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- Vintage UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,80 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952388-8
EAN 9780099523888
In 1933, the delightfully eccentric Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana - the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. His arrival at his destination, ...
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- Vintage UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-953037-4
EAN 9780099530374
The Worst Journey in the World is a gripping account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. One of the youngest members of Scott's team, Apsley Cherry-Garrard was later part of the rescue party that found the frozen bodies of Scott and the three men who had accompanied him on the final push to the Pole. ...
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Born Lucie Dillon, to a half-French mother and an Anglo-Irish father, her world was Versailles and the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. She married a French aristocrat, and narrowly survived the French Revolution, escaping to America at the time of Washington and Jefferson. Here, she lived a life of milking cows and chopping ...
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Marcus Aurelius
Warrior, Philosopher, Emperor
- Vintage UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 710 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84413-527-1
EAN 9781844135271
Marcus Aurelius the last of Rome's five good emperors' is the one great figure of antiquity who still speaks to us today, more than 2,000 years after his death. We may thrill to the exploits of Alexander the Great, Hannibal or Julius Caesar but the only voice from the Greco-Roman world that still seems to ...
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- Vintage UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928874-9
EAN 9780099288749
"Lark and Termite "is set during the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea. It is a story of the power of loss and love, the echoing ramifications of war, family secrets, dreams and ghosts, and the unseen, almost magical bonds that unite and sustain us. At its center, two children: Lark, on the verge of ...
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This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen-year-old illiterate black girl who has never been out of Harlem. She is pregnant by her own father for the second time, and kicked out of school when that pregnancy becomes obvious. Placed in an alternative teaching programme, she learns to read and write.This is Precious's diary, ...
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A deep, ingenious, and insightful analysis of one of the deepest mysteries of the human species. An excellent book in the spirit of the French Enlightenment, broadly learned and with modern behavioural science added.
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- Vintage UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-948897-2
EAN 9780099488972
Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme: he doesn't search for clues; he ignores obvious suspects and arrests people with cast-iron alibis; he appears permanently distracted. In spite of all this his colleagues are forced to admit that he is highly successful a born cop.When strange blue chalk ...
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- Vintage UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-954128-8
EAN 9780099541288
Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, A Single Man is the story of George Falconer, an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim. With devastating clarity and humour, Christopher Isherwood shows George's determination to carry on, evoking the unexpected pleasures of life as well as the ...
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- Vintage UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-954882-9
EAN 9780099548829
In this brilliantly perceptive novel, a middle aged professor living in California, is alienated from his students by differences in age and nationality ,and from the rest of society by his homosexuality. Isherwood explores the depths of the human soul and its ability to triumph over loneliness, alienation and loss.
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- Vintage UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 752 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-0-09-954127-1
EAN 9780099541271
Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in a hit-and-run accident in the Bronx.Prosecutors, newspaper hacks, politicians and clergy close in on him, determined to bring him ...
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- Vintage UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 896 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-954084-7
EAN 9780099540847
'One of Dickens's most neglected, but most rewarding, novels' Peter Ackroyd Dickens's first historical novel is a thrilling tale of murder, treachery and forbidden love with rioting mob scenes to make your hair stand on end. Barnaby Rudge is a young innocent simpleton who is devoted to his talkative raven, Grip. When he gets caught ...
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- Vintage UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951275-2
EAN 9780099512752
Boston, 1870. The news of the untimely death of Charles Dickens reaches his American publisher. James R.Osgood, a junior partner there, had been expecting the arrival of the latest instalment of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", now Dickens' last work, to arrive shortly. Suspicious of unscrupulous New York publishers and their ruthless agents intent on ...
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- Vintage UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951166-3
EAN 9780099511663
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on ...
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- Vintage UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928940-1
EAN 9780099289401
Considered by Graham Greene to be Maugham's best work, "Don Fernando" is a paean to a golden age of enormous creative energy. It discusses the writings of St. Teresa and the paintings of El Greco, and comments with sagacity and wit on such illustrious figures as Cervantes, Velazquez and the creator of Don Juan.This vibrant ...
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Modernism
The Lure Of Heresy
- Vintage UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-944196-0
EAN 9780099441960
Peter Gay's most ambitious endeavor since Freud explores the shocking modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music, and film with its assault on traditional forms. Beginning his epic study with Baudelaire, whose lurid poetry scandalized French stalwarts, Gay traces the revolutionary path of modernism from its Parisian origins to its emergence ...
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- Vintage UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952953-8
EAN 9780099529538
John Cheever's journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. He loved his wife and their children, but was acutely lonely; he loved women, but he also loved men; he hated himself for his drinking, but for much of his life was dependent upon it; he was a ...
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In 1779, driven out of his home, Calum MacDonald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands with his extensive family. After a long, terrible journey he settles his family in 'the land of trees', and eventually they become a separate Nova Scotian clan: red-haired and black-eyed, with its own identity, its own history. It is the ...
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- Vintage UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-953033-6
EAN 9780099530336
Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things - a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring - with immense, even startling power'. Nowhere is this alchemy more striking than in the title story of Cathedral in ...
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