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Faber Book of Exploration, The
What does it feel like to walk off the edge of the map? This anthology presents the words of those who, through the centuries, have set off into "the unknown" and brought it back to their people. It brings together Vikings and cosmonauts, conquistadors and botanists. author: ; publisher: Faber
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Faber Book of Monologues, The
Women author: Edwardes, Jane; publisher: Faber
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Faber Book of Exploration, The
author: Allen, Benedict; publisher: Faber
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of Monologues: Men
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Faber Book of London, The
Mirrors the life and history of London from the moments the Romans arrived in Londinium to the building of Canary Wharf. author: ; publisher: Faber
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Faber Book of Monologues, The
Men author: Edwardes, Jane; publisher: Faber
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Faber Book of Love Poems, The
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Faber Book of Landscape Poetry, The
This anthology is a celebration of the landscape of both Britain and Ireland, and of the poetry this has inspired throughout seven centuries. author: Baker, Kenneth; publisher: Faber
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Faber Book of Greek Legends, The
An anthology of 25 stories of classical heroes and heroines from 11 authors, including Charles Lamb, Andrew Lang, Rosemary Sutcliff and Roger Lancelyn Green. This edition is suitable for readers of 11 years and over. author: ; publisher: Faber
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of Science
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of 20th Century German Poems
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Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories, The
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of Pop
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of Landscape Poetry
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of War Poetry
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Faber Children's Books The New Faber Book of Children's Poems
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of Madness
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of Christmas
<B>A Christmas Poem</B> <blockquote>At Christmas little children sing and merry bells jingle,<br> The cold winter air makes our hands and faces tingle <br>And happy families go to church and cheerily they mingle<br>And the whole business is unbelievably dreadful, if you're single.<br></blockquo te> --<I>Wendy Cope</I><p>Simon Rae's brilliant <I>The Faber Book of Christmas</I> is a bold collection of musings on Christmas past, present and future and scopes the centuries for poems, stories, essays and anecdotes from the pens of the mighty, logging all the emotions that enforced merriment can bring on the hardworking soul. From musings on the traditional and sneaky peaks into the mindsets of those for whom Christmas is something of a chore, Rae pulls the likes of Wendy Cope and John Milton together with Auden and Dickens while scanning all things Jingle Bells across the world.<p>Rae maintains a reasonable balance between loving and loathing and presents a thoroughly subversive anthology which manages to cover just about every possible angle, leaving the reader in little doubt that whatever their own personal feelings about the onset of the tinsel and toyshop season, there is someone somewhere living the dream--or the nightmare--with them.<p>Intriguing, challenging and irreverent to the last, <I>The Faber Book of Christmas,</I> is a must-have for cynics seeking a source of razor-sharp quotations to cover all eventualities at the sherry-and-mince-pie reception but most of all its a spirited dip-into read that will long outlive the Christmas tree and Playstations. --<I>Susan Harrison</I>
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Faber and Faber Faber Book of Poets on Poetry
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of Reportage
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of Vernacular Verse
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of London
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of Modern Verse
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of Greek Legends
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of Exploration: An Anthology of Worlds Revealed by Explorers Through the Ages
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of Smoking
<I>The Faber Book of Smoking</I> is a fascinating, intriguing and hilarious book of anecdotes on smoking. It splits into two parts--the first tells the basic story of smoking from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the tobacco battles of today, while the second picks out recurring themes like giving up, smoking, sex and seduction and smokers v. non-smokers and follows them through the centuries. The excellent editing job is down to Walton's success in sparing us anything that made my eyes glaze over when I was researching. He has succeeded royally in his aim of providing a good read, some laughs, and some firm nods of recognition from smokers and non-smokers alike. The carcinogenic compendium is full of curious facts--did you know that smoking was linked to low birth-weight in the early 1600s?--and vulgar anecdotes from the famous dead. Check out the following from Flaubert: When I was young ... whenever I went to a brothel with my friends I always picked the ugliest girl and insisted on making love to her in front of them without taking my cigar out of my mouth. It wasn't any fun for me: I just did it for the gallery. Have fun playing guessing games with your friends. Who said this? He was chewing on a cigar. And then he had the cigar in his hand and he was looking at the cigar in ... sort of a naughty way. And so .... I looked at the cigar and I looked at him and I said, we can do that, too. A guilty pleasure or gift, <I>The Faber Book of Smoking</I> is endlessly entertaining and a fine balance between serious and seriously interesting stories, attitudes and anecdotes and vulgar, trashy, throwaway titbits. This is a must-read for smokers, a rare opportunity to celebrate the dirty weed we love. Take away this from the chapter entitled The true smoker; or, the hopeless addict: <blockquote>Tobacco is a dirty weed: I like it. It satisfies no normal need; I like it. It makes you thin, it makes you lean, It takes the hair right off your bean; It's the worst darn stuff I've ever seen: I like it.</blockquote> We like <I>The Faber Book of Smoking</I> too. We like it a lot. --<I>Larry Brown</I>
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of Contemporary Stories About Childhood
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Faber Children's Books The New Faber Book of Children's Verse
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of Exploration
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of Opera
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of Bedtime Stories
The poet Wendy Cope has chosen the stories in this wonderful anthology. It includes all types, from the humorous (about an oblong pancake or a dog who could talk) to the moving (a story about an elephant and how he was unhappy with his lot in life); from those collected for their entertainment value, to those for their literary merit; from traditional folk tales from Africa and Japan, and fairy tales, to popular contemporary favourites; to the retelling of old favourites such as Emperor's New Clothes and Beauty and the Beast. <p> It follows therefore that the authors are many and various, from the traditional to the well-known and popular, modern contemporary writers such as one-time poet laureate Ted Hughes, Joan Aitken, Anthony Mingella, and Penelope Lively. Superb illustrations, all in full colour have been specially commissioned from some of the best-known children's illustrators of modern times, including Quentin Blake, Inga Moore, Jane Ray and others. Chosen specifically for use as bedtime stories, this collection of stories will really be a boon at bedtime as a rough estimate is given as the amount of time each story will take to be read aloud, and it will be a real delight to read for adults and children alike. All of them are tales that children and their parents will enjoy together. Wendy Cope is well qualified to make the selection, having worked as a Primary School teacher, she became a writer in her spare time and achieved phenomenal success and critical acclaim, and immediate entry into bestseller lists, as she wrote and edited anthologies for children and adults, receiving several awards along the way. This classic anthology is an essential addition to every child's bookshelf and will be treasured by families for many years to come. (Suitable for ages 4+) --<I>Susan Naylor</I>
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of 20th-Century Italian Poems
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of Utopias
The instinct to seek perfection in human affairs is as old as Western Civilisation; sometimes it is claimed that the perfect society is lost in the past, or is very distant in the future or across the hills, and sometimes utopia is seen as achievable in our own time, by the adoption of a particular political programme. The great strength of John Carey's anthology of utopian writing, though at times also a significant weakness, is that he is highly suspicious of the entire enterprise; it is not insignificant, he implies by careful selection, that one of the first pieces of Utopian writing is Plato's <I>The Republic</I> that, however benevolent its goals, is maintained by a mixture of force and lies and depends on squashing the aspirations of ordinary people. In his useful introduction, he points to some key themes: the production of perfect offspring and keeping them that way by education, the punishment of criminals, and the management of ageing and death. Carey suggests that there are insoluble problems in human life and that utopians tend to falsify them by regarding them as simple. This is a useful anthology, but a dispiriting one--Carey's determination to let no-one off the hook is harsh, but fair. <I>--Roz Kaveney</I>
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of Monologues: Women
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Faber and Faber The Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories
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