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'Banville is superb ...there are not many historical novels of which it can be said that they illuminate both the time that forms their subject matter and the time in which they are read: Doctor Copernicus is among the very best of them' - "The Economist". The work of Nicholas Koppernigk, better known as Copernicus, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-0248-6
EAN 9781447202486
'First you take a drink,' F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, 'then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.' Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debutantes and dandies, rowdy jazz musicians, lost children and ragtime riff-raff into a newly compiled collection taken from The Crack-Up, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-0600-2
EAN 9781447206002
After a separation of many years, Emily 'Fido' Faithfull bumps into her old friend Helen Codrington on the streets of Victorian London. Much has changed: Helen is more and more unhappy in her marriage to the older Vice-Admiral Codrington, while Fido has become a successful woman of business and a pioneer in the British Women's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52292-2
EAN 9780330522922
WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR .The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist' John Updike, New Yorker Born of Indian heritage, raised in the British-dependent Caribbean island of Isabella, and educated in England, forty-year-old Ralph Singh has spent a lifetime struggling against the torment of cultural displacement. Now in exile ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1152 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-1187-7
EAN 9781447211877
Ulrich has no qualities in the sense that his self-awareness is completely divorced from his abilities. He is drawn into a project, the "Parallel Campaign", to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph's coronation in 1918.Ulrich has no qualities in the sense that his self-awareness is completely divorced from his abilities. He is drawn ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,15 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52362-2
EAN 9780330523622
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is populated by a cast as strange as that of the most fantastic fiction. The subject of this strange and wonderful book is what happens when things go wrong with parts of the brain most of us don't know exist . . . Dr Sacks shows ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-50890-2
EAN 9780330508902
In The Mind's Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight. For all of these ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52359-2
EAN 9780330523592
Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own minds. In Musicophilia, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians and everyday people those struck by affliction, unusual talent and even, in one case, by lightning ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 10,35 €
ISBN 978-0-330-51887-1
EAN 9780330518871
In the late 1860s, as America was recovering from Lincoln's assassination, a man named P. T. Barnum opened a museum in New York City. Filled with oddities from around the world, it also hosted a number of sideshow freaks including The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno's narrator, the Human Skeleton. This atmospheric and utterly original story ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52370-7
EAN 9780330523707
WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR V.S. Naipaul's legendary command of broad comedy and acute social observation is on abundant display in these classic works of fiction - two novels and a collection of stories - that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressive subtlety and humour. The Suffrage ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-312-61043-2
EAN 9780312610432
Peter and Rebecca Harris: mid-forties denizens of Manhattan's SoHo, nearing the apogee of committed careers in the arts he a dealer, she an editor. With a spacious loft, a college-age daughter in Boston, and lively friends, they are admirable, enviable contemporary urbanites with every reason, it seems, to be happy. Then Rebecca's much younger look-alike ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52290-8
EAN 9780330522908
In a Free State was conceived in 1969 as a sequence about displacement. There was to be a central novel, set in Africa, with shorter surrounding matter from other places. The shorter pieces from these varied places were intended to throw a universal light on the African material.But then, as the years passed and the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52291-5
EAN 9780330522915
Set on a troubled Caribbean island - where Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist in a state of suppressed hysteria - Guerrillas is a novel of colonialism and revolution. A white man arrives with his mistress, an Englishwoman influenced by fantasies of native power and sexuality, unaware of the consequences of her actions. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52300-4
EAN 9780330523004
Miguel Street, V. S. Naipaul's first written work of fiction, is set in a derelict corner of Port of Spain, Trinidad, during World War Two and is narrated by an unnamed, precociously observant neighbourhood boy.We are introduced to a galaxy of characters, from Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build the wild thing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-330-48712-2
EAN 9780330487122
The Mystic Masseur, V. S. Naipaul's first published novel, is the story of the rise and rise of Ganesh, from failed primary school teacher and struggling masseur to author, revered mystic and MBE - a journey equally memorable for its hilarity as its bewildering success.An unforgettable cast of characters witness this meteoric ascent: Ganesh's father-in-law, ...
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No country embodied the turbulence of twentieth-century European history more dramatically than East Prussia. A great power in the 1800 and 1900s which became a free state in the Weimar Republic post-1918, it was carved up between Poland and the USSR after World War II and passed abruptly into history. The scene of the final ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-0-330-54373-6
EAN 9780330543736
A bold and richly imaginative new collection from the former US Poet Laureate However arresting, outlandish, or hilarious, the poems in Horoscopes for the Dead are typically prompted by the familiar things of the world: dogs, stars, food, love, and marriage as well as life's local triumphs and disappointments, joys and shames. Collins's gift is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-0-330-53990-6
EAN 9780330539906
The new Quirke Dublin mystery from John Banville writing as Benjamin Black When newspaper magnate Richard Jewell is found dead at his country estate, clutching a shotgun in his lifeless hands, few see his demise as cause for sorrow. But before long Doctor Quirke and Inspector Hackett realise that, rather than the suspected suicide, Diamond ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52298-4
EAN 9780330522984
My purpose is not literary criticism or biography. I wish only to set out the writing and ways of seeing to which I was exposed.' For the serious traveller', one who is fully engaged with the world, there can be no single view. So here is colonial Trinidad (the early Derek Walcott and Naipaul's own ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52296-0
EAN 9780330522960
In 1950, V. S. Naipaul travelled from Trinidad to England to take up a place at Oxford University.Over the next few years letters passed back and forth between V. S. Naipaul and his family particularly his beloved father Seepersad, but also his mother and siblings.The result is a fascinating chronicle of Naipaul's time at university; ...
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