Listing books published by Faber and Faber
| Full title | American Poetry: An Introductory Anthology [permalink] |
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| Language | English |
| Author | Donald Hall (author) |
| Publisher | Faber and Faber |
| Categories | Anthology and poetry |
| Publication year | 1991 |
| Original publication year | 1969 |
| Pages | 192 |
| Synopsis | As the title says, this is an introductory anthology to American poetry. The introduction devotes around three pages to a synopsis of a selection of the authors' lives, and the book itself has a handful of poems from each author. |
| Review | This book is pretty dated, but I still enjoyed the selection. |
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| Full title | Lord of the Flies [permalink] |
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| Language | English |
| Authors | William Golding (author), Ian Gregor (supplemental) and Mark Kinkead-Weekes (supplemental) |
| Publisher | Faber and Faber |
| Category | Novel |
| Publication year | 2004 |
| Original publication year | 1954 |
| ISBN | 978-0-571-05686-6 [Amazon, B&N, Abe, Powell's] |
| Pages | 288 |
| Synopsis | A cautionary novel about the consequences of letting children run their own society without adult supervision. A plane crashes on a deserted island, and the batch of school boys are left to fend for themselves. The title is a reference to Beelzebub, which is a Hebrew word meaning "lord of the flies" (it's a Philistine god worshiped at Ekron, and is mentioned in the Bible, in 2 Kings 1:2-3), but it's also a reference to a literal lord of flies, namely a pig's head on a stick (it attracts so many flies, you see, that the children start calling it by that title). The novel chronicles how the children conceive of and develop their society. |
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