Editorial Faber
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- Faber, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23889-7
EAN 9780571238897
From Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator of the Historic Royal Palaces, a hugely engaging book about the men and women who lived and worked at Kensington Palace.Ambitious and talented people flocked to court in search of power and prestige, but Kensington Palace was also a gilded cage. While its inhabitants were cocooned in comfort and splendour, ...
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With her government quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to the university town of Troy - a girl escaping her provincial home to encounter the complex world of culture and politics. When she takes a job as ...
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- Faber, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,64 €
ISBN 978-0-571-25825-3
EAN 9780571258253
In his highly acclaimed debut, "A Pale View of Hills", Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild ...
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- Faber, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23027-3
EAN 9780571230273
GG - who may or may not be Graham Greene - arrives in Havana in 1955 in search of a good time. He heads to the Shanghai Theatre, and after becoming transfixed by the sex acts he sees, goes backstage to meet the star of the show, Charity. GG falls for her and they spend ...
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- Faber, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23595-7
EAN 9780571235957
Individual liberty will be the defining issue of the twenty-first century. With fear of terrorism, crime and social chaos putting our ideals of it into retreat in recent years, how do we, as individuals, negotiate the maximum amount of freedom in such a complex world? How can we resist the growth of intrusive authoritarianism without ...
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Since leaving his job to look after Alexa, his eight-year-old daughter, Thomas Bradshaw has found the structure of his daily piano practice and the study of musical form bring a nourishment to these difficult middle years. His pursuit of a more artistic way of life shocks and irritates his parents and his in-laws. Why has ...
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- Faber, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24501-7
EAN 9780571245017
In a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro 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, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them ...
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Tokyo, 26 January, 1948. As the third year of the US Occupation of Japan begins, a man enters a downtown bank. He speaks of an outbreak of dysentery and says he is a doctor, sent by the Occupation authorities, to treat anyone who might have been exposed. Clear liquid is poured into sixteen teacups. Sixteen ...
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- Faber, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22286-5
EAN 9780571222865
Paul Adrian Maurice Dirac was one of the titans of twentieth-century physics. He predicted, purely from what he saw in his equations, the existence of antimatter. The youngest person ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, he was almost pathologically unable to communicate. He is said to have cried only once, when his friend ...
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It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging from twenty-six up to forty. The two male members of the household are brother Jack, a missionary priest, repatriated from Africa by his superiors after ...
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- Faber, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-571-25561-0
EAN 9780571255610
Auden often said that metre and rhyme led him down unexpected paths to thoughts he wouldn't otherwise have had, and in this respect versification and fornication are not so different. Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W. H. ...
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- Faber, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-0-571-25597-9
EAN 9780571255979
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- Faber, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24374-7
EAN 9780571243747
Published in French in 1961, and in English in 1964, 'How It Is" is a novel in three parts, written in short paragraphs, which tell (abruptly, cajolingly, bleakly) of a narrator lying in the dark, in the mud, repeating his life as he hears it uttered - or remembered - by another voice. Told from ...
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- Faber, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 912 páginas
PVP: 49,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23509-4
EAN 9780571235094
Volume One of the "Letters of T. S. Eliot", edited by Valerie Eliot in 1988, covered the period from Eliot's childhood in St Louis, Missouri, to the end of 1922, by which time he had settled in England, married and published "The Waste Land".Since 1988, Valerie Eliot has continued to gather materials from collections, libraries ...
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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 anedcote, 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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