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The American Opera Singer: The Lives and Adventures of America's Great Singers in Opera and Concert, from 1825 to the Presentby Peter G. DavisISBN 0385421745 (0-385-42174-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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And So I Sing: African-American Divas of Opera and Concertby Rosalyn M. StoryISBN 0446710164 (0-446-71016-4)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Beethovenby Denis MatthewsISBN 0394755626 (0-394-75562-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Beggars Opera and Other Eighteenth Century Playsby J. HampdenISBN 0460018183 (0-460-01818-3)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Bodley Head History of Western Music: [by] Christopher Headingtonby Christopher HeadingtonISBN 037030294X (0-370-30294-X)
Hardcover, Bodley Head
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Brittenby Michael KennedyISBN 0460031759 (0-460-03175-9)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Brittenby Christopher HeadingtonISBN 0413465101 (0-413-46510-1)
Hardcover, Methuen
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Bubblesby Beverly SillsISBN 0448120437 (0-448-12043-7)
Softcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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A Cadenza for Carusoby Barbara PaulISBN 0451145232 (0-451-14523-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Canary Trainerby Nicholas MeyerISBN 0393312410 (0-393-31241-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Canary Trainer'Book summary:Located by a computer in the bowels of a major university, this missing manuscript by Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes's biographer and friend, reveals hitherto unknown adventures of the Great Detectivewhile he was employed, incognito, as a violinist in the Paris Opera.
As the detective matches wits with a musical maniacthe Phantom of the Operain a death struggle for the body and soul of Christine Daae, the miraculous soprano for whom the Ghost serves as a mesmeric "Canary Trainer," we are treated to an adventure unlike any other in the Holmes archive.
Nicholas Meyer also "edited" the two-million-copy bestseller The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and The West End Horror, both of which are available in paperback from Norton. Meyer is a novelist, screenwriter, and director as well as a Holmes scholar.
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Chaliapin: A Critical Biographyby Victor BorovskyISBN 0394560965 (0-394-56096-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Companion to Twentieth Century Operaby George MartinISBN 0396083390 (0-396-08339-0)
Softcover, Dodd, Mead
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Crystal Lineby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345384911 (0-345-38491-1)
Softcover, Del Rey
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crystal Line'Book summary:"A treat for long-time McCaffrey fans, a good read and a satisfying look at one of the most haunting facets of the crystal singers' profession."
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When Killashandra Ree joined the mysterious Heptite Guild, she knew that she would be forever changed. Crystal singing brought ecstasy and pain, near-eternal life...and gradual loss of memory. What she hadn't counted on was the loneliness she felt when her heart still remembered what her mind had forgotten. Fortunately, someone still cared enough to try to salvage what was left of Killashandra's mind. But she would have to learn to open herself--to another person, and to all her unpleasant memories.
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Crystal Singerby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345327861 (0-345-32786-1)
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Debuts & Farewells: A Two-Decade Photographic Chronicle of the Metropolitan Operaby Paul SeligmanISBN 0394479831 (0-394-47983-1)
Hardcover, Knopf
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Divaby DelacortaISBN 0345312651 (0-345-31265-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Don Juan: Variations on a Themeby John William SmeedISBN 041500750X (0-415-00750-X)
Hardcover, Routledge
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Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0399128964 (0-399-12896-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dune'Book summary:This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence.
The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium.
Dune is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting. Five sequels follow. --Brooks Peck [via]
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Dune: La Batalla De Corrinby Frank HerbertISBN 0441013597 (0-441-01359-7)
Softcover, Ace Books
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The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium.
