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ISBN 200000068739106039
EAN 200000068739106039
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1600 páginas
PVP: 53,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-7636-7
EAN 9781473676367
'This is, in fact, not what you were looking for; but it's much more interesting' Terry PratchettMuch loved for its wit and wisdom since 1870, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable takes you on a captivating adventure through its trademark blend of language, culture, myth and legend. Nowhere else could the histories of the guillotine ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-9455-2
EAN 9781408894552
'This is a brilliant book about the birth of modernism, one that taught me something on every page ... You will feel - and be! - much smarter after you read it' Edmund White The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts,' the American author Willa Cather once wrote. Yet for Virginia Woolf, T.S. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-85705-446-3
EAN 9780857054463
Why do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature? In this inventive and highly entertaining extended essay, Jorge Carrion takes his reader on a journey around the world, via its bookshops. His travels take him to Shakespeare x{0026} Co in Paris, Wells in Winchester, Green Apple Books in San Francisco, Librairie des ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 11,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78227-374-5
EAN 9781782273745
They exist as a rumour or a fading memory. They vanished from history leaving scarcely a trace, lost to fire, censorship, theft, war or deliberate destruction, yet those who seek them are convinced they will find them. This is the story of one man's quest for eight mysterious lost books.Taking us from Florence to Regency ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4722-6008-6
EAN 9781472260086
A creative call to arms from the mind of Neil Gaiman, combining his extraordinary words with deft and striking illustrations by Chris Riddell. Art Matters will inspire its readers to seize the day in the name of art. Be bold.Be rebellious. Choose art. It matters.Neil Gaiman once said that 'the world always seems brighter when ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 30,45 €
ISBN 978-1-4744-3770-7
EAN 9781474437707
Challenges conventional views of the Edwardian period as either a hangover of Victorianism or a bystander to literary modernism In this ground-breaking study, Jonathan Wild investigates the literary history of the Edwardian decade. This period, long overlooked by critics, is revealed as a vibrant cultural era whose writers were determined to break away from the ...
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This bestselling guide to all areas of publishing and the media is completely revised and updated every year. The Yearbook is packed with advice, inspiration and practical guidance on who to contact and how to get published. Foreword by Joanne Harris, bestselling author of 18 novels, including Chocolat New articles in the 2019 edition include: ...
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ISBN 200000068739106020
EAN 200000068739106020
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-314-4
EAN 9781783783144
From clay tablets to the printing press. From the pencil to the internet. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter.This is the true story of literature -- of how great texts and technologies have shaped cultures and civilizations and altered human history. The inventions of paper, the printing press and the world wide web ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-0-349-00862-2
EAN 9780349008622
Writers as Readers is a celebration of forty years of the Virago Modern Classics list. Started in 1978, Virago Modern Classics is dedicated to the rediscovery and championing of women writers, challenging the often narrow definition of 'classic'. In this collection, forty of the most significant writers of the past century tell us about one ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 19,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197749-2
EAN 9780141977492
WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE AND THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION'Endlessly fascinating and enjoyable' Neil MacGregor'A marvellous book' David Attenborough'Full of delights' Tom StoppardAn extraordinary exploration of the medieval world - the most beguiling history book of the yearThis is a book about why medieval manuscripts matter. Coming face to face with an ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-692-9
EAN 9781782116929
Over two full years, Dromgoole, the Artistic Director of the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and the Globe players toured all seven continents, and almost 200 countries, performing the Bard's most famous play. They set their stage in sprawling refugee camps, grand Baltic palaces and heaving marketplaces - despite food poisoning in Mexico, an Ebola epidemic in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-058-6
EAN 9781786070586
Literacy, long upheld as a standard bearer for progress, is not always a force for good. Had Stalin's mother never sent him to the seminary he never would have learned to read and so never discovered the works of Marx or Lenin. Instead he probably would have ended up like his father - a cobbler ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-338-8
EAN 9781785783388
Writers' relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. While some, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where they were staying (Lyme Regis and Venice respectively), Victor Hugo penned Les Miserables in an attic in Guernsey and Noel Coward wrote that most English of plays, Blithe Spirit, in the Welsh holiday village of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 170 páginas
PVP: 24,75 €
ISBN 978-1-138-66905-5
EAN 9781138669055
Medieval Literature: The Basics is an engaging introduction to this fascinating body of literature. The volume breaks down the variety of genres used in the corpus of medieval literature and makes these texts accessible to readers. It engages with the familiarities present in the narratives and connects these ideas with a contemporary, twenty-first century audience.The ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 597 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78669-126-2
EAN 9781786691262
Everybody knows about Sherlock Holmes, the unique literary character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who has remained popular over the decades and is more appreciated than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor back in the 1880s, into such a great success? This is the fascinating ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 17,80 €
ISBN 978-0-7352-2123-9
EAN 9780735221239
A chilling reminder of Hitler's twisted power. --BBCFor readers of The Monuments Men and The Hare with Amber Eyes, the story of the Nazis' systematic pillaging of Europe's libraries, and the small team of heroic librarians now working to return the stolen books to their rightful owners.While the Nazi party was being condemned by much ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,30 €
ISBN 978-1-4447-9080-1
EAN 9781444790801
Why is it that we read? Is it to pass time? To learn something new? To escape into another reality? For Will Schwalbe, reading is a way to entertain himself but also to make sense of the world, to become a better person, and to find the answers to the big (and small) questions about ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-828468-8
EAN 9780008284688
Joan Didion's hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties. We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate.The man with the candy will lead the children into the sea. In this now legendary journey into the hinterland ...
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