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Poetry Books
Samuel French Ltd Trojan Barbie
Book SynopsisPast and present violently collide when Lotte, an English tourist who repairs dolls, is captured while on a tour of current-day Troy and flung back into the ancient camp of Euripides'' Trojan Women.Part contemporary drama, part homage to Euripides'' Trojan Women, Trojan Barbie recasts the legendary fall of the city of Troy against the vivid reality of modern warfare. Poetic, compassionate, and tinged with great warmth and humor, Trojan Barbie is an epic war story with a most unlik
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Faber & Faber Of Mutability
Book SynopsisJo Shapcott''s award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her a reputation as one of the most original and daring voices of her generation. In Of Mutability, Shapcott is found writing at her most memorable and bold. In a series of poems that explore the nature of change - in the body and the natural world, and in the shifting relationships between people - these poems look freshly but squarely at mortality. By turns grave and playful, arresting and witty, the poems in Of Mutability celebrate each waking moment as though it might be the last, and in so doing restore wonder to the to the smallest of encounters.
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Faber & Faber Anecdotal Evidence
Book SynopsisIn her first collection of new poetry since 2011's acclaimed Family Values, Wendy Cope celebrates the half-forgotten stories of our lives' with compassion, wisdom and wit. Cope continues to be the most generous of authors, sharing her experience of childhood and marriage and writing poignantly about the passing of time. In several of the poems she reimagines Shakespeare in unorthodox fashion; in others she offers heartfelt tributes to friends and to public figures including Eric Morecambe and John Cage. Anecdotal Evidence demonstrates the formal brilliance and empathetic insight which have delighted readers for years, and shows why Wendy Cope is one of our best-loved poets.
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Faber & Faber Art
Book Synopsis''Art'' is a profound and hilarious comedy about the value of truth and friendship.My friend Serge has bought a painting.It's a canvas about five foot by four: white. The background is white and, if you screw up your eyes, you can make out some fine white diagonal lines.Serge is one of my oldest friends.Serge has bought a modern work of art for a large sum of money. Marc hates the painting and cannot believe that a friend of his could feel differently. Yvan attempts to placate both sides, with hilarious consequences. The question is: Are you who you think you are, or are you who your friends think you are?Art' premiered in this translation at Wyndham's Theatre, London, 1996. It won Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Comedy, and New York Drama Critics' Circle and Tony Awards for Best Play.A remarkably wise, witty and intelligent comedy. Art has
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Faber & Faber Government Inspector
Book SynopsisThe news that a government inspector is due to arrive in a small Russian town sends its bureaucrats into a panicked frenzy. A simple case of mistaken identity exposes the hypocrisy and corruption at the heart of the town in this biting moral satire.David Harrower''s version of Nikolai Gogol''s Government Inspector premiered at the Warwick Arts Centre in May 2011 and transferred to Young Vic, London in June.
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Faber & Faber Dunsinane Faber Drama
Book SynopsisLate at night in a foreign land, an English army sweeps through the landscape under cover of darkness and takes the seat of power. Struggling to contain his men and the ambitions of his superiors, the commanding officer attempts to negotiate the unspoken rules of this alien country. He seeks to restore peace to a country ravaged by war. This is Scotland in the eleventh century at the height of the fight for succession of the Scottish throne. David Greig''s Dunsinane premiered in February 2010 at Hampstead Theatre, London, in a production by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Samuel French Ltd Alternative Accommodation
Book SynopsisRecently widowed, Anna is visited by her three middle-aged children who have decided that the family house must be sold and Anna move either to a residential home or sheltered housing. In fact, anywhere so long as it's not with any of them. However, their veneer of filial concern doesn't fool Anna who has other ideas. Far from suffering from the dementia her children imagine she is starting, Anna has organized her own future in Florida that doesn't include any of her selfish offspring, although it does encompass the new man in her life.
