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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 912 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-950616-4
EAN 9780099506164
This sweeping account of the siege of Stalingrad aims to give as panoramic a view of Soviet society during World War II as Tolstoy did of Russian life in the epoch of the Napoleonic Wars. Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB, it remained unpublished at the author's death in 1964; it was ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-949273-3
EAN 9780099492733
Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, George remains in ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-958811-5
EAN 9780099588115
From familiar fairy tales and legends - "Red Riding Hood", "Bluebeard", "Puss in Boots", "Beauty and the Beast", vampires and werewolves - the author has created a collection of stories.
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-950164-0
EAN 9780099501640
In the centuries since Descartes famously proclaimed, 'I think, therefore I am,' science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person's true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended until recently to concentrate on the cognitive aspects of brain function, disregarding emotions. This attitude began to change with the publication of Descartes' Error. Antonio ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-949066-1
EAN 9780099490661
Set in Kiev during the Russian revolution White Guard tells a story about the war's effect on a middle-class family and was turned into a hugely successful play on publication. It brought the author overnight success and became 'a new Seagull' for the new generation, although it also received hostile reviews for the sympathetic portrayal ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,60 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928616-5
EAN 9780099286165
The stories in this book, all written between 1929 and 1954, all share the themes that feature so strongly in Graham Greene's novels: humour and violence, pity and hatred, betrayal and pursuit. Comic, sad, shocking and tragic, they recount the tales of Mr Maling's loud stomach, destructive gangs of children, indiscretions revealed and secrets uncovered, ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-0-09-949914-5
EAN 9780099499145
Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in the dizzying heat of August 1939, five cousins have gathered at their aunt's house for their annual ritual of a holiday. For most of them it is the last summer of their youth, with the heady exhilarations and freedoms ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 17,95 €
ISBN 978-1-84413-762-6
EAN 9781844137626
More than four hundred years after his death, Sir Francis Drake remains one of the legendary figures of history. His career is one of the most colourful on record. The most daring of the corsairs who raided the West Indies and Spanish Main, he led the English into the Pacific, and cirumnavigated the world to ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-957851-2
EAN 9780099578512
Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and found himself mysteriously 'handcuffed to history' by the coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born at the midnight hour, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent - and whose privilege and curse it is to be both master and victims of ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-947916-1
EAN 9780099479161
The Midnight Bell, a pub on the Euston Road, is the pulse of this brilliant and compassionate trilogy. It is here where the barman, Bob, falls in love with Jenny, a West End prostitute who comes in off the streets for a gin and pep. Around his obsessions, and Ella the barmaid's secret love for ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-926833-8
EAN 9780099268338
A megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengeance on a Hottentot tribe for undermining the 'natural' order of his universe with their anarchic rival order, mocking him and subjecting him to the humiliations of his own all too palpable flesh. A specialist in psychological warfare is driven to breakdown and madness by the stresses of a ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-0-09-938901-9
EAN 9780099389019
As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself "a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes." Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be - or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a ménage à trois in ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-977151-7
EAN 9780099771517
A seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, that tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and ...
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Enduring Love
film tie-in
- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-948124-9
EAN 9780099481249
One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organized life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them - something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 206 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-927647-0
EAN 9780099276470
The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history.In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir Richard Naylor and his wife, Lady Myra, and their friends maintain a ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 317 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-927645-6
EAN 9780099276456
The Death of the Heart is perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's best-known book. As she deftly and delicately exposes the cruelty that lurks behind the polished surfaces of conventional society, Bowen reveals herself as a masterful novelist who combines a sense of humor with a devastating gift for divining human motivations.In this piercing story of innocence betrayed ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 238 páginas
PVP: 13,10 €
ISBN 978-0-09-927648-7
EAN 9780099276487
When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers' well-appointed house in Paris, she is prepared to spend her day between trains looked after by an old friend of her grandmother's. Henrietta longs to see a few sights in the foreign city; little does she know what fascinating secrets the Fisher house itself contains.For Henrietta finds that ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-927397-4
EAN 9780099273974
In 1918 Ernset Hemingway went to the "war to end all wars", in the ambulance service in Italy. He was wounded and twice decorated. Here he recreates the fear, comradeship, and the courage of his young American volunteer and the men an women he meets in Italy.
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-947756-3
EAN 9780099477563
Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhattan in the final year of the turbulent sixties. Not only is he assumed by his fans to be his own fictional satyr, Gilbert Carnovsky, but he also finds himself the target of ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,85 €
ISBN 978-0-09-942232-7
EAN 9780099422327
These short stories are set against the unforgiving landscape of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. They are all concerned with the complexities and mysteries of the human heart, the unbreakable bonds between man and woman, parent and child.
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