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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 992 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-377-4
EAN 9781847493774
When an ageing, impoverished nobleman decides to style himself "Don Quixote" and embarks upon a series of daring endeavours, it is clear that his ability to distinguish between reality and the fantasy world of literary romance has broken down. His exploits turn into comic misadventures, in which everyday objects are transformed into the accoutrements of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-84749-412-2
EAN 9781847494122
Includes pictures and an extensive section on Boccaccio'slife and worksIn the summer of 1348, the plague ravages Florence, andten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside,where they entertain themselves with tales of love, deathand corruption. Named after the Greek for ten days ,Boccaccio's book of stories draws on ancient mythology,contemporary events and everyday life, leaving ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-0-393-35026-5
EAN 9780393350265
The year is 1348. The Black Death has begun to ravage Europe. Ten young Florentines - seven women and three men - escape the plague-infested city and retreat to the countryside around Fiesole.At their leisure in this isolated and bucolic setting, they spend ten days telling each other stories tales of romance, tragedy, comedy, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-19-968477-9
EAN 9780199684779
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84749-404-7
EAN 9781847494047
Presented as a collection of confessional letters written by the eponymous protagonist, The Sorrows of Young Werther charts the emotional journey of a young man who, during a stay in a picturesque German village, falls in love with Lotte, a local woman engaged to another man. As he realizes that his passion is doomed to ...
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ISBN 978-0-14-139622-4
EAN 9780141396224
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate ..." Shakespeare's 154 sonnets contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry ever written, dealing with eternal themes such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruction wreaked by time. This new edition collects them in a ...
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Prometheus Bound is the starkest and strangest of the classic Greek tragedies, a play in which god and man are presented as radically, indeed irreconcilably, at odds. The play begins with the shock of hammer blows as the Titan Prometheus is shackled and impaled to a rock in the Caucasus. This is his punishment not ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4
EAN 9780674967854
As a didactic explanation of pagan ancient Greek culture to Orthodox Christians, John Tzetzes's Allegories of the Iliad is deeply rooted in the mid-twelfth-century circumstances of the cosmopolitan Comnenian court. As a critical reworking of the Iliad, it is part of the millennia-long global tradition of Homeric adaptation.In the early 1140s, the Bavarian princess Bertha ...
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ISBN 978-0-674-74378-6
EAN 9780674743786
Bernardus Silvestris exemplifies the scholastic culture of his time. Having studied with pioneers in philosophy and science, he became a renowned teacher of literary and poetic composition. His versatility as scholar, philosopher, and scientist is apparent in his masterpiece, the Cosmographia. In alternating verse and prose, this foundational text for later Latin and vernacular literature ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-968664-3
EAN 9780199686643
The Book of Margery Kempe (c. 1436-8) is the extraordinary account of a medieval wife, mother, and mystic. Known as the earliest autobiography written in the English language, Kempe's Book describes the dramatic transformation of its heroine from failed businesswoman and lustful young wife, to devout and chaste pilgrim. She vividly describes her prayers and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 48 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-279444-4
EAN 9780192794444
"For a long while Beowulf leaned on the blood-stained sword; his heart was pounding. A man with the strength of thirty! Slayer of Grendel and slayer of the sea-wolf! A hero without equal in this middle-world!"The story of Beowulf was written down as an epic poem in Anglo-Saxon England. It recounts the heroic struggles of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 64 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-139867-9
EAN 9780141398679
'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards...' Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other famous myths. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 64 páginas
PVP: 1,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139877-8
EAN 9780141398778
'Do you see your son, standing over there, in the antechamber? Well, I am going to shoot him.' The story of the great and mad Cambyses, King of Persia, told by part-historian, part-mythmaker Herodotus of Halicarnassus. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 64 páginas
PVP: 4,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139861-7
EAN 9780141398617
'You must be Odysseus, man of twists and turns...' The tales of Odysseus' struggle with a man-eating Cyclops and Circe, the beautiful enchantress who turns men into swine. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 64 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-139869-3
EAN 9780141398693
'Yes, we did many things, then - all Beautiful...' Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, sun-soaked Greece and the gods. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries.They take us from ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 64 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-139873-0
EAN 9780141398730
'But I, while vineyards ring with the cicadas' scream, Retrace your steps, alone, beneath the burning sun.' Virgil's lyrical, wistful and often witty pastoral poems. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 64 páginas
PVP: 1,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139794-8
EAN 9780141397948
'The Argonauts were terrified at the sight. But Jason planting his feet apart stood to receive them, as a reef in the sea confronts the tossing billows in a gale.' The tragic, epic love affair that allowed Jason to get the Golden Fleece. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday.Little Black Classics ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 64 páginas
PVP: 1,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139843-3
EAN 9780141398433
'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion...' Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories ever told, thought to have been composed by a slave in Greek antiquity and giving glimpses of a world that is harsh, pitiless and yet also eerily familiar. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th ...
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ISBN 978-0-14-139859-4
EAN 9780141398594
Dazzling modern lyrical poems from Catullus - by turns smutty, abusive, romantic and deeply moving. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries.They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian ...
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