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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda con solapas · 416 páginas
PVP: 6,13 €
ISBN 978-0-14-018651-2
EAN 9780140186512
The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories collects some of Jack London's most profound and moving allegorical tales. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Andrew Sinclair with an introduction by James Dickey. The Call of the Wild, London's masterpiece about a dog learning to survive in the wilderness, sees pampered pet ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-938861-6
EAN 9780099388616
Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all fake?Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover the truth behind her identity.Dazzled by ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928285-3
EAN 9780099282853
This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degredation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043064-6
EAN 9780140430646
When Connecticut mechanic and foreman Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious, he wakes not to the familiar scenes of nineteenth-century America but to the bewildering sights and sounds of sixth-century Camelot. Although confused at first and quickly imprisoned, he soon realises that his knowledge of the future can transform his fate. Correctly predicting a solar eclipse ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951531-9
EAN 9780099515319
A fiction-within-a-fiction, My Life as a Man centres on the fraught marriage of Peter, a gifted young writer and Maureen Tarnopol, the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead becomes his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and powered by moral blackmail. And yet, the the couple's relationship is so perversely ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-09-958201-4
EAN 9780099582014
A work of near heroic vitality and cunning' Sunday TelegraphAt sixty-four Mickey Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous; sex is an obsession and a principle, an instrument of perpetual misrule in his daily existence. But after the death of his long-time mistress - an erotic free spirit whose great taste for the impermissible ...
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- Penguin Books Australia, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 28,65 €
ISBN 978-0-14-028680-9
EAN 9780140286809
For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called "the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century" collected in a single volumeFrom Jorge Luis Borges's 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display his ...
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The Rings of Saturn begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia. From Lowestoft to Bungay, Sebald's own story becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms. The result is a rich meditation ...
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- Viking, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044649-4
EAN 9780140446494
A slave who represented his masters in court and negotiations, Aesop relied on allegorical animal stories, collected here in The Complete Fables, to convey his key points. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Greek by Olivia and Robert Temple with an introduction by Robert Temple. In a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, Aesop ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-953301-6
EAN 9780099533016
This dazzling collection of short stories explores the allure and confusion of what happens when East meets West. Fantasy and realism collide as a rickshaw driver writes letters home describing his film star career in Bombay; a mispronunciation leads to romance and an unusual courtship in sixties London; two childhood friends turned diplomats live out ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,10 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928482-6
EAN 9780099284826
A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities, he is expected to apologise and repent in an effort to save his job, but he refuses to become a scapegoat in what he see as as a show trial designed to reinforce ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 11,95 €
ISBN 978-0-09-980190-0
EAN 9780099801900
He is a middle-aged American writer called Philip; she is an articulate, well-educated Englishwoman trapped in a loveless and humiliating marriage. In Philip's London studio, this play of voices - sharp, tender and inquiring - reveals both their past lives with startling clarity. Deception is fiendishly clever, as it dances with the conventions of the ...
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When their father's business fails, the six Bastable children decide to restore the family fortunes. But although they think of many ingenious ways to do so, their well meant efforts are either more fun than profitable, or lead to trouble...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 19,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-051235-9
EAN 9780140512359
This concise, abridged edition of Pierre Grimal's celebrated DICTIONARY OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY brilliantly distils and captures the essence of Greek and Roman mythology. It is the ideal reference tool for anyone with an interest in the Classics or those seeking to explore the many allusions to its mythology that abound in later literature.
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- Penguin Books Australia, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 180 páginas
PVP: 10,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-038572-4
EAN 9780140385724
The Greasers and the rich-kid Socs are at war on the Tulsa streets. Ponyboy, a fourteen-year-old brawler, chainsmoker and dreamer, is a fiercely loyal greaser. But a single, murderous catastrophe is to wrench him from his old life and overturn everything he thinks he knows.The Outsiders was an audacious debut written when S. E. Hinton ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-977111-1
EAN 9780099771111
This is the account of a journey to the dazzling Tibetan plateau of Dolpo in the high Himalayas.In 1973 Matthiessen made the 250-mile trek to Dolpo, as part of an expedition to study wild blue sheep. It was an arduous, sometimes dangerous, physical endeavour: exertion, blisters, blizzards, endless negotiations with sherpas, quaking cold. But it ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-09-947651-1
EAN 9780099476511
In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament marked by an institutionalised oppression that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the subjugated writers with ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 18,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044060-7
EAN 9780140440607
His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome recount with depth and insight the history of the Roman Empire during the first century A.D. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant. Tacitus' Annals of Imperial Rome recount the major ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044421-6
EAN 9780140444216
In "The Politics" Aristotle addresses the questions that lie at the heart of political science. How should society be ordered to ensure the happiness of the individual? Which forms of government are best and how should they be maintained?
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