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Samuel French Ltd Royal Hunt of the Sun
Book SynopsisThis is the story of the conquest of Peru, the defeat by 167 men of a highly organised, communistic empire of over ten million people. It is also the story of two men, Francisco Pizarro, the embittered, defiant commander of the invading Spanish forces, and Atahuallpa, the young king, Sun god-upon-earth, ruler of a vast empire. Between the two, both illegitimate usurpers, there grows a deep and understanding friendship.
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Samuel French Ltd Relative Values
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Faber & Faber The Death of King Arthur
Book SynopsisBy the Poet LaureateThe Alliterative Morte Arthure - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400 - was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Sir Thomas Malory''s prose Morte D''Arthur. The Death of King Arthur deals in the cut-and-thrust of warfare and politics: the ever-topical matter of Britain''s relationship with continental Europe, and of its military interests overseas. Simon Armitage is already the master of this alliterative music, as his earlier version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2006) so resourcefully and exuberantly showed. His new translation restores a neglected masterpiece of story-telling, by bringing vividly to life its entirely medieval mix of ruthlessness and restraint.
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Samuel French Ltd Sleuth
Book SynopsisThe ultimate game of cat-and-mouse is played out in a cozy English country house owned by celebrated mystery writer, Andrew Wyke. Invited guest Milo Tindle, a young rival who shares not only Wyke''s love of the game but also his wife, has come to lay claim. Revenge is devised and murders plotted as the two plan the ultimate whodunnit.-5 men
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Samuel French Ltd Grease School Version
Book SynopsisFull Length, Musical/ Characters: 9m, 9f / ABRIDGED VERSION FOR SCHOOL PRODUCTIONSGroups who perform for young audiences or produce musicals with young actors now have an ideal version of GREASE for their needs. Shorter and more suitable in content for teens and subteens, this abridged version retains the fun-loving spirit and immortal songs that make GREASE a favorite among rock and roll fans of all ages. Here is Rydell High''s senior class of 1959: duck-tailed, hot-rodding Burger Palace Bo
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Samuel French Ltd Look Back in Anger
Book SynopsisJimmy Porter, frustrated and bitter in his drab flat, lives with middle-class wife Alison. Also sharing the flat is Cliff who keeps things tenuously together. Alison''s friend Helen arrives and persuades her to leave Jimmy only to fall for him herself. When Alison becomes pregnant Helen leaves them together. This play originally opened at the Royal Court Theatre in 1956 and has since proved to be a milestone in the history of theatre.
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Faber & Faber Circle Mirror Transformation
Book SynopsisThanks, you guys. I think this was a really, really great start.Five lost people come together at a community centre class to try and find some meaning in their lives. Counting to ten can be harder than you think. Over six tangled weeks their lives become knotted together in this tender and funny play.Annie Baker''s Circle Mirror Transformation won a New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the 2010 Obie Award for Best New American Play. It was voted one of the top ten plays of 2009 by the New York Times, Time Out and the New Yorker. It premiered in the UK as part of the Royal Court''s Theatre Local strand of site specific productions across London.Trade ReviewThe way that a complete picture of each of the characters is built up is stunningly accurate. A little room sucks in the whole world -- Aleks Sierz The Arts Desk A disarming surprise... remarkably open-minded in its supple, low-key way, shifting from the preposterous to the poignant, the tender to the silly, with a sharply observant but uncensorious spirit. -- Paul Taylor Independent Baker's writing is compassionate, cinematic (in an understated sort of way) and wonderfully, wonderfully droll. -- Andrzej Lukowski Time Out Baker is a perceptive observer of human frailty. -- Henry Hitchings Evening Standard A quirky, entertaining and quietly poignant piece... Scenes as apparently aimless as a group count-up to 10 or a dialogue improvised using nonsense words acquire a sudden powerful intensity as latent emotions bubble to the surface. -- Dominic Cavendish Daily Telegraph
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Faber & Faber The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart Faber Drama
