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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119962-7
EAN 9780141199627
'Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears...But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119956-6
EAN 9780141199566
'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life.Plant nothing else, and root out everything else'. Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school owner and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts, he bans ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 204 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-96330-2
EAN 9780241963302
Pursuing art and adventure across Europe, Katherine Mansfield lived and wrote with the Furies at her heels. Dying at the age of only 34, she became posthumously one of the most influential writers of the last century. Sexually ambiguous, craving love yet quarrelsome and capricious, she glittered in the brilliant circles of DH Lawrence and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-96331-9
EAN 9780241963319
Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She published "A Vindication of the Rights of Women", lived through the Terror in France, had an illegitimate daughter and married the philosopher William Godwin before dying in childbirth at the age of 38. Claire Tomalin's first book inaugurated ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-96326-5
EAN 9780241963265
Claire Tomalin's thrilling life of Pepys carried all before it when it was first published in 2002: it won the Whitbread Biography Award, and was then named Whitbread Book of the Year. Tomalin paints an unforgettable portrait of the man himself - diarist, civil servant, restless husband - who was present as a child at ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 10,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119959-7
EAN 9780141199597
'Here - I am waiting to know about this offer of mine. The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?' In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair.
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119958-0
EAN 9780141199580
'But what added most to the grotesque expression of his face, was a ghastly smile, which, appearing to be the mere result of habit and to have no connexion with any mirthful or complacent feeling, constantly revealed the few discoloured fangs that were yet scattered in his mouth, and gave him the aspect of a ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119955-9
EAN 9780141199559
'Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world'. In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 928 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119964-1
EAN 9780141199641
'Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?' No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044967-9
EAN 9780140449679
Emile Durkheim's "On Suicide" (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of sociology. Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair but Durkheim recognized that the phenomenon had a social dimension. He believed that if anything can explain how individuals relate to society, then it is suicide: Why does it ...
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Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power
FT award 2012
- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-659-6
EAN 9781846146596
In "Private Empire", Steve Coll, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of "Ghost Wars" and "The Bin Ladens", investigates the notoriously mysterious ExxonMobil Corporation and the secrets of the oil industry. In many of the nations where it operates, ExxonMobil has a greater sway than that of the US embassy, its annual revenues are ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119658-9
EAN 9780141196589
The Underground Man represents the pinnacle of Ross MacDonald's style and his maturity of fictional characterisation. It was his first bestseller. In the New York Times William Goldman wrote that the Lew Archer novels are the best detective novels ever written by an American.' The first of five Ross MacDonald novels new to the Modern ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-445-5
EAN 9781846144455
Suitable for those who have wished to, but had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook, this illustrated book features a subversive collection of suggestions, asking readers to muster up their best mistake - and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the book (and destroy them).
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119976-4
EAN 9780141199764
'He was sickened also with all these lies. His very soul was dismayed by the dirt through which he was forced to wade. He had become unconsciously connected with the lowest dregs of mankind, and would have to see his name mingled with theirs in the daily newspapers'.Mark Robarts is a clergyman with ambitions beyond ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-0-14-042444-7
EAN 9780140424447
A key anthology for students of English literature, "Metaphysical Poetry" is a collection whose unique philosophical insights are some of the crowning achievements of Renaissance verse, edited with an introduction and notes by Colin Burrow in "Penguin Classics". Spanning the Elizabethan age to the Restoration and beyond, Metaphysical poetry sought to describe a time of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-008824-3
EAN 9780140088243
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119661-9
EAN 9780141196619
Private detective Lew Archer has better things to do than take on an investigation for Alex Kincaid, a young man claiming that his new bride, Dolly, has gone missing. Snapped by a hotel photographer on the day of their wedding, the beautiful girl vanished only hours after and Alex has heard nothing since. But when ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119663-3
EAN 9780141196633
Twenty years ago, Anthony Galton vanished, along with his streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of the Galton fortune. Now his dying mother wants him found, and Lew Archer is on the case: is Anthony hiding somewhere, happy and eager not to be discovered? But what Archer finds - a headless skeleton, a clever con ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119660-2
EAN 9780141196602
Lew Archer, world-weary private investigator, is hired by Larry and Irene Chalmers when they suspect that their troubled son Nick is involved in their own burglary. But when a fellow investigator - one who's been working with Nick - turns up dead, Archer soon realizes this isn't simply about some stolen loot. To help their ...
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