Arredor de si
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"Unha novela imprescindible para comprender a evolución da narrativa galega do século XX. Publicada en 1930, cando o seu autor tiña 42 anos, pódese considerar a biografía espiritual dos homes da Xeración Nós. O seu protagonista, Adrián Solovio, é un dos personaxes que xa figuran no patrimonio (...)
Nuevo hospicio para pobres
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Nuevo hospicio para pobres es uno de los autos sacramentales más célebres de Calderón de la Barca. La obra tuvo cierta relevancia en América y fue representa en Perú en 1682.
El legado del escorpión
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"Dicen los mayordomos más antiguos del Palacio Real que existe un documento prohibido en sus archivos que data de los tiempos en que Godoy manejaba la nula disposición para el gobierno de Carlos IV y las bajas pasiones de su lujuriosa consorte.Dicho documento es una pantomima de juicio secreto que (...)
Os hemisferios
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"Escrito para que as persoas entren nos poemas, Os hemisferios concibiuse para entender, por iso tamén é unha pregunta. Árbores e planetas, terra e ceo, lúa e sol crean o acubillo no que se gorecen as voces. A palabra, a fala e os falares relacionan directamente a poesía co que está fóra dela. O (...)
La buena fama
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La buena fama es un relato fantástico ambientado en el medioevo que narra la relación de una joven inteligente y virtuosa con un ser sobrenatural
A Bit off the Map and Other Stories
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'Angus Wilson s first volume of short stories, The Wrong Set was first published in 1949 to immense critical acclaim. The collection is a brilliantly funny exposure of the protective devices with which people seek to mask deep-laid egotism. There is the wallowing in self-adulation on the part of (...)
The Leavetaking
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'The worlds of business, politics and crime collide in contemporary Dublin when two men with the same name, from the same family, die on the same night - one death is a gangland murder, the other, apparently, a road accident. Was it a coincidence? That's the official version of events. But when a (...)
How to Paint a Dead Man
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'Italy in the early 1960s: a dying painter considers the sacrifices and losses that have made him an enigma, both to strangers and those closest to him. He begins his last life painting, using the same objects he has painted obsessively for his entire career - a small group of bottles. In Cumbria (...)
The Bell Ja
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The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author's suicide.'It is a fine (...)
Eye of the Red Tsa
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'It is the time of the Great Terror. Inspector Pekkala - known as the Emerald Eye - was the most famous detective in all Russia. He was the favourite of the Tsar. Now he is the prisoner of the men he once hunted.Like millions of others, he has been sent to the gulags in Siberia and, as far as the (...)
Original Sin
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'An Adam Dalgliesh MysteryThe Peverell Press, a two-hundred-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames, is certainly ripe for change. But the proposals of its ruthlessly ambitious new managing director, Gerard Etienne, have made him dangerous enemies a (...)
A Pale View of Hills
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In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her (...)
An Artist of the Floating World
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'It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings (...)
The Barracks
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''Marvellous.' Susan Hill, The TimesElizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom and loneliness marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own; her husband is straining to break free from the servile security of the police force; and her own life, threatened (...)
The Food of the Gods
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'Mr Hoopdriver is an expert in his field - a perfect gentleman with more than a little flair behind the drapers counter. Yet Mr Hoopdriver is growing tired of measuring out yards of gingham and selling endless reels of threads. He yearns for new discoveries, new adventures and above all, a change (...)
When We Were Orphans
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'You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the possibilities of fiction.' Sunday TimesEngland, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious (...)
The Immigrant
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'An engrossing portrait of an arranged marriage, from the prize-winning author of Home and Difficult Daughters.Nina is a thirty-year-old English lecturer in New Delhi, living with her widowed mother and frustrated by how little life has to offer. Ananda has recently emigrated to Halifax, Canada; (...)
The Pornographer
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' Couples argue about a lot of things money, seeing old partners, football, having children, looking after children…and football. Clothes, washing up…and football. If you think about the relationships you ve had, football is probably the cause of more arguments than anything else. From TV s (...)
Such Darling Dodos
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'Written in the 1950s, the eight stories collected here are brilliantly of their time: the decade of rubber plants, espresso bars and skiffle, of Suez, Teddy Boys and Angry Young Men.With compassion and deadly accuracy, Angus Wilson charts the scandals and secrets of the respectable middle classes (...)