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In her highly praised The Six Wives of Henry VIII and its sequel, Children of England, Alison Weir examined the private lives of the early Tudor kings and queens, and chronicled the childhood and youth of one of England's most successful monarchs, Elizabeth I. This book begins as the young Elizabeth ascends the throne in ...
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Acclaimed as one of America's most distinguished and successful playwrights, Tennessee Williams also published four volumes of short stories. In COLLECTED STORIES, these volumes are combined with a wealth of unpublished and uncollected work, ranging from his first his story published in Weird Tales' when William was seventeen, to his later frank homosexual fantasies. Introduced ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 18,65 €
ISBN 978-0-7493-9702-9
EAN 9780749397029
Christopher Isherwood gives fascinating insight into pre-war Berlin. MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINSThe first of Christopher Isherwood's classic 'Berlin' novels, this portrays the encounter and growing friendship between young William Bradshaw and the urbane and mildly sinister Mr Norris. Piquant, witty and oblique, it vividly evokes the atmosphere of pre-war Berlin, and forcefully conveys an ironic ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,65 €
ISBN 978-0-09-927463-6
EAN 9780099274636
Frank Ritz is a television critic. His partner, Melissa Paul, is the author of pornographic novels for liberated women. He watches crap all day; she writes crap all day. It's a life. Or it was a life. But now they're fighting, locked in oral combat. He won't shut up and she is putting her finger ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 960 páginas
PVP: 25,35 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928889-3
EAN 9780099288893
Gormenghast is the vast, crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is lord and heir. Titus is expected to rule this gothic labyrinth of turrets and dungeons, and his eccentric and wayward subjects, according to strict age-old rituals, but things are changing in the castle. Titus must contend with treachery, manipulation and murder ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-09-976821-0
EAN 9780099768210
Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the counter culture and the politics of the late 1970s, deftly ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-999400-8
EAN 9780099994008
For six hundred years, the Ottoman Empire swelled and declined. Islamic, martial, civilized, and tolerant, it advanced in three centuries from the dusty foothills of Anatolia to rule on the Danube and the Nile; at its height, Indian rajahs and the kings of France beseeched the empire's aid. In its last three hundred years the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-975991-1
EAN 9780099759911
The chronicle of the tragic lives of a poor black family in 1940s America. Every night Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays for blue eyes like those of her white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 16,40 €
ISBN 978-0-7493-8640-5
EAN 9780749386405
Thomas More is one of the great figures in English history. Pre-eminent as a courtier and as a humanist, a friend to Henry VIII and the author of Utopia, More's life and career epitomise the great transformation of England in the space of 35 years. Ackroyd investigates the paradox of this 'man for all seasons': ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,85 €
ISBN 978-0-09-977791-5
EAN 9780099777915
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 498 páginas
PVP: 20,39 €
ISBN 978-0-679-75123-6
EAN 9780679751236
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,01 €
ISBN 978-0-09-927527-5
EAN 9780099275275
When "The Wapshot Chronicle" was published in 1957, John Cheever was already recognized as a writer of superb short stories. But "The Wapshot Chronicle," which won the 1958 National Book Award, established him as a major novelist. Based in part on Cheever's adolescence in New England, the novel follows the destinies of the impecunious and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-86046-508-6
EAN 9781860465086
The experience of Irish emigration has never been more lyrically set out than in this novel, beautiful both for its words and for its images. It tells the story of one man's journey from the West of Ireland to the fields and boxing-booths and building sites of England. Now, at the century's end, he finds ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-974871-7
EAN 9780099748717
'I worked one hundred murders,' says Detective Mike Hoolihan, an American policewoman. 'In my time I have come in on the aftermath of maybe a thousand suspicious deaths, most of which turned out to be suicides, accidentals or plain unattendeds. So I've seen them all: jumpers, stumpers, dumpers, dunkers, bleeders, floaters, poppers, bursters. But of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-86046-502-4
EAN 9781860465024
The world's threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow. Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practising medicine in Brazil, Ricardo Reis wanders the rain-sodden streets. He longs for the unattainably aristocratic Marcenda, but it is Lydia, the hotel chamber maid who makes and shares his bed.His old ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-926754-6
EAN 9780099267546
According to Vonnegut s alter ego,science-fiction writer Kilgore Trouta global timequake will occur in New York City on 13 february 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to back up a decade to 1991,making everyone in the world ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-926827-7
EAN 9780099268277
A first volume of memoirs, revisiting the South Africa of half a century ago, of a boy growing up in a small country town with a father he could not respect and a mother he adored. Coetzee evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood, in a world of unexplained rules he knew he must ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-976841-8
EAN 9780099768418
Song of Solomon is a work of outstanding beauty and power, whose story covers the years from the 1930's to the 1960's in America. At its centre is Macon Dead Jr, the son of a wealthy black property owner, who has been brought up to revere the white world. Macon learns about the tyranny of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-976001-6
EAN 9780099760016
As girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's discoveries and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married. Ten years later Sula returns and no one, least of all Nel, trusts her. Sula is the story of the fear that makes people ...
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