set in a London not yet quite swinging, where sexual liberation is still on its way, this prize-winning novel follows the progress of Rosamund Stacey, who becomes pregnant as a result of a one night stand, and must adapt to life as a single mother - finding ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104671-6
EAN 9780141046716
Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim was published in 1954, and is a hilarious satire of British university life. Jim Dixon is bored by his job as a medieval history lecturer. His days are only improved by pulling faces behind the backs of his superiors as he tries desperately to survive provincial bourgeois society, an unbearable 'girlfriend' ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95091-3
EAN 9780241950913
The flamboyant Frenchman Alexis Soyer was the most renowned chef in Victorian England. This is his colourful account of his time at the front in the Crimean War, where he joined British troops in order to improve the quality of the food they were eating. Divulging the secrets of preparing stew for 1000 soldiers, sharing ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 7,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95093-7
EAN 9780241950937
Whether extolling the merits of a cheerful breakfast tray, conjuring up a winter picnic of figs and mulled wine, sharing delicious Tuscan recipes, or suggesting a last-minute pre-theatre dinner, the sparkling writings of the society hostess and philanthropist Agnes Jekyll describe food for every imaginable occasion and mood. Originally published in The Times in the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95100-2
EAN 9780241951002
A rapturous appreciation of pork crackling, a touching description of hungry London chimney sweeps, a discussion of the strange pleasure of eating pineapple and a meditation on the delights of Christmas feasting are just some of the subjects of these personal, playful writings from early nineteenth-century essayist Charles Lamb.Exploring the joys of food and also ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 7,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95102-6
EAN 9780241951026
Firmly of the belief that a home should be run as an efficient military campaign, Mrs Beeton, the doyenne of English cookery, offers timeless tips on selecting cuts of meat, throwing a grand party and hosting a dinner, as well as giving suggestions on staff wages and the cost of each recipe. With such delicious ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 10,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119264-2
EAN 9780141192642
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence.The ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 10,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119266-6
EAN 9780141192666
This is a collection of stories, including two of Wilde's most famous: "The Canterville Ghost", in which a young American girl helps to free the tormented spirit that haunts an old English castle and "The Happy Prince", who was not as happy as he seemed. Often whimsical and sometimes sad, they all shine with poetry ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95042-5
EAN 9780241950425
The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 11,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144225-9
EAN 9780141442259
Niccolo Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin Classics. As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolo Machiavelli knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Prince, his tough-minded, pragmatic handbook on how power really works, made his name notorious ...
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