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THREE NOVELLAS The Ladybird. The Fox. The Captain´s Doll
Lawrence,D.H.
Editorial: Penguin
Editorial: Penguin
4,00 €
*Three Novellas* is a celebrated collection of novellas by the British author D. H. Lawrence, written between 1920 and 1921 and first published together in March 1923. The book explores complex human relationshipsboth tender and crueland the profound psychological and emotional aftereffects of the First World War.
The last and most famous of D. H. Lawrence's novels, Lady Chatterley's Lover was published in 1928 and banned in England and the United States as pornographic. While sexually tame by today's standards, the book is memorable for better reasons---Lawrence's masterful and lyrical prose, and a vibrant story that takes us bodily into the world of its...
"Women in Love" begins one blossoming spring day in England and ends with a terrible catastrophe in the snow of the Alps. Ursula and Gudrun are very different sisters who become entangled with two friends, Rupert and Gerald, who live in their hometown. The bonds between the couples quickly become intense and passionate, but whether this passion is...
A classic novel which follows Stephen Dedalus as he progresses from boyhood to his coming of age in Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century, describing his sexual awakening, his intellectual development and his rebellion against Roman Catholicism. From the author of Dubliners, Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake.
As a lead-in to preparation for the Cambridge First Certificate examination, "Think Ahead to First Certificate" offers intermediate students following general communicative courses a bridge to the accuracy required for FCE, particularly in the areas of structure, vocabulary and writing skills. The course combines high-interest texts with a clear focus on...
Oxford Rooftops is the innovative course with an inviting sense of community at its heart. An exciting blend of digital and print materials provides perfectly paced lessons that bring Rooftops and its inhabitants to life.
Complete PET for Spanish Speakers offers the most authentic preparation available for the Cambridge ESOL exam. Informed by Cambridge's unique searchable database of real exam scripts, the Cambridge Learner Corpus, and providing an official PET past exam paper from Cambridge ESOL, Complete PET is the most authentic exam preparation course available. The...
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EXAM ESSENTIALS: CAMBRIDGE FIRST PRACTICE TESTS 1 W/KEY + DVD-ROM
Osbourne,Charles
Editorial: National Geographic
Editorial: National Geographic
40,00 €
Exam Essentials is our major British English exam preparation series combining exam preparation, practice, and tips for the revised Cambridge English exams. This effective combination of testing and teaching has proved a popular formula with teachers and students. The first two practice tests in each book are 'walk-through' tests. Students are carefully...
Objective PET Second edition is a completely updated and revised edition of the best-selling Objective PET course. This edition includes several great new features, including brand new Corpus spots which alert students to common mistakes made by PET candidates. The Student''s Book now includes a CD-ROM for extra language practice, including one complete...
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OXFORD ROOFTOPS 3º PRIMARIA ACTIVITY BOOK
Phillips,Sarah/Shipton,Paul
Editorial: Oxford
Editorial: Oxford
24,50 €
Oxford Rooftops is the innovative course with an inviting sense of community at its heart. An exciting blend of digital and print materials provides perfectly paced lessons that bring Rooftops and its inhabitants to life.
The greatest name in foreign language dictionaries is Cassell, the preeminent publisher of dictionaries for over 120 years.For fast, easy reference and comprehensive coverage, Cassell's is unbeatable. With entries covering daily conversation as well as technical and professional terms, this handy pocket-sized dictionary is the only reference you need...
'Mr Durrell has written about a dozen real love stories, entwined them, explored them with a truly Proustian ferocity and set them all against the marvellous background of Alexandria in the late 'thirties and early 'forties. He is a romantic by temperament, dazzlingly exuberant in style and vision, reckless in ambition, wonderfully prolific in...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a picaresque novel by American author Mark Twain that was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. It is commonly named among the Great American Novels, and it is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English,...
The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core of his father's self-denial and vowing to live more authentically. That search takes him to the immigrant and literary bohemias of 1950s London, to a facile and unsatisfying career as a writer, and at last to a decaying Portugese colony in...
The novel is concerned with a woman named Leni Pfieffer (née Gruyten) who faces eviction from her apartment building in Cologne. It structured as a report compiled from interviews conducted by an unnamed author with Lenis friends, family, employers, coworkers, and others, forming a detailed social portrait of life in Cologne from the 1910s to 1971. Like...
A modern psychological novel of human beings caught in the indulgences and inhibitions of our times - another literary triumph for Italy's great contemporary writer.
