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Ficción literaria / Novela histórica y política (142)

Ficción literaria / Novela histórica y política
  • BAUMGARTNER
    AUSTER, PAUL
    Baumgartner's life has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna. But now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner is embarking on his seventies whilst trying to live with her absence.Rich with compassion, wit and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient episodes of ordinary life, Baumgartner is a tender late masterpiece of the ache of memory. It why do...
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    26,90 €

  • DAISY JONES AND THE SIX
    JENKINS REID, TAYLOR
    Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity... until now.Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she lo...
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    16,90 €

  • LITTLE WOMEN (LUXE EDITION)
    MAY ALCOTT, LOUISA
    Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family of the four March sisters living in a small New England community. Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth is a delicate child of thirteen wi...
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    28,90 €

  • LESS
    GREER, ANDREW SEAN
    Who says you can't run away from your problems?You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the wor...
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    19,90 €

  • DEATH IN SPRING
    RODOREDA, MERCE
    Death in Spring is a dark and dream-like tale of a teenage boy's coming of age in a remote village in the Catalan mountains; a place cut off from the outside world, where cruel customs are blindly followed, and attempts at rebellion swiftly crushed. When his father dies, he must navigate this oppressive society alone, and learn how to live in a place of crippling conformity.Oft...
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    17,90 €

  • BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (CLOTHBOUND CLASSICS)
    CAPOTE, TRUMAN
    It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail-hour to breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly 'top banana in the shock department', ...
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    16,90 €

  • A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN
    BERLIN, LUCIA
    One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015One of Jezebel's Favorite Books of 2016"I have always had faith that the best writers will rise to the top, like cream, sooner or later, and will become exactly as well-known as they should be-their work talked about, quoted, taught, performed, filmed, set to music, anthologized. Perhaps, with the present collection,...
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    20,90 €

  • TRESPASSES
    KENNEDY, LOUISE
    'Like Sally Rooney mixed with a political thriller' RUSSELL KANE'Intense, unflinchingly honest, it broke my heart a million times' MARIAN KEYES'Absolutely loved it' MAX PORTER'A beautiful, devastating novel' NICK HORNBYOne by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice.If Davy had remembered to put on a coat.If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a dark stre...
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    15,90 €

  • STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
    HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA
    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAULA HAWKINS, AUTHOR OF GIRL ON A TRAINThe psychologists would call it folie a deux... 'Bruno slammed his palms together. '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! Catch?'' From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped i...
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  • AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS (CLOTHBOUND CLASSIC)
    VERNE, JULIO
    One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand - whether train or elephant -...
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    23,90 €

  • ON THE ROAD (CLOTHBOUND CLASSICS)
    KEROUAC, JACK
    On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberan...
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    28,90 €

  • THE WAVES
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it' Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to The Waves The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and grief at the death of thei...
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    16,90 €

  • ISADORA MOON GOES TO THE BALLET
    MUNCASTER, HARRIET
    Half vampire, half fairy, totally unique! Isadora Moon is special because she is different. Her mum is a fairy and her dad is a vampire and she is a bit of both. When her mum and dad come along on a school trip to the ballet, Isadora worries that they might not be like normal mums and dads. But she has even bigger problems when Pink Rabbit goes missing. Will she be able to find...
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    14,90 €

  • BETTY (ENG)
    MCDANIEL, TIFFANY
    A COMING-OF-AGE STORY FILLED WITH MAGIC IN LANGUAGE AND PLOT: BEAUTIFUL AND DEVASTATING'OBSERVER, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'I FELT CONSUMED BY THIS BOOK. I LOVED IT, YOU WILL LOVE IT'DAISY JOHNSON, AUTHOR OF SISTERS'A PAGE-TURNING APPALACHIAN COMING-OF-AGE STORY ...
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    21,90 €

  • SEDUCTION AND BETRAYAL - WOMEN AND LITERATURE
    HARDWICK, ELIZABETH
    'Hardwick's sentences are burned in my brain.' - Susan SontagSidelined. Shortchanged. Killed off. Elizabeth Hardwick considers women in literature.She imagines the lives of the Brontes, Woolf, Eliot and Plath; the fate of literary wives such as Dorothy Wordsworth, Zelda Fitzgerald and Jane Carlyle; and the stories of fictional heroines from Richardson's Clarissa to Ibsen's Nora...
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    16,90 €

  • THE INSEPARABLES
    BEAUVOIR, SIMONE DE
    The lost novel from the author of The Second SexWhen Andrée joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andrée is small for her age, but walks with the confidence of an adult. The girls become close. They talk for hours about equality, justice, war and religion; they lose respect for their teachers; they build a world of their own. But as the girls grow into young women...
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    16,90 €

  • WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING
    OWENS, DELIA
    OVER 12 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDESOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREA NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Painfully beautiful' New York Times'Unforgettable . . . as engrossing as it is moving' Daily Mail'A rare achievement' The Times'I can't even express how much I love this book!' Reese Witherspoon-------------------------------------------------For years, rumours of the 'M...
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    16,90 €

  • BILLIE HOLIDAY: THE LAST INTERVIEW
    HOLIDAY, BILLIE
    The first-ever collection of interviews with the tortured but groundbreaking singer Billie Holiday, part of Melville House’s beloved Last Interview series Legendary singer Billie Holiday comes alive in this first-ever collection of interviews from throughout her career. Included is her last interview, given from her deathbed in a New York City hospital, where police were standi...
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    22,90 €

  • URSULA K. LE GUIN: THE LAST INTERVIEW
    LE GUIN, URSULA K.
    When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that dismissed “genre” literature as unserious, and a westerner living far from fashionable East Coast publishing circles. The interviews collected here—spanning a remarkable fort...
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  • PIPPI LONGSTOCKING IN THE SOUTH SEAS
    LINDGREN, ASTRID
    Loved by millions of children around the world Pippi Longstocking is one of the most popular children's characters of all time. This story sees Pippi, Tommy and Annika go on their greatest adventure yet - to Koratuttutt Island, where Pippi's father is king. This new edition contains brand new black and white artwork by award-winning illustrator Mini Grey. ...
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    11,90 €

  • FANTASTIC MR. FOX
    DAHL, ROALD
    Fantastic Mr. Fox is on the run! The three meanest farmers around are out to get him. Fat Boggis, squat Bunce, and skinny Bean have joined forces, and they have Mr. Fox and his family surrounded. What they don’t know is that they’re not dealing with just any fox–Mr. Fox would never surrender. But only the most fantastic plan ever can save him now. ...
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    12,90 €

  • WHAT YOU NEED TO BE WARM
    GAIMAN, NEIL
    During the coldest season, when the world feels scary—what do you remember about being warm?Baked potatoes.Trust.A kettle on the stove.Blankets.A smile.And, most of all, the reassurance that you belong.In his powerful and moving poem, featuring illustrations from thirteen extraordinary artists, bestselling author and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Neil Gaiman draws together many dif...
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    23,90 €

  • GOOD NIGHT STORIES FOR REBEL GIRLS 2
    CAVALLO, FRANCESCA / FAVILLI, ELENA
    This sequel to the sensational New York Times bestseller, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, showcases 100 brand-new bedtime stories of incredible women throughout history and around the world.In this book, readers will embark on an empowering journey through 100 new bedtime stories, featuring the adventures of extraordinary women through the ages, such as:- Agatha Christie, W...
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    36,90 €

  • MATILDA AT 30. ASTROPHYSICIST
    VV. AA.
    The original, magical story with a brand new cover from Quentin Blake!October 2018 marks 30 years since Matilda was published! This brand new jacket comes with a never-before-seen illustration of Matilda as an astrophysicist- one of the careers that Quentin Blake himself has imagined that Matilda might have at 30 years old. ...
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    26,90 €

  • THE GREAT BIG ANIMAL SEARCH BOOK
    FRATTINI, STÉPHANE / MANCEAU, ÉDOUARD
    This big, beautiful book is bursting with over 2,818 creatures. From cute kittens to waddling penguins, the reader is challenged to spot more than 100 fun characters within each crowded scene. The book also features lots of fascinating facts and stats about the animals included, and readers are introduced to the idea of the amazing collective nouns that enrich our language. Hum...
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    21,90 €

  • MAMA'S SLEEPING SCARF
    NGOZI ADICHIE, CHIMAMANDA
    The first children's book from the best-selling author of We Should All Be Feminists and Americanah— a tender story about a little girl’s love for her mother’s scarf, and the adventures she shares with it and her whole familyChino loves the scarf that her mama ties around her hair at night. But when Mama leaves for the day, what happens to her scarf? Chino takes it on endless a...
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    21,90 €

  • MOLE'S QUIET PLACE
    CHAPMAN, JANE
    A moving tale of friendship and understanding, beautifully illustrated and deftly written by the inimitable Jane Chapman.Mole loves the hustle and bustle, laughter and excitement of being with her friends.But sometimes she needs a little space for herself.To stop and breathe. To think and rest.Can she find a quiet place all of her own?Maybe with a little help from her friends.S...
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    19,90 €

  • THE GREAT GATSBY (LUXE EDITION)
    SCOTT FITZGERALD, F.
    Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald’s finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the “roaring twenties”, and a devastating expose of the ‘Jazz Age’. Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick’s cousin Daisy, her bra...
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    24,95 €

  • PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (LUXE EDITION)
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim – that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible ...
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    30,90 €

  • WUTHERING HEIGHTS (LUXE EDITION)
    BRONTË, EMILY
    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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    32,90 €


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