Dune is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting. Five sequels follow. --Brooks Peck [via]
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Enjoyment of Musicby Joseph MacHlis, Kristine ForneyISBN 0393966828 (0-393-96682-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Enjoyment of Music'Book summary:This instructor's manual has been designed to accompany the 6th edition of a music appreciation textbook, which emphasizes a genre approach rather than a composer-masterpiece approach. It introduces material on women composers, such as Clara Schumann, and the music of Africa and Asia. [via]
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Gertrude : A Novelby Hermann Hesse, Hilda RosnerISBN 0374508127 (0-374-50812-7)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gertrude : A Novel'Book summary:With Gertrude, Herman Hesse continues his life-long exploration of the irreconcilable elements of human existence. In this fictional memoir, the renowned composer Kuhn recounts his tangled relationships with two artistshis friend Heinrich Muoth, a brooding, self-destructive opera singer, and the gentle, self-assured Gertrude Imthor. Kuhn is drawn to Gertrude upon their first meeting, but Gertrude falls in love with Heinrich, to whom she is introduced when Kuhn auditions them for the leads in his new opera. Hopelessly ill-matched, Gertrude and Heinrich have a disastrous marriage that leaves them both ruined. Yet this tragic affair also becomes the inspiration for Kuhn's opera, the most important success of his artistic career.[via]More editions of Gertrude : A Novel:
Gilbert and Sullivan: A Biographyby Hesketh PearsonISBN 035608034X (0-356-08034-X)
Hardcover, Macdonald and Jane's
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The Gilbert and Sullivan Companionby Leslie AyreISBN 0396066348 (0-396-06634-8)
Hardcover, Dodd, Mead
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The Great Carusoby Michael ScottISBN 0394536819 (0-394-53681-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret AtwoodISBN 038549081X (0-385-49081-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. She is allowed out once a day to the food market, she is not permitted to read, and she is hoping the Commander makes her pregnant, because she is only valued if her ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she was an independent woman, had a job of her own, a husband and child. But all of that is gone now...everything has changed.
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Haydn, Mozart and the Viennese School: 1740-1780by Daniel HeartzISBN 0393037126 (0-393-03712-6)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Haydn, Mozart and the Viennese School: 1740-1780'Book summary:Lavishly illustrated with music examples, black-and-white reproductions, and color plates, this beautiful volume will be of the greatest interest to scholars, cultural historians, and serious music lovers.
For years, historians have described the music of the so-called "Viennese School" as directly descending from German Lutherism up to Bach's death in 1750. In this fascinating book, Daniel Heartz shows how it actually grew out of Italian Catholicism, combined with current French fashions and local traditions. Haydn and Mozart, who stand at the very center of this study, were viewed as the highest peaks on the musical horizon by their contemporaries. It is that world of perception that Professor Heartz recreates, calling upon the visual arts and the architecture of the period to support his thesis. His focus is on music as a part of cultural history in a particular time and place. Stylistic terms and a priori periods mean less to him than the common denominators of geography, the arts, and political history.
The treasure trove of hitherto unseen documents that Professor Heartz uncovered while working in the Viennese archives bears witness to the enormously rich musical life of Vienna during the four decades' reign of the Empress Maria Theresa. This enlightened monarch helped make her capital the musical center of the Western world. Full color plates, black-and-white illustrations, music examples [via]More editions of Haydn, Mozart and the Viennese School: 1740-1780:
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Hidden Empireby Kevin J. AndersonISBN 0446610577 (0-446-61057-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hidden Empire'Book summary:The author of the New York Times bestsellers Dune: House Atreides and Star Wars: Darksaber delivers the first book in an all-new epic science fiction adventure trilogy.In our galaxys distant future, humans are one of three known intelligent races. Having had the ability to navigate star travel for only a few centuries, we are considered the new kids on the block in a long- established universe. The second intelligent race is the Ildirans, who are ruled by their Mage-Imperator; and the third race, the Klikiss, seems to have vanished and left behind a world full of artifacts and remarkable technology, which humans are now beginning to find and utilize. One such piece of technology is a device that has the power to turn a gaseous and useless supergiant planet into a small sun, thereby creating a new solar system in which humans can live. But when the device is tried for the first time, it awakens the wrath of a previously unsuspected fourth race, the Hydroguesand a galaxy-spanning war that threatens all life begins. [via]
History of Operaby Stanley SadieISBN 0393028100 (0-393-02810-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Illustrated Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0425038912 (0-425-03891-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Joan Sutherlandby Norma MajorISBN 0356126935 (0-356-12693-5)
Hardcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns
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Killashandraby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345316002 (0-345-31600-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The King and I : The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti's Rise to Fame by His Manager, Friend, and Sometime Adversaryby Herbert Breslin, Anne MidgetteISBN 0385509723 (0-385-50972-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Kobbe's Complete Opera Bookby G. Kobbe, George Henry Hubert Lascelles HarewoodISBN 0370000552 (0-370-00055-2)
