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  • UNA ESPIA A CASA DE L'AMOR
    UNA ESPIA A CASA DE L'AMOR
    NIN, ANAÏS
    Sabina és una dona casada en la Nova York de 1950 que aspira a fruir d una rica i tumultuosa vida sexual evitant deliberadament el compromís i entregada a la recerca del seu propi plaer. Per boca seva coneixem els afers amb quatre homes que conformen un calidoscopi al seu entorn. Anaïs Nin expressa la seva individualitat i la visió de la sexualitat femenina amb una força dramà...

    14,00 €

  • POTRILLO
    POTRILLO
    WRIGHT CHARLES
    Potrillo es uno de los libros esenciales para comprender la visión de Wright, para retomar la conciencia de nuestro paso por la tierra, tan fugaz como proclive a dejar huella, tan cargado de dolor como de celebración, leve y cansado, perenne y fugaz. ...

    20,00 €

  • THE HANDMAID'S TALE
    THE HANDMAID'S TALE
    ATWOOD
    Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford - her assigned name, Offred, means ‘of Fred'. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter into sexual servitude to repopulate a devastated world, she will be hanged. Yet even a repressive state cannot eradicate hope and desire. As she recalls her ...

    16,00 €

  • UNA NOCHE FRIA EL FISICO EXPLICA
    UNA NOCHE FRIA EL FISICO EXPLICA
    WADSWORTH WILLIAM
    Poemas y ensayos de William Wadsworth han aparecido en revistas como The Paris Review, The New Republic, The Yale Review o The Boston Review, entre otras. Sus poemas han sido incluidos en diversas antologías, como The Best American Erotic Poems o The Library of America Anthology of American Religious Poems, editado por Harold Bloom. En la actualidad es director del Writing Pro...

    12,00 €

  • EUGENE PICKERING
    EUGENE PICKERING
    JAMES, HENRY
    PRIMER PREMIO AL LIBRO MEJOR EDITADO EN 2010 CONCEDIDO POR EL MINISTERIO DE CULTURA EN LA CATEGORÍA DE OBRAS GENERALES Y DE DIVULGACIÓN PREMIO AL LIBRO MEJOR EDITADO EN ARAGÓN EN 2010 «El James de Eugene Pickering es el narrador lineal pero infaliblemente sutil que nos seduce con los elementos novelescos nunca ausentes en las mejores obras de la extensa y prolífica carrera l...

    16,50 €

  • ENSAYISTAS Y PROFETAS
    ENSAYISTAS Y PROFETAS
    BLOOM, HAROLD
    Bloom, que se encuentra sin duda alguna entre los críticos literarios más reconocidos e influyentes del siglo XX, recorre en este volumen, fruto de veinte años de trabajo y uno de los libros más esperados de crítica literaria, veinte siglos de género ensayístico. Partiendo de los profetas bíblicos hasta alcanzar a Sartre y Camus, Bloom establecerá un diálogo con sus "iguales"...

    22,00 €

  • BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA
    BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA
    TAYLOR COLERIDGE, SAMUEL
    Libro inclasificable donde los haya, Biographia Literaria constituye uno de los hitos que han alimentado la imagen legendaria, sorprendente y paradójica de Coleridge. En él se dan la mano la recapitulación y la semblanza, el apunte crítico y la indagación filosófica, la autofabulación y el consejo al joven hombre de letras. De hecho, si se contempla a la luz de la cronología, ...

    37,00 €

  • WEIR DE HERMISTON
    WEIR DE HERMISTON
    STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
    En el més selvàtic extrem d'una parròquia coberta d'aiguamolls, lluny de la vista de tota casa humana, s'alça entre els brucs un munt de pedres, i una mica més a l'est, al vessant d'un monticle, un monument amb alguns versos mig esborrats. Allí fou on Chaverhouse matà amb les seves pròpies mans el Teixidor Penitent de Balweary; i el cisell de "Vell Mortalitat" havia dringat so...

    16,00 €

  • TRES CUENTOS ROMANTICOS
    TRES CUENTOS ROMANTICOS
    SCOTT FITZGERALD,FRANCIS
    Escritos en los comienzos de . su brillante carrera . literaria con el. propósito no disimulado de . hacer dinero, los tres . relatos que. contiene este volumen . merecen, no obstante, . figurar en la más. exigente antología de . Francis Scott Fitzgerald. ...

    7,50 €

  • EL LLIBRE DELS SNOBS
    EL LLIBRE DELS SNOBS
    THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE
    Virus que es propaga a passes de gegant, l'esnobisme, dissimulat sovint sota la capa de la ignorància, afecta una bona part de la població. «Una societat que dóna preeminència a la cortesia i menysprea les arts i les lletres, jo la tinc per una societat esnob», diu l'autor. I és que hi ha esnobs entre la reialesa i l'aristocràcia, n'hi ha a les ciutats i als pobles, n'hi ha a ...

