Historia y biografías
Letters of Ted Hughes
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At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as excellent training for conversation with the world , and he was to become a prolific master of this art. This selection begins when Hughes was seventeen, and documents the course of a life at once resolutely private but intensely (...)
The Book of Lieder
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This unique volume contains, in parallel translation, a thousand of the most frequently performed Lieder, both piano-accompanied and orchestral. Composers are arranged alphabetically, with their songs appearing under poet in chronological order of composition thus allowing the reader to engage in (...)
Hallelujah Junction
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John Adams is one of the most admired and performed living composers. A musician of enormous range and technical command, he has built a huge audience worldwide through the immediacy and sincerity of his music. Hallelujah Junction isn t so much an autobiography as a fascinating journey through the (...)
Marshal Pétain
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Marshal Philippe Pétain was, in the words of historian Andrew Roberts, the most controversial Frenchman of the twentieth century. A truly distinguished soldier who rose from humble origins, he commanded French forces at Verdun in 1916 and became a national hero. But though by 1940 he had become (...)
The Journals of Sylvia Plath
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'Everything that passes before her eyes travels down from brain to pen with shattering clarity - 1950s New England, pre-co-ed Cambridge, pre-mass tourism Benidorm, where she and Hughes honeymooned, the birth of her son Nicholas in Devon in 1962. These and other passages are so graphic that you (...)
The Philokalia Vol 4
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The Philokalia is a collection of texts on prayer and the spiritual life, written between the fourth and fifteenth centuries by masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. First published in Greek in 1782, translated into Slavonic and later into Russian, this is the first complete translation into (...)
Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39
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Volume One of these remarkable letters and diaries opens with a letter from Britten aged nine to his formidable mother, Edith. Music is already at the centre of his life, and it accompanies him through prep and public school and then to London to the Royal College of Music, where the phenomenally (...)
Imagining Reality
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This is a celebration of the art of the documentary from its origins to the present day. With the critical and box-office success in the nineties of Microcosmos, When We Were Kings, Hoop Dreams and Hearts of Darkness, documentary films are now attracting more popular interest than at almost any (...)
33 Revolutions Per Minute
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Why 33? Partly because that's the number of rotations performed by a vinyl album in one minute, and partly because it takes a lot of songs to tell a story which spans seven decades and five continents to capture the colour and variety of this shape-shifting genre. This is not a list book, rather (...)
The Children of Lovers
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'The Children of Lovers are Orphans.' ProverbBestselling novelist, author of Lord of the Flies, William Golding was a famously acute observer of children. What was it like to be his daughter?In this frank and engaging family memoir, Judy Golding recalls growing up with a brilliant, loving, (...)