Catálogo de libros: Ficción y temas afines

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  • Toilers of the Sea
    Victor Hugo
    'Work can be epic. I want to glorify work, will, devotion, all that makes man great.' So wrote Hugo of Toilers of the Sea, his novel about the rescue of a shipwrecked engine by a lonely visionary named Gilliatt. Armed with nothing but primitive tools and a tremendous inventiveness, Gilliatt engages in sublime combat with tempests, starvation and the madness of solitude.  - From...
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    45,22 €

  • Gray’s Anatomy
    Spalding Gray
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    11,45 €

  • In the Midst of Life
    Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
    Some of the most chilling and macabre tales in the English language can be attributed to American journalist and short story writer Ambrose Bierce. His books include 'Can Such Things Be: Tales of Horror and the Supernatural', as well as 'The Devil’s Dictionary'. He has also penned scathing views of frontier life and its lawlessness, and the most caustic treatises on war. 'In th...
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    13,58 €

  • The Playmaker
    Thomas Keneally
    Keneally’s magnificent story of a young officer in a penal colony during the founding days of Australia transports readers through layer after layer of life in Sydney Cove, Australia. Advertising in New York Review of Books and Village Voice Literary Supplement. ...
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    19,77 €

  • The Ladies
    Doris Grumbach
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    16,62 €

  • Gabriel García Márquez
    Michael Bell
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    64,59 €

  • Under the Fifth Sun
    Earl Shorris
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    26,03 €

  • Family Madness
    Thomas Keneally
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    19,82 €

  • Classic Crews
    Harry Crews
    From Simon & Schuster, Classic Crews is a collection of works from the master Harry Crews, including his memoir and short stories. Collected here is the best of Harry Crews: his astoundingly beautiful memoir A Childhood: The Biography of a Place; two if his most memorable novels, Car and The Gypsy’s Curse; and three masterly essays, 'Climbing the Tower,' 'The Car,' and 'Fathers...
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    23,11 €

  • The Great World
    David Malouf
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    15,63 €

  • Staring at the Sun
    Julian Barnes
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    13,30 €

  • The Aerodrome
    Rex Warner
    One of the few works of fiction in the 20th century to explore the dangerous yet glamorous appeal of fascism and the less than satisfactory answer of traditional democracy. 'A moral dialogue thrown into narrative form. It is humanity versus power, sprawling life versus death-dealing regimentation.' -New York Times. Introduction by Anthony Burgess. ...
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    22,13 €

  • Lempriere’s Dictionary
    Lawrence Norfolk
    In 18th-century London, a young writer of a classic mythology dictionary finds himself heir to a mystery--one that leads to a 150-year-old conspiracy that has kept his family from its share of the rich East India Company. As he begins to untangle years of deceit, people begin to die in ways that mirror the very myths he has been researching. A W. Somerset Maugham Award winner. ...
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    16,17 €

  • A southern Harvest
    Gita Hariharan
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    17,69 €

  • The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
    Tobias Smollett
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    68,24 €

  • Antonietta
    John Hersey
    A saga of a magnificent violin, Antonietta, named after a beautiful woman who was the inspiration of Antonio Stradivari’s later years. In a masterpiece of historical imagination, Hersey traces the instrument’s progress and influence upon owners, musicians, and composers alike--giving us a marvelous celebration of the changing character and eternal art and power of music. ...
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    17,49 €

  • Vladimir Nabokov
    David Rampton
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    64,59 €

  • Dealing with the Idiots in Your Life
    Jim Benton
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    10,40 €

  • ILLUM
    Shankar Patil
    TACTIC XSAMPATRAO THOUGHT OVER IT AGAIN AND AGAIN, HE FIRMLY DECIDED IN HIS MIND, AS STRONGLY AS CEMENT OR CONCRETE. HE STARTED PULLING HIS HAIR, GOING OVER VARIOUS PLANS. HE WANTED NAME AND FAME, AND WAS WORRIED AS IT WAS NOT FEASIBLE EVEN AFTER SPENDING 15 LAC RUPEES. 'WHAT SHOULD I DO? HOW SHOULD I DO IT? YES, I MUST FIND SOME IDEA! SOMETHING NOVEL, SOMETHING THAT WOULD LEAV...
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    24,29 €

  • Talking to the Dead
    Sylvia Watanabe
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    14,44 €

  • Some Champions
    Ring W. Lardner / Ring WLardner
    These 'sketches' comprise commentary that has appeared in various publications, including 'Good Housekeeping, The Saturday Evening Post, The New Yorker, Collier’s', and 'Trotter and Pacer', throughout Lardner’s illustrious career. ...
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    14,77 €

  • Blue Glass
    Sandra Tyler
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    26,47 €

  • Electra
    E. A. Sophocles / EASophocles
    The classic drama of a daughter’s revenge of her father’s murder, in a brilliant new translation for modern audiences. Plays for Performance Series. ...
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    20,45 €

  • Electra
    E. A. Sophocles / EASophocles / Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles
    The classic drama of a daughter’s revenge of her father’s murder, in a brilliant new translation for modern audiences. Plays for Performance Series. ...
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    9,24 €

  • Poetic Justice
    John Singleton / Veronica Chambers
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    16,78 €

  • Loving Daughters
    Olga Masters
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    17,09 €

  • Weird Tales 307-8 (Summer 1993/Spring 1994)
    The special Tanith Lee and Ian Watson issues of Weird Tales. Includes stories by David J. Schow, Hugh B. Cave, John M. Ford, John Brunner, and more. ...
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    19,58 €

  • The Innocent
    Madison Jones
    First novel by a modern master of Southern fiction, this tale is reminiscent of Hardy’s Return of the Native-set in rural twentieth-century Tennessee. Southern Classics Series. ...
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    12,27 €

  • The Women on the Porch
    Caroline Gordon
    One of the most remarkable novels every written by an American woman about women. First published in 1943, the story follows a woman’s flight from Manhattan and her unfaithful husband to her rural ancestral home. Southern Classics Series. ...
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    13,38 €

  • Gentlemen from England
    Maud H. Lovelace / Maud HLovelace
    Maud Hart Lovelace—internationally famed author of the Betsy-Tacy children's books—joined literary forces with her husband, Delos, to produce Gentlemen from England, first published in 1937. It's the fictionalized story of a real nineteenth-century English colony near Fairmont, Minnesota, located not far from Maud Lovelace's hometown of Mankato.Tales of the immigran...
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    19,68 €