Book SynopsisOne wintry morning academic Prudencia Hart sets off to a conference in the Scottish Borders. Stranded there by snow, she is swept off on a dream-like journey of self discovery, complete with magical moments, devilish encounters and wittily wild music.Inspired by the Border ballads, The National Theatre of Scotland''s production of The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart by David Greig has toured throughout Scotland and the world since 2011. In 2013 the Royal Court Theatre presented the London premiere of this production as part of their Theatre Local strand of site specific productions. ''You shouldn''t miss this for the world . . . Rambunctiously life-affirming and touchingly beautiful.'' Herald''More vibrantly alive than any piece of theatre I''ve seen in Scotland for years.'' Scotsman
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Faber & Faber The Cherry Orchard
Book SynopsisHear what I have to say about the cherry orchard, because it is mine. I say bring it down, tear it down. Smash it down and tear it down. Watch, watch. Just you watch. I will build holiday villas, as far as the eye can see. I will build a place for everyone to come and enjoy. For the future. And this will be the future. A new life. A new way of life. Here! Come now and play. Play. Play! Get the band to play.Ranyevskaya returns more or less bankrupt after ten years abroad. Luxuriating in her fading moneyed world and regardless of the increasingly hostile forces outside, she and her brother snub the lucrative scheme of Lopakhin, a peasant turned entrepreneur, to save the family estate. In so doing, they put up their lives to auction and seal the fate of the beloved orchard. Set at the very start of the twentieth century, The Cherry Orchard captures a poignant moment in Russia''s history as the country rolls inexorably towards 1917. The Cherry Orchard
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Faber & Faber Life Studies Faber Poetry
Book SynopsisLife Studies was first published in 1959.''In Life Studies the pathos of the local colour of the past - of the lives and deaths of his father and mother and grandfather and uncle, crammed full of their own varied and placid absurdity - is the background that sets off the desperate knife-edged absurdity of the jailed conscientious objector among gangsters and Jehovah''s witnesses, the private citizen returning to his baby, older now, from the mental hospital. He sees things as being part of history; if you say about his poor detailedly eccentric, trust-fund Lowells: ''but they weren''t,'' he can answer: ''They are now.'''' Randall Jarrell
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Faber & Faber Tiepolos Hound
Book SynopsisA magnificent, semi-autobiographical sequence from a Nobel Prize-winning poet, Tiepolo''s Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men: Camille Pissarro - a Sephardic Jew born in 1830 who leaves his native St. Thomas to become a painter in Paris - and the poet himself, who longs to rediscover the detail of a painting encountered on an early visit from St. Lucia to New York. Published with 25 full-colour reproductions of Derek Walcott''s own paintings, the poem is at once the spiritual biography of a great artist in self-imposed exile, a history in verse of Impressionist painting, and a memoir of the poet''s desire to catch the visual world in more than words.Trade Review'This is a rich, hugely ambitious work, the mighty poem of a major poet in the full flight of his authority and curiosity, a Victorian-scale construction which thrilled me and which I will read again and again.' Andrew Marr, Daily Telegraph; 'Tiepolo's Hound is a long, complex but coherent, almost Wordsworthian account of the growth of the poet's mind, which is interwoven with a biographical study, or poetic re-creation of the life and art of Camille Pissarro... beautifully written.' Vernon Scannell, Sunday Telegraph; 'Walcott explores the connections between the landscapes of childhood and those of art, he enters the mind of exile, unteases the presumptions of Empire...' Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times
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Penguin Putnam Inc Troilus and Cressida
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now repackaged in award-winning modern covers to inspire Shakespearians of all ages.
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Faber & Faber Night
Book SynopsisAmong the poems that open Night, David Harsent''s follow-up to his Forward Prize-winning collection Legion, is a startling sequence about a garden - but a garden unlike any other. It sets the tone for a book in which the sureties of daylight become uncertain: dark, unsettling narratives about what wakes in us when we escape our day-lit selves to visit a place where the dream-like and the nightmarish are never far apart. The book culminates in the seductive and brilliantly sustained ''Elsewhere'', a noirish, labyrinthine quest-poem in which the protagonist is drawn ever onward through a series of encounters and reflections like an after-hours Orpheus, hard-bitten and harried by memory.
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Samuel French Ltd The Phantom of the Opera
Book SynopsisGaston Leroux''s classic tale of tragedy, grand opera, romance and horror has been masterfully adapted by Ken Hill.
