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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-0-09-938911-8
EAN 9780099389118
A ferocious political satire in the great tradition, Our Gang is Philip Roth's brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon.In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth show us a man who outdoes the severest cynic, a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of human life who doesn't have a problem ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-942188-7
EAN 9780099421887
Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls is knifed to death on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Clown. The dead man is a World War II Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability and much erotic appeal, a former United States ...
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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 Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB, it remained unpublished at the author's death in 1964; it was ...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
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-942515-1
EAN 9780099268567
Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward Vlll abdicated in 1936, ended her life as the prisoner of her lawyer who would not allow anyone - friend, foe or journalist - to visit her in her Paris flat. The author takes this true story and transforms it into an imaginative and ironic fiction.
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928536-6
EAN 9780099285366
Martin Lynch-Gibbon believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education. He attempts to behave beautifully and sensibly. Then he meets a woman whose demonic splendour at first repels him and later arouses ...
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Peter Ackroyd's marvellous biography is a living attempt to reach into the heart of Shakespeare.He creates an intimate and immediate connection with his subject, so that the book reads like the work of a contemporary - meeting Shakespeare afresh on his own ground.Written with intuition and imagination unique to Peter Ackroyd, this is a book ...
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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 · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-949062-3
EAN 9780099490623
Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 18,10 €
ISBN 978-0-09-945187-7
EAN 9780099451877
When this book begins, in the reign of Edward VII, Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world has ever seen. By the time it ends, with the Coronation of Elizabeth II, Britain has emerged victorious from a world war, but ruined as a world power. How did Britain's power and influence decline? This is ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,85 €
ISBN 978-0-09-998110-7
EAN 9780099981107
A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the hazards and chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy newnovel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identitiesas any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.
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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 · 800 páginas
PVP: 12,65 €
ISBN 978-0-09-945826-5
EAN 9780099458265
As young boys both Jacques Rebière and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind.As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains ...
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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 · 448 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-959241-9
EAN 9780099592419
What do we do when the world's walls - its family structures, its value-systems, its political forms - crumble? The central character of this novel, 'Moor' Zogoiby, only son of a wealthy, artistic-bohemian Bombay family, finds himself in such a moment of crisis. His mother, a famous painter and an emotional despot, worships beauty, but ...
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