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1) Cenicienta
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Un comerciante viudo tenía una hija. Para que no estuviera sola, el hombre se casó con una mujer que tenía dos hijas. La mujer era mala, y las hijas más malas todavía.
El padre siempre estaba de viaje, y las tres trataban mal a la muchacha, obligándola a hacer las tareas más pesadas...
La colección Cuentos de bolsillo reúne los cuentos y fábulas de toda la vida relatados con una visión muy actual y acompañados por magníficas ilustraciones...
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Caperucita Roja es una niña que quería mucho a su abuelita, un día su madre le da una cesta con comida para que se la lleve a la abuelita, que está enferma y vive en una casa algo lejos de ellas. Cuenta la historia de esta jovencita cuando se encuentra en el bosque con el Lobo Feroz y cómo cae en la trampa que le tiende poco después.
Caperucita Roja es un cuento de hadas de transmisión oral, difundido por gran parte de Europa, que luego se...
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"A beautiful gift edition of the heartwarming story that became the Christmas classic, It's a Wonderful Life. For almost seventy years, people the world over have fallen in love with Frank Capra's classic Christmas movie It's a Wonderful Life. But few of those fans know that Capra's film was based on a short story by author Philip Van Doren Stern, which came to Stern in a dream one night. Unable at first to find a publisher for his evocative tale...
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Elizabeth Whitney Williams' memoir 'A Child of the Sea; and Life Among the Mormons' weaves an evocative portrait of her youth spent on Beaver Island in the mid-19th century, and her candid encounters with the Mormon community led by the enigmatic King Strang. Williams' personal narrative provides an intricate look at the complexities of American religious life and frontier existence. Her prose style resonates with a historical richness, traversing...
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Había una vez una pata que empollaba sus huevos.
Eran siete, y les faltaba muy poco para romper el cascarón. Un día notó algo extraño, algo nuevo: un octavo huevo, un poco más grande que los demás. ¿Cómo habría llegado allí?
"No tengo tiempo de pensar ahora en esto" dijo la pata, y siguió empollando".
La colección Cuentos de bolsillo reúne los cuentos y fábulas de toda la vida relatados con una visión muy actual y acompañados por...
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La obra muestra la inteligencia y la frescura de los ensayos de Sun Tzu. En ella Sun Tzu explica al detalle los preparativos previos a la guerra: estrategias de engaño, disposición de las tropas en el campo de batalla, armamento necesario, carros de combate, etcétera. Cómo poder llegar a vencer al enemigo sin tener que desempeñarse al enfrentamiento cara a cara: simplemente imponiendo una moral dominante, infundiendo el miedo al enemigo para...
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Una habitación propia se estableció desde su publicación como uno de los libros fundamentales del feminismo. Basado en dos conferencias pronunciadas por Virginia Woolf en colleges para mujeres y ampliado luego por la autora, el texto es un testamento visionario, donde tópicos característicos del feminismo por casi un siglo (las conferencias fueron dadas en 1928 y el libro fue publicado un año después) son expuestos con claridad tal vez por...
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The reader is invited on an apocalyptic journey into a desert waste. This essential volume contains Eliot's greatest work - some say the greatest work of all modernist literature - together with his compendium Prufrock and Other Observations, as well as Poems - twelve works including 'Gerontion'; 'Burbank with a Baedeker': 'Bleistein with a Cigar'; and 'A Cooking Egg'. --Publisher
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In this classic mystery, a Dutch police detective investigates a woman's murder with assistance from the man accused of killing her.
A woman, Elsa, is brutally murdered in her Amsterdam apartment. Her ex-lover, Martin, is seen outside the building around the time of the crime. The witness who saw him? A policeman.
It looks like a straightforward case—but police inspector Van der Valk is not convinced. Despite all the evidence—and...
A woman, Elsa, is brutally murdered in her Amsterdam apartment. Her ex-lover, Martin, is seen outside the building around the time of the crime. The witness who saw him? A policeman.
