Editorial Faber
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Lord of the Flies is a novel that has captivated schoolchildren ever since it was first published in 1954. A teacher himself, Golding clearly understood what excites and interests children. It is not only a gripping story, with strong, sympathetic characters, but it also raises timeless and profound questions. Part of its lasting appeal, particularly ...
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- Faber, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 736 páginas
PVP: 54,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22439-5
EAN 9780571224395
This unique volume contains, in parallel translation, a thousand of the most frequently performed Lieder, both piano-accompanied and orchestral. Composers are arranged alphabetically, with their songs appearing under poet in chronological order of composition - thus allowing the reader to engage in depth with a particular poet and at the same time to follow the ...
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- Faber, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-571-28801-4
EAN 9780571288014
In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab people from the seventh century, when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian Peninsula westwards, to the present day. It is a masterly distillation of a lifetime of scholarship and a ...
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Pax Britannica II
The Climax of an Empire
- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-29071-0
EAN 9780571290710
Jan Morris recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of imperial strength, unity, and splendour. This classic work of history portrays a nation at the very height of its vigour and self-satisfaction, imposing on the rest of the world its traditions ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-29070-3
EAN 9780571290703
Jan Morris traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. With characteristic brilliance, this masterpiece of narrative history describes the long retreat and final dissolution of the British Empire. The British Empire is fortunate in having found in ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-29069-7
EAN 9780571290697
Jan Morris tells the epic story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In this celebrated masterwork she vividly evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and botanical gardens to hill stations and sugar plantations, as she traces ...
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Narcopolis
Booker 2012 Shortlist
At the heart of Narcopolis is an opium den and brothel in Bombay, where we witness the mixed fortunes of a cast of gangsters, poets, pimps and prostitutes. Over the twenty-five year span of the novel we watch this community start to suffer and slide in to debauchery just as Bomby is transforming itself into ...
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Swimming Home
Booker 2012 Shortlist
Swimming Home is a subversive page-turner set in the French Riviera over a single week in which a group of beautiful, flawed tourists come loose at the seams. As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very ...
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Where China Meets India
Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia
- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 10,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23964-1
EAN 9780571239641
From their very beginnings, the civilizations of China and India have been walled off from each other, not only by the towering summits of the Himalayas, but also by the vast and impenetrable jungle, hostile tribes, and remote inland kingdoms that once stretched a thousand miles from Calcutta across Burma to the upper Yangtze River. ...
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City of Fortune
How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24595-6
EAN 9780571245956
A magisterial work of gripping history, "City of Fortune" tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the Mediterranean - an epic five hundred year voyage that encompassed crusade and trade, plague, sea battles and colonial adventure. In Venice, the path to empire unfolded in a series of ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-28862-5
EAN 9780571288625
Urania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Once she is back in her homeland, the elusive feeling of terror that has overshadowed her whole life suddenly takes shape. Urania's own story alternates with the powerful climax of dictator Rafael Trujillo's reign.In 1961, Trujillo's decadent inner circle ...
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Explorers of the Nile
The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24976-3
EAN 9780571249763
Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. Showing exceptional courage and extraordinary resilience, Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, Samuel Baker, David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley risked their lives and their reputations in the name of this quest. They journeyed ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24505-5
EAN 9780571245055
Shakespeare's Sonnets are as important and vital today as they were when first published four hundred years ago. Perhaps no collection of verse before or since has so captured the imagination of readers and lovers; certainly no poem has come under such intense critical scrutiny, and presented the reader with such a bewildering number of ...
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By Heart
101 Poems to Remember
- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 59,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27874-9
EAN 9780571278749
In his introduction to this anthology, the Poet Laureate explains a system for memorizing poetry. The 101 poems which follow are among his favourites, and are well suited to the described method. This is a new updated edition.
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27943-2
EAN 9780571279432
Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks meet a need for Julius: they are a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work, and they give him the opportunity to process his relationships, his recent breakup with his girlfriend, his present, his past. Though he ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24964-0
EAN 9780571249640
On the first day of the Somme enlisted railwayman Jim Stringer lies trapped in a shell hole, smoking cigarette after cigarette under the bullets and the blazing sun. He calculates his chances of survival - even before they departed for France, a member of Jim's unit had been found dead. During the stand-off that follows, ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-28062-9
EAN 9780571280629
From a motorway service area to her ambivalent relationship with religion, Wendy Cope covers a wide range of experience in her new collection. Her mordant humour and formal ingenuity are in evidence, even as she remembers the wounds of a damaging childhood; and in poems about love and the inevitable problems of ageing she achieves ...
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In an unnamed town Jugnu and his lover Chanda have disappeared. Rumours abound in the close-knit Pakistani community, and then on a snow-covered January morning Chanda's brothers are arrested for murder. Telling the story of the next twelve months, Maps for Lost Lovers opens the heart of a family at the crossroads of culture, community, ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 29,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24132-3
EAN 9780571241323
"Habibi", based on a Middle Eastern fable, tells the story of Dodola, who escapes being sold into slavery and rescues an abandoned baby she names Zam. They live in isolation in an old boat in the desert. As they age their relationship shifts from mother and son, to brother and sister and eventually lovers.In the ...
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