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Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and bloodthirsty plays not only reflect a brutal period of history but also show how guilt, sorrow, anger and desire lead individuals to violence. The hero of Hercules Insane saves his own family from slaughter, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119356-4
EAN 9780141193564
In this unique collection of Waugh's early short stories, some of which became the inspirations for his novels, Waugh displays his unique talent for comedy and narration. 'Mr Loveday's Little Outing' is a blackly comic tale of a mental asylum and its favourite resident, while 'Cruise' sees a hilarious series of letters from a naïve ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104199-5
EAN 9780141041995
Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Friday, November 22, 1963. 12.30 PM.Shots ring out. A president dies. And a nation is plunged into psychosis.Don DeLillo's extraordinary Libra is a brilliant reimagining of the events and people surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Concentrating on the lives of Lee Harvey Oswald, some rogue former spooks unhappy ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103340-2
EAN 9780141033402
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PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-310559-6
EAN 9780143105596
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Lose weight without dieting, calorie-counting or using will-power. It's true! Allen Carr's eating plan allows you to enjoy eating, savour flavours and lose wight. You can: eat your favourite foods; follow your natural instincts; avoid guilt and remorse; enjoy the flavours of fresh foods; do away with digestive ailments; learn to re-educate your tastes; and, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,65 €
ISBN 9780552772501
EAN 9780552772501
Ram Mohammad Thomas has been arrested. For answering twelve questions correctly on Who Will Win A Billion? Because a poor orphan who has never gone to school cannot name the smallest planet in the solar system, or the plays of Shakespeare. Unless he has cheated. Reviewing TV footage of the show, Ram tells us how ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-229-1
EAN 9781846142291
Wilson's revolutionary approach argues that in order to solve our problems we have to reshape personal stories and internal narratives it will transform the way we see human behaviour Controversially shows how conventional psychology is as misguided as nineteenth-century medicine was, and the anti-drug programmes, self help courses and traditional therapies do more harm than ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-311994-4
EAN 9780143119944
Television producer Fliss Benson is surprised to discover that her superstar boss, Laurie Nattrass, is stepping down-and that she is to take over his documentary about crib-death mothers wrongly accused of murder. Thanks to Nattrass's advocacy, three women are now free, while the doctor who testified against them is under investigation for misconduct.
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A serious but light-hearted look at the problems of our economic system; critical yet constructive. In 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism one of today's most iconoclastic thinkers destroys the biggest myths about the world we live in. This galvanizing, fact-packed book about money, equality, freedom and greed proves that the free market ...
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PVP: 10,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043341-8
EAN 9780140433418
This is a selection of Hardy's poetry, within the "Penguin Classics" series, with notes on the poems, and appendices which contain Hardy's preface to his edition of the poetry of William Barnes and his "apology" from "Late Lyrics and Earlier".
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 12,30 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95580-2
EAN 9780241955802
Ten terrifying tales of life as a wartime fighter pilot, from the master of the short story, Roald Dahl.During the Second World War Roald Dahl served in the RAF and even suffered horrific injuries in an air crash in the Libyan desert. Drawing on his own experiences as a fighter pilot, Dahl crafted these ten ...
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PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-133867-5
EAN 9780141338675
This is a simple story, about a small creature who does his best to join in with the others. But he's different. No matter how he tries, he just doesn't belong. Then Something turns up and wants to be friends. But Something Else isn't sure he's like him at all...Kathryn Cave's poignantly simple story is ...
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This is the essential one-volume edition of "Tales from 1,001 Nights", drawn from the acclaimed landmark translation published in 3 volumes by "Penguin Classics" in 2008. It contains "Aladdin", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", "Sindbad the Sailor" and many others of the most enjoyable and beloved tales from the "Arabian Nights". This new translation ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95534-5
EAN 9780241955345
What could go wrong when a wife pawns the mink coat that her lover gave her as a parting gift? What happens when a priceless piece of furniture is the subject of a deceitful bargain? Can a wronged woman take revenge on her dead husband? In these dark, disturbing stories Roald Dahl explores the sinister ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95576-5
EAN 9780241955765
Meet Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, Roald Dahl's most extraordinary adult creation ...Aside from being thoroughly debauched, strikingly attractive and astonishingly wealthy, Uncle Oswald was the greatest bounder, bon vivant and fornicator of all time. In this instalment of his scorchingly frank memoirs, he tells of his early career and erotic education at the hands of a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95570-3
EAN 9780241955703
In "Someone Like You", Roald Dahl's first collection of his world famous dark and sinister adult stories, a wife serves a dish that baffles the police; a harmless bet suddenly becomes anything but; a curious machine reveals a horrifying truth about plants; and, a man lies awake waiting to be bitten by the venomous snake ...
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Is That A Fish in Your Ear? ranges across human experience to describe why translation sits deep in human experience, and why we need it in so many situations, from the spread of religion to our appreciation of literature; as David Bellos shows, great writers are often great translators too. Written with joie de vivre ...
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