Catálogo de libros: Ficción moderna y contemporánea

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  • Wuthering Heights
    Emily Bronte
    Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine’s father. After Mr Earnshaw’s death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine’s brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return ye...
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    16,78 €

  • The Florida Reader
    Jack CLane / Maurice O'Sullivan
    From early Spanish myths and Seminole and African-American folktales to the latest descriptions of modern Miami, this anthology includes writings by such authors as Ralph Waldo Emerson, John James Audubon, Zora Neale Hurston, Zane Grey, Wallace Stevens, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Jose Yglesias, and Harry Crews. ...
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    14,57 €

  • Palais-Royal
    Richard Sennett
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    17,27 €

  • The Good Detective
    Patricia Holt
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    18,04 €

  • Otilia’s Body
    Sergio Galindo
    From reviews of the Spanish edition:'...among the best works that Mexican fiction has produced.'-Héctor Gally, Sábado'With homely features, but with a body so shapely and exciting that it sets men (priests included) aflame throughout the novel, with an incandescent voluptuousness and delightful amorality (surely explosive in the conservative Mexican society of her time and plac...
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    22,14 €

  • Lilian’s Story
    Kate Grenville
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    12,91 €

  • The Doubter’s Companion
    John Ralston Saul
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    19,77 €

  • Shlomo’s Stories
    Shlomo Carlebach / Susan Yael Mesinai
    A collection of stories by the late, world-renowned rabbi and folk singer Shlomo Carlebach. ...
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    122,01 €

  • What I Have Written
    John A. Scott / John AScott
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    16,55 €

  • The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. V
    William Butler Yeats
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    51,71 €

  • The Lost Boy
    Thomas Wolfe
    Thomas Wolfe’s The Lost Boy is a captivating and poignant retelling of an episode from Wolfe’s childhood. The story of Wolfe’s brother Grover and his trip to the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair is told from four perspectives, each articulating the sentiments of a different family member. The Lost Boy also captures beautifully the experiences of growing up at the turn of the century...
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    25,55 €

  • The Mill on the Floss
    George Eliot / TBD
    The Mill on the Floss is one of George Eliot’s greatest works. The novel is a portrayal of oppressive narrowness. The story revolves around Maggie Tulliver who is an intellectual and high-spirited young girl and her incurious and pragmatic brother Tom who has an altogether different approach towards life than her sister. Torn between her passion for intellect and a desperate ne...
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    20,34 €

  • Creative Unity
    Rabindranath TAGORE
    Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a renowned poet, musician, polymath, Ayurveda-researcher and an artist who recast music, Bengali literature and Indian art in the late 19th and early 20th century. Author of the 'profoundly sensitive, revolutionary and beautiful verse' of Gitanjali, he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 1913. Rabind...
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    11,26 €

  • Hard Times
    Chrales Dickens
    Hard Times is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens,first published in 1854.The book surveys English society and satirizes the social and economic conditions of the era. It was set in fictitious coke town,England during the Industrial Revolution of the 1850s. Dickens wished to expose the enormous gulf between the rich and poor through his writing.In Hard Times,the social and moral...
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    15,86 €

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    'Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world worth having but youth!' The Picture of Dorian Gray is an 1891 philosophical novel by Irish writer and playwright Oscar Wilde. This Gothic morality tale is the story of a man who, taken by his own beauty, pledges his soul in a desperate bid for eternal youth. But when his wish is granted, things go terribly wrong. A painti...
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    13,53 €

  • Mother and Two Daughters
    Gail Godwin
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    24,79 €

  • Littlejohn
    Howard Owen
    Now available in paperback, comes a successful and beautifully-written novel about a decent North Carolina farmer haunted by errors and redeemed by faith. Painstakingly honest, Littlejohn is 'a character as fully rounded in his quirks and imperfections, in his quiet determination and bravery, as any in recent fiction'.--Washington Post. ...
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    14,03 €

  • Last of the Southern Girls
    Willie Morris
    Carol Hollywell is beautiful, smart, elegant, and charming. A debutante from De Soto Point, Arkansas, and a recent graduate of Ole Miss, she is heir to a good southern name and a small southern fortune. She knows what she wants and, more important, knows how to get it. She is, in other words, the prototypical southern belle, a Scarlett O'Hara for the 1950s, and when she mov...
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    16,09 €

  • Index to Fairy Tales, 1987-1992, Sixth Supplement
    Joseph W. Sprug / Joseph WSprug
    Includes fairy tales, folk tales, fables, myths, and legends. Books were selected by referral to reviews and/or evidence of use in public libraries. The List of Titles Indexed includes full bibliographic citation, the review(s) consulted, the book’s reading level, and the indexing level. ...
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    228,22 €

  • The House on the Beach
    Juan García Ponce
    Like waves ebbing and flowing, love surges and subsides among four friends who share a vacation at the house on the beach. As they navigate the seas of love and friendship, jealousy and unfaithfulness, Elena, Marta, Eduardo, and Rafael are swept up in the opposing currents that flow between security and personal freedom, marriage and sexual liberation, family and work, provinci...
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    33,71 €

  • Taratuta and Still Life with Pipe
    Jos Donoso / Jose Donoso / Gregory Rabassa
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    15,04 €

  • Maria
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    Her story of a woman incarcerated in a madhouse by her abusive husband dramatizes the effect of the English marriage laws, which made women virtually the property of their husbands. Left uncompleted at Wollstonecraft's early death, Maria remains a powerful work of propaganda, a unique picture of women's status in eighteenth-century England. ...
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    15,04 €

  • The Forms of Water
    Andrea Barrett
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    18,13 €

  • And Do Remember Me
    Marita Golden
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    14,20 €

  • Empress
    Evelyn B. McCune / Evelyn BMcCune / Evelyn McCune
    Following its heroine from concubine to ruler of China, Empress sweeps through the exotic, turbulent century of the Tang dynasty--and the life of an extraordinary woman. An epic in the bestselling traditions of The Tokaido Road and Silk Road. ...
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    21,53 €

  • Mustang Sally
    Edward Allen
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    18,21 €

  • Scenes from a Sistah
    Lolita Files
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    22,22 €

  • Particles and Luck
    Louis B. Jones / Louis BJones
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    16,62 €

  • The Metamorphosis
    Franz Kafka
    The Metamorphosis is a novel written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. It is the story of a young man, Gregor Samsa, who transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, and a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing -- though absurdly comic -- meditation on human feelings of inad...
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    8,01 €

  • The Law of White Spaces
    Giorgio Pressburger / Piers Spence
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    13,44 €


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