    22,00 €

  • HISTÒRIA DEL DIABLE
    HISTÒRIA DEL DIABLE
    DEFOE, DANIEL
    El Diable és un dels protagonistes preeminents de la cultura occidental. L'Església li ha atribuït, des de la seva fundació, tota mena de crims, malvestats i dolenteries. Ara bé, potser Satanàs no és tan poderós i malentranyat com el pinten aquells qui al llarg dels segles han portat la veu cantant en matèria de religió. Daniel Defoe fa gala dels seus vastos coneixements polít...

    29,00 €

  • CARAMELO
    CARAMELO
    CISNEROS, SANDRA
    Struggling to find a voice above the boom of her brothers and to understand her place on this side of the border and that, Lala is a shrewd observer of family life. But when she starts telling the Awful Grandmother's life story, seeking clues to how she got to be so awful, grandmother accuses Lala of exaggerating. Soon, a multigenerational family narrative turns into a whirlwi...

    25,00 €

  • SIN HEROÍSMOS, POR FAVOR
    SIN HEROÍSMOS, POR FAVOR
    CARVER, RAYMOND / PRIEDE DE LA HUERTA, JAIME
    Sin heroísmos, por favor (No Heroics, Please), cuya edición original data de 1991, es un recopilatorio de textos inéditos en España de Raymond Carver llevado a cabo por William Stull, crítico norteamericano que propuso a Tess Gallagher la posibilidad de reunir en un libro los textos que Carver había publicado en diferentes revistas y periódicos a lo largo de toda su carrera. E...

    15,00 €

  • TALENTED MR RIPLEY, THE
    TALENTED MR RIPLEY, THE
    HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA
    Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law, when an unexpected acquaintance offers him a free trip to Europe and a chance to start over.Ripley wants money, success and the good life and he's willing to kill for it. When his new-found happiness is threatened, his response is as swift as it is shocking. ...

    15,49 €

  •  GRACIAS, NIEBLA (POEMAS ÚLTIMOS)
     GRACIAS, NIEBLA (POEMAS ÚLTIMOS)
    AUDEN, W. H.
    Acostumbrado al clima de Nueva York, tan familiarizado con su contaminada niebla, a ti, su inmaculada Hermana, te tenía olvidada por completo, a ti y a cuanto aportas al invierno británico. Ahora, esa impresión nativa vuelve a mí. Enemiga implacable de la prisa, amedrentadora de conductores y de aviones, todo lo veloz, desde luego, te maldecirá, pero cuánto me agrada que hay...

    12,00 €

  • DEAL, THE
    DEAL, THE
    KENNEDY, ELLE
    Discover the addictive world of the Off-Campus series from The Queen of Hockey Romance, Elle Kennedy!Read The Deal now for the perfect fake-dating romance!She's about to make a deal with the college bad boy . . .Hannah Wells has finally found someone who turns her on. But while she might be confident in every other area of her life, she's carting around a full set of baggage w...

    18,72 €

  • ALBION
    ALBION
    HOPE, ANNA
    he Brooke family are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home - at the heart of a thousand acres of English countryside - to bury Philip: husband, father and the blinding sun around which they have all orbited for as long as they can remember. They must grapple with their shared grief as well as their shared inheritance. Each of his children is adamant that their f...

    17,00 €

  • GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL LIFE
    GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL LIFE
    HENRY, EMILY
    WHEN MARGARET IVES, THE FAMOUSLY RECLUSIVE HEIRESS, INVITES ETERNAL OPTIMIST ALICE SCOTT TO THE BALMY LITTLE CRESCENT ISLAND, ALICE KNOWS THIS IS IT- HER BIG BREAK. AND EVEN MORE RARE- A CHANCE TO IMPRESS HER FAMILY WITH A SERIOUS PUBLICATION.THE CATCH? PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING HUMAN THUNDERCLOUD, HAYDEN ANDERSON, IS SURE OF THE SAME THING.THE PROPOSAL? A ONE-MONTH TRIAL PERIOD ...

    16,50 €

  • GOOD AND EVIL AND OTHER STORIES
    GOOD AND EVIL AND OTHER STORIES
    SCHWEBLIN, SAMANTA
    The strange and explosive new collection from the incomparable imagination of Samanta Schweblin, a master of the short story. A gripping blend of the raw, the astonishing and the tragic, every story is as perfectly unexpected as a snare: tightly, exquisitely wound, ready to snap at a touch. Here, a young father is haunted by the consequences of a moment of distraction; tragedy...

