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Rilke
The Last Inward Man
- Pushkin Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78227-724-8
EAN 9781782277248
When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde turned, he was increasingly dismissed as apolitical, too inward. In Rilke: The Last Inward Man, acclaimed critic Lesley Chamberlain uses this charge as the starting point from which to explore the expansiveness of the ...
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- Pushkin Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78227-658-6
EAN 9781782276586
This is a story about money, about how the money that a woman does not have will shape her life. Maria and Alicia are a grandmother and granddaughter who have never met. Decades apart, both are drawn to Madrid in search of work and independence.Maria, scraping together a living as a cleaner and carer, sending ...
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- Pushkin Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-911590-46-0
EAN 9781911590460
In 1888, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche moved to Turin. This would be the year in which he wrote three of his greatest works: Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, and Ecce Homo; it would also be his last year of writing. He suffered a debilitating nervous breakdown in the first days of the following year.In this ...
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- Pushkin Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78269-355-0
EAN 9781782693550
She dreamed of the wood, and the wolf who was trapped thereEcho Alkaev's world falls apart when her father mysteriously disappears. She finds him half-frozen in the winter forest, guarded by a strange talking wolf who proposes a bargain: Echo will live for a year in his house to save her father's life. In the ...
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- Pushkin Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78269-319-2
EAN 9781782693192
A book was sitting lonely on the shelf, waiting to be read. Tired of having no one to talk to, it decided to make a promise to potential readers: 'You keep turning my pages, and I'll make it fun!'Packed full of interactive jokes and games, The Book No One Wants to Read is a riotously ...
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- Pushkin Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 7,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78227-826-9
EAN 9781782278269
Chess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. Dull-witted in all but chess, he entertains himself on board by allowing others to challenge him in the game, before beating each of them and taking their money. But there is another passenger with a passion for chess: Dr B, previously ...
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- Pushkin Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78269-299-7
EAN 9781782692997
Pip never wants to be at home nowadays. There's no laughter anymore and her mum isn't happy. She spends most of her time alone, daydreaming and digging for treasure by the dirty creek.But one night, Pip finds something incredible - a dragon. Tiny, possibly dying, but definitely a dragon. She quickly realises that dragons don't ...
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The Wolf Age
The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
- Pushkin Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 36,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78227-647-0
EAN 9781782276470
In the year 1000, the ordinary people of the lands surrounding the North Sea are struggling to survive. Meanwhile their nobles and rulers are concerned with only one thing: power. To get power they need soldiers, to get soldiers they need silver, and to get silver there is no better way than war and plunder.This ...
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- Pushkin Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-1-911590-45-3
EAN 9781911590453
On the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a woman gives birth alone in a Beijing hospital. So begins the slow unravelling of Su Lan: a woman determined to remake herself, an ambitious physicist and ambivalent mother who becomes consumed by her research into disproving the irreversibility of time. Following Su Lan's sudden death, her ...
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- Pushkin Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78227-664-7
EAN 9781782276647
A glimpse of post-war France through the eyes and words of 14 (mostly) expatriate journalists including Mavis Gallant, James Baldwin, A.J. Liebling, S.N. Behrman, Luc Sante, Joseph Mitchell, and Lillian Ross; plus, portraits of their editors William Shawn and New Yorker founder Harold Ross.Together: they invented modern magazine journalism. Includes an introductory interview by Susan ...
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- Pushkin Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78227-707-1
EAN 9781782277071
A casual introduction, a challenge to a simple game of chess, a lovers' reunion, a meaningless infidelity: from such small seeds Zweig brings forth five startlingly tense tales-meditations on the fragility of love, the limits of obsession, the combustibility of secrets and betrayal. To read anything by Zweig is to risk addiction; in this collection ...
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- Pushkin Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78227-712-5
EAN 9781782277125
Katherine Mansfield was one of the true pioneers of the short story. Her style shifts subtly between the comic and the tragic, as calm surfaces are punctured by moments of disruption, insight and strange beauty. This new collection gathers together the best of Mansfield's work exploring different facets of relationships between women.From complex expressions of ...
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- Pushkin Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-911590-41-5
EAN 9781911590415
Josephine Napier maintains order in her girls' school through a benevolent exterior of self-sacrifice. But when a new, male teacher and a figure from her husband's past upset her environment's delicate equilibrium, the darker shades of her authority begin to show and a ruthless struggle for power begins.Tense and subversively witty, More Women Than Men ...
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- Pushkin Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78227-753-8
EAN 9781782277538
Alfa and Mademba are two of the many Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War. Together they climb dutifully out of their trenches to attack France's German enemies whenever the whistle blows, until Mademba is wounded, and dies in a shell hole with his belly torn open. Without his more-than-brother, Alfa is alone and lost ...
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- Pushkin Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 13,20 €
ISBN 978-1-911590-34-7
EAN 9781911590347
Assigned to the same suite during their freshman year at Quincy-Hawthorne College, Lainey, Ji Sun, Alice, and Margaret quickly become inseparable. But their bonds must weather threats that come from the dark forests of their childhoods, and beyond - from institutions, from one another, and ultimately, from within themselves. As they move through their wild ...
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- Pushkin Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78227-614-2
EAN 9781782276142
When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate ...
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- Pushkin Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78227-571-8
EAN 9781782275718
A farmer in India is watching the sun set over his village one quiet evening when a mysterious stranger, a giant man who seems more than human, appears on the horizon. He offers the farmer a black goat kid who is the runt of the litter, surely too frail to survive. The farmer and his ...
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- Pushkin Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78227-699-9
EAN 9781782276999
Meet Happy Doll, Hap to his friends. He's a LA private detective living a quiet life along with his beloved half-Chihuahua half-Terrier, George. He's getting by just fineWhen he's not walking George or sipping tequila, Hap works nights at the Thai Miracle Spa, protecting the women who work there from clients who won't take "no" ...
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- Pushkin Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78227-537-4
EAN 9781782275374
During the war, Geraldine Schwarz's grandparents were neither heroes nor villains - they just followed the current. Afterwards they wanted to forget, to bury it all under the wreckage of the Third Reich. But decades later, delving through the basement of their apartment building, Geraldine discovers that her grandfather Karl profited from the forced 'Aryanisation' ...
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- Pushkin Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78227-692-0
EAN 9781782276920
A CRY FOR HELPAnna Aune is on a scientific expedition to the North Pole, when the pitch black of the polar night is lit up by a distress flare.A VISION FROM A NIGHTMAREAt a nearby research station Anna discovers a massacre mutilated bodies strewn about the base. Then, a fierce Arctic storm blows in, cutting ...
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