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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: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952102-0
EAN 9780099521020
An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits, bored, he begins to conjure up the life stories of the people he meets, not least Ricky, an equally bored but seductive waitress. Later, when 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 · 464 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-088-1
EAN 9781847920881
All human cultures seem to make music - today and through history. But why they do so, why music can excite deep passions, and how we make sense of musical sound at all are questions that have, until recently, remained profoundly mysterious. Now in The Music Instinct Philip Ball provides the first comprehensive, accessible survey ...
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- Vintage UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-949308-2
EAN 9780099493082
Tells the story of four men including the neurotic and enigmatic Montagu Norman of the Bank of England; the xenophobic and suspicious Emile Moreau of the Banque de France; the arrogant yet brilliant Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank; and, the dynamic Benjamin Strong of the New York Federal Reserve Bank.
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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 · 304 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-953454-9
EAN 9780099534549
1914, and an English archaeologist called Somerville is fulfilling a lifelong dream: to direct an excavation in the desert of Mesopotamia. Yet forces beyond his control threaten his work. The Great War is looming, and various interest groups are vying for control over the land and its manyprizes. And Somerville, whose intention is purely to ...
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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 · 592 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-953545-4
EAN 9780099535454
Olive Wellwood is a famous writer, interviewed with her children gathered at her knee. For each of them she writes a separate private book, bound in different colours and placed on a shelf. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh they play in a story-book world - but their lives, and those of their rich ...
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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: 14,75 €
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 · 256 páginas
PVP: 10,39 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928684-4
EAN 9780099286844
Crippled sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. But then she has a vision of the Virgin, and is miraculously cured. In the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, such a claim to blessedness has serious consequences, especially when Catalina seems more inclined to ...
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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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Curiosities of Literature
A Book-Lover's Anthology of Literary Erudition
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