    25,00 €

  • ANGEL OF VENGEANCE
    ANGEL OF VENGEANCE
    PRESTON & CHILD
    FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene take a final stand against the deadliest serial killer in the history of New York: Pendergast's own ancestor, Dr. Enoch Leng. The latest thrilling timeslip adventure in the New York Times-bestselling series from Preston and Child.A desperate bargain is broken... A clever trap is set... A vengeful angel will not be deterred...Ha...

    17,00 €

  • HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS
    HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS
    ALLENDE, ISABEL
    As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her sister, Rosa the Beautiful, Clara is mute for nine years. When she breaks her silence, it is to announce that she will be married soon to the stern and volatile landowner Esteban Trueba.Set in an unnamed Latin American...

    18,00 €

  • DEAD LANDS
    DEAD LANDS
    BENDICHO, NÚRIA
    Jon was shot in the back, in an isolated house where the only other occupants were his family. Who pulled the trigger? 13 characters. 13 different points of view. Dead Lands is the story of a cursed lineage, a kaleidoscopic narrative that unfurls an atavistic universe where characters are burdened by savage origins, two deaths, and a dark secret. ...

    25,00 €

  • THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE
    THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE
    ENRIQUEZ, MARIANA
    Thrilling and terrifying, Things We Lost in the Fire takes the reader into a world of Argentine Gothic. A world of sharp-toothed children and young girls racked by desire, where demons lurk beneath the river and stolen skulls litter the pavements. A world where the secrets half-buried under Argentina's terrible dictatorship rise up to haunt the present day, and where women, ex...

    16,00 €

  • PROJECT HAIL MARY
    PROJECT HAIL MARY
    WEIR, ANDY
    Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time.And he's just been awakened to find him...

    17,00 €

  • NO TIME TO SPARE
    NO TIME TO SPARE
    LE GUIN, URSULA K.
    Ursula Le Guin took readers to imaginary worlds for decades. In her last great frontier of life, old age, she explored a new literary territory: the blog, a forum where she shone. The collected best of Le Guin's blog, No Time to Spare, presents perfectly crystallised dispatches on what mattered to her late in life, her concerns with the world and her wonder at it.She brings he...

    21,50 €

  • DAISY CHAIN FLOWER SHOP, THE
    DAISY CHAIN FLOWER SHOP, THE
    GILMORE, LAURIE
    The brand new summer romance set in Dream Harbor from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pumpkin Spice Café and The Strawberry Patch Pancake House! "Another gentle small-town romance with Hallmark movie vibes... Dream Harbor remains a cozy spot to linger" Publisher's Weekly "A delightful escape filled with Gilmore's signature whimsy and coziness" Hannah Bonam-Youn...

    16,50 €

  • LONDON RULES
    LONDON RULES
    HERRON, MICK
    At Regent's Park, the Intelligence Service HQ, its new First Desk Claude Whelan is learning the job the hard way. Tasked with protecting a beleaguered Prime Minister, he's facing attack from all directions: from the showboating MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote, and now has his sights set on Number Ten; from the showboat's wife, a tabloid columnist, who's crucifying Whelan i...

    18,00 €

  • BEGINNNING COMES AFTER THE END, THE
    BEGINNNING COMES AFTER THE END, THE
    SOLNIT, REBECCA
    'An old world is dying; a new world is being born; now is the time of monsters' Antonio GramschiSolnit maps the extraordinary revolution of ideas and rights that we've experienced over the last fifty years, which has profoundly changed our world. In recognising the interdependent and symbiotic relationships in nature and among humans, this revolution is beginning to overturn c...

    25,00 €

  • AGATHA RAISIN AND THE DEADLY DANCE
    AGATHA RAISIN AND THE DEADLY DANCE
    BEATON, M.C.
    Can the feisty Agatha cut it as a private investigator? She soon learns that running her own detective agency in the Cotswolds is not quite like starring in a Raymond Chandler movie. But then in walks wealthy divorcee Catherine Laggat-Brown, and Agatha is given her first real case. Death threats, blackmail. and physical attakcs soon follow, and once again Agatha is off scourin...

    18,00 €

  • DEPARTURE(S)
    DEPARTURE(S)
    BARNES, JULIAN
    Departure(s) is the story of a man called Stephen and a woman called Jean, who fall in love when they are young and again when they are old. It is the story of an elderly Jack Russell called Jimmy, enviably oblivious to his own mortality.It is also the story of how the body fails us, whether through age, illness, accident or intent. And it is the story of how experiences fade ...

    30,00 €