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The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho, Alan R. Clarke

ISBN 0060834838 (0-06-083483-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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PAULO COELHO'S enchanted novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicityand inspired wisdom . is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egiptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids.... [via]
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The Alchemist/a Fable About Following Your Dream
by Paulo Coelho, Alan R. Clarke

ISBN 0062502174 (0-06-250217-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins

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Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sniff a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he's off: leaving Spain to literally follow his dream.
Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman's books, Santiago first learns about the alchemists--men who believed that if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does eventually meet an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy's misguided agenda, while also emboldening him to stay true to his dreams. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night.
"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity." --Gail Hudson [via]
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Bilbo, Le Hobbit
by John R. R. Tolkien

ISBN 2253049417 (2-253-04941-7)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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Bilbo Sacquet, paisible et respectable petit hobbit aux pieds laineux, a invité le magicien Gandalf boire le thé, accompagné de treize nains barbus. Cette invitation se révèle être une folle imprudence. Prologue de la trilogie du«Seigneur des anneaux». [via]
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Cien Anos De Soledad
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

ISBN 082882567X (0-8288-2567-X)
Softcover, French & European Pubns

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Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo.

Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo xx. Millones de ejemplares de Cien años de soledad leídos en todas las lenguas y el Premio Nobel de Literatura coronando una obra que se había abierto paso a boca a boca como gusta decir el escritor son la más palpable demostración de que la aventura fabulosa de la familia Buendía-Iguarán, con sus milagros, fantasías, obsesiones, tragedias, incestos, adulterios, rebeldías, descubrimientos y condenas, representaba al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, la tragedia y el amor del mundo entero. [via]
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Cien Anos De Soledad
by Frederic Seaman

ISBN 0785950109 (0-7859-5010-9)
Softcover, French & European Pubns

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A dense jungle of magic and literary gusto, this book pulls you in and engulfs you with its richness and beauty. Saying it is a story of a family is like saying the New Testament is a book about a carpenter. Following the family here reveals the history of several generations, and the passions, thoughts, and myths of a labyrinth of people, related and not. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a gifted writer, and nowhere does he write with the fervor that he does in One Hundred Years of Solitude, a pleasurable ride unmatched in modern literature. [via]
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Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

ISBN 0307350428 (0-307-35042-8)
Softcover, Random House Espanol

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"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
It is typical of Gabriel García Márquez that it will be many pages before his narrative circles back to the ice, and many chapters before the hero of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Buendía, stands before the firing squad. In between, he recounts such wonders as an entire town struck with insomnia, a woman who ascends to heaven while hanging laundry, and a suicide that defies the laws of physics:
A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendía house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano José, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Úrsula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.
"Holy Mother of God!" Úrsula shouted.
The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio Segundo. Then there are the women--the two Úrsulas, a handful of Remedios, Fernanda, and Pilar--who struggle to remain grounded even as their menfolk build castles in the air. If it is possible for a novel to be highly comic and deeply tragic at the same time, then One Hundred Years of Solitude does the trick. Civil war rages throughout, hearts break, dreams shatter, and lives are lost, yet the effect is literary pentimento, with sorrow's outlines bleeding through the vibrant colors of García Márquez's magical realism. Consider, for example, the ghost of Prudencio Aguilar, whom José Arcadio Buendía has killed in a fight. So lonely is the man's shade that it haunts Buendía's house, searching anxiously for water with which to clean its wound. Buendía's wife, Úrsula, is so moved that "the next time she saw the dead man uncovering the pots on the stove she understood what he was looking for, and from then on she placed water jugs all about the house."
With One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez introduced Latin American literature to a world-wide readership. Translated into more than two dozen languages, his brilliant novel of love and loss in Macondo stands at the apex of 20th-century literature. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Das Parfum: Die Geschichte Eines Morders
by Patrick Suskind

ISBN 3257016786 (3-257-01678-6)
Hardcover, Diogenes

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An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion-his sense of smell-leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and frest-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"-the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brillance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity. [via]
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Der Process [sic]
by Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley, Hans-Gerd Koch

