Libros de En anglès 225 resultados

Kerr, Philip

Quercus Books

Bernie is a young detective working in Vice when he is seconded to investigate the Silesian Station killings: four prostitutes urdered in as many weeks, and in the same gruesome manner.Bernie hardly has time to acquaint himself with the case files before another murder occurs. Until now, no one has shown much interest in these victims. But this time the girl's father runs Berl...

Winslow, Don

Fourth State

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Ottolenghi, Yotam

Eburypublishing

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Kuang, R.f.

Fourth State

A brilliantly imaginative epic fantasy debut, inspired by the bloody history of China's twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic. When Rin aced the Keju - the test to find the most talented students in the Empire - it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn't believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin's guardi...

Ruiz Zafón, Carlos

Orion Books

The international bestseller and modern classic - over 20 million copies sold worldwide'Shadow is the real deal, a novel full of cheesy splendour and creaking trapdoors, a novel where even the subplots have subplots. One gorgeous read' STEPHEN KING'An instant classic' DAILY TELEGRAPHThe Shadow of the Wind is a stunning literary thriller in which the discovery of a forgotten bo...

Newport, Cal

Piatkus

Many modern knowledge workers now spend most of their brain power battling distraction and interruption, whether because of the incessant pinging of devices, noisy open-plan offices or the difficulty of deciding what deserves your attentionthe most. When Cal Newport coined the term 'deep work' on his popular blog, Study Hacks, in 2012, he found the concept quickly hit a nerve....

Oates Joyce Carol

Harpercollins Publishers, Ltd

Two families.Two faces of America.One violent crime that will bitterly divide them - and yet bind them together forever.The story of Trump's America.Daily MailA magnificent story of two broken families IndependentPage-turning, gripping, full of unexpected twistsObserverFrom its dramatic opening, with the killing of an abortionist, the book rockets forwards ... Ingenious, agile...

Miller, Madeline

Bloomsbury

A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Song of Achilles, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list. The god touches his finger to the arrow's fletching. Then he breathes, a puff of air - as if to send dandelions flying, to push toy boats over water. And the arrow flies, straight and silent, in a curving, downward arc towards Achilles' back.Greece in th...

Hinton, S. E.

Penguin Classics

Teenagers in a small Oklahoma town have split into two gangs, divided by money, tastes and attitude. The Socs' idea of having a good time is beating up Greasers like Ponyboy Curtis.Ponyboy knows what to expect and knows he can count on his brothers and friends - until the night someone takes things too far, and life is changed forever. ...

Sokolov, Sasha

Paperback

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Connelly, Michael

Orion Books

n 1993 Homicide Detective Harry Bosch was assigned the case of a missing person, Marie Gesto. The young woman was never found - dead or alive - and the case has haunted Bosch ever since. Thirteen years later, Bosch is back in the Open Unsolved Crimes Unit when he gets a call from the DA's office. A man accused of two killings is willing to confess to several other murders in a...

Didion, Joan

Fourth State

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Shafak, Elif

Penguin Books

As an Armenian American living in San Francisco, Armanoush feels like part of her identity is missing and that she must make a journey back to the past, to Turkey, in order to start living her life. Asya is a nineteen-year-old woman living in an extended all-female household in Istanbul who loves Jonny Cash and the French existentialists. The Bastard of Istanbul tells the stor...

Rowling J K

Bloomsbury

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Thorne, Kip S.

Norton

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Roy, Arundhati

Penguin Classics

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Orwell, George

Penguin Classics

'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he brings to bear all the force of his humanity, passion and clarity, describi...

Carson, Rachel

Penguin Classics

Now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, Silent Spring exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Despite condemnation i...

Twain, Mark

Ediciones Eneida

[...]Mi t¡o reflexion¢. Un nuevo desenga¿o lo matar¡a. Resolvi¢ entonces tomar como objeto de su devoci¢n algo que nadie coleccionar¡a. Sopes¢ cuidadosamente los pros y los contras de la decisi¢n que estaba a punto de tomar, y una vez m s baj¢ a la arena para luchar con denuedo. Se hab¡a propuesto iniciar una colecci¢n de ecos. [...] De todos los escritores del mundo, tal vez ...

London, Jack

Ediciones Eneida

Los relatos contenidos en este volumen representan, a juicio de la cr'tica, lo mejor de la narrativa breve de Jack London. Su autor declar— que su mŽtodo consist'a en Çdescubrir la autŽntica maravilla de las cosasÈ. Y maravillosas, sorprendentes, intensas y emocionantes son estas narraciones de uno de los m‡s grandes fabuladores de la historia de la literatura.Como ningœn otro...

Williams, John

Vintage Books

William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death his colleagues remember him rarely.Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel unc...

Kipling, Rudyard

Ediciones Eneida

No hay uno solo de los cuentos de Rudyard Kipling, que no sea, a mi parecer, una nueva y suficiente obra maestra.Jorge Luis Borges La Casa de los Deseos, obra de madurez de Kipling, da título a este volumen en el que se recogen seis de las narraciones más bellas y profundas de la ingente producción cuentística (más de 250 relatos) del primer inglés en recibir el Nobel de Liter...

Cowley, Joseph

Iunivers Publishing

Dostoevsky was the son of a doctor. His parents were hard-working, religious people but poor. His first work, "Poor Folk," was published by the poet Nekrassov, and he found himself an instant celebrity. A brilliant career seemed opened to him, but in 1849 he was arrested and condemned to death. A member of a group of young men who met to read Fourier and Proudhon, he was acc...

Franzen, Jonathan

Fourth State

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Brooke, Rupert

Adesiara Editorial

«El millor de Rupert Brooke ja és per sempre un bé català. Un bé molt ric, sobre el qual els nostres amants de la poesia sens dubte multiplicaran delícies i reflexions ?i tant de bo si també més d'un contricions? en retrobar, radiants i nous en un aire serè, conceptes i valors poètics que ací de vegades temem que s'hagin fet vells abans d'haver-se elevat d'arran de terra.» Amb...

Atwood

Vintage Books

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 ...

Farrokhzad, Forugh / Sholeh Wolpé

The University Of Arkansas Press Fayetteville

For the first time, the work of Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad is being brought to English-speaking readers through the perspective of a translator who is a poet in her own right, fluent in both Persian and English and intimately familiar with each culture. u003ciu003eSinu003c/iu003e includes the entirety of Farrokhzad's last book, numerous selections from her fourth and most ...

Beevor, Antony

Orion Books

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Stevenson, Robert Louis

Edicions del Salobre

Feia prop de deu anys que la meva salut havia començat a declinar i, poc abans d'emprendre el viatge, em semblava que havia arribat a l'últim acte de la meva vida i que no em quedava res més que esperar la infermera i la funerària. Em van suggerir que anés als mars del Sud, i no em va semblar malament... ...

Berti,Eduardo

Adriana Hidalgo

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