faber faber apr 2007 (17 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Thom Gunn (1929-2004) was educated at Cambridge University, and had his first collection of poems, Fighting Terms, published while still an undergraduate. His last collection was Boss Cupid (2000). In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - William Barnes was born in 1801 near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, of a farming family. He learned Greek, Latin and Music, taught himself wood-engraving, and in 1823 became a schoolmaster in Mere. Among his best-known books of poetry are 'Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect' (1844) and 'Hwomely Rhymes' (1859).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - John Clare (1793-1864), the 'peasant poet', worked as an agricultural labourer in Northamptonshire until a deterioration in his mental health saw him committed to an insane asylum.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Eva Tyne, an Irish violinist living and working in New York, collapses after her solo debut and is rushed to hospital. Still dazed after the incident, she finds herself embarked on a chaotic and dangerous odyssey. Leaving her steady partner, she quickly falls in love with a mysterious man, and shortly thereafter comes across a rare violin of dubious provenance, for which she must raise the required payment in cash in less than a week. But, haunted by the ghost of her father, racked with jealousy, and unsure whom she can trust around her, Eva soon finds herself playing a desperate psychological game as her desires threaten to destroy her.Narratated in Eva's unforgettable voice - at once passionate and unreliable - Tenderwire is a novel of immense pace and skill, a guessing game and a whodunnit that surprises at every turn.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When an English priest takes over a small Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. He makes friends with two local youths, Mark and Lisa, and clashes with a world he can barely understand. The town seems to grow darker each night. Fate comes calling, and before the summer is out his quiet life is the focus of public hysteria.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The hugely acclaimed novel of '70s football and the turmoil of the game's most charismatic and controversial manager, from the bestselling author of GB84 and Red or Dead.One of Mike Atherton's 'Top Ten Best Sports Books' in The TimesIn 1974 the brilliant and controversial Brian Clough made perhaps his most eccentric decision: he accepted the position of Leeds United manager. A successor to Don Revie, his bitter adversary, Clough was to last just 44 days.In one of the most acclaimed British novels of recent years - subsequently made into a film starring Michael Sheen - David Peace takes us into the mind and thoughts of Ol' Big 'Ead himself, and brings vividly to life one of football's most complex and fascinating characters.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Guides the player through the different skills and techniques needed to play jazz, covering swing rhythm, syncopation, walking bass, blues and improvisation. This book includes pieces that are suitable for those who have learnt for approximately one year, or have completed the 'It's Never Too Late To Play Piano' tutor.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Admiral of the Fleet Lord 'Jacky' Fisher (1841-1920) was one of the greatest naval reformers in history. This book offer an evocation that is both biography and a love letter, an expression of the author's passionate interest in mavericks and outsiders, in travel, ships and the glorious pageantry of the British Empire in its prime.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For hundreds of years, musicians, craftsmen, church officials, heads of state and philosophers fought heatedly against the introduction of 'equal temperament' tuning. This book features one of the fascinating stories in the history of Western culture - a story that culminated in the destruction of the harpsichord and the emergence of the piano.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - '[An] intelligent and well-researched book, which is full of surprises.' Guardian'Extraordinary .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Upon the publication of her posthumous volume of poetry Ariel in 1965, Sylvia Plath became a household name. Readers may be surprised to learn that the draft of Ariel left behind by Plath when she died in 1963 is different from the volume of poetry eventually published to worldwide acclaim. This is a facsimile edition of her original draft.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Lawrence died of tuberculosis in Vence in 1930.In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Essential Jazz Collection presents 29 classic jazz standards through the decades, arranged for intermediate level piano solo by Richard Harris. Hits include Misty, Embraceable You, My Funny Valentine, Night and Day, It Had to Be You, and many more!

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Louis MacNeice's prescription is designed to look ordinary, rather than esoteric. This work states that very little poetry can claim to meet these specifications, stringent in their very wideness. It tells how MacNeice's work matches the world he famously described as 'incorrigibly plural'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Contains 70 songs from classic tunes like 'Hotel California' and 'Waterloo Sunset' through to modern anthems like 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' and Radiohead's 'Street Spirit (Fade Out)'. This book features simple 'lyrics and chords' format; chord shapes given for every song; includes capo and tuning information where appropriate and 'lay-flat' binding.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Harold Pinter has acted on stage, screen and radio, he has appeared on countless political platforms, and his work has been celebrated in festivals at Dublin's Gate Theatre and New York's Lincoln Center. In 2005, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and in 2006, the European Theatre Prize.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Auden's formal and intellectual range challenges comparison with Eliot or Yeats, and his particular interests - psychological, anthropological, prosodic, theological, historical - lend an added resonance to the texture of his work, all of which is explored and interpreted, with exemplary lucidity, in this most essential of one-volume companions.