Catálogo de libros: Ficción moderna y contemporánea

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  • Observational Foundations of Physics
    Alan Cook / Sir Alan H. Cook / Sir Alan HCook
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    69,41 €

  • Run with the Hunted
    Charles Bukowkski / Charles Bukowski
    The best of Bukowski’s novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience. A must for this counterculture idol’s legion of fans.'Bukowski writes well, for one thing, with ear-pleasing cadences, wit and perfect clarity....There is real...
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    13,62 €

  • Anna Karenina
    Leo Tolstoy
    Anna Karenina, a married aristocrat and socialite from St. Petersburg falls in love with Count Vronsky, a civilized military officer. Constrained by the laws of the Russian orthodox church, Anna is skeptical and anxious about leaving her husband and starting a new life with Vronsky. A social outcast, Anna is a voracious reader and despises fakery that she feels her husband embo...
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    27,14 €

  • Stories from Tagore
    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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    10,00 €

  • Fishboy
    Mark Richard
    This lyrical novel by the acclaimed author of The Ice At the Bottom of the World is the story of a young boy who believes he has committed a murder. In an effort to escape his guilt, he stows away on a trawler only to learn that it is crewed by criminals and freaks. ...
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    14,04 €

  • Judge On Trial
    Ivan Klima / AGBrain
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    17,54 €

  • The Hinterlands
    Robert Morgan
    First order of business for the pioneer was finding their way. After that came marking, then clearing, and finally paving that way. Axing wilderness inroads inch-by-inch, linking settlement with settlement--this was the challenge.'The Hinterlands' is the story of a famly who found, marked, and paved their way into America’s eastern frontier. Unfolding the voices of three genera...
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    16,95 €

  • Cleopatra’s Sister
    Penelope Lively
    A palaeontologist by choice--and perhaps due to the accidental discovery of a fossil fragment on the north coast of England when he was six years old--Howard Beamish is flying to Nairobi on a professional mission when his plane is forced to land in an imaginary country called Callimbia. On assignment to write a travel piece for Sunday magazine, journalist Lucy Faulkner is on th...
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    11,78 €

  • The King of Cards
    Robert Ward
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    19,84 €

  • Cat and Mouse and Other Writings
    Gunter Grass
    For many years, Gunter Grass (born 1927) has been one of the world’s most vital literary figures. From the publication of The Tin Drum through his latest pleas for sane government and civil treatment of Germany’s 'foreign citizens' in the 1990s, Grass has been at the forefront of both literary and political worlds. This representative volume features two important works: Cat an...
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    52,26 €

  • Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed
    Lee Smith
    The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed, set in a small southern town at midcentury, tells the story of nine-year-old Susan, for whom the first bright, carefree, promise-filled days of summer slowly evolve into a time of innocence lost and childhood illusions shattered. Susan's mother is vain and frivolous, her father loving but distracted, and her sister, several years her seni...
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    17,56 €

  • Iphigenia
    Teresa de la Parra
    Winner, Harvey L. Johnson Award, Southwest Council on Latin American Studies, 1994'...I didn’t want to tell you the truth for anything in the world, because it seemed very humiliating to me...' The truth is that Iphigenia is bored and, more than bored, buried alive in her grandmother’s house in Caracas, Venezuela. After the excitement of being a beautiful, unchaperoned young wo...
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    49,65 €

  • Senhora
    José de Alencar
    'It is a truth universally acknowledged . . .' that a single woman in possession of a good character but no fortune must be in want of a wealthy husband-that is, if she is the heroine of a nineteenth-century novel. Senhora, by contrast, turns the tables on this familiar plot. Its strong-willed, independent heroine Aurélia uses newly inherited wealth to 'buy back' and exact reve...
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    20,32 €

  • The Good Child’s River
    Thomas Wolfe
    For the last eight years of his life, Thomas Wolfe worked periodically on a series of chapters that were part of a huge work-in-progress. The work was based loosely on the early life of New York stage and costume designer Aline Bernstein, with whom Wolfe was engaged in a tempestuous love affair for eleven years. In her introduction, Suzanne Stutman points out that publication o...
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    47,67 €

  • Kinds of Love
    May Sarton
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    22,07 €

  • Crucial Conversations
    May Sarton
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    15,05 €

  • Marble Skin
    Slavenka Drakulic
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    13,96 €

  • Racing September
    William Deseta
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    19,67 €

  • Wishmaster Ling
    Ruth Weddle
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    19,59 €

  • Fraud
    Anita Brookner
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    13,95 €

  • Providence
    Anita Brookner
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    13,37 €

  • Night of the Avenging Blowfish
    John Welter
    Secret Service agent Doyle Coldiron gets into hot water before you can say, 'Just the facts, ma’am.' Soon he’s swept up in an outrageous flood of events in this cockeyed look at Washington life and at the confusing business of falling in love in the 1990s. 'Among the wittiest American novelists writing today.'--Joseph Heller, author of CATCH-22; 'Run, don’t walk, to your neare...
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    10,68 €

  • The Hat of My Mother
    Max Steele
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    17,31 €

  • Why the Elephant Has No Butt
    Osonye Tess Onwueme
    Recreates and globalizes an Igbo folktale about the animals’ struggle for survival and triumph in a world where the weak and poor tortoises must strive to alter their powerless condition by confronting the oppressive forces of the rich and powerful elephants, who constantly push them to the edge of power and insecurity. ...
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    35,98 €

  • Endorphins
    Dana R. Day / Dana RDay
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    19,73 €

  • Evil to the Marrow
    Dana R. Day / Dana RDay
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    19,68 €

  • Contractors
    John B Keane
    This is the story of Dan Murray, who emigrated to England in 1952. He finds work as a building labourer and in time he becomes a building contractor. John B. Keane captures the turbulent, bawdy, anarchic life of Irish contractors and labourers as they try to make it big in England. Told in his usual hilarious and bulls-eye accurate style. ...
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    26,14 €

  • Magician’s Girl
    Doris Grumbach
    The Magician's Girl tells the story of three New York women who meet at Barnard in the late 1930s and fulfill their separate destinies from the 1940s to 1978. Lyrical, dramatic, and wise, Grumbach's novel is rich with evocations of America's past, from the flavors of New York City to academic life in the 1970s. ...
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    16,69 €

  • 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 €


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