Eccentricity exists particularly in the English, states Dame Edith Sitwell, because of "that peculiar and satisfactory knowledge of infallibility that is the hallmark and the birth...9999903206941Edith Sitwell
Penguin Books Ltd
viernes, 25 de octubre de 2024
Revised EditionWritten four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance o...9999903205838Thucydides
Penguin Books Ltd
viernes, 25 de octubre de 2024
Jill and Donna are cousins and lifelong best friends but could not be more different. Despite their contrasting characters, fiercely independent, dark, street-smart Jill and pretty...9999903203766Piercy, Marge
Penguin Books Ltd
sábado, 19 de octubre de 2024
This debut novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, bears all the hallmarks of Hijuelos's later work-exuberance, passion, honesty, and humo...9999903202905Oscar Hijuelos
Penguin Books Ltd
viernes, 18 de octubre de 2024
In this collection of short stories, the author takes the reader into a sensuous world of endless winters and midnight sun. As far apart as Finland, the Austrian Tyrol, and upstate...9999903202523Helen Dunmore
Penguin Books Ltd
viernes, 18 de octubre de 2024
Collected in this volume are powerful dramas and psychological fiction by the nineteenth-century iconoclast now recognized as a major figure of world literature. Also included are ...9999903202080Georg Buchner
Penguin Books Ltd
viernes, 18 de octubre de 2024
Amid the extreme poverty of Rio de Janeiro's Whale Back slum, Helio Cara has a terrible accident which leaves his face scarred beyond recognition. Lacking a face, he lacks identity...9780140076004Cecile Pineda
Penguin Books Ltd
viernes, 18 de octubre de 2024
39 short stories and legends "from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe as well as South Africa." Includes selections by A.C. Jordan, Olive Schreiner, Toon Va...9999903201601Stephen Gray
Penguin Books Ltd
jueves, 17 de octubre de 2024
This is a collection of stories from authors including Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Frank Ronan and Carol Shields.9999903201403Kate Figes
Penguin Books Ltd
jueves, 17 de octubre de 2024
Finnegans Wake is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is significant for its experimental style and reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English lang...9999903200680James Joyce
Penguin Books Ltd
jueves, 17 de octubre de 2024
How Mega-media Forces are Transforming Our LivesIn The Entertainment Economy, Michael J. Wolf demonstrates that media and entertainment have moved beyond culture to become the driving wheel of the global economy. From New York t...9999903199823Michael J. Wolf
Penguin Books Ltd
miércoles, 16 de octubre de 2024
An elegant novel set in Prague about the possibility of freedom in an unfree state, from the acclaimed author of The Songlines and In Patagonia Utz collects Meissen porcelain with...9999903199441Bruce Chatwin
Penguin Books Ltd
miércoles, 16 de octubre de 2024
Rejecting the traditional values of political theory, Machiavelli drew upon his own experiences of office in the turbulent Florentine republic to write his celebrated treatise on s...9999903199052Niccolò Machiavelli
Penguin Books Ltd
miércoles, 16 de octubre de 2024
Private Eye Vic Warshawski is in a professional and personal mess. What she needs is a lucrative case. What she doesn't need are the woes of a homeless family, a love-sick teenage ...9999903199021Paretsky, Sara
Penguin Books Ltd
miércoles, 16 de octubre de 2024
Guests are circulating in a haze of gin-rickies, blue movies, uppers, downers and inside-outers. Friday melts into Saturday, Saturday spirals into Sunday and then, the assembled Sl...9999903196785Amis, Martin
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martes, 8 de octubre de 2024
Professor Branestawm is the most absent-minded inventor you, l ever meet and no matter how hard he tries his brilliant ideas never seem to keep him out of crazy scrapes.9999903196686Norman Hunter
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martes, 8 de octubre de 2024
Young Mildred Hubble, an apprentice witch with a reputation for being the worst student at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches, smuggles her cat Tabby on a class trip to Gloomy Cove ...9999903196518Jill Murphy
Penguin Books Ltd
sábado, 5 de octubre de 2024
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