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The Good Soldier
A Tale of Passion
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144184-9
EAN 9780141441849
The Dowells, a wealthy American couple, have been close friends with the Ashburnhams for years. Edward Ashburnham, a first-rate soldier, seems to be the perfect English gentleman, and Leonora his perfect wife, but beneath the surface their marriage seethes with unhappiness and deception. Our only window on the strange tangle of events surrounding Edward is ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044136-9
EAN 9780140441369
Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 -184 bc ) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected here reveal a playwright in his prime, exploring classic themes and developing standard characters that were to influence the comedies of Shakespeare, Moliere and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-042447-8
EAN 9780140424478
Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his brief career, he had written poems of such beauty, imagination and generosity of spirit, that he had - unwittingly - fulfilled his wish that he should 'be among the English poets ...
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War of the World
History's Age of Hatred
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 816 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101382-4
EAN 9780141013824
The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. Globalizing, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most people. Instead, the 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the most violent, frightening and brutalized in history with fanatical, often genocidal ...
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Breaking the Spell
Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101777-8
EAN 9780141017778
An innovative thinker tackles the controversial question of why we believe in God and how religion shapes our lives and our future.For a growing number of people, there is nothing more important than religion. It is an integral part of their marriage, child rearing, and community. In this daring new book, distinguished philosopher Daniel C. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 816 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144181-8
EAN 9780141441818
Katherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. Moving, resonant, full of light and colour, they range from short sharp studies to longer, richer tales, encompassing her three major volumes Bliss, The Garden Party and In a German Pension, and fifteen tantalizing ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118864-5
EAN 9780141188645
Captain Cleve Connell arrives in Korea with a single goal: to become an ace, one of that elite fraternity of jet pilots who have downed five MIGs. But as his fellow airmen rack up kill after kill - sometimes under dubious circumstances - Cleve's luck runs bad. Other pilots question his guts. Cleve comes to ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144180-1
EAN 9780141441801
Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic ...
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Failed States
The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102303-8
EAN 9780141023038
The United States asserts the right to use military force against failed states' around the globe. But as Noam Chomsky argues in this devastating analysis, America shares features with many of the regimes it insists are failing and constitute a danger to their neighbours. Offering a comprehensive and radical examination of America past and present, ...
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Victoria's Wars
The Rise of Empire
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100555-3
EAN 9780141005553
In the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen. This is the story of how it happened and the people who made it happen. In a fast-moving narrative ranging from London to the harsh terrain of India, Russia ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 19,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101552-1
EAN 9780141015521
In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his usual highly illuminating way. Along the way we find out about eyebrow flashes, whistling languages, how parents teach their children to ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144154-2
EAN 9780141441542
Women in Love is widely regarded as D. H. Lawrence's greatest novel. The novel continues where The Rainbow left off with the third generation of Brangwens: Ursula Brangwen, now a teacher at Beldover, a mining town in the Midlands, and her sister Gudrun, who has returned from art school in London. The focus of the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102115-7
EAN 9780141021157
Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia University, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. When his wife, Anna, comes to take him home, she finds a man who remembers nothing, not even his own name. The removal of a small brain tumour saves his life, but his memories beyond the age of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118863-8
EAN 9780141188638
Negra and Viri are a married couple whose favoured life is centred around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach. But fine cracks are beginning to spread through the shimmering surface of their life - flaws that will eventually mar ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144138-2
EAN 9780141441382
With its frank portrayal of human passion and sexual desire, D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow was banned as 'obscene' in Britain shortly after first publication. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by James Wood.Set in the rural Midlands, The Rainbow chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family over a period ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118897-3
EAN 9780141188973
The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Horne, a charismatic magus of a man who entrances the trio, luring them to his mansions...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 752 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118862-1
EAN 9780141188621
Ayn Rand's story of Howard Roark, a brilliant architect who dares to stand alone against the hostility of second-hand souls. First published in 1943, this best-selling novel is a passionate defense of individualism and presents an exalted view of man's creative potential; it is a book about ambition, power, gold and love.
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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
From A to B and Back Again
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118910-9
EAN 9780141189109
'Buying is much more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come...' Andy WarholIn his autobiography, published in 1975, the private Andy Warhol talks about love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, success; about New York and America; about himself - his childhood in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, good times and bad times in the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1184 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118893-5
EAN 9780141188935
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