Best Selling Books by Ted Hughes

The Early Books of Yehuda Amichai collects for the first time in a single volume the three works -- Songs of Jerusalem and Myself, Poems and Time -- that established Amichai as Israel''s greatest contemporary poet and one of the major poets of our time.

Ted Hughes wrote a series of stories for children from the early 1960s through until 1995 about how the world, and the creatures in it, came into being. They are collected together here in one volume for the first time. These are richly told tales of sparkling intensity about animals finding their form, and God''s struggle to understand what he has created. Meet the Polar Bear whose obsession with her snowy white fur is so great that she can only live in a landscape surrounded by her own reflection; the Whale, growing in God''s garden beside the carrots; King Leo, who began life because God was hungry for his sausages; poor Parrot''s painful defeat in the marriage-song contest at the wedding of Man and Woman; and Sparrow''s heroic battle against the bird-swallowing Black Hole. There are stories here to suit chidren from four to fourteen, whether for reading aloud or alone.

Ffangs is different from the other vampires - he hates the sight of blood and only wants to be human. But when he leaves Vampire Island to live in London he finds everyone is terrified of him.

Uno de los libros más revolucionarios de la poesía del siglo XX. «Un libro considerado revolucionario de la lírica del XX, por su singularidad, complejidad y riesgo.» ABC Ted Hughes, uno de los grandes poetas ingleses de nuestro tiempo -poeta laureado, famoso por su tormentosa relación con la escritora Sylvia Plath-, escribió Gaudete, uno de los libros más singulares y experimentales de la poesía del siglo XX, en la cúspide de su madurez poética y volcó en la obra toda su experiencia y su capacidad de riesgo. Gaudete logra rebasar las fronteras de la poesía para convertirse en un libro indefinible, poliédrico. Es a un tiempo un guion cinematográfico, una novela y una secuencia de poemas que además experimenta una transformación estilística, desde el alucinado poema en prosa del prólogo, pasando por los poemas narrativos centrales, hasta los últimos, breves y oscuros poemas del epílogo. Se trata sin duda de una obra maestra, capital, inclasificable, ahora por primera vez traducida al castellano. Críticas: «Una escritura de una fuerza y energía verbal difíciles de imitar. Fue un poeta prodigioso, y hoy más que nunca el genio y grandeza de sus textos resuenan con feroz actualidad. [...] Gaudete es un largo poema épico, cuya riqueza de imágenes Juan Elías Tovar ha trasvasado al castellano con sorprendente solvencia. Una de las mayores innovaciones poéticas de su época, su lenguaje es empujado más allá de los límites, sumergiéndose en un mundo enigmático y visionario.» Antonio Ortega, Babelia «Hughes será recordado por la claridad de su lenguaje, su sentido del humor y su comprensión de la condición humana.» Publishers Weekly «Ted Hughes fue un gran hombre y un gran poeta por su integridad, su sencillez y su inquebrantable verdad sobre el verdadero sentido del mundo.» Seamus Heaney «La poesía inglesa tiene un nuevo héroe. Ahora nadie podrá leer o escribir de la misma manera.» Peter Porter «Cualquier tema que pase por la plumade Hughes conserva la misma espontaneidad de oficio que su alegría interior.» John Bayley, The Times Literary Supplement «Hughes tiene una gran imaginación espiritual: es un auténtico visionario, un primitivo moderno.» Ian Sansom, London Review of Books

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in our literature.Emily Dickinson (1830-86) was born in Amherst, Massachussetts, where she lived most of her life as a recluse, seldom leaving the house or receiving visitors. She published just a handful of poems in her lifetime, her first collection appearing posthumously in 1890.

This beautiful book celebrates through the w ords of British writers and through its dramatic photographs, what riches the landscape of Britain has to offer now - an d, one hopes, for ever. ''

The late Poet Laureate presents free-verse re-creations of 24 passages from Ovid''s "Metamorphoses", including the stories of Phaeton, Actaeon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas, and Pyramus and Thisbe.

A collection of illustrated poems about animals.

Explains the origins of the owl, the whale, the fox, the polar bear, the hyena, the tortoise (turtle), the bee, the cat, the donkey, the hare and the elephant.

Eighteen-year-old Charlee Parker met the love of her life in a parking lot--a leggy brunette with a valedictorian medal hanging from her rear-view mirror and an attitude as biting as a Boston winter.Alexandra Woodson was guarded, a nineteen-year-old orphan set on a bright future in hospitality administration. She never imagined an art student with a penchant for cheesy pick-up lines and stealing parking spaces would crack her rigid exterior and claim her heart.For four years, theirs was an enviable love--evergreen and growing. Unbreakable...Until it broke.Alex''s job now brings her back to Boston, after five years working on the opposite side of the country. When, by chance, they meet again, Charlee and Alex are swept up in a whirlwind of heart-rending history, tossed between past and present, and lovers old and new. Will their lingering connection be enough to convince them that some loves are meant to last? Or should the past remain in the past?

In this collection, Ted Hughes has written 28 songs of the sea. Here is an eye-view account of what it is to be the small fry of the ocean - a shrimp, sandflea, a mussel or a whelk. The lobster laments his form and the limpet rejoices in her steadfast stand against the stormy surf.

The best way to experience the poetry of Ted Hughes on your iPad. Faber Voices lifts classic poems off the page, bringing together audio recordings of great poets reading their own work with an editor''s selection of their poems. A wonderful and intimate experience for poetry lovers, Faber Voices are also an invaluable resource for those studying or exploring these works for the first time. This selection allows you to appreciate the poems as never before, in a beautifully clean design, with options to read and listen to the poet simultaneously. This is how poetry for iBooks should be.Features:See each poem exactly as it was intended, in a fixed format with no erroneous line breaks.Hear every poem as it should be heard, read by the poet at the tap of a finger.Experience the ultimate Hughes selection, made by his editors and estate exclusively for this ebook. The full list of poems:WindSix Young MenWhitenessOctober SalmonRavensBride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three DaysThe Thought-FoxThe JaguarHawk RoostingPikeFull Moon and Little FriedaA Childish PrankLovesongThe Harvest MoonNight Arrival of Sea-TroutUntitled [''Waving Goodbye'']Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 by Faber & Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children. He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for two consecutive years for his last published collections of poetry, Tales from Ovid (1997) and Birthday Letters (1998). He was Poet Laureate from 1984, and in 1998 he was appointed to the Order of Merit.Search ''Philip Larkin'', ''Wendy Cope'' or ''Seamus Heaney'' for more Faber Voices.