Libros de Editorial : PENGUIN BOOKS

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  • THE SECRET AGENT

    2ª Mano
    THE SECRET AGENT
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    The Penguin English Library Edition of The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad'Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world' In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for...

    3,90 €

  • SEPULCHRE

    2ª Mano
    SEPULCHRE
    KATE MOSSE
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Labyrinth-"a rich brew of supernaturalism and intrigue."(Kirkus Reviews) In 1891, young Léonie Vernier and her brother arrive at the home of their widowed aunt in Rennes-le-Bains, in southwest France. But nothing is as Léonie had imagined. Their aunt is young, willowy, and beautiful, and the estate is a subject of local superstition...

    3,90 €

  • THE DIG

    2ª Mano
    THE DIG
    JOHN PRESTON
    In the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds against a background of mounting national anxiety, it becomes clear though that this is no ordinary find ...

    3,90 €

  • HAPPY DAYS WITH THE NAKED CHEF

    2ª Mano
    HAPPY DAYS WITH THE NAKED CHEF
    JAMIE OLIVER
    'Great, fabulous. There's some really hot tips and some scrumptious recipes that really hit the spot. Just enjoy yourself, get stuck in, happy days'Spectator 'The food is simply explained and superbly presented, and it makes you want to cook every dish'Daily Express 'Absolutely yummy. And who would have thought of serving pork fillet on a bed of rhubarb? It looks so scrumptious...

    3,90 €

  • ADRIAN MOLE

    2ª Mano
    ADRIAN MOLE
    SUE TOWNSEND
    End of Century Mole. An accidental celebrity, with a spreading bald patch, despairing of current family values, Mole is still worrying: Is Viagra cheating? Why won't BBC1 produce The White Van, his serial killer comedy? Will the Millennium Wheel EVER turn? Will Pandora Braithwaite MP become Blair's favourite babe? Will Pauline Mole throw caution to the winds with a pre-millennu...

    3,90 €

  • POLLYANNA

    2ª Mano
    POLLYANNA
    ELEANOR H. PORTER
    As soon as Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her strict and dutiful maiden aunt, she begins to brighten up everybody's life. The 'glad game' she plays, of finding a silver lining in every cloud, transforms the sick, the lonely and the plain miserable - until one day something so terrible happens that even Pollyanna doesn't know how ot feel glad about it. ...

    3,90 €

  • JACKSON'S DILEMMA

    2ª Mano
    JACKSON'S DILEMMA
    IRIS MURDOCH
    Preparations for the marriage of Edward Lannion and Marian Berran are under way. As the guests anticipate the festivities, a mysterious note from Marian is discovered and she disappears. From the background emerges Jackson, a servant, who seems able to change the workings of destiny. ...

    3,90 €

  • ROBINSON CRUSOE

    2ª Mano
    ROBINSON CRUSOE
    DANIEL DEFOE
    The sole survivor of a shipwreck, 'Robinson Crusoe' is washed up on a desert island. In his journal he chronicles his daily battle to stay alive, as he conquers isolation, fashions shelter and clothes, first encounters another human being and fights off cannibals and mutineers. With Robinson Crusoe, Defoe wrote what is regarded as the first English novel, and created one of the...

    3,90 €

  • KIM

    2ª Mano
    KIM
    RUDYARD KIPLING
    Orphan sahid and bazaar-boy, Kim lives by his wits. His chameleon's talent for disguise draws him into the Great Game - British intelligence in India - and on a mission to thwart foreign agents on the North-West Frontier. Kim's travels coincide with the guest of his friend the Tibetan lama, who is seeking redemption from the Wheel of Life. They are the heroes of an adventure cr...

    3,90 €

  • THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

    2ª Mano
    THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
    LEWIS CARROLL
    I should see the garden far better,' said Alice to herself, if I could get to the top of that hill: and here's a path that leads straight to it--at least, no, it doesn't do that--' (after going a few yards along the path, and turning several sharp corners), but I suppose it will at last. But how curiously it twists! It's more like a corkscrew than a path! Well, THIS turn goes t...

    3,90 €

  • OTHELLO

    2ª Mano
    OTHELLO
    WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
    If anything, "Othello" has increased its stature as one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies ever since it was first written, between 1603 and 1604, due to the victimisation suffered by its tragic hero, Othello, as a result of his skin colour. Othello is a "noble Moor", a North African Muslim who has converted to Christianity and is deemed one of the Venetian state's most reliab...

    3,90 €

  • ALL MY SINS REMEMBERED

    2ª Mano
    ALL MY SINS REMEMBERED
    ROSIE THOMAS
    Roman om fire søskendebørn, Grace, Jake, Clio og Julius og deres liv i England og Tyskland. Vi følger dem fra 1900 til 2. verdenskrig. ...