The stories in this collection cover a variety of topics, including bullfighting, prizefighting, infidelity, divorce, and death. "The Killers", "Hills Like White Elephants", and "In Another Country" are considered to be among Hemingway's better works
Baby Doll: The Script for the Film is a 1956 published screenplay written by renowned playwright Tennessee Williams, adapted from his own one-act plays [27 Wagons Full of Cotton and The Long Stay Cut Short, or, The Unsatisfactory Supper]
The glitter and cynicism of Rome under Mussolini provide the background of what is probably Alberto Moravias best and best-known novel The Woman of Rome. Its the story of Adriana, a simple girl with no fortune but her beauty who models naked for a painter, accepts gifts from men, and could never quite identify the moment when she traded her private dream...
This is arguably where science fiction as we know it today began. The influence of The War of the Worlds on modern sci-fi is undeniable, and you only need to read this book to see why. The imagery is astounding, and the depiction of aliens is staggering. The night after a shooting star is seen streaking across the sky, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell...
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life...
Collection of literary lectures by E.M. Forster, published in 1927. For the purposes of his study, Forster defines the novel as "any fictitious prose work over 50,000 words." Forester's wit and lively, informed originality have made this study of the novel a classic. Avoiding the chronological approach of what he calls "pseudoscholarship," Forster freely...
Naipaul's controversial account of his travels through the Islamic world was hailed by The New Republic as "the most notable work on contemporary Islam to have appeared in a very long time.".
In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one manan Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a...
The story follows Elizabeth Whitehill, a refined Wellesley College graduate who sets out on a road trip to Spokane to reunite with her fiancé. While driving across Nevada, she decides to pick up a hitchhiker.
Set in mid-Victorian England, this novel follows the fight for ascendancy among the clergy and dependants of a great English cathedral.
Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D-cup that he wasn't married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster, with sensible and sardonic...
From one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists comes a magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling. Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Pew tells...
On the third day of Ramadan, the village wakes to find the severed heads of nine of its sons stacked in banana crates by the bus stop.One of them belonged to one of the most wanted men in Iraq, known to his friends as Ibrahim the Fated.How did this good and humble man earn the enmity of so many? What did he do to deserve such a death?The answer lies in...
Nikolai Gogol's 'epic poem in prose', Dead Souls is a damning indictment of a corrupt society, translated from the Russian with an introduction and notes by Robert A. Maguire in Penguin Classics. Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer. He proposes to buy...
This is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something - a...
2000 word vocabulary
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DESPACIO, DESPACIO A MERCED DEL VIENTO/Slowly,slowly in the wind
Highsmith,Patricia
Editorial: Audiobooks
Editorial: Audiobooks
13,50 €
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Translated by C.E.Detmold. With an Introduction by Lucille Margaret Kekewich. Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the exercise of power. It remains as relevant today as it was in the sixteenth century. Widely quoted in the Press and in academic publications, The Prince has...
Looks at how women have redefined tradtional religious beliefs, and shares interviews with women from diverse spiritual backgrounds
Heilbroners book is a comprehensive introduction to how economic systems arise, function, and evolve, combining economic history, theory, and institutional analysis.
Necessary As Blood is the latest entry in Deborah Crombies New York Times Notable, Edgar®, Agatha, and Macavity Awards-nominated mystery series featuring Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James. A Texan frequently compared to the masters of British crime fictionincluding P.D. James, Martha Grimes, Barbara Vine, and fellow American...
When a rock star, a fashion designer, a software tycoon and a millionaire heiress are all murdered in mysterious circumstances, Detective Lindsay Boxer is quickly assigned to the high-profile investigation. Few people are as interested when a local hero, Bagman Jesus, is found brutally executed. Reporter Cindy Thomas, however, becomes fascinated by his...
During an intimate dinner party, a cat burglar breaks into the home of A-list actor Marcus Dowling. When his wife walks in on the thief, the situation quickly teeters out of control, leaving an empty safe and a lifeless body.The same night, a woman and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down in an abandoned garage. The killer hasn't left a shred of...
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PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Second edition
Hollander,Edwin P.
Editorial: Oxford
Editorial: Oxford
46,00 €
Hollanders book is a foundational introduction to the scientific study of social behavior. It explains the core principles that guide social psychology and the research methods used to investigate how individuals think, feel, and act in social contexts.The emphasis is on empirical evidence, experimental design, and the interaction between the individual...
De repente, justo antes del amanecer, las luces se apagaron a bordo del San Andreas. Para el barco del hospital británico que navega por las aguas mortales, el U-boat patrullaba las aguas noruegas, ha comenzado una pesadilla de violencia y traición. Un aterrador juego de sabotaje en el que un traidor desconocido entre la tripulación tiene todas las cartas
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ELDEST (Inglés) Inheritance. Book Two
Paolini,Christopher
Editorial: Random House Mondadori
Editorial: Random House Mondadori
9,00 €
Darkness falls . . . Despair abounds . . . Evil reigns . . . Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in magic and swordsmanship, the vital skills of the Dragon Rider. It...