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Oscar Wilde brings his enormous gifts for astute social observation and sparkling prose to The Picture of Dorian Gray, his dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. This dandy, who remains forever unchanged{u2014}petulant, hedonistic, vain, and amoral{u2014}while a painting of him ages and grows increasingly hideous with the years, has been horrifying, enchanting, obsessing, even corrupting readers for more than...
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From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years. "They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary young woman who did her duty." 1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has been Grace Darling's home for all of her twenty-two years....
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Hanover Square Press
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2022.
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"Artist Giogione, with his career hanging in the balance, sets out to acquire a mysterious, otherworldly new pigment and secure his name in history, but instead finds himself caught up in a conspiracy stretching across Europe, involving a woman he's been commissioned to paint."--
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"An old-money East Coast family faces the suspicious death of its patriarch and the unsolved theft of a Goya painting rumored to be cursed. There are four cousins in the Morse family: perfect Kenny, the preppy West Coast lawyer; James, the shy but brilliant medical student; his seductive, hard-drinking sister Audrey; and Teresa, youngest and most fragile, haunted by the fear that she has inherited the madness that possessed her father. Their grandfather...
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"Milan, 1492: When a sixteen-year old beauty becomes the mistress of the Duke of Milan, she must fight for her place in the palace, and against those who want her out. Soon, she finds herself sitting before Leonardo da Vinci, who wants to ensure his own place in the ducal palace by painting his most ambitious portrait to date. Munich, World War II: After a modest conservator unwittingly places a priceless Italian Renaissance portrait into the hands...
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"London, 1958. When Juliet Montague's husband disappears, so does she. As far as her Jewish community is concerned, she is invisible. Until, on her thirtieth birthday, she does something unexpected. Instead of buying a fridge, she impulsively spends her savings on a portrait of herself. The painting leads Juliet out of suburbia and into the heady art scene of London, where she proves an astute spotter of talent. Yet she remains an outsider in both...
16) Sacre bleu
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HarperAudio
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[2012]
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English
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From repeat New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore comes a love story, the portrait of a young artist, the portrait of the young artist's girlfriend, a mystery, a thriller, and a comedy-all about the color blue.
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"Aprender ingles de la mano de los autores mas importantes de la literatura universal es posible con esta coleccion. Los Clasicos Bilingues contienen el texto en castellano acompąado pagina a pagina por su version en ingles. Para completar la experiencia de aprendizaje se incluyen una serie de ejercicios para poner en practica los nuevos conocimientos del idioma. Esta novela filosofica fue victima de la censura de la epoca por indecente y con el...
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Newmarket Press
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[1997]
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Detective Chief Inspector Jack Oxby is asked to investigate a murder that seems connected with the defacing of two Cezanne self-portraits, a crime which has sent the prices of the remaining Cezanne self-portraits soaring.