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Samuel French Ltd A Vampire Story
Book SynopsisTwo young women arrive in a nameless British small-town. Their names are not their own. They don''t declare their ages. Their relationship with each other is not clear. Are they sisters, as their assumed identities declare? Or are they mother and daughter?Large flexible cast
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Faber & Faber The War That Killed Achilles
Book SynopsisThe Iliad is still the greatest poem about war that our culture has ever produced. For a hundred generations, poets and thinkers in the West have pored over, retold and argued about the events described in this martial epic, even when direct knowledge of it was lost. Various empires have admired it as a book that in telling the story of the siege of Troy also extols the warrior ethic, and teaches the young how to die well.Yet the figure at the heart of the epic, the consummate warrior Achilles, is a brooding, controversial hero. He is a fierce critic of those who have started this war and allowed it to drag on, consuming soldiers and civilians alike. Disconcertingly, The Iliad portrays war as a catastrophe that destroys cities, orphans children and wrecks whole societies.Caroline Alexander''s extraordinary book is not about any of the traditional concerns that have occupied classicists for centuries. It is simpler and more radical than that. In her words, ''Th
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Faber & Faber Bryony Lavery Plays 1 A Wedding Story Frozen
Book SynopsisA Wedding Story''A spry if wintry comedy about a lesbian, a wedding-day bonk, and a mother who contracts Alzheimer''s... It dares to find failure and frivolity (a sure sign of dramatic honesty) in the face of domestic hell. Funny, frank and churning by turns, this struck me as a lyrical new play about the unlyrical business of coping when real life knocks on the door.'' Daily ExpressFrozen Winner of the TMA Best New Play award and Eileen Anderson Central Television Award for Best Play.''Bryony Lavery''s big, brave, compassionate play about grief, revenge, forgiveness and bearing the unbearable.'' Guardian''A major play... thrilling, humane and timely.'' The Times''Consistently surprising and even bravely comic... The almost thriller-like promise of the play''s climactic confrontation is like a time-bomb ticking in the back of your head. IndependentIllyriaA young war reporter gets abducted and finds hersTrade Review"'Bryony Lavery's big, brave, compassionate play about grief, revenge, forgiveness and bearing the unbearable.' Guardian Illyria: A young war reporter gets abducted and finds herself in the midst of a cycle of violence, in a land crippled by hate. More Light: 'Triumphant... A startlingly metaphorical play about the creation of art.' Independent"
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Faber & Faber The Colossus Faber Poetry
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1960, The Colossus was the only volume of Sylvia Plath''s poetry published before her death in 1963. Showing a scholarly dedication to the craft, the poems in this collection are brimming with originality and the startling imagery that would later confirm her status as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. ''On every page, a poet is serving notice that she has earned her credentials and knows her trade.'' Seamus Heaney ''She steers clear of feminine charm, deliciousness, gentility, supersensitivity and the act of being a poetess. She simply writes good poetry. And she does so with a seriousness that demands only that she be judged equally seriously . . . There is an admirable no-nonsense air about this; the language is bare but vivid and precise, with a concentration that implies a good deal of disturbance with proportionately little fuss.'' A. Alvarez in the ObserverTrade Review"'She steers clear of feminine charm, deliciousness, gentility, supersensitivity and the act of being poetess. She simply writers good poetry. And she does so with a seriousness that demands only that she be judged equally seriously... There is an admirable no-nonsense air about this; the language is bare but vivid and precise, with a concentration that implies a good deal of disturbance with proportionately little fuss.' A. Alvarez, Observer"
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Faber & Faber The War Poems
Book SynopsisSiegfried Sassoon is one of the First World War poets whose poetry has defined a generation. He published most of his war poetry in The Old Huntsman (1917) and Counter-Attack (1918). Chronologically ordered, the poems in this collection act as a timeline for the war, bringing to life the extraordinary experiences of soldiers in that conflict.
