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PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-55010-6
EAN 9780241550106
John le Carre was a defining writer of his time. From The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, which changed our understanding of the secret agent from guns and Martinis to shadows and moral ambiguity, to Agent Running in the Field, in which modern Britain is mired in political corruption, he catalogued our sins ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-5293-4397-7
EAN 9781529343977
Long before books were mass produced, those made of reeds from along the Nile were worth fighting and dying for. Journeying along the battlefields of Alexander the Great, beneath the eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, at Cleopatra's palaces and the scene of Hypatia's murder, award-winning author Irene Vallejo chronicles the excitement of literary culture in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198966-2
EAN 9780141989662
Hilarious' Sam Leith'I loved this book' Susie Dent''Witty and affectionate' Lynne TrussPerfect for book lovers, a delightful history of the wonders to be found in the humble book indexMost of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up. But here, hiding in plain ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-343-9
EAN 9781788163439
LONGLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWNA SUNDAY TIMES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR'Timely ... a long and engrossing survey of the library' FT'A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched' Richard Ovenden, author of Burning the BooksFamed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 9,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80069-174-2
EAN 9781800691742
The world of books in one little book.It doesn't matter how well read you are, A Little Book About Books is packed full of quotes, one-liners and famous lines from names that everyone will recognise. For bibliophiles, they'll enjoy recognising their favourite passages and authors, all captured in one place. For the less-well-read, they can ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-1077-3
EAN 9781474610773
The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, adults cleared their shelves in the belief that wisdom was now effortlessly accessible in their living rooms. Contributions from Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Orville Wright, Alfred Hitchcock, Marie Curie and Indira Gandhi helped millions of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-5291-5729-1
EAN 9781529157291
Ranging all the way from Aaron's Rod to Zuleika Dobson, via The Devil Rides Out and Middlemarch, literary connoisseur and sleuth John Sutherland offers his very personal guide to the most rewarding, most remarkable and, on occasion, most shamelessly enjoyable works of fiction ever written. He brilliantly captures the flavour of each work and assesses ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-2424-6
EAN 9781526624246
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPICKED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, IRISH TIMES, SPECTATOR, TLS, NEW STATESMAN, MAIL ON SUNDAY, I PAPER, PROSPECT, REVEW31 AND EVENING STANDARD AS A BOOK OF 2021'A masterclass from a warm and engagingly enthusiastic companion' Guardian Summer Reading Picks 2021'This book is a delight, and it's about delight too. How ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-937-2
EAN 9781784709372
In the mid-1400s, Vespasiano da Bisticci's bookshop in Florence was said to contain all the wisdom of the world. Vespasiano and his team of scribes and illuminators produced exquisite manuscripts for popes and princes across Europe, rediscovering and disseminating some of the most significant texts from classical antiquity. But in 1476 a new technology arrived ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-1578-5
EAN 9781474615785
MAKING HISTORY is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare or Simon Schama - continue to influence our ideas about history (and about who we are) today.In this authoritative and entertaining book, Richard Cohen reveals how professional historians and other ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-5290-1233-0
EAN 9781529012330
The Book Collectors of Daraya celebrates the political and therapeutic power of the written word . . .defiant and cautiously optimistic' Financial Times' An incredible chronicle . . .The book tells the kind of story that often gets buried beneath images of violence' LitHub In 2012 the rebel suburb of Daraya in Damascus was brutally ...
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Who were the Fairy Tellers?In this far-ranging quest, award-winning author Nicholas Jubber unearths the lives of the dreamers who made our most beloved fairy tales: inventors, thieves, rebels and forgotten geniuses who gave us classic tales such as 'Cinderella', 'Hansel and Gretel', 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Baba Yaga'.From the Middle Ages to the birth ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 496 páginas
PVP: 25,30 €
ISBN 978-0-241-50102-3
EAN 9780241501023
'Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading' Stephen GreenblattA transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, told through eighty classic and modern books'It is always a pleasure to talk about books with David Damrosch, who has read all of them, and he is so eloquent ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 36,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-342-2
EAN 9781788163422
A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched, of that extraordinary and enduring phenomenon: the library' - Richard Ovenden, author of Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge under AttackFamed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes or filled with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 298 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-525-43627-0
EAN 9780525436270
A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate."Not only an education but a joy. This is a book for the ages." Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric DisturbancesThe essay form is an especially democratic one, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199123-8
EAN 9780141991238
A SPECTATOR AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'A joy. Each chapter instantly became my favourite' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas'Wonderful' Lucy Mangan'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.'This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-1-984878-42-7
EAN 9781984878427
From the author of How to Think and The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, a literary guide to engaging with the voices of the past to stay sane in the presentW. H. Auden once wrote that "art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead." In his brilliant and compulsively ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-37423-8
EAN 9780241374238
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up. But here, hiding in plain sight, is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. Here we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, ...
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ISBN 978-1-5098-9155-9
EAN 9781509891559
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love, Dear Reader is the ultimate love letter to reading and to finding the comfort and joy in stories. 'Exquisite' - Marian Keyes, author of Grown Ups'A warm, unpretentious manifesto for why books matter' - Sunday ExpressGrowing up, Cathy Rentzenbrink was rarely seen without ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78627-744-2
EAN 9781786277442
The Short Story of the Novel is a new and innovative introduction to the best works of fiction from the last 500 years. Simply constructed, the book explores 60 key novels from The Tale of Genji to My Brilliant Friend. In addition to enjoyable descriptions of the novels and concise explanations of why they are ...
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