Libros de Ficción clásica

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Ficciones / Ficción clásica
  • LORD JIM
    CONRAD, JOSEPH
    Escrita en 1900, Lord Jim es la gran novela que aborda el tenue filo que separa las dos caras de una misma moneda: la cobardía y el valor. Marcado por un trágico incidente en el que se ve envuelto en una de sus travesías como piloto, Jim arrastra como una losa, mas con la dignidad de que sólo son capaces los personajes trazados por Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), el juicio que tanto...
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    13,95 €

  • LA SEÑORA DALLOWAY RECIBE
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    Virginia Woolf se cuenta entre los escritores que, a comienzos del siglo XX, abrieron la puerta a la literatura psicológica a la que hoy estamos acostumbrados. Autora prolífica, escribió, en treinta años, nueve novelas, decenas de relatos, cientos de ensayos, miles de cartas y un diario en treinta volúmenes, además de dos biografías y alguna obra de teatro. Se presentan aquí si...
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    15,95 €

  • EL ALEPH
    BORGES, JORGE LUIS
    Borges: el autor infinitoEl Aleph es un libro icónico de Jorge Luis Borges, el gran autor argentino admirado por García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, John Banville, Michel Houellebecq y tantos otros escritores contemporáneos. Los cuentos que lo integran son un prodigio de puzles filosóficos, intrigas fantásticas o policiacas y personajes que se graban en la memoria, como Emma Zunz. «E...
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    16,90 €

  • EL RETRATO DE UNA DAMA
    JAMES, HENRY
    Considerada una de las obras maestras de Henry James (1843-1916), El retrato de una dama -una «historia sencilla»- gira en torno a la joven e inteligente, a la vez que presuntuosa, Isabel Archer, quien se ve obligada a trasladarse a Inglaterra desde su Estados Unidos natal. Una vez allí, establece distintas relaciones con otros americanos trasplantados, así como con la sociedad...
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    17,95 €

  • ROJO Y NEGRO
    STENDHAL
    Novela concluida en 1829 e inspirada en un hecho real, Rojo y negro (1830) trasciende el propósito declarado por Stendhal (1783-1842) -escribir una crónica de costumbres de la sociedad francesa auspiciada por la restauración borbónica- para convertirse en un portentoso relato de los movimientos del corazón humano y las pasiones del alma. La Francia desilusionada y prosaica del ...
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    15,95 €

  • LA ABADÍA DE NORTHANGER
    AUSTEN, JANE
    El trabajo más libre y heterodoxo de Jane Austen. Aunque fue su primera obra, el destino y un editor harto negligente quisieron que apareciera después de su muerte. Y esto es relevante, porque en cierto modo es el Quijote de las novelas de fantasmas, tanto por la actitud de su protagonista, una joven fascinada por la lectura de novelas góticas como por la parodia hilarante de l...
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    15,95 €

  • HOW MUCH LAND DOES A MAN NEED ?
    LEO TOLSTOY
    'Although he feared death, he could not stop. 'If I stopped now, after coming all this way - well, they'd call me an idiot!'A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of...
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    9,90 €

  • THE OLD MAN OF THE MOON
    FU, SHEN
    'Our passion was so great. Will the Old Man understand and help us once again?'The Old Man of the Moon is Shen Fu's intimate and moving account of his marriage - from early passion to the trials of poverty and separation - and his great, enduring love for his wife in eighteenth-century China.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black C...
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    9,90 €

  • THE BEAUTIFULL CASSANDRA
    AUSTIN, JANE
    She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.'A selection of Austen's dark and hilarious early writings - featuring murder, drunkenness, perjury, theft, poisoning, women breaking out of prison, men forging wills and babies biting off their mothers' fingers...Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classi...
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    9,90 €

  • CARTA DE UNA DESCONOCIDA
    ZWEIG, STEFAN
    Una de las joyas más delicadas del universo narrativo de Stefan Zweig. ...
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    13,00 €

  • FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
    HEMINGWAY, ERNEST
    Hemingway's great novel of the Spanish Civil War'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it'High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense com...
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    19,90 €

  • DESPUÉS DEL BAILE
    TOLSTOI, LEV
    Tres relatos sobrecogedores, «Después del baile», «Tres muertes» y «¿Cuánta tierra necesita un hombre?», nos enfrentan a la realidad dela condición humana, a cómo encaramos nuestro fin. La destreza narrativa de Tolstói, la profundidad de sus observaciones y la precisión y finura con las que se acerca a sus personajes nos recuerdan por qué el gran novelista ruso es uno de los pe...
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    10,00 €