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Faber & Faber The Fever
Book SynopsisA traveller falls ill in a poor country and plummets into a feverish self-examination.But something''s been hidden from me, too. Something - a part of myself - has been hidden from me, and I think it''s the part that''s there on the surface, what anyone in the world could see about me if they saw out the window of a passing train. The incredible history of my feelings and my thoughts could fill up a dozen leather-bound books. But the story of my life - my behaviour, my actions - now that''s a slim little paperback, and I''ve never read it.The Fever was first performed by the author in an apartment near Seventh Avenue in New York City in January 1990. It was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1991, and at the Ambassadors Theatre in 1997. The Fever was revived at the Royal Court Theatre in April 2009.
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Faber & Faber Aunt Dan and Lemon
Book SynopsisA thrilling friend of her parents casts a spell over a young girl. A study in the glamour of brutal ideas.Susie, he''s not just an individual like you and me - he works for the government. It''s as if you were saying that you and I are so nice every day and why can''t our governments be just like us! But you know the whole thing, Susie - you and I are only able to be nice because our governments - our governments are not nice! - so that if you see me putting this spoon in my purse, you don''t have to wrestle me to get the spoon back, you can just pick up the phone and call the police. And if there are people attacking our friends in Southeast Asia, you and I don''t have to go over there and fight them with rifles - we just get Kissinger to fight them for us.Aunt Dan and Lemon was first produced by the Royal Court Theatre, London, and the New York Shakespeare Festival and received its world premiere at the Royal Court Theatre in Augu
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Faber & Faber Harold Pinter Plays 3 The Homecoming Old Times No
Book SynopsisThis revised third volume of Harold Pinter''s work includes The Homecoming, Old Times, No Man''s Land, four shorter plays, six revue sketches and a short story. It also contains the speech given by Pinter in 1970 on being awarded the German Shakespeare Prize.The Homecoming''Of all Harold Pinter''s major plays, The Homecoming has the most powerful narrative line... You are fascinated, lured on, sucked into the vortex.'' Sunday Telegraph''The most intense expression of compressed violence to be found anywhere in Pinter''s plays.'' The TimesOld Times''A rare quality of high tension is evident, revealing in Old Times a beautifully controlled and expressive formality that has seldom been achieved since the plays of Racine.'' Financial Times''Harold Pinter''s poetic, Proustian Old Times has the inscrutability of a mysterious picture, and the tension of a good thriller.''
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Faber & Faber Opened Ground
Book SynopsisThis volume is a much-needed new selection of Seamus Heaney's work, taking account of recent volumes and of the author's work as a translator, and offering a more generous choice from previous volumes.
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Samuel French Ltd Plough and the Stars
Book SynopsisDrama Sean O''Casey Characters: 10 male, 5 female Three interior and exterior scenes This play is gripping from beginning to end. It has to do with the futile efforts of the leader of one of the Irish revolutions. He is finally killed and his wife goes mad after losing her unborn child.
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Samuel French Ltd Becket
Book SynopsisRadical new translation of the Jean Anouilh classic
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Samuel French Ltd The Ghost Train
Book SynopsisMystery/Thriller Arnold Ridley Characters: 7 male, 4 femaleInterior Set A long running success in London and on Broadway and packed with thrills, chills and laughter. In Maine near the Canadian border there''s a legend of a phantom locomotive sweeping through a peaceful village leaving death in its wake. Rum and narcotic runners use this and the villagers'' superstition to their advantage but a not as incompetent as he seems detective clears up the mystery of the specter and attendant deaths. His seemingly silly actions result in the apprehension of the evildoers and the little village and its station are finally at peace. For sheer, creeping mystery, it''s a play without a peer.
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Samuel French Ltd A Severed Head
Book SynopsisJB Priestley''s adaptation of Iris Murdoch''s A Severed Head.4 women, 3 men
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Samuel French Ltd Sweeney Todd
Book SynopsisMelodrama / Casting: 8m, 3f / Scenery: Simple ints./exts. In this version of the old melodrama, Todd has some grounds for his nefarious activities: his wife was abducted and raped by the Judge and his daughter abandoned, while he himself was deported on a false charge. He returns to avenge his family, accompanied by a sea captain, Anthony, whose life he has saved. Anthony falls in love with a young girl, the Judge''s ward, who turns out to be Todd''s daughter. Todd, meanwhile, sets up with Mrs. Lovett, the pie maker, and provides her with fillings for her pies. He proceeds with his vengeful plans but the outcome is bitterly ironic.
