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he Nolans lived in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn from 1902 until 1919. Their daughter Francie and their son Neely knew more than their fair share of the privations and suffering that were the lot of New York's poor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is the story of Francie, an imaginative, alert, resourceful child, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-09-984280-4
EAN 9780099842804
With the satirical eye of his science fiction author alter ego Kilgore Trout, the author of Slaughterhouse-Five delivers a classic of modern American literature. Eliot Rosewater, President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation and volunteer firefighter, is tortured by an inheritance he doesn't feel that he deserves. After (unfortunately) developing a social conscience, he sets ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-018593-5
EAN 9780140185935
Maugham's first novel is about the gloomy, poverty-stricken world of South London in the 1890s and how it affects one young girl who tries to escape from it.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-8021-3331-1
EAN 9780802133311
"The Wild Boys" is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imagination, and style, Burroughs creates a world that is as terrifying as it is fascinating.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-016700-9
EAN 9780140167009
I'd always shied away from Brenan's book because everyone said it was a classic, I'm wary of these as they usually entail a great deal of fine writing' and showing off on the part of the author. I'd also heard that it included accounts by Brenan of visits to his remote Spanish village by Lytton ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-09-175340-5
EAN 9780091753405
This fourth Jeeves volume contains "Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit", "Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves" and "Jeeves in the Offing".
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 213 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-679-73890-9
EAN 9780679738909
Set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s, A Gathering of Old Men is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-018654-3
EAN 9780140186543
'It is a mighty force that of mere chance, absolutely irresistible yet manifesting itself often in delicate forms such for instance as the charm, true or illusory, of a human being' In Flora de Barral, the slender, dreamy, morbidly charming daughter of a parvenu financier, Conrad creates his most complex heroine and one of his ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-349-10226-9
EAN 9780349102269
Eliza Peabody is one of those dangerously blameless women who believe they have God in their pocket. She is a modern-day Florence Nightingale, always up at the Hospice or the Wives' club; she is too enthusiastic; she talks too much. Her concern for the welfare of her wealthy south London neighbours even extends to ingenuous, ...
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The story of the mysterious indictment, trial and reckoning forced upon Kafka's Joseph K. is one of the twentieth century's master parables which has influenced almost every major writer since. By rendering the absurd and the terrifying with scrupulous factual accuracy and evenness of tone, Kafka presents the world we recognize in a gripping narrative ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-09-981930-1
EAN 9780099819301
Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller - these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. "Slaughterhouse 5" is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85326-012-4
EAN 9781853260124
Introduction and Notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter. Illustrations by George Cruickshank. Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers.With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85326-008-7
EAN 9781853260087
With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of 'Poetry Review'. Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study ...
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Introduction and Notes by David Blair. University of Kent at Canterbury. It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers. Through these layers of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-679-72875-7
EAN 9780679728757
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the " wild west." Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-679-73632-5
EAN 9780679736325
By the author of Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses, Suttree is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there--a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 964 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85715-058-2
EAN 9781857150582
Anna Karenina is the story of a woman who ab andons her empty existence as a society wife and embarks on a doomed love affair with the passionate but emotionally ban krupt Vronsky. It is widely acknowledged as the greatest novel in any language '
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-435-90566-8
EAN 9780435905668
This anthology represents the talent and scope to be found in contemporary African writing. It contains both new and previously published stories by such authors as Nadine Gordimer, Ben Okri, Kojo Laing, Mia Couto and Moyez Vassanji.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 282 páginas
PVP: 27,20 €
ISBN 978-0-393-30855-6
EAN 9780393308556
"The factual skeleton of the author's life is given flesh and blood in his strangely beautiful book, in which poetry, fiction, autobiography, history, fantasy and political commentary mingle and reinforce each other in unexpected ways".--The New York Times Book Review. Drawings.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 560 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85715-056-8
EAN 9781857150568
One of Charles Dickens's most fascinating novels, Great Expectations follows the orphan Pip as he leaves behind a childhood of misery and poverty after an anonymous benefactor offers him a chance at the life of a gentleman. From the young Pip's first terrifying encounter with the convict Magwitch in the gloom of a graveyard to ...
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