ISBN 3100381300 (3-10-038130-0)
Hardcover, S. Fischer

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El Alquimista
by Paulo Coelho

ISBN 9700508609 (970-05-0860-9)
Softcover, Giron Spanish Books Distributors

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La mÁgica historia de Paulo Coelho, que trata sobre Santiago, un niÑo pastor andaluz que viaja en busca de un tesoro material, nos enseÑa la importancia que tiene el saber eschuchar lo que nos dice el corazÓn, a aprender a leer los presagios dispersados por el camino de nuestras vidas y, sobre todo, a seguir nuestros sueÑos.
El Alquimista, ahora por primera vez disponible en EspaÑa en Norte America, ha sido aclamado en EspaÑa y en America Latina como una de las novelas mas importantes de la dÉcada.
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El Alquimista / The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho

ISBN 9685957843 (968-5957-84-3)
Softcover, Grijalbo Mondadori

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La mÁgica historia de Paulo Coelho, que trata sobre Santiago, un niÑo pastor andaluz que viaja en busca de un tesoro material, nos enseÑa la importancia que tiene el saber eschuchar lo que nos dice el corazÓn, a aprender a leer los presagios dispersados por el camino de nuestras vidas y, sobre todo, a seguir nuestros sueÑos.
El Alquimista, ahora por primera vez disponible en EspaÑa en Norte America, ha sido aclamado en EspaÑa y en America Latina como una de las novelas mas importantes de la dÉcada.
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El Guardian Entre El Centeno/ The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger

ISBN 8420666858 (84-206-6685-8)
Hardcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Por expreso deseo del autor, no esta ermitido que la editorial aporte en su material promocional ningu tipo de texto adicional, informacio biograica, cita o resen relacionados con esta obra. El lector interesado podra no obstante, encontrar abundante informacio al respecto en internet. [via]
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El Hobbit / the Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien

ISBN 1594130051 (1-59413-005-1)
Softcover, Large Print Pr

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Smaug parecia profundamente dormido cuando Bilbo espio una vez mas desde la entrada. Pero fingia estar dormido! Â¡Estaba vigilando la entrada del tunel!... Sacado de su comodo agujero-hobbit por Gandalf y una banda de enanos, Bilbo se encuentra de pronto en medio de una conspiracion que pretende apoderarse del tesoro de Smaug el Magnifico, un enorme y muy peligroso dragon...Todos los que aman esos libros para ninos que pueden ser leidos y releidos por adultos han de tomar buena cuenta de que una nueva estrella ha aparecido en esa constelacion. [via]
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El Nombre De La Rosa
by Umberto Eco

ISBN 9685959242 (968-5959-24-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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El nombre de la rosa / The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco

ISBN 8497592581 (84-9759-258-1)
Softcover, Debolsillo

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El Perfume
by Patrick Suskind

ISBN 8432215244 (84-322-1524-4)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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A thriller, unique in its genre: a perfume maker in 18th-century Paris turns out to be an obsessive killer looking for the ultimate fragrance. [via]
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El Proceso / the Process
by Franz Kafka

ISBN 8437608562 (84-376-0856-2)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones

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This brilliant writer knew how to create a nightmare world where things happen without any explanation, where the characters fight against a fate which they doÂ´nt understand, where there are effects without any apparent cause and where all happens without any explanation, but even so, it is impossible to escape from the fascination of the plot.. [via]
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude: A Casebook
by Gene H. Bell-Villada

ISBN 0195144554 (0-19-514455-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Casebooks in Criticism offer analytical and interpretive frameworks for understanding key texts in world literature and film. Each casebook reprints documents relating to a work's historical context and reception, presents the best critical studies, and, when possible, features an interview with the author. Accessible and informative to scholars, students, and nonspecialist readers alike, the books in this series provide a wide range of critical and informative commentaries on major texts.

Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude is arguably the most important novel in twentieth-century Latin American literature. This Casebook features ten critical articles on García Márquez's great work. Carefully selected from the most important work on the novel over the past three decades, they include pieces by Carlos Fuentes, Iris Zavala, James Higgins, Jean Franco, Michael Wood, and Gene H. Bell-Villada. Among the intriguing aspects of the work discussed are its mythic dimension, its "magical" side, its representations of women, its relationship with past chronicles of exploration and discovery, its portrayals of Western power and imperialism, its astounding diffusion throughout the globe and the media, and its simple truth-telling, its fidelity to the tangled history of Latin America. The book incorporates several theoretical approaches--historical, feminist, postcolonial; the first English translation of Fuentes's renowned, oft-cited, eight page meditation on the work; a general introduction; and a 1982 interview with García Márquez. [via]
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The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien

ISBN 1560600543 (1-56060-054-3)
Softcover, Eclipse Books

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Il Nome Della Rosa
by Umberto Eco

ISBN 8845207056 (88-452-0705-6)
Hardcover, Bompiani

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"II libro più intelligente - ma anche il più divertente - di questi ultimi anni."Lars Gustafsson, Der Spicgel"II libro è così ricco che permette tutti i livelli di lettura ... Eco, ancora bravo!"Robert Maggiori, Libération"Brio e ironia. Eco è andato a scuola dai migliori modelli".Richard Ellmann, The New York Review of Books"Precisamente il genere di libro che, se fossi un milionario, comanderei su misura".Punch"Quando Baskerville e Adso entrarono nella stanza murata allo scoccare della mezzanotte e all'ultima parola del capitolo, ho sentito, anche se è fuori moda, un caratteristico sobbalzo al cuore."Nicholas Shrimplon, The Sunday Times"È riuscito a scrivere un libro che si legge tutto d'un fiato, accattivante, comico, inatteso ..."Mario Fusco, Le Monde"È un tipo di libro che ci trasforma, che sostituisce la nostra realtà con la sua ... ci presenta un mondo nuovo nella tradizione di Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Melville, Dostoevskij, lo stesso Joyce e Garda Miirquez."Kenneth Atchity, Los Angeles Times"Mi rallegro e tutto il mondo delle lettere si rallegrerà con me, che si possa diventare best seller contro i pronostici cibernetici, e che un'opera di letteratura genuina possa soppiantare il ciarpame ... L'alta qualità e il successo non si escludono a vicenda."Anthony Burgess, The Observer [via]
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The Illustrated Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho, Alan R. Clarke, Moebius

ISBN 006019250X (0-06-019250-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins

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Amazon.co.uk Review Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sense a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalucian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he's off: leaving Spain to literally follow his dream. Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman's books, Santiago first learns about the alchemists--men who believed that if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does eventually meet an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy's misguided agenda, while also emboldening him to stay true to his dreams. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night. "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity." [via]
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The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco

ISBN 1417706112 (1-4177-0611-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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"A brilliantly conceived adventure into another time" (San Francisco Chronicle) by critically acclaimed author Umberto Eco. The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns to the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, and the empirical insights of Roger Bacon to find the killer. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey ("where the most interesting things happen at night") armed with a wry sense of humor and a ferocious curiosity. [via]
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez

ISBN 0060740450 (0-06-074045-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
It is typical of Gabriel García Márquez that it will be many pages before his narrative circles back to the ice, and many chapters before the hero of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Buendía, stands before the firing squad. In between, he recounts such wonders as an entire town struck with insomnia, a woman who ascends to heaven while hanging laundry, and a suicide that defies the laws of physics:
A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendía house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano José, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Úrsula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.
"Holy Mother of God!" Úrsula shouted.
The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio Segundo. Then there are the women--the two Úrsulas, a handful of Remedios, Fernanda, and Pilar--who struggle to remain grounded even as their menfolk build castles in the air. If it is possible for a novel to be highly comic and deeply tragic at the same time, then One Hundred Years of Solitude does the trick. Civil war rages throughout, hearts break, dreams shatter, and lives are lost, yet the effect is literary pentimento, with sorrow's outlines bleeding through the vibrant colors of García Márquez's magical realism. Consider, for example, the ghost of Prudencio Aguilar, whom José Arcadio Buendía has killed in a fight. So lonely is the man's shade that it haunts Buendía's house, searching anxiously for water with which to clean its wound. Buendía's wife, Úrsula, is so moved that "the next time she saw the dead man uncovering the pots on the stove she understood what he was looking for, and from then on she placed water jugs all about the house."
With One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez introduced Latin American literature to a world-wide readership. Translated into more than two dozen languages, his brilliant novel of love and loss in Macondo stands at the apex of 20th-century literature. --Alix Wilber [via]
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gregory Rabassa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

