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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 11,95 €
ISBN 978-0-09-946087-9
EAN 9780099460879
This wonderful novel tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her extraordinary family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Cassandra's eccentric father is a writer whose first book took the literary world by storm but he has since failed to write a single word and now spends most of his ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952399-4
EAN 9780099523994
The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return.The intelligent and outspoken child of radical Marxists, and the great-grandaughter of Iran's last emperor, Satrapi bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951147-2
EAN 9780099511472
'Gaskell's shocking, moving and contemporary account of the corrosive effects of injustice and poverty' Sunday Telegraph Mary Barton is the pretty daughter of a factory worker who finds herself dreaming of a better life when the mill-owner's charming son, Henry, starts to court her. She rejects her childhood friend Jem's affections in the hope of ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951864-8
EAN 9780099518648
By the time he was twenty-three, Michael Davenport had learned to trust his own scepticism...Young, newly married and intensely ambitious, Michael Davenport is a minor poet trying to make a living as a writer. His adoring wife Lucy has a private fortune that he won't touch in case it compromises his art. She in turn ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-976971-2
EAN 9780099769712
On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advances of the 20th century. In depicting the lives of Benjamin and Lewis ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-949419-5
EAN 9780099494195
Andrea, an impoverished eighteen-year-old girl travels to Barcelona to pursue her ambition of studying literature at the university. She arrives at night, by train, in a city that immediately imposes its bleak, post-Civil War atmosphere on her impressionable mind. She makes her way to the home of relatives, a house she has not visited since ...
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Costa Novel Award 2007
- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-949405-8
EAN 9780099494058
Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and most extraordinary of all he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now the war took it away. Maybe it took him, ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,45 €
ISBN 978-0-09-948893-4
EAN 9780099488934
Two prostitutes are murdered in Tokyo. Twenty years previously both women were educated at the same elite school for young ladies, and had seemingly promising futures ahead of them. But in a world of dark desire and vicious ambition, for both women, prostitution meant power.Grotesque is a masterful and haunting thriller, a chilling exploration of ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951853-2
EAN 9780099518532
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 8,70 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951157-1
EAN 9780099511571
Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder. His efforts to become a London gentleman bring him into contact not just with the upper classes but also with dangerous criminals. Pip's desire to ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952355-0
EAN 9780099523550
Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages, and also one of the most controversial. Having inherited a vast feudal domain stretching from the Loire to the Pyrenees, she was one of the greatest heiresses in history; yet in her own day, she was famous not only for who ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951824-2
EAN 9780099518242
EDITED BY JOANNE TRAUTMANN BANKS, WITH A PREFACE BY HERMIONE LEEThe finest and most enjoyable of Virginia Woolf's letters are brought together in a single volume. It is a marvellous collection - spontaneous, witty, often flirtatious and powerfully moving. Whether bemoaning some domestic travail, commenting publicly on the state of the nation, or discussing cultural, ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-09-948896-5
EAN 9780099488965
Between 1943 and 2003 nine people have been stabbed to death with a most unusual weapon: a trident. In each case, arrests were made, suspects confessed their crimes and were sentenced to life in prison. One slightly worrying detail: each presumed murderer lost consciousness during the night of the crime and has no recollection of ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951279-0
EAN 9780099512790
It is June, 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come ..."On Chesil Beach" is another masterwork from Ian McEwan - a ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951597-5
EAN 9780099515975
In this frightening and surprising novel, the eccentric,wayward genius of Commissaire Adamsberg is pitted against the deep-rooted mysteries of one Alpine village's history and a very present problem: wolves.Disturbing things have been happening up in the French mountains; more and more sheep are being found with their throats torn out. The evidence points to a ...
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When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa in 2000 he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H.M. Stanley's famous expedition - but travelling alone. Despite warnings that his plan was 'suicidal', Butcher set out for the Congo's eastern border with just a rucksack and a few thousand dollars hidden ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951216-5
EAN 9780099512165
Anton Vowl is missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any hint as to his location and, insidiously, a ghost, from Vowl's past starts to cast its malignant shadow. This virtuoso story, chock-full of plots and subplots, shows the skill of both author and translator who ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-950147-3
EAN 9780099501473
Who would believe that reading a novel written in deliberately bad English could be as uplifting an experience as this? But Xiaolu Guo, writing in English for the first time, has pulled it off in a novel that has the potential to be as successful as "A History of Tractors in Ukranian" or "Lost in ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952082-5
EAN 9780099520825
In a hotel overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come. This book presents the story that tells how the course of life can be changed by a gesture not ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 9,74 €
ISBN 978-0-09-953256-9
EAN 9780099532569
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of ...
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