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Literatura i llibres infantils / Literatura en otros idiomas
  • A TASTE OF HONEY
    SHELAGH DELANEY
    Shelagh Delaney's 1958 play, written when she was only 19, brought the lives and struggles of northern, working-class people onto the stage. Initially dividing the critics - some of whom regarded it as 'immature' - it went on to become one of the most defining plays of the twentieth century. This Student Edition contains a commentary by Hannah Simpson, Lecturer at the Universi...
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    16,00 €

  • STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
    PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
    Reissued to mark the centenary of Patricia Highsmith and the upcoming BBC adaption, Ripley, these beautiful new editions mark Highsmith's entry into Vintage ClassicsWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PAULA HAWKINS, AUTHOR OF "GIRL ON A TRAIN""Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis...
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    14,75 €

  • SUMMER (OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS)
    EDITH WHARTON
    Colección: Oxford World's Classics."Can't you see that I don't care what anybody says?" Charity Royall lives in the small New England village of North Dormer. Born among outcasts from the Mountain beyond, she is rescued by lawyer Royall and lives with him as his ward. Never allowed to forget her disreputable origins Charity despises North Dormer and rebels against the stifling...
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    13,69 €

  • A CHRISTMAS CAROL
    CHARLES DICKENS
    HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I am the Ghost of Christmas Present,' said the Spirit. 'Look upon me!' A celebration of Christmas, a tale of redemption and a critique on Victorian society, Dickens' atmospheric novella follows the miserly, penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge who views Christmas as 'humbug'. It is only through a ser...
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    4,50 €

  • A CHRISTMAS CAROL
    DICKENS
    COMPLETE & UNABRIDGED.Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children.But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward.This finest of all Christmas stories is beautifully illustrated with Arthur Ra...
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    3,75 €

  • MEASURE FOR MEASURE (PENGUIN CLASSICS)
    WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
    Labelled as a 'problem play' for its marriage of comic overtones to serious moral inquiry, William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure is a peerless black comedy of justice, pride and desire. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by J.M. Nosworthy with an introduction by Julia Briggs. 'Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.' In the Duke Vincentio's absence from Vienna, h...
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    13,50 €

  • A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
    JAMES JOYCE / JOSÉ ANTONIO ÁLVAREZ AMORÓS (ED.)
    Edición de José Antonio Álvarez Amorós.Colección: Clásicos Almar-Anglística.El propósito de esta edición de A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN es allanar el acceso del lector a las complejidades e incertidumbres de esta novela mediante la presentación y el análisis de sus puntos más controvertidos, valorándose, de igual modo, la influencia que sobre su interpretación ha ej...
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    8,38 €

  • ALICIA EN EL PAIS DE LAS MARAVILLAS/ALICE IN WONDERLAND
    LEWIS CARROLL
    EDICIÓN BILINGÜE EN ESPAÑOL E INGLÉS.Relato del inglés Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) publicado en 1865. Fruto de los cuentos que el autor improvisaba para tres niñas, una de ellas Alice Liddell de siete años. Se basa en el anhelo y el temor a crecer. Se desarrolla según el ritmo de las canciones infantiles y plasma las fantasías y las pesadillas de la infancia. En esta obra, el mun...
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    6,95 €

  • NORTH AND SOUTH
    ELIZABETH GASKELL
    This book is with an introduction and notes by Dr Patsy Stoneman, University of Hull.Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author's first-hand experience, "North and South" follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the vital but turbulent north. Elizabeth Gaskell's skilful narrative uses an unusual love st...
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    5,75 €

  • THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
    EDITH WHARTON
    WORDSWORTH CLASSICS.Introduction and Notes by Janet Beer, Manchester Metropolitan University.The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, ...
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    5,75 €

  • HARD TIMES
    CHARLES DICKENS
    Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster.Illustrated by F. Walker and Maurice Greiffenhagen.Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Tho...
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    6,00 €

  • THE WINTER'S TALE
    WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
    WORDSWORTH CLASSICS.Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.The Winter's Tale, one of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture of tragic and violent events, lyrical love-speeches, farcical comedy, pastoral song and dance, and, eventually, dramatic revelations and r...
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    5,75 €

  • ORLANDO (WORDSWORTH CLASSICS)
    VIRGINIA WOOLF
    WORDSWORTH CLASSICS.With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University, Bakersfield.Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning t...
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    5,75 €

  • MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
    SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
    Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.Much Ado About Nothing has long been celebrated as o...
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    5,75 €

