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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928523-6
EAN 9780099285236
Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life.Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved in the old, awful problems together with some new ones. He also rediscovers the eternal family servant, the ever-changing Italian girl, who has always been 'a second mother'. This particular return to mother holds some surprises for ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,30 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928526-7
EAN 9780099285267
Iris Murdoch's richly peopled novel revolves round a happily married couple, Kate and Octavian, and the friends of all ages attached to their household in Dorset. The novel deals with love in its two aspects, t he self-gratifying and the impersonal; - the nice and the good - as th ey are embodied in a ...
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First published in 1988 and now reissued in paperback, a contemporary novel about religion, from the author of MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN.Two Indian actors fall to Earth after their aeroplane is blown-up by terrorists, and they become involved in the battle between Good and Evil, as a great prophet wrestles with his faith and duty to God.
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A lucid enquiry into the precise meaning of identity - that which makes each of us unique and dissimilar to any other individual. In this series of reflections, the author considers how we define ourselves and what identity has meant and continues to mean in different cultures.
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,10 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928876-3
EAN 9780099288763
There have been many ambitious and important books on the problem of c onsciousness in the past few years. None has quite the philosophical sophistication and neurophysiological knowledge of this one. One of the world's leading experts on the neurophysiology of emotion, professor Damasio shows how our consciousness developed out of the development of emotion; ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928282-2
EAN 9780099282822
SOLDIER'S PAY was Faulkner's first novel. In the Summer of 1925, worki ng in New Orleans, Faulkner met Sherwood Anderson, who encouraged him to write a novel. Unlike his later books, this post-war story of a wo unded, helpless and dying officer returning home to his father and his fickle sweetheart is set in Georgia, ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928315-7
EAN 9780099283157
A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perverted God-fearing lover, it becomes inevitable that he is pursued by a ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928504-5
EAN 9780099285045
Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the twenties are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald - ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 23,55 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-6544-5
EAN 9780712665445
The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965 and heard since by a much wider audience on BBC radio. For Berli, the Romantics set in train a vast, unparalleled revolution in humanity's view of itself. They destroyed the traditional ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928293-8
EAN 9780099282938
This is Richard Wright's stark and vehement novel about a young black man who is hardened by life in the slums and whose every effort to fre e himself proves hopeless. Unwittingly involved in a wealthy woman's d eath, he is hunted relentlessly, baited by prejudiced officials, charg ed with murder and driven to acknowledge ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,55 €
ISBN 978-0-09-943801-4
EAN 9780099438014
First published in 1933, Flush is the lively story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel. Although Flush has adventures of his own, he is also the means of providing us with glimpses of the life of his owner and her days at Wimpole Street as an invalid, her courtship by Robert Browning, their elopement and ...
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Call If You Need Me
The uncollected fiction and prose
- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86046-759-2
EAN 9781860467592
When he died in August 1988, Raymond Carver had just published what were thought to be his last stories in the collection entitled Elephant and his own collection of stories, Where I'm Calling from. Five previously unpublished stories have recently been discovered, and this new volume brings together all of his uncollected fiction, including a ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,80 €
ISBN 978-0-09-957731-7
EAN 9780099577317
Isaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for ten years, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interview him. Isaiah Berlin (1909-97) was one of the greatest and most humane of modern philosophers; historian of the Russian intellgentisia biographer of Marx, pioneering scholar of the Romantic movement ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,55 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928960-9
EAN 9780099289609
MORE FAR EASTERN TALES brings together a further selection of Somerset Maugham's stories inspired by his travels in Singapore, Malaya and other exotic parts of the former British Empire. Containing some of his best-loved tales, this superbly entertaining and compelling collection is a testament to the skill and power of Maugham as a short story ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-926855-0
EAN 9780099268550
In the year 1629, a young English lutenist named Peter Claire arrives at the Danish Court to join King Christian IV's Royal Orchestra. From the moment when he realises that the musicians perform in a freezing cellar underneath the royal apartments, Peter Claire understand that he's come to a place where the opposing states of ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928494-9
EAN 9780099284949
Three months after returning to England, Christopher Burton, receives a phone-call at the reception desk of the Rembrandt Hotel, Knightsbridge that informs him of his son's suicide. But why on receiving this terrible news, does Burton immediately decide that he must leave his Italian wife of thirty years standing? Why does he find it so ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 9780099289500
EAN 9780099289500
Maugham spent the winter months of 1919-20 travelling 1500 miles up the Yangtze river. Always more interested in people than places he gave full rein to a sensitive and philosophical nature: ON A CHINESE SCREEN is the refined accumulation of the countless scraps of paper on which he had taken notes. A series of acute ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928414-7
EAN 9780099284147
In a prison in Occupied France during the Second World War, the order is given that every tenth inmate is to be executed. Louis Chavel, a rich lawyer, draws the short straw and barters everything he owns to exchange places with another man and survive. Destitute but free, Chavel later returns to the house that ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-0-09-944857-0
EAN 9780099448570
Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection. But when his family moved away, the two lost touch. Now Hajime is in his ...
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