Hardcover, Putnam
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Last Operas and Playsby Gertrude Stein, Carl Van VechtenISBN 0394716957 (0-394-71695-7)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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Listening to Musicby Craig M. WrightISBN 0314067523 (0-314-06752-3)
Softcover, West Group
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The Lives of the Great Composersby Harold C. SchonbergISBN 0393038572 (0-393-03857-2)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Making of an Opera: Don Giovanni at Glyndebourneby John Higgins, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Glyndebourne Festival Opera CompanyISBN 043619595X (0-436-19595-X)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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The Making of the Representative for Planet 8by Doris LessingISBN 039451906X (0-394-51906-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Making of the Representative for Planet 8by Doris May LessingISBN 039471377X (0-394-71377-X)
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Maria Callas: The Woman Behind the Legendby Arianna StassinopoulosISBN 034530179X (0-345-30179-X)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Master Classby Terrence McNallyISBN 0452276152 (0-452-27615-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Master Class'Book summary:Master Class is a pyrotechnical theaterfireworks in a contained space where Maria Callas is brought back to life in Sturm und Drang. Inspired by a series of master classes the great diva conducted at Juilliard toward the end of her career, this drama puts Maria Callas at center stage again as she coaxes, prods, and inspires students"victims" as she calls theminto giving the performances of their lives while revealing her own. As she slips off into memories, we experience her days at La Scala, her marriage to Meneghini, and her great doomed love for Aristotle Onassis. But the dazzling theatricality comes from Callas's emotional explosions, her cutting wit, and the soaring music as each student sings an aria that exposes the Divina's vulnerabilities & and her genius.[via]More editions of Master Class:
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Masterharper of Pernby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345424603 (0-345-42460-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Masterharper of Pern'Book summary:In a time when the deadly scourge Thread has not fallen on Pern for centuries--and many dare to hope that Thread will never fall again--a boy is born to Harper Hall. A musical prodigy who has the ability to speak with the dragons, he is called Robinton, and he is destined to be one of the most famous and beloved leaders Pern has ever known.
It is a perilous time for the harpers who sing of Thread--they are being turned away from holds, derided, attacked, even beaten. In this climate of unrest, Robinton will come into his own. But despite the tragedies that beset his own life, he continues to believe in music and in the dragons, and he is determined to save his beloved Pern from itself--so that the dragonriders can be ready to fly against the dreaded Thread when at last it returns . . . [via] 
The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Operaby Paul GruberISBN 0393034445 (0-393-03444-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Mozart and the Enlightenment: Truth, Virtue and Beauty in Mozart's Operasby Nicholas TillISBN 039303495X (0-393-03495-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life: Selected Lettersby Robert Spaethling, Spaethling, Robert (DRT)ISBN 0393328309 (0-393-32830-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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My Lifeby Tito GobbiISBN 0354043684 (0-354-04368-4)
Hardcover, Macdonald and Jane's
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My Wife Maria Callasby Renzo Allegri, G. B. MeneghiniISBN 0374217521 (0-374-21752-1)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Narabedla Ltd.by Frederik PohlISBN 0345360265 (0-345-36026-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The New Grove Handelby Winton DeanISBN 0393303586 (0-393-30358-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The New Grove Italian Baroque Mastersby Denis ArnoldISBN 0393303608 (0-393-30360-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The New Grove Masters of Italian Opera: Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Pucciniby Philip GossettISBN 0393300897 (0-393-30089-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The New Grove Mozartby Stanley SadieISBN 0393300846 (0-393-30084-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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New Milton Cross More Stories of the Great Operasby Milton Cross, Karl KohrsISBN 0385147767 (0-385-14776-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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A Night at the Opera: An Irreverent Guide to the Plots, the Singers, the Composers, the Recordingsby Denis FormanISBN 0375751769 (0-375-75176-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Night at the Opera: An Irreverent Guide to the Plots, the Singers, the Composers, the Recordings'Book summary:As a nuts-and-bolts operagoer's guide, Denis Forman's book is richly incisive. It's equally satisfying as a tart, effervescent take on the solemn world of opera.
The author--a British television executive and former deputy chairman of the Royal Opera House--covers most of the likely offerings of your local repertory company, with a few questionable omissions (Peter Grimes) and inclusions (The Threepenny Opera). For each he provides a synopsis, musical highlights, critical remarks, and historical information (the premiere of Il Trovatore: "stupendous"; that of Norma: "a flop"). Another section offers comments on everything from the craze for authenticity to the practice of booing.
Forman's opinions sometimes run athwart of convention. Falstaff "has no sex appeal and no heart, and opera demands both these qualities"; Tristan und Isolde is the creation of "the Wagner that liked to spend time stroking velvet." His tone, especially in the synopses, is often evocative of Anna Russell's opera parodies: "It really is too bad of you Tristan to die on me like this. She passes out."
