Editorial Faber
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- Faber, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 271 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-571-31714-1
EAN 9780571317141
'They are not for you but for a later age!' Ludwig van Beethoven, on the Opus 59 quartets Beethoven's sixteen string quartets are some of the most extraordinary and challenging pieces of music ever written. They have inspired artists of all kinds - not only musicians - and have been subject to endless reinterpretation. What ...
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- Faber, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
ISBN 978-0-571-27328-7
EAN 9780571273287
With his first book of poems, "Arcadia" (1979), Christopher Reid won both a Somerset Maugham Award and the Hawthornden Prize. His second, "Pea Soup" (1982), showed him developing the line of defamiliarising metaphor that had associated him, in the public mind, with the so-called Martian School. With his third, "Katerina Brac" (1985), however, he surprised ...
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- Faber, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 32 páginas
PVP: 6,13 €
ISBN 978-0-571-31410-2
EAN 9780571314102
In the quiet moments before bedtime - When the boy's grandma would sit beside him and read - When all was silent, except for the turn of a page, or the careful ticking of the clock - The boy would notice his grandma's hands. When the boy's grandma dies, he finds all of her old ...
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- Faber, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 10,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-30901-6
EAN 9780571309016
The Third Book of General Ignorance gathers together 180 questions, both new and previously featured on the BBC TV programme's popular 'General Ignorance' round, and show why, when it comes to general knowledge, none of us knows anything at all. Who invented the sandwich? What was the best thing before sliced bread? Who first ate ...
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The Joke, Milan Kundera's first novel, gained him a huge following in his own country, and launched his worldwide literary reputation. "Kundera is the saddest, funniest and most lovable of authors." (The Times).
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Set before the start of the First World War, this moving fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. But when he arrives, he meets Alexis Zorba, a middle-aged Greek man with a zest for life. Zorba has had a family and many lovers, has fought in the ...
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- Faber, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-33055-3
EAN 9780571330553
Banned in several countries upon first publication, August is a Wicked Month is a simmering tale of a woman rediscovering herself on the French Riviera. Separated from her husband and with her young son away, Ellen leaves behind the loneliness of London for a new life of excitement and sexual freedom. But she soon discovers ...
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This first collection of Brian Friel's dramatic work contains: The Enemy Within (1962); Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1964); The Loves of Cass McGuire (1966); Lovers (Winners and Losers) (1967); Crystal and Fox (1968); and, The Gentle Island (1971).
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- Faber, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,65 €
ISBN 978-0-571-28776-5
EAN 9780571287765
May, 1937. Josephine Tey is in London to oversee a BBC radio production of her play, Queen of Scots. Meanwhile, the country is preparing to crown a new king.At the height of the Coronation celebrations, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose is called in to investigate the murder of one of the BBC's best-known broadcasters. A ...
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- Faber, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-571-31774-5
EAN 9780571317745
The event that changed all of their lives happened on a Saturday afternoon in June, just minutes after Michael Turner - thinking the Nelsons' house was empty - stepped through their back door. After the sudden loss of his wife, Michael Turner moves to London and quickly develops a close friendship with the Nelson family ...
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- Faber, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-0-571-30542-1
EAN 9780571305421
Canyon County, Halloween. 1983 Bobbi Lomax was the first to die, the bomb killed the prom queen on her own front lawn. Just moments later one of the nails from the city's second bomb forced its way into the brain of property investor Peter Gudsen, killing him almost instantly.The third bomb didn't quite kill Clark ...
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- Faber, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27600-4
EAN 9780571276004
A Strangeness In My Mind is a novel Orhan Pamuk has worked on for six years. It is the story of boza seller Mevlut, the woman to whom he wrote three years' worth of love letters, and their life in Istanbul. In the four decades between 1969 and 2012, Mevlut works a number of different ...
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- Faber, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-31157-6
EAN 9780571311576
A psychologist arrives at a research space station called Prometheus, his mission to ascertain whether research into the mysterious planet of Solaris should be terminated. He finds Prometheus all but deserted, its straggling crew seemingly haunted by hallucinations of figures from their pasts.
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"Probably the most explosive book of the year will be Tom Bower's Broken Vows - Tony Blair and the Tragedy of Power. Bower has a reputation for unearthing unwelcome truths." (The Times Cultural Review 2016). When Tony Blair became prime minister in May 1997, he was, at forty-three, the youngest person to hold that office ...
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Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age, living out in the country, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with ...
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Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England's best-loved poet - a writer matchlessly capable of evoking his native land and of touching all readers from the most sophisticated intellectual to the proverbial common reader. The late John Betjeman observed that 'this tenderly observant poet writes clearly, rhythmically, and thoughtfully about what all of us can understand'. Behind ...
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Jon Savage's Ralph Gleason Award-winning England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and their time: the late 1970s. Full of anecdote, insight, and exclusive interviews, it tells the sensational story of the meteoric rise and rapid decline of the last great rock'n'roll band and the cultural moment they came ...
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Hannah Arendt's penetrating observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of the political landscape. On Revolution is her classic exploration of a phenomenon that has reshaped the globe. From the eighteenth-century rebellions in America and France to the explosive changes of the twentieth-century, ...
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