  • UN MUNDO FELIZ (NOVELA GRAFICA)
    HUXLEY, ALDOUS
    Adaptación de la obra clásica de Huxley.En esta sátira pesimista, en la que Aldous Huxley nos habla de un profético futuro «utópico», a los humanos los producen mediante procedimientos genéticos, los adoctrinan socialmente y los anestesian con medicamentos para que el impuesto orden autoritario pueda mantenerse sin problemas? todo a cambio de sacrificar la libertad, la propia h...
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    30,00 €

  • UNA DONA SOLTERA
    Una història de secrets de família en l'edat daurada de l'alta societat de Nova York. ...
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    16,00 €

  • ROBINSON CRUSOE (CLOTHBOUND CLASSCIS)
    DEFOE, DANIEL
    Daniel Defoe’s great masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design ‘I walk’d about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my...
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    22,90 €

  • LADY SUSAN (CLOTHBOUND CLASSICS)
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Recently widowed, the unscrupulous and beautiful Lady Susan Vernon is determined to scheme her way through high society in the hope of a profitable new match - all while trying to marry off her unfortunate daughter. Told through a series of letters, Jane Austen's magnificent first novella is as subversive as it is charming. 'The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection...
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    16,90 €

  • NORTHANGER ABBEY
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Penguin Classics completes the set of Austen’s novels in this beautiful clothbound series, with covers by award-winning Penguin designer Coralie Bickford-Smith. ...
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    23,50 €

  • THE YEARS
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    Discover the most popular of Woolf's books during her lifetime - a powerful portrait of a family coping with changes wrought by the new twentieth century. The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endure and remember heart-break, loss, radical c...
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    19,90 €

  • SUMMER
    WHARTON, EDITH
    A novella regarded by Edith Wharton as one of her very best, Summer tells the tale of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams set against the backdrop of a lush summer in rural Massachusetts. A sensation on first publication, its honest depiction of a young woman attempting to live on her own terms remains as vital today as it was in 1917. ...
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    16,90 €

  • EMMA (CLOTHBOUND CLASSICS)
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet Smith, her carefully laid ...
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    23,90 €

  • A SPY IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE
    NIN, ANAÏS
    Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a ...
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    16,90 €

  • ABOUT LOVE
    CHECHOV, ANTON
    Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. ...
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    16,90 €

  • ORLANDO
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    Orlando has always been an outsider... His longing for passion, adventure and fulfilment takes him out of his own time. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizabethan England and imperial Turkey to the modern world. Will he find happiness with the exotic Russian Princess Sasha? Or is the dashing explorer Shelmerdine the ideal man? And what form will Orlando t...
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    25,90 €

  • DEATH OF A SALESMAN
    MILLER, ARTHUR
    Arthur Miller's extraordinary masterpiece, Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre, and has lost none of its power as an examination of American life.'A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away'Willy Loman is on his last legs. Failing at his job, dismayed at his the failure of his sons, Biff and Happy, to live up to his expectations...
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    17,90 €

  • BIG BLONDE
    PARKER, DOROTHY
    Dorothy Parker was the most talked-about woman of the decadent 1920s, notorious as a hard-drinking bad girl with a talent for endlessly quotable one-liners. In the stories collected here, she brilliantly captures the spirit of the decadent Jazz Age in New York, exposing both the dazzle and the darkness. This selection includes among others 'The Standard of Living', 'Mr Durant' ...
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    12,25 €

  • BLISS
    MANSFIELD, KATHERINE
    Katherine Mansfield's perceptive and resonant writing helped to define the modern short story, observing apparently trivial incidents to create quietly devastating revelations of inner lives. Graceful, delicate and burning with emotion, Mansfield's stories were integral in shaping the Modernist movement and redefined a genre. This collection contains some of Mansfield's most ce...
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    12,50 €

  • DEATH IN MIDSUMMER
    MISHIMA, YUKIO
    Filled with rich description and luxurious beauty, these ten tales of loss and longing from one of Japan's greatest writers show the pull between duty and desire, ecstasy and death: a mother lost in mourning, a moonlit journey to fulfil a wish, a night of infidelity, a young lieutenant who ends his life. ...
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    12,50 €

  • THE BRONTË SISTERS (BOXED SET)
    CLOTHBOUND CLASSICS
    Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights The Tenant of Wildfell Hall VilletteThis stunning box set brings together the Brontë sisters' four greatest novels in beautiful Penguin editions designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.From the bleak moors of Wuthering Heights to the Belgian capital in Villette, and the mysterious, gloomy country estates of Jane Eyre and The Tenant...
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    120,90 €

  • THE CANTERBURY TALES (CLOTHBOUND CLASSICS)
    CHAUCER, GEOFFREY
    Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romance...
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    27,90 €

  • FAR FROM MADDING CROWD (CLOTHBOUND CLASSICS)
    HARDY, THOMAS
    Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the designIndependent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the ar...
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    31,90 €


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