ISBN 0060883286 (0-06-088328-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
It is typical of Gabriel García Márquez that it will be many pages before his narrative circles back to the ice, and many chapters before the hero of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Buendía, stands before the firing squad. In between, he recounts such wonders as an entire town struck with insomnia, a woman who ascends to heaven while hanging laundry, and a suicide that defies the laws of physics:
A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendía house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano José, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Úrsula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.
"Holy Mother of God!" Úrsula shouted.
The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio Segundo. Then there are the women--the two Úrsulas, a handful of Remedios, Fernanda, and Pilar--who struggle to remain grounded even as their menfolk build castles in the air. If it is possible for a novel to be highly comic and deeply tragic at the same time, then One Hundred Years of Solitude does the trick. Civil war rages throughout, hearts break, dreams shatter, and lives are lost, yet the effect is literary pentimento, with sorrow's outlines bleeding through the vibrant colors of García Márquez's magical realism. Consider, for example, the ghost of Prudencio Aguilar, whom José Arcadio Buendía has killed in a fight. So lonely is the man's shade that it haunts Buendía's house, searching anxiously for water with which to clean its wound. Buendía's wife, Úrsula, is so moved that "the next time she saw the dead man uncovering the pots on the stove she understood what he was looking for, and from then on she placed water jugs all about the house."
With One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez introduced Latin American literature to a world-wide readership. Translated into more than two dozen languages, his brilliant novel of love and loss in Macondo stands at the apex of 20th-century literature. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Suskind

ISBN 1557360200 (1-55736-020-0)
Hardcover, ABC-CLIO

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An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passionhis sense of smellleads to murder.

In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and frest-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brillance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.

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The Trial ; Metamorphosis ; In the Penal Colony: Three Theatre Adaptations from Franz Kafka
by Franz Kafka, Steven Berkoff

ISBN 090639984X (0-906399-84-X)
Hardcover, Amber Lane Press

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El Alquimista
by Paulo Coehlo

ISBN 9700513866 (970-05-1386-6)
Softcover, Downtown Book Center Inc

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El Alquimista / The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho

ISBN 0062511408 (0-06-251140-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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La mÁgica historia de Paulo Coelho, que trata sobre Santiago, un niÑo pastor andaluz que viaja en busca de un tesoro material, nos enseÑa la importancia que tiene el saber eschuchar lo que nos dice el corazÓn, a aprender a leer los presagios dispersados por el camino de nuestras vidas y, sobre todo, a seguir nuestros sueÑos.
El Alquimista, ahora por primera vez disponible en EspaÑa en Norte America, ha sido aclamado en EspaÑa y en America Latina como una de las novelas mas importantes de la dÉcada.
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Cien Anos De Soledad
by G. Garcia Marquez

ISBN 9500726092 (950-07-2609-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo.

Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo xx. Millones de ejemplares de Cien años de soledad leídos en todas las lenguas y el Premio Nobel de Literatura coronando una obra que se había abierto paso a boca a boca como gusta decir el escritor son la más palpable demostración de que la aventura fabulosa de la familia Buendía-Iguarán, con sus milagros, fantasías, obsesiones, tragedias, incestos, adulterios, rebeldías, descubrimientos y condenas, representaba al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, la tragedia y el amor del mundo entero. [via]
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Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

ISBN 0307350274 (0-307-35027-4)
Softcover, Random House Espanol

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Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo.

Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo xx. Millones de ejemplares de Cien años de soledad leídos en todas las lenguas y el Premio Nobel de Literatura coronando una obra que se había abierto paso a boca a boca como gusta decir el escritor son la más palpable demostración de que la aventura fabulosa de la familia Buendía-Iguarán, con sus milagros, fantasías, obsesiones, tragedias, incestos, adulterios, rebeldías, descubrimientos y condenas, representaba al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, la tragedia y el amor del mundo entero. [via]
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Cien Anos De Soledad: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

ISBN 8434602601 (84-346-0260-1)
Hardcover, Vosgos

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Cien Anos De Soledad/One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

ISBN 8420421367 (84-204-2136-7)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns Inc

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El Guardian Entre el Centeno
by J. D. Salinger

ISBN 8420634093 (84-206-3409-3)
Hardcover, Alianza Editorial, S. A.

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Por expreso deseo del autor, no esta ermitido que la editorial aporte en su material promocional ningu tipo de texto adicional, informacio biograica, cita o resen relacionados con esta obra. El lector interesado podra no obstante, encontrar abundante informacio al respecto en internet. [via]
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El Guardian Entre El Centeno/ The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger

ISBN 8420616893 (84-206-1689-3)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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El Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Dixon, Sean Deming, Lorenzo Diaz, Dixon & Wenzel

ISBN 1594970718 (1-59497-071-8)
Hardcover, Public Square Books

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DESCRIPTION: Nota: En los titulos y nombres de autores, los marcos ortograficos han sido omitidos para facilitar las busquedas de Internet.
Description del libro en espanol: El dia en que Bilbo Bolson recibe la visita inesperada del mago Gandalf y de un grupo de enanos, su placida existencia de hobbit cambia radicalmente. Elfos, dragones y un anillo magico se cruzaran en la aventura mas fantastica de toda su vida. . .Charles Dixon y David Wenzel adaptan al comic preludio de El Senor de los Anillos, la obra maestro de J.R.R. Tolkien.
Book Description in English: First published in the United States more than sixty years ago, J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit has become one of the best-loved books of all time. Tolkien's fantasy was then adapted into a fully painted graphic novel, which became a classic in its own right...
The enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit is the story of Bilbo Baggins, a quiet and contented hobbit whose life is turned upside down when he joins the wizard Gandalf and thirteen dwarves on their quest to reclaim the dwarves' stolen treasure. It is a journey fraught with danger - and in the end it is Bilbo alone who must face the guardian of this treasure, the most dreaded dragon in all of Middle-earth. [via]
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El Hobbit / the Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien, Manuel Figueroa

ISBN 8445071416 (84-450-7141-6)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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Smaug parecia profundamente dormido cuando Bilbo espio una vez mas desde la entrada. Pero fingia estar dormido! Â¡Estaba vigilando la entrada del tunel!... Sacado de su comodo agujero-hobbit por Gandalf y una banda de enanos, Bilbo se encuentra de pronto en medio de una conspiracion que pretende apoderarse del tesoro de Smaug el Magnifico, un enorme y muy peligroso dragon...Todos los que aman esos libros para ninos que pueden ser leidos y releidos por adultos han de tomar buena cuenta de que una nueva estrella ha aparecido en esa constelacion. [via]
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El Hobbit/ the Hobbit
by Not Available

ISBN 8445070371 (84-450-7037-1)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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Smaug parecia profundamente dormido cuando Bilbo espio una vez mas desde la entrada. Pero fingia estar dormido! Â¡Estaba vigilando la entrada del tunel!... Sacado de su comodo agujero-hobbit por Gandalf y una banda de enanos, Bilbo se encuentra de pronto en medio de una conspiracion que pretende apoderarse del tesoro de Smaug el Magnifico, un enorme y muy peligroso dragon...Todos los que aman esos libros para ninos que pueden ser leidos y releidos por adultos han de tomar buena cuenta de que una nueva estrella ha aparecido en esa constelacion. [via]
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El Nombre De La Rosa
by Umberto Eco, Ricardo Pochtar

ISBN 8426411487 (84-264-1148-7)
Hardcover, Editorial Lumen

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El Perfume/ the Perfum: Historia De Un Asesiono
by Patrick Suskind, Pilar Giralt Gorina

