One of a series of titles first published by Faber between 1930 and 1990, and in a style and format planned with a view to the appearance of the volumes on the bookshelf. Pound's Cantos is an epic achievement which began in 1916 and was left unfinished at his death in 1972.

An unnamed narrator attempts to piece together the life and world of an enigmatic would-be poet turned military assassin during Pinochet's regime in Chile.

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life.

The Flowers of Evil, which T. S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love, its linking sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching celebration of the seamy side of urban life. The volume was seized by the police, and Baudelaire and his published were .

Nightwood was acknowledged by T S Eliot as one of the great novels of the 20th-century.

Marcelo inhabits a world peopled by characters in literature. He once wrote a novel about the impossibility of love, but since then he has written nothing and a nervous breakdown has meant that he has been unable to put pen to paper.

William Carlos Williams' two volumes of Collected Poems comes home to Carcarnet for a re-issue in January 2001. Volume II takes up the story from 1939 until the year before Williams' death.

Features Williams' Collected Poems , including all his verse apart from his major long poem Paterson . This edition prints the poems in the order of their original publication, starting with The Tempers (1913) and ending with Poems 1936-1939 .

From Edouard Manet to T.S. Eliot to Jim Morrison, the reach of Charles Baudelaire's influence is beyond estimation. In this translation, Baudelaire offers a singular view of 1850s Paris. Evoking a melange of reactions this is a collection of 50 fables of modern life .

Includes Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin , the inspiration for the stage and screen musical Cabaret . It is a haunting evocation of the gathering storm of the Nazi terror and a portrait of Bohemian Berlin - a city and a world on the very brink of ruin.

A modern pastoral set in an imagined seaside town - the 'dismays and rainbows' of its inhabitants are played out within the cycle of one day. This title includes characters such as: Captain Cat, Mog Edwards and Miss Price, to name but a handful.

In his enjoyable readings of ambiguity, puns and paradox, Empson draws on a variety of authors from Chaucer to Eliot, illuminating the strategies of individual writers and creating a brilliant general theory of poetic practice: wide ranging, witty and still controversial.

Highlights two singular intellects, their disparate approaches to literature and their mutual admiration. This volume features selections from the New Directions founder's correspondence with Guy Davenport, the polymath artist and author of The Geography of the Imagination .

Joseph Marti arrives at the villa of Karl Tobler, an ill-starred inventor, to begin employment as his clerk. Tobler is determined to finance his family's lavish lifestyle with the proceeds from his latest idea - a clock adorned with advertisements.

First published in 1887, The Bays Are Sere was the first novel written entirely in interior monologue or stream of consciousness. Its influence on James Joyce resulted in acclaimed republication in 1924, after which Dujardin wrote Interior Monologue , an essay on the origin of this style.