It looks like a straightforward case—but police inspector Van der Valk is not convinced. Despite all the evidence—and...
10) Now we are six
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"Now We Are Six is a classic book of delightful children's poetry for those "six or sixty-six" by A.A. Milne, illustrated in the memorable style of E.H. Shepard. Here we finally learn Pooh Bear's true name: Winnie-The-Pooh"--
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The only authorized translation of the bestselling masterpiece by one of the greatest authors of our time, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography.
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"They say trouble comes in threes, and Bertie Wooster soon learns why. It all begins when his aunt Dahlia asks him to steal a silver cow creamer illegally obtained by her husband's silver rival. Then comes the telegram from Gussie Fink-Nottle begging Bertie to come to Totleigh Towers to mend the rift between him and his soppy fiancée, Madeline Bassett. To top it all off, Bertie must contend with Roderick Spode, the menacing, black shorts-wearing,...
13) Herc
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"A queer revisionist retelling of the story of Hercules, for fans of The Song of Achilles, A Thousand Ships and Ariadne. This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures... everyone's favorite hero, right? Well, it's not. This is the story of everyone else: Alcmene: Herc's mother (She has knives everywhere) Hylas: Herc's first friend (They were more than friends) Megara: Herc's wife (She'll tell you about their marriage)...
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"Sepan cuantos " volume 631
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Ambientada en la Nueva Inglaterra de los puritanos del siglo XVII, La letra escarlata (1849) narra el terrible impacto que un simple acto de pasión desencadena en las vidas de tres miembros de la comunidad: Hester Prynne, una mujer de espíritu libre e independiente, objeto del escarnio público y condenada a llevar la "A" de "Adúltera"; el reverendo Dimmesdale, un alma atormentada por la culpa aunque digno de la estima general, y Chillingworth,...
16) Dear Enemy
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The sequel to Daddy-Long-Legs finds Judy Abbott's best friend Sallie McBride taking total control over the John Grier Home, the orphanage where Judy grew up. Chronicling her hilarious yet heart-felt day-to-day interactions with the permanent residents of the John Grier Home, Sallie spills her heart out in letter after letter to multiple recipients, including the doctor of the JGH-one Robin MacRae, whom she has deemed her enemy and refers to him as...
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The Newbery-winning classic novel about a young New Yorker who figures out the world on his own terms with the help of one prickly tomcat, for readers who enjoy such books as Al Capone Does My Shirts and Hoot.
Dave Mitchell and his father disagree on almost everything—and every time their fighting sets off his mother’s asthma, Dave ends up storming out of the house. But when Dave meets a big, handsome
...18) Pretzel
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"One morning in May five little dachshunds are born. One grows up to be the longest of all! Pretzel easily wins a blue ribbon at the dog show and the admiration of everyone--everyone except Greta, the little dachshund across the street, who doesn't care for long dogs. But Pretzel is able to use his unique gift to win Greta over, and before long they have puppies of their very own"--
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These wide-ranging tales of menace, tragedy, and comedy offer ample proof that “in the short story, as well as the novel, Graham Greene is the master” (The New York Times).
Written between 1929 and 1954, here are twenty-one stories by a “master storyteller” (Newsweek). Whatever the crime, whatever the pursuit, whatever the mood—from the tragic and horrifying to the ribald...
Written between 1929 and 1954, here are twenty-one stories by a “master storyteller” (Newsweek). Whatever the crime, whatever the pursuit, whatever the mood—from the tragic and horrifying to the ribald...
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"Here is the world-famous novel of Japan that is the earliest book in James Clavell's masterly Asian saga. Set in the year 1600, it tells the story of a bold English pilot whose ship was blown ashore in Japan, where he encountered two people who were to change his life: a warlord with his own quest for power, and a beautiful interpreter torn between two ways of life and two ways of love"--
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