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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- 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 · 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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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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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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Mad Men and Bad Men
When British Politics Met Advertising
- Faber, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-31240-5
EAN 9780571312405
How did a bunch of unelected, unaccountable admen end up running British politics? What happened when a rag-tag band of scruffs and smart-arses invaded Westminster, sprinkling creative fairy dust over earnest politicians? How much did snappy slogans and simplistic sound bites influence election results and even government policies? Sam talks to the people at the ...
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- Faber, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-32809-3
EAN 9780571328093
'What will survive of us is love.' In this new anthology poets from across the ages lead us on a journey of love in its many forms. From Shakespeare to Rossetti, Keats to Auden, Byron to Browning an beyond, as well as a host of contemporary voices including Wendy Cope, Simon Armitage and Carol Ann ...
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- Faber, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 10,10 €
ISBN 978-0-571-31587-1
EAN 9780571315871
Michael Frayn's classic novel is set in the crossword and nature notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of Fleet Street, where John Dyson dreams wistfully of fame and the gentlemanly life - until one day his great chance of glory at last arrives.
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- Faber, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-571-32100-1
EAN 9780571321001
Bampton, Derbyshire, January 1978. Two girls go missing: Rachel Jones returns, Sophie Jenkins is never found. Thirty years later: Sophie Jenkins' mother commits suicide.Rachel Jones has tried to put the past behind her and move on with her life. But news of the suicide re-opens old wounds and Rachel realises that the only way she ...
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Franz Schubert's Winterreise is at the same time one of the most powerful and one of the most enigmatic masterpieces in Western culture. In his new book, Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession, Ian Bostridge - one of the work's finest interpreters - focusses on the context, resonance and personal significance of a work ...
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