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The Ninth
Beethoven and the World in 1824
A decade after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars had given way to an era of retrenchment and repression, 1824 became a watershed year. The premiere of the Ninth Symphony, the death of Lord Byron - who had been aiding the Greeks in their struggle for independence, Delacroix's painting of the Turkish massacre of Greeks ...
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From the birth of crime writing with Wilkie Collins and Dostoevsky, through Conan Doyle to the golden age of crime, with the rise of Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham, P. D. James brings a lifetime of reading and writing crime fiction to bear on this personal history of the genre. There's chapters on ...
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- Faber, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-25450-7
EAN 9780571254507
When the New York Public Library announced in October 1968 that its Berg Collection had acquired the original manuscript of The Waste Land, one of the most puzzling mysteries of twentieth-century literature was solved. The manuscript was not lost, as had been believed, but had remained among the papers of John Quinn, Eliot's friend and ...
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- Faber, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23473-8
EAN 9780571234738
Who were the Eitingons, and what part did they play in the secret dramas of the twentieth century?Leonid Eitingon was a KGB killer who dedicated his life to the Soviet regime. He was in China in the early 1920s, in Turkey in the late 1920s, in Spain during the civil war, and, crucially, in Mexico ...
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- Faber, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 40 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-25598-6
EAN 9780571255986
'Such an animal is difficult to tame and always likely, when suddenly alarmed, to give our finger a nasty nip with its teeth.' While dipping into "The Children's Encyclopaedia of 1910", Axel Scheffler came across a small but indispensible guide to procuring and caring for your pet squirrel. Intrigued by the unlikely notion of a ...
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Lunch in Soho with a former lover - but Zanzotti's is under new management, and as the wine takes effect fond memories give way to something closer to the bone. A mock-elegy for the heady joys of old-time Soho, "The Song of Lunch" displays the full range of Christopher Reid's wit, craft and human sympathy
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Explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, this book features characters that range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning.
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Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, "The Burial at Thebes" is Seamus Heaney's verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, "Antigone" - whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply individualized and compelling figures in western drama.
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- Faber, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 752 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23702-9
EAN 9780571237029
It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it. So begins the new novel, his first since winning the Nobel Prize, from the universally acclaimed author of Snow and My Name Is Red.It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal, scion of one of the city's wealthiest families, is about ...
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This new "Selected Poems" offers an ordered retrospective of the fertile career of Derek Walcott, spanning six decades and drawing on twelve collections. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, Walcott has, in the words of Seamus Heaney, 'moved with gradually deepening confidence to found his own poetic domain, independent of the tradition ...
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- Faber, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22889-8
EAN 9780571228898
Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent, is thinking terminal. His philosophical enquiries, the abstractions he indulges, and how these relate to a life lived, all point in the same direction. His destination is Wonderland. The nature and style of the journey is all that's to be decided. Taking in London, Tokyo, Berlin and ...
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- Faber, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 96 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-26922-8
EAN 9780571269228
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. "Human Chain" also broaches larger questions of transmission, as lifelines ...
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This work contains: "Arctic Paradise" (previously unpublished); "Loving Memory" ("The Muffled Bells", "Mimmo Perrella Non e Piu", "Cheating the Void", and "Letters in the Rock"); "The Blasphemers' Banquet"; "The Gaze of the Gorgon"; "Black Daisies for the Bride"; "A Maybe Day in Kazakhstan"; "The Shadow of Hiroshima"; "Prometheus"; "Metamorpheus" (previously unpublished); "Crossings" (previously unpublished).
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Drawing on Paul Muldoon's eight major collections (New Weather, Mules, Why Brownlee Left, Quoof, Meeting the British, Madoc: A Mystery, The Annals of Chile, and Hay) Poems 1968-1998 allows readers old and new to take the full measure of this significant poet.
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- Faber, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-25069-1
EAN 9780571250691
Jan Morris has been a travel writer for over half a century, known for her ability to capture places and atmospheres. But what about the many people she has encountered along the way? In Contact! she turns her brilliantly observant eye to the human contacts she made, across the world and through the decades. In ...
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- Faber, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-25089-9
EAN 9780571250899
With the same dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his novels he illuminates the art and artists who remain important to him and whose work helps us better understand the world. An astute and brilliant reader of fiction, Kundera applies these same gifts to the reading of Francis Bacon's paintings, Leos Janacek's music, ...
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- Faber, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22523-1
EAN 9780571225231
The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the penny-pinching lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed ...
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The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction.Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is until a chance ...
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Parrot and Olivier in America (A)
Booker Shortlist 2010
From the two-time Booker Prize-winning author, an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, and an irrepressibly funny portrait of the impossible friendship between a master and a servant.Olivier is a French aristocrat, the traumatised child of survivors of the Revolution; Parrot the son of an itinerant English printer who always wanted to be ...
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