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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 · 544 páginas
PVP: 14,99 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952117-4
EAN 9780099521174
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There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic. House of Meetings is about one ...
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- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 9,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951158-8
EAN 9780099511588
How thin is the line between good and evil?Dr Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity. He has developed a drug which separates the two sides of his nature and allows him to occasionally abandon himself to his most corrupt inclinations as the monstrous Mr Hyde.But gradually he begins to find that the journey back ...
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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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Jennifer M. Wilson has decided to become a voice, a professional enunciator, an announcer, a voice-over artiste. Behind the sound-proof doors of the recording studio she must surely be safe from the painful inconveniences of hate and love. Until reality breaks in.
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- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
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 · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-949799-8
EAN 9780099497998
On a clear day, you could see America' from Edinburgh's Castle Rock or so said Alice Munro's great-great-great-grandfather, James Laidlaw, when he had drink taken. Then, in 1818, Laidlaw left the parish of 'no advantages', of banked Presbyterian emotions and uncanny tales where, like his more famous cousin James Hogg, he was born and bred ...
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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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- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952066-5
EAN 9780099507383
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 house. 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, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 8,70 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951193-9
EAN 9780099511939
Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape.In Oliver Twist, Dickens graphically conjures up the capital's underworld, full of prostitutes, ...
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India
a Million Mutinies Now
- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 16,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7493-9920-7
EAN 9780749399207
V.S. Naipaul's fascinating account of his journey around India approaches this shifting, changing land from a variety of perspectives. Through interviews with people from many different walks of life, he builds an oral history of a country constantly on the move.
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- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 912 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951623-1
EAN 9780099516231
Dorothea is bright, beautiful and rebellious and has married the wrong man. Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in town and has married the wrong woman. Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world. But their stories do not proceed as expected and both they, and the other inhabitants of Middlemarch, ...
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