Editorial Faber
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- Faber, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23609-1
EAN 9780571236091
Upon the publication of her posthumous volume of poetry, Ariel, in the mid-1960s, Sylvia Plath became a household name. Readers may be surprised to learn that the draft of Ariel left behind by Sylvia Plath when she died in 1963 is different from the volume of poetry eventually published to worldwide acclaim.This facsimile edition restores, ...
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Seven years in the making, Sacred Games is an epic of exceptional richness and power. Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of detective Sartaj Singh and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. Sartaj, one of the very few Sikhs in the Mumbai police force, ...
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Dogs of God
Columbus, the Inquisition and the Defeat of the Moors
Set against the fury and strife that arose from the cinders of medieval Europe, Dogs of God chronicles one of the most savage epochs in human history. In an effort to consolidate their powers on the Iberian Peninsula and free themselves from the yoke of the Vatican, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella turned to the ...
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Beowulf (bilingual edition)
Old-Modern English
"Beowulf", composed between the seventh and tenth centuries, is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid battle against a dragon. The poem ...
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- Faber, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22009-0
EAN 9780571220090
One May night in 1922, in a grand hotel in Paris, five of the greatest artists of the 20th century sat down to supper. It would be the only time that Joyce and Proust, Picasso, Diaghilev and Stravinsky were in a room together. Each of these exponents of early twentieth-century modernism was at the peak ...
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Mr Bones is the canine sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant but troubled poet-saint from Brooklyn. Together they sally forth in search of Willy's beloved high-school teacher, who years ago knew him in his previous incarnation as William Gurevitch, son of Polish war refugees.
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"Another Time" was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939. It was dedicated to Chester Kallman. The poems, some of which date from the early thirties, are about people, places and the intellectual climate of the times, and they show greater variety of tone and ...
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- Faber, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 45,35 €
ISBN 978-0-571-21574-4
EAN 9780571215744
For both readers and critics, the nature of MacNeice's poetic work as a whole is a matter of importance, and the second posthumous "Collected Poems", entirely re-edited by Peter McDonald, attempts, for the first time, to print MacNeice's poetry in groupings corresponding closely to the collections published by Faber between 1935 and 1963. This makes ...
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- Faber, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22710-5
EAN 9780571227105
This new "Selected Poems" offers for the first time a portable and lucidly ordered retrospect 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 ...
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A number-one bestseller, this is a comprehensive catalogue of all the misconceptions, mistakes and misunderstandings in 'common knowledge' that will make you wonder why anyone bothers going to school. Now available in this handy pocket-sized edition, carry it everywhere to impress your friends, frustrate your enemies and win every argument.
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- Faber, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23056-3
EAN 9780571230563
Here is a wonderful introduction to the residents of Firozsha Baag, an apartment complex in Bombay. We enter the daily routine and rhythm of their lives, and by the time we reach the final story we are as familiar with the people of Firozsha Baag as we are with our own neighbours. The crowded, throbbing ...
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- Faber, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 80 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23234-5
EAN 9780571232345
Of their recent pamphlet publication, he remarked that 'the poems have to do with a series of historical battles (all beginning with the letter "B" as if to suggest a missing Baghdad), from post-Agreement Ireland to George W. Bush's America, in which horses or mules played a major role. Intercut with these battle-scenes are accounts ...
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- Faber, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23058-7
EAN 9780571230587
Set in mid-1970s India, A Fine Balance is a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have foreseen soon after the government declares a 'State of Internal Emergency'. It is a breathtaking achievement: panoramic yet humane, intensely political yet rich with local delight; and, above all, ...
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An updated selection of all Heaney's books, up to and including "The Haw Lantern", which was published in 1987. The book also includes selections from "Stations", prose poems of 1975 which have never appeared except as a pamphlet.
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The Cryptographer
Proficiency 2007
John Law is a man full of secrets. People call him the Cryptographer, or the Codebreaker. He is mysterious and charming, the world's first quadrillionaire. When tax inspector Anna Moore is assigned Law as a new client, her first task is to discover just what he is trying to hide.
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The first bilingual edition of "Godot" to be published in the UK for the centenary of his birth. Written in French and first performed at the Theatre Babylone in Paris, in 1953, "En attendant Godot" was subsequently translated by Samuel Beckett into English as "Waiting for Godot". It was performed at the Arts Theatre in ...
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- Faber, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22498-2
EAN 9780571224982
'I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I traveled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain . . .'So begins Paul Auster's remarkable new novel, The Brooklyn Follies. Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells the story ...
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