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In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here also portray female characters...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Now you slip away in sleep. Your boat is sea-mist, dreaming, by the shore. Spain's most beloved poet, Federico Garcia Lorca...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: Previous ownerThis book explores the influence of Federico García Lorca on the Spanish poetic tradition, examining his themes, styles, and the...

Spain's greatest and most well-loved modern poet, Lorca has long been admired for the emotional intensity and dark brilliance of his work, which drew on music, drama, mythology and the...

Lorca's B lood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. The story is based on a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away...

'He has everything - pleasantry, seriousness, reason, vigour, pathos, eloquence of every kind' Voltaire A French courtier, secret agent, libertine and adventurer, Beaumarchais (1732-99) was also author of two sparkling...

Secondhand Poetry, Plays & Drama Bargain Book Box SP2980 Twenty-one books of poetry, drama, and literary reference — Ibsen, Shaw, Euripides, Sophocles, Lorca, Howard Barker, Edward Albee, Sheridan, Geoffrey Dutton,...

A timeless masterpiece of world literature, Love in the Time of Cholera is a sweeping romantic novel set in a unnamed South American city at the turn of the twentieth...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Originally published in Spanish as La Hojarasca, Leaf Storm marks Gabriel García...

New to Penguin Modern Classics Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. No woman...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera is a brilliantly crafted, beautifully written story of love and the love-sick. Spurned as a young man, Florentino Ariza has a...

Salvador Dali (1904-89) was one of the most controversial and paradoxical artists of the twentieth century. A painter of considerable virtuosity, he used a traditional illusionistic style to create disturbing...

A selection of Classic texts that have inspired Paulo Coelho, carefully chosen and beautifully presented 'Anthology' comes from the Greek word that stands for garlands - a bouquet of flowers....

Born in Posen in 1905, Jean Gebser came from an old Franconian family domiciled in Thuringia since 1236. A nephew of German chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg, he was a descendant on...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed with tanning. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact. In the sweltering jungles of the Peruvian Amazon, a dutiful...

This anthology of Latin American essays has been collated to reflect the intellectual, critical and self-reflexive side of the Latin American mind while retaining the features which distinguish the area's...

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Spanning thirty years of writing, Making Waves traces the development of...

'A masterpiece - a classic of twentieth-century fiction' New York Times in Bulgakov's allegorical masterpiece of Stalin's regime the devil is making a personal appearance in Moscow. He is accompanied...

Another classic travel book from Maugham; fierce and colourful throughout. Considered by Graham Greene to be Maugham's best work, Don Fernando is a paean to a golden age of enormous...

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A selection of dialogues and letters of one of the most eloquent - and influential - masters of Latin prose. A major writer and a leading figure in the public...

Author: Silvia Moreno-GarciaFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 200g, 288 pagesPublished: Quercus Publishing, United Kingdom, 2024From Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the New York Times bestselling author of MEXICAN GOTHIC, comes UNTAMED SHORE, a...

A celebration of one of the world's greatest writers, to mark the first ebook publication of his works in 2014 When a witch doctor prophesizes a plague of rabies, Marquis...

The first novel from one of Italy's most innovative writers of the 20th century 'The seething cauldron of life, the infinite stratification of reality, the inextricable tangle of knowledge are...

Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez captures Superman in his most iconic rendition. Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez captures Superman in his most iconic rendition! Jose Luis Garcia-L pez is for many the iconic Superman...

Edinburgh, 2014: N. and L., two writer friends arrive from London, a city they believe killed L.'s brother. Every day they try to get to the library to write their...

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Edition: First English EditionCondition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some edge chipping and minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed/tanning, some foxing on block. Protective sleeve present. Markings: No markings. Binding:...

Russian spies, Spanish fascists, and Hemingway sipping mojitos in Madrid. Somewhere between the genres of biography and historical fiction lies Stephen Koch's new book, The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos,...

In the history of modern art the genius of one man has been almost universally agreed upon: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Like the birth and life of a mythological figure--a role...

Format: Hardback, 220mm x 280mm, 1980g, 372 pagesPublished: Actes Sud, France, 2010Published to accompany the exhibition showing in Avignon in 2010, this book presents an ensemble of recent works by...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Fair to Good. Jacket: N/A (mass market paperback, no dust jacket). Page Condition: Yellowed, consistent with age. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Intact but shows wear consistent...

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Author: Ludovici Carroll; Carruthers, Clive Harcourt (translator)Binding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1964Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book presents a Latin translation of a...