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Samuel French Ltd Rough Justice
Book SynopsisDrama / Characters: 5 males, 3 femalesScenery: InteriorJames Highwood, the host of a popular television program called ''British Justice'', is on the stand at the Old Bailey, accused of murdering his severely handicapped child. He refuses his solicitor''s plea to obtain legal representation and conducts his own defense, admitting responsibility but pleading manslaughter. His claim that the jury alone is responsible for the verdict brings him into conflict with the judge, while his battle to have his intentions understood brings him into conflict with the prosecutor, a well known Catholic pro-lifer. There is also the question of whether Highwood actually killed his child after all. This adroitly written courtroom drama starred Diana Quick and Martin Shaw in London''s West End. Absorbing. . . . His writing is sharp, and the courtroom interchanges positively crackle. Sunday Express
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Faber & Faber The History Boys With GCSE and A Level study
Book SynopsisDesigned to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level, this accessible educational edition offers the complete text of The History Boys with a comprehensive study guide. Highlights of Andrew Bruff''s guide include: detailed analyses of character, theme and structure; a clear introduction to the context of the play and its author; key quotations and activities both for the student working alone and in the classroom.An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool.In Alan Bennett's award-winning and hugely popular play, staffroom rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it, about education and its purpose.
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Faber & Faber Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Faber
Book SynopsisCelebrating its 50th anniversary in 2017, Tom Stoppard''s witty and exhilarating play is repackaged as a stylish Faber Modern Classic.Tom Stoppard''s reputation as a playwright was made when his dazzling debut, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, opened at the National Theatre. Fifty years later, the play''s wit, stagecraft and verbal verve remain as exhilarating as they were in 1967 as the two ill-fated attendant lords from Shakespeare''s Hamlet take centre stage, musing on the purpose of existence and its end. This new edition was published to coincide with a 50th anniversary production at the Old Vic Theatre, London, and contains a new preface by the author.
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Faber & Faber 100 Prized Poems
Book Synopsis''The Forward Prizes have turned a spotlight on contemporary poetry which is both searching and glamorous''Carol Ann Duffy100 Prized Poems brings together the best of the poems published over a quarter century in twenty-five editions of the Forward books of poetry, a series highlighting the works commended annually for the prestigious Forward Prizes.The roll-call of poets included is a Who's Who of poetry excellence and includes both familiar names Simon Armitage, Jackie Kay, Derek Walcott - and fresh voices Kae Tempest, Kei Miller and Emily Berry. This anthology of anthologies is a great way of encountering the richness that new poetry has to offer.
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Faber & Faber Plaques and Tangles
Book SynopsisI do not accept there is anything wrong with me.Days before her wedding Megan discovers she has a 50-50 chance of developing early onset Alzheimer''s. Years later she''s offered a genetic test. But if she''s got the gene does she really want to know?Megan, 21. Megan, 47. Megan, 32. Megan, 27.One woman lurches through time while her young family deal with the consequences.I can''t think. But I still feel. And most of the time I feel scared. Scared because it''s too soon. I haven''t finished yet.Plaques and Tangles by Nicola Wilson premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in October 2015.
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Faber & Faber Crossing the Water Faber Poetry
Book SynopsisCrossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written during the exceptionally creative period of the last years of Sylvia Plath's life. Published posthumously in 1971, they add a startling counterpoint to Ariel, the volume that made her reputation. Readers will recognise some of her most celebrated poems Childless Woman', Mirror', Insomniac' while discovering those still overlooked, including her radio play Three Women. These two extraordinary volumes find their place alongside The Colossus and Ariel in the oeuvre of a singular talent.''Nearly all the poems here have the familiar Plath daring, the same feel of bits of frightened, vibrant, indignant consciousness translated instantly into words and images that blend close, experienced horror and icy, sardonic control.'' Alan Brownjohn, New Statesman
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Faber & Faber Death of a Naturalist
Book SynopsisBetween my finger and my thumbThe squat pen rests; snug as a gun. -- from ''Digging''With its lyrical and descriptive powers, Death of a Naturalist marked the auspicious debut of one of the century''s finest poets.