ISBN 8432228036 (84-322-2803-6)
Hardcover, Seix Barral

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El Proceso / the Trial
by Franz Kafka

ISBN 8495311313 (84-95311-31-3)
Softcover, Jorge a Mestas Ediciones

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This brilliant writer knew how to create a nightmare world where things happen without any explanation, where the characters fight against a fate which they do´nt understand, where there are effects without any apparent cause and where all happens without any explanation, but even so, it is impossible to escape from the fascination of the plot.. [via]
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Il Giovane Holden
by J. D. Salinger

ISBN 8806163698 (88-06-16369-8)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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Il Nome Della Rosa
by Umberto Eco

ISBN 8845246345 (88-452-4634-5)
Softcover, Rl Libri

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"II libro più intelligente - ma anche il più divertente - di questi ultimi anni."Lars Gustafsson, Der Spicgel"II libro è così ricco che permette tutti i livelli di lettura ... Eco, ancora bravo!"Robert Maggiori, Libération"Brio e ironia. Eco è andato a scuola dai migliori modelli".Richard Ellmann, The New York Review of Books"Precisamente il genere di libro che, se fossi un milionario, comanderei su misura".Punch"Quando Baskerville e Adso entrarono nella stanza murata allo scoccare della mezzanotte e all'ultima parola del capitolo, ho sentito, anche se è fuori moda, un caratteristico sobbalzo al cuore."Nicholas Shrimplon, The Sunday Times"È riuscito a scrivere un libro che si legge tutto d'un fiato, accattivante, comico, inatteso ..."Mario Fusco, Le Monde"È un tipo di libro che ci trasforma, che sostituisce la nostra realtà con la sua ... ci presenta un mondo nuovo nella tradizione di Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Melville, Dostoevskij, lo stesso Joyce e Garda Miirquez."Kenneth Atchity, Los Angeles Times"Mi rallegro e tutto il mondo delle lettere si rallegrerà con me, che si possa diventare best seller contro i pronostici cibernetici, e che un'opera di letteratura genuina possa soppiantare il ciarpame ... L'alta qualità e il successo non si escludono a vicenda."Anthony Burgess, The Observer [via]
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Bilbo, Le Hobbit
by John R. R. Tolkien

ISBN 2010199073 (2-01-019907-3)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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L'effet Pervers: Le Naufrage Des Democraties
by Michel Collin

ISBN 2910188132 (2-910188-13-2)
Hardcover, Editions A. Carriere

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253pages. 13,1cm x 20,6cm x 2,1cm. Broché. L'Alchimiste est le récit d'une quête, celle de Santiago, un jeune berger andalou parti à la recherche d'un trésor enfoui au pied des Pyramides. Dans le désert, initié par l'Alchimiste, il apprendra à écouter son coeur, à lire les signes du destin et, par-dessus tout, à aller au bout de son rêve. Destiné à l'enfant que chaque être cache en soi, L'Alchimiste est un merveilleux conte philosophique, que l'on compare souvent au Petit Prince, de Saint-Exupéry, et à Jonathan Livingston le Goéland, de Richard Bach. Le levant s'était mis à souffler. Il amenait les Maures sans doute, mais il apportait aussi l'odeur du désert. Il apportait la sueur et les songes des hommes qui étaient partis en quête de l'Inconnu, en quête d'or, d'aventures, et de pyramides. Alors le jeune berger andalou se prit à envier la liberté du vent et comprit qu'il pourrait, comme lui, traverser les pays et trouver sa Légende personnelle. Destiné à l'enfant que chaque être cache en lui, L'Alchimiste est un merveilleux conte philosophique qui nous guide sur la voie d'un trésor oublié. Et des terres noires andalouses aux mystères de l'Egypte, déchiffrant les augures du ciel, le lecteur trouvera lui aussi le secret de l'Alchimie. [via]
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O Hobbit/ The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien, Moises Rodriguez Barcia

ISBN 8483024950 (84-8302-495-0)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial

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Parfum
by Patrick Suskind

ISBN 3257228007 (3-257-22800-7)
Softcover, Diogenes Verlag AG

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Like New!!! [via]
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