    3,90 €

  • JERICHO

    2ª Mano
    JERICHO
    DIRK BOGARDE
    William Caldicott leads a complicated life as his impending divorce looms ahead of him. Further complications are added when William receives a cryptic letter of farewell from his estranged brother James as well as the key to James' house in France. William hesitantly accepts the key and begins the search for his brother. As he delves deeper and deeper into his brother's strang...

    3,90 €

  • THE COMPLETE ENGLISH POEMS

    2ª Mano
    THE COMPLETE ENGLISH POEMS
    JOHN DONNE
    'The first poet in the world in some things', is how John Donne was described by his contemporary Ben Jonson. Yet it is only this century that Donne has been indisputably established as a great poet—and even, many feel, the greatest love poet of them all. Jonson went on to remark that 'That Donne, for not keeping of an accent, deserved hanging', yet Donne's rhythms, once though...

    3,90 €

  • BIRDY

    2ª Mano
    BIRDY
    WILLIAM WHARTON
    The critically acclaimed Birdy is an inventive, hypnotic novel about friendship and family, love and war, madness and beauty, and, above all, "birdness". Wharton crafts an unforgettable tale--one that suggests a notion of sanity in a world that is manifestly insane. ...

    3,90 €

  • MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS

    2ª Mano
    MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS
    GERALD DURRELL
    This book is an autobiographical account of five years in the childhood of naturalist Gerald Durrell when he lived with his family lived on the island of Corfu. Apart from Gerald (the youngest) and Larry (Lawrence Durrell, the novelist), the family comprised their widowed mother, the gun-mad Leslie, and diet-obsessed sister Margo together with Roger the dog. The procession of a...

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  • STRANGERS ON A TRAIN

    2ª Mano
    STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
    PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
    Guy Haines wants to divorce his unfaithful wife, Miriam, in order to marry the woman he loves, Anne Faulkner. While on a train to see his wife, he meets Charles Anthony Bruno, a psychopathic playboy who proposes an idea to "exchange murders": Bruno will kill Miriam if Guy kills Bruno's father; neither of them will have a motive, and the police will have no reason to suspect eit...

    3,90 €

  • HARD TIMES FOR THESE TIMES

    2ª Mano
    HARD TIMES FOR THESE TIMES
    CHARLES DICKENS
    Dickens's widely read satirical account of the Industrial Revolution. Dickens creates the Victorian industrial city of Coketown, in northern England, and its unforgettable citizens, such as the unwavering utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the factory owner Josiah Bounderby, and the result is his famous critique of capitalist philosophy, the exploitative force he believed was des...

    3,90 €

  • LOVE FOR LYDIA

    2ª Mano
    LOVE FOR LYDIA
    HERBERT ERNEST BATES
    Lydia Aspen harbors a yearning for worldly experience, Lydia is so consumed by her need that she brandishes it as a weapon towards four men who are all passionately in love with her. The love these men hold for Lydia brings joy sorrow and tragedy into their lives. ...

    3,90 €

  • THE GOOD SOLDIER

    2ª Mano
    THE GOOD SOLDIER
    FORD MADOX FORD
    For nine years, John Dowell and his wife have spent the summer season at a German spa town in the company of the respectable Ashburnhams. Behind the placid exterior of their lives lie the destructive passions of men and women. When Dowell's world breaks apart, he tells his story as intimately as to a silent listener across the fireplace of a country cottage. 'Who in this world ...

    3,90 €

  • STUPID WHITE MEN

    2ª Mano
    STUPID WHITE MEN
    MOORE, MICHAEL

    3,90 €

  • MACBETH

    2ª Mano
    MACBETH
    SHAKESPEARE

    3,90 €

  • THE HUMAN FACTOR

    2ª Mano
    THE HUMAN FACTOR
    GREENE

    3,90 €

  • ROBINSON CRUSOE

    2ª Mano
    ROBINSON CRUSOE
    DEFOE, DANIEL

    3,90 €

  • WHITE FANG AND THE CALL OF THE WILD

    2ª Mano
    WHITE FANG AND THE CALL OF THE WILD
    LONDON, JACK

    3,90 €

  • THREE RESTORATION COMEDIES

    2ª Mano
    THREE RESTORATION COMEDIES
    ETHEREGE / WYCHERLEY / CONGREVE

    3,90 €

  • THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY

    2ª Mano
    THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY
    KEYES, MARIAN

    3,90 €

  • ABOUT A BOY

    2ª Mano
    ABOUT A BOY
    HORNBY, NICK

    3,90 €

  • GEORGE'S MARVELLOUS MEDICINE

    2ª Mano
    GEORGE'S MARVELLOUS MEDICINE
    ROALD DAHL

    3,90 €

  • DUDE, WHERE'S MY COUNTRY

    2ª Mano
    DUDE, WHERE'S MY COUNTRY
    MOORE, MICHAEL

    3,90 €


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