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- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 880 páginas
PVP: 16,26 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952378-9
EAN 9780099523789
In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. At first there were skirmishes, then battles off the coasts of England and Germany and in the far corners of the world, including the Falklands. The British attempted to force the Dardanelles with battleships - which led to ...
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- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951163-2
EAN 9780099511632
William Blake is one of Britain's most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking poet, is also well known as a painter, engraver, radical and mystic. In this collection Patti Smith has collected together her personal selection of Blake's poems, including the complete poems from the famous "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of ...
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- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928566-3
EAN 9780099285663
'I remember, too, the light on the slopes, long shadows in tufts and hollows, with cattle, brilliant as painted china, treading their echoing shapes 'Cider With Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of Laurie Lee' s childhood and youth in a remote Cotswold village. From the moment he is set down in the long grass, ...
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Patrimony
A True History
- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-09-991430-3
EAN 9780099914303
Herman Roth is eighty-six years old, a widower and retired insurance manager,suffering from a brain tumour and fighting death. In a remarkable act of memory,elegy and appreciation,Philip roth creates his most irrepressible and irresistible hero yet - his father.
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- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-947839-3
EAN 9780099478393
Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s Indo-China comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he ...
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- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 17,05 €
ISBN 978-0-09-996750-7
EAN 9780099967507
'Edward Said helps us to understand who we are and what we must do if we aspire to be moral agents, not servants of power.' Noam Chomsky. Following his profoundly influential study, Orientalism, Edward Said now examines western culture. From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to media coverage of the Gulf War, Culture ...
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- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-953261-3
EAN 9780099532613
Oedipa Maas, recent heiress, enquires into the nature of her inheritance:trying to understand her own life and the motivation of her dead lover, she is led on am ambiguous trail of clues. The moment of revelation hovers on the horizon like a mirage. Pynchon's shortest novel, and one of his best.
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- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-946960-5
EAN 9780099469605
Having sacked her handyman, newly-widowed Mrs Emerson finds a replacement in Elizabeth, a lanky, awkward girl. The Emersons have a reputation for craziness and Elizabeth is drawn into their disorderly lives against her will.
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- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-949397-6
EAN 9780099493976
The Kampfs having gone up in the world thanks to luck with the stock decide to throw a ball. Their daughter Antoinette dreams of attending. But Madame Kampf is resolved not to allow her. In a fury of revolt and despair, Antoinette takes her revenge. This book presents a cruel, funny and tender examination of ...
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- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-948499-8
EAN 9780099484998
In this mesmerizing, funny, chilling novel. the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, the subject the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman.When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she has been trying to reform the ...
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The Medici
Godfathers of the Renaissance
- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 19,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952297-3
EAN 9780099522973
A dazzling history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money and ambition. Against the background of an age which saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning - of humanism which penetrated and explored the arts and ...
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- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-945932-3
EAN 9780099459323
Having learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron set off on a 10,000 mile journey from Beijing to Tibet, starting from a tropical paradise near the Burmese border to the windswept wastes of the Gobi desert and the far end of the Great Wall. What Thubron reveals is an astonishing ...
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Lionheart and Lackland
King Richard, King John and the Wars of Conquest
- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-9417-9
EAN 9780712694179
Anyone who has seen 'The Lion in Winter' will remember the vicious, compelling world of the Plantagenets: the towering, almost psychopathic Henry II, commander of the slaughter of Thomas a' Becket, at war with both his wife the formidable Eleanor of Aquitaine and his sons (including the subjects of this remarkable book, Richard and John). ...
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- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928847-3
EAN 9780099288473
Proud and solitary, El Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Arther Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the house's sole inhabitant, unaware of the tragic secrets which lie hidden behind the shuttered windows. It is not until he glimpses ...
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- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-943722-2
EAN 9780099437222
On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey.Covering over 7000 miles in eight months Thurbron recounts extraordinary adventures - a near-miss ...
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- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952096-2
EAN 9780099520962
How does a novelist write about the facts of his life after spending years fictionalising those facts with irrepressible daring and originality?What becomes of 'the facts' after they have been smelted down for art's sake? In The Facts - Philip Roth's idiosyncratic autobiography - we find out. Focusing on five episodes in his life, Roth ...
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- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-927396-7
EAN 9780099273967
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge ...
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- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 992 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-946969-8
EAN 9780099469698
Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain.
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- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-946673-4
EAN 9780099466734
A lawyer's advice to his children a he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl in the Deep South of the thirties.
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- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,05 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928678-3
EAN 9780099286783
In this classic guide, Maugham introduces and discusses what he considers to be the ten greatest novels and their authors. Here are some of the formulae of greatness in the genre, as well as the flaws and heresies that enfeeble it. Maugham's choice list: Fielding's "Tom Jones"; Dickens's "David Copperfield"; Flaubert's "Madame Bovary"; Balzac's "Old ...
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