  • SONS AND LOVERS
    LAWRENCE, DAVID HERBERT
    There was one place in the world that stood solid and did not melt into unreality: the place where his mother was. Everybody else could grow shadowy, almost non-existent to him, but she could not.' In his quest to find his emotional and independent self, Paul Morel is torn between the strong, Oedipal bond he has with his mother and the relationships he forges as a young adult, ...
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    3,75 €

  • HOWARDS END
    E. M. FORSTER
    The PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY Edition of Howards End by E. M. Forster.'The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love, and they can hardly ever escape from those whom they love no longer. We rich can''Only connect.' is the idea at the heart of this book, a heartbreaking and provocative tale of three families at the beginning of the twentieth century: the rich Wilcoxes,...
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    11,75 €

  • THE GREAT GATSBY
    F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
    A beautiful new edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby to coincide with the release of Baz Luhrmann's film.'There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.'Everybody who is anybody is seen at the glittering parties held ...
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    7,75 €

  • JANE EYRE
    CHARLOTTE BRONTË
    COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED.Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Canterbury Christ Church University College.Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the...
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    5,75 €

  • DUBLINERS
    JAMES JOYCE
    "Since its publication in 1914, Dubliners has been arguably the most famous collection of short stories written in English. Through what James Joyce described as their "style of scrupulous meanness," the stories collectively present a direct, sometimes searing view of the city of Dublin in the twentieth century. This Norton Critical Edition is based on Hans Walter Gabler's scho...
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    5,75 €

  • THE TURN OF THE SCREW AND THE ASPERN PAPERS
    HENRY JAMES
    PENGUIN CLASSICS.Edited with an introduction and notes by David Bromwich.A chilling ghost story, wrought with tantalising ambiguity, the basis for the new Netflix series The Haunting of Bly Manor.Henry James's The Turn of the Screw is edited with an introduction and notes by David Bromwich in Penguin Classics. In what Henry James called a 'trap for the unwary', The Turn of the...
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    10,00 €

  • THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN
    LAURENCE STERNE
    Endlessly digressive, boundlessly imaginative and unmatched in its absurd and timeless witLaurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with a rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first 'postmodern' novel. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and li...
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    8,95 €

  • MRS DALLOWAY
    VIRGINIA WOOLF
    WORDSWORTH CLASSICS.With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University, Bakersfield.Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify existence. Society hoste...
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    5,75 €

  • PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
    JANE AUSTEN
    Austen's most popular novel, the unforgettable story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. DarcyFew have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet in Austen’s beloved classic Pride and Prejudice. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mi...
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    11,75 €

  • GULLIVER'S TRAVELS (OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS)
    Jonathan Swift
    Gulliver's Travels purports to be a travel book, and describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. A consumately skilful blend of fantasy and realism makes Gulliver's Travels by turns hilarious, frightening, and profound. This new edition includes the changing ...
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    8,95 €

  • BRAVE NEW WORLD
    HUXLEY, ALDOUS
    Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be...
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    14,75 €

  • THE HISTORY OF RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABISSINIA
    SAMUEL JOHNSON
    PENGUIN CLASSICS.Edited with an introduction and notes by Paul Goring.Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah, and the much-travelled philosopher Imlac. Their journey takes them to Egypt, where they study the various conditions of men's lives, before returning home in a "conclusion in which...
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    16,24 €

  • PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD AND TWO OTH
    SYNGE ET AL
    The plays that helped make modern Ireland. Riots greeted the first performance of The Playboy of the Western World at Dublin's Abbey Theatre on 26 January 1907. Eggs, potatoes and even a slice of fruit cake were hurled at the actors during subsequent performances, and it seems unlikely that much of the actual play could have been heard in the uproar. Synge's The Playboy of the ...
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    4,95 €

  • BRIGHTON ROCK
    GRAHAM GREENE
    PENGUIN CLASSICS DELUXE EDITION."Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him..." Graham Greene's chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Pinkie, a teenage gangster on the rise, is devoid of compassion or human feeling, despising weakness of both the spirit and the flesh. Responsibl...
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    9,51 €

  • THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED STORIES
    KATE CHOPIN
    Kate Chopin's groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations of society in the pursuit of her desireWhen The Awakening was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author's reputation. But a century after her death, it is widely regarded as Kate Chopin's great achievement...
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    10,00 €

  • THINGS FALL APART
    CHINUA ACHEBE
    PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS.Edited with an Introduction by Douglas Brooks-Davies."A great book, that bespeaks a great, brave, kind, human spirit". John Updike.Okonkwo is the greatest warrior alive, famous throughout West Africa. But when he accidentally kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find missionaries and colonial governors have arr...
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    14,75 €


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