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- Vintage UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-943674-4
EAN 9780099436744
The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence centred around the infamous slum of Five Points, with its rival Irish and American gangs. Cobbled from legend, memory, police records, the self-aggrandizements of aging crooks, popular journalism, and solid historical research, this is a powerful ...
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- Vintage UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-944854-9
EAN 9780099448549
In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin ...
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- Vintage UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-944888-4
EAN 9780099448884
At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to work its magic, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss.
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- Vintage UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-09-944847-1
EAN 9780099448471
Sputnik Sweetheart finds Haruki Murakami in his minimalist mode. Shorter than the sweeping Wind-up Bird Chronicle, less playfully bizarre than A Wild Sheep Chase, the author's seventh novel distills his signature themes into a powerful story about the loneliness of the human condition. "There was nothing solid we could depend on," the reader is told. ...
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- Vintage UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 17,85 €
ISBN 978-0-09-986190-4
EAN 9780099861904
In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's ...
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- Vintage UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-941537-4
EAN 9780099415374
It is Manhattan, Thanksgiving Eve, 1945. The war is over, and Eric Smythe's party was in full swing. All his clever Greenwich Village friends were there.So too, was his sister, Sara - an independent, canny young woman, starting to make her way in the big city. And then in walked a gatecrasher, Jack Malone - ...
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- Vintage UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-942274-7
EAN 9780099422747
In these stories whose lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The past, as her characters discover, is made up not only of what is remembered, but also what isn't. The past is there, just out of the picture, but if memories haven't been ...
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- Vintage UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-976681-0
EAN 9780099766810
Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its contemporaneity, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage ...
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- Vintage UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 198 páginas
PVP: 12,55 €
ISBN 978-0-09-943743-7
EAN 9780099437437
Set in the last century against a tropical landscape and the ever-present sea, A High Wind in Jamaica tells the story of a family of English children who, on being sent by their parents back to England from Jamaica, fall into the hands of pirates. As this voyage of innocence continues, the events which unfold ...
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- Vintage UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-942227-3
EAN 9780099422273
History and humanity flow through Empire Falls, Maine, like the strange flotsam washed up at the bend of the vast, slow-moving Knox River. The Whiting family, owners of the mills and the shirt factory, have sold out to a multinational. The Whiting men have invariably married women who make their lives a misery. C. B. ...
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- Vintage UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-942979-1
EAN 9780099429791
On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country hosue. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, ...
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- Vintage UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928643-1
EAN 9780099286431
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- Vintage UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-942885-5
EAN 9780099428855
The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in World War I. Based on Maugham's own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he dramatises both the romance and absurdity of espionage as ...
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- Vintage UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-944876-1
EAN 9780099448761
High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's ...
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- Vintage UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,55 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928624-0
EAN 9780099286240
In 1938 Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to discover the state of the country and its people in the aftermath of the brutal anti-clerical purges of President Calles. His journey took him through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, where all the churches had been destroyed or closed and the priests driven ...
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- Vintage UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 498 páginas
PVP: 27,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-6836-1
EAN 9780712668361
This is a biography of Frederick II (1194-1250), King of Sicily, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Jerusalem, concentrating on the complete history of his kingdoms and placing his reign in a wide context. David Abulafia presents Frederick as less tolerant, less far-sighted in his cultural interests and less ambitious to break the power of the ...
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Who Moved My Cheese? is a simple parable that reveals profound truths. It is the amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a maze and look for cheese to nourish them and make them happy. Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in life, for example a good job, ...
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- Vintage UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-09-942907-4
EAN 9780099429074
Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translation work and sponging on his friends. A meeting with Anna, an old ...
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- Vintage UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-975091-8
EAN 9780099750918
It is winter, barely three days into 1926, seven years after Armistice; we are in the scintillating City, around Lenox Avenue, 'when all the wars are over and there will never be another one.At last, at last, everything's ahead.Here comes the new. Look out. There goes the sad stuff. The bad stuff. The things nobody-could-help ...
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- Vintage UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928623-3
EAN 9780099286233
The Third Man is Graham Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a 'smashed dreary city' occupied by the four Allied powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless to visit his friend and hero, Harry Lime. But Harry has died in suspicious circumstances, and the police are closing in on his associates-The Fallen Idol is ...
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