The prose can be cute, but that fits Forman's approach of puncturing the inflated atmosphere of opera while glorying in it. Though he is most entertaining when he's daring to shout in church, his enthusiasms are as illuminating as his barbs. "Traviata is the first grown-up opera about contemporary life," he says, adroitly locating that work in operatic history. In Don Giovanni, "Mozart brought terror to the opera stage for the first time." It's the book's greatest pleasure that Forman's passion is matched by his knowledge. --David Olivenbaum [via]
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Ophelia's Fanby Christine BalintISBN 0393327663 (0-393-32766-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Photo Finishby Ngaio MarshISBN 0316546801 (0-316-54680-1)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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Poor Butterflyby Stuart M. KaminskyISBN 0446400114 (0-446-40011-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Prima Donna at Largeby Barbara PaulISBN 0451148169 (0-451-14816-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Puccini Companionby William Weaver, Simonetta PucciniISBN 0393029301 (0-393-02930-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Puccini's Ghostsby Morag JossISBN 038533978X (0-385-33978-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Reminiscences of My Lifeby Charles SantleyISBN 0405097069 (0-405-09706-9)
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Richard Straussby Michael KennedyISBN 0460031481 (0-460-03148-1)
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Richard Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier: Comedy for Music in Three Actsby Anthony Burgess, Richard Strauss, George Richard MarekISBN 0316568368 (0-316-56836-8)
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Scotto: More than a Divaby Renata Scotto, Octavio RocaISBN 038518039X (0-385-18039-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Secret Agentby Joseph ConradISBN 0375752528 (0-375-75252-8)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secret Agent'Book summary:The Secret Agent is an astonishing book," said Ford Madox Ford. "It is one of the best--and certainly the most significant--
detective stories ever written."
Set in late-nineteenth-century London, Joseph Conrad's intense political thriller anticipates the espionage novels of such writers as Graham Greene and John le Carré. It concerns a double agent who is charged with provoking the radical group he has infiltrated into an act of sabotage that will bring about its own destruction. In a marvelously drawn underworld of political and criminal intrigue, Conrad brilliantly explores the confused motives that lie at the heart of terrorism. Extraor-dinarily modern in the ironic view it takes of human affairs, this masterly tale of conspiracy builds to a climax that the critic F. R. Leavis called "one of the most astonishing triumphs of genius in fiction."
"The Secret Agent is an altogether thrilling 'crime story' . . . a
political novel of a foreign embassy intrigue and its tragic human out-come," said Thomas Mann. And F. R. Leavis deemed it "one of Conrad's supreme masterpieces . . . one of the unquestioned classics of the first order that he added to the English novel." [via]More editions of Secret Agent:
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The Secret Agent: A Simple Taleby Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. KarlISBN 0451524160 (0-451-52416-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Seventh Ravenby Peter DickinsonISBN 044020836X (0-440-20836-X)
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A Theory Of Adaptationby Linda HutcheonISBN 0415967953 (0-415-96795-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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Persuasive and illuminating, A Theory of Adaptation is a bold rethinking of how adaptation works across all media and genres that may put an end to the age-old question of whether the book was better than the movie, or the opera, or the theme park. [via]More editions of A Theory Of Adaptation:
Verdiby Charles OsborneISBN 0333214838 (0-333-21483-8)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Verdi: His Music, Life and Timesby George MartinISBN 0396081967 (0-396-08196-7)
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Verdi With a Vengeance: An Energetic Guide to the Life and Complete Works of the King of Operaby William BergerISBN 037570518X (0-375-70518-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Vincenzo Bellini: His Life and His Operasby Herbert WeinstockISBN 0394416562 (0-394-41656-2)
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The Virtuosoby Ina Rilke, Margriet De MoorISBN 0330341154 (0-330-34115-4)
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Wagnerby Barry MillingtonISBN 0394752791 (0-394-75279-1)
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When Marian Sang: The True Recital Of Marian Anderson, The Voice Of A Centuryby Pam Munoz Ryan, Brian SelznickISBN 0439269679 (0-439-26967-9)
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Undoubtedly one of America's greatest singers, Anderson was hardly known in her own country because of her race--music schools ignored her applications ("We don't take colored!") and even after she began singing professionally, many venues only featured white performers. Ryan's well-paced story becomes especially poignant as she recounts Anderson's overwhelming success in Europe ