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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-190635-1
EAN 9780091906351
Dale Carnegie says You can make someone want to do what you want them to do by seeing the situation from the other person's point of view and "arousing in the other person an eager want." You learn how to make people like you, win people over to your way of thinking, and change people ...
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 12,70 €
ISBN 978-0-09-946594-2
EAN 9780099465942
Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace. As she dreams ...
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,70 €
ISBN 978-0-09-947037-3
EAN 9780099470373
In The Master of Petersburg J. M. Coetzee dares to imagine the life of Dostoevsky. Set in 1869, when Dostoevsky was summoned from Germany to St Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, this novel is at once a compelling mystery steeped in the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia and a brilliant and courageous meditation ...
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,30 €
ISBN 978-0-09-946959-9
EAN 9780099469599
From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a rich and compelling novel, spanning three generations, about a mismatched marriage - and its consequences.-Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in Baltimore, he was smitten, and in the heat of World ...
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-945820-3
EAN 9780099458203
In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything was transformed. Huxley described his experience in The Doors of Perception and its sequel Heaven and Hell.
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 12,30 €
ISBN 978-0-09-947915-4
EAN 9780099479154
In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. Life and Times ...
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-945818-0
EAN 9780099458180
When Theodore Gumbril hits upon the notion of designing a type of pneumatic trouser ('a comfort to all travellers, indispensable to first-nighters, the concert-goers' friends') to ease the discomfort of the sedentary life, he decides the time has come leave his position as a housemaster in a boys' public school and seek his fortune in ...
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-0-09-946593-5
EAN 9780099465935
For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison, branded as ...
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-946192-0
EAN 9780099461920
Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation, she has reached the stage where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. Her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world - a private consciousness obliged to ...
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,15 €
ISBN 978-0-09-945549-3
EAN 9780099455493
May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L - all are women obsessed by Bill Cosey. More than the wealthy owner of the famous Cosey Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for a father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet Cosey himself ...
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-943807-6
EAN 9780099438076
Highly original and magnificent in scope, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination discovers the roots of English cultural history in the Anglo-Saxon period, and traces it through the centuries. What does it mean to be English? This dazzling book demonstrates that a quintessentially English quality can be discovered in all forms of English culture, ...
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 12,55 €
ISBN 978-0-09-941545-9
EAN 9780099415459
Neil McKenna argues that our view of Oscar Wilde, even after Ellman's magisterial volume, is determined by Victorian sentimentality. In his own much more modern version of Wilde's story, he is not only extremely promiscuous but also a sort of campaigner for sexual freedom. He reveals, for example, that Wilde's relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas ...
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-947746-4
EAN 9780099477464
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect ...
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-945819-7
EAN 9780099458197
The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy who devours every man in sight; the repulsive Spandrell deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment ...
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,65 €
ISBN 978-0-09-946185-2
EAN 9780099461852
Smooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests and tireless sex - sister, employers, acquaintances are but co-stars among a cast of thousands to have passed through his busy bed. His foster brother, Terry, has to make do with the leavings ...
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 10,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-926759-1
EAN 9780099267591
When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change. Like a spiritual convert, the familial paragon becomes an anti-husband, an anti-father. He submits to an alien moral system - one among many to be found in these pages. We are introduced to the inverted ...
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-946864-6
EAN 9780099468646
Anthony Burgess' epic masterpiece follows the lives of two men who each represent different kinds of earthly power. Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist, world-famous homosexual, and a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into honoured, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety. Don Carlo Campanati is a man of ...
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,65 €
ISBN 978-0-09-942183-2
EAN 9780099421832
Joy, sorrow, jealousy and awe - these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. Presumed to be too private for science to explain and not to be essential for comprehending human rationality and understanding, they have largely been ignored. But not by the great seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher Spinoza. And not by Antonio ...
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-945836-4
EAN 9780099458364
The characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe. Passions hopelessly conceived, affections betrayed, marriages made and broken: the joys, fears, loves and awakenings of women echo throughout these twelve unforgettable stories, laying bare the unexceptional and yet inescapable pain of human contact.
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-947776-1
EAN 9780099477761
In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and successful seducer of women and priest of the parish of Loudun, was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of being in league with the devil and seducing an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession ...
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