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Pan Macmillan Pablo Picasso's Noël
Book Synopsis'A sweet winter light blushedas Pablo Picasso walked his dogunder the cypress treesand the bell of the old chapel guessed at the hour.It was Christmas Eve.'Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's new Christmas poem, Pablo Picasso's Noel follows the famous painter as he moves through a small town in the south of France on Christmas Eve, drawing the residents and the festive scenes he encounters. Accompanied by his small dog, he brings delight as he sketches wherever he goes. A wonderful, moving new poem capturing both the magic of Christmas and artistic inspiration.Beautifully illustrated and produced in a gorgeous small format, this is an irresistible festive gift and Christmas stocking must-have for all book lovers.Trade ReviewDuffy’s spellbinding verse, spiced with witty, wintry illustrations, recaptures a magic most of us left behind in childhood -- Maggie Fergusson * Intelligent Life *
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Carcanet Press Ltd The Magic of What's There
Book SynopsisIn his bold new collection, David Morley, winner of the Ted Hughes Award, casts off the worlds of myth and magical fable to focus on the fiercely personal. `Love teaches you how to mind / And how to mend’, he writes in `After a Song by Gustav Mahler’. In The Magic of What’s There Morley uses his eye for precise detail and his linguistic invention to explore childhood suffering and, in counterbalance, the joys of love, friendship and parenthood. He finds the elements of epic in the everyday, navigating the complex connections between past and present selves. His poems acknowledge our capacity for cruelty, but also for love, tenderness and mercy.Trade Review'T'he strange atmospherics suffuse every page while the balance struck between mystery and disclosure can be breathtaking...Such moments led me to feel that Morley had not so much created a new universe as uncovered one. Any universe is bound together by language; and Morley brings Romany vocabulary fizzing and crackling into our consciousness' - Tim Liardet, Guardian; `Like opening a box of fireworks, something theatrical happens when you open its pages … Ted Hughes wrote about the natural magical and mythical world; The Invisible Gift is a natural successor.’ - Ali Smith, Andrew McMillan & Jackie Kay, Ted Hughes Award judges.
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Faber & Faber Jacques and his Master
Book SynopsisJacques and His Master is a deliciously witty and entertaining ''variation'' on Diderot''s novel Jacques le fataliste, written for Milan Kundera''s ''private pleasure'' in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. When the ''heavy Russian irrationality'' fell on Czechoslovakia he felt drawn to the spirit of the eighteenth century ''And it seemed to me that nowhere was it to be found more densely concentrated than in that banquet of intelligence, humour and fantasy, Jacques le Fataliste''.This translation by Simon Callow has delighted Kundera''s admirers throughout the English-speaking world.
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Faber & Faber selected poems 19231958
Book SynopsisThis selection made by E.E. Cummings himself from eleven books of poems constitutes a comprehensive introduction to his work.
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Faber & Faber Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot
Book SynopsisThis selection, which was made by Eliot himself, is intended as an introduction to the main body of his poetry prior to Four Quartets, which is available separately in Faber Paperbacks. The selection includes the whole of The Waste Land.
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Faber & Faber Collected Poems
Book SynopsisSince the publication of Walter de la Mare''s first edition of his poems in 1920, Edward Thomas has gradually come to be recognised as one of the great English poets of the 20th century.Though sometimes classified with Owen, Rosenberg and Sassoon as a ''war poet'', he was rather a poet who died tragically in the war, and whose main subjects were the English countryside and its people, and the solitude of the observing self. The present edition offers the complete poems together with detailed editorial apparatus in what has become acknowledged as the standard edition by R. George Thomas. It also includes Thomas''s remarkable prose War Diary of 1917.Trade Review'One of the most distinctive voices of the twentieth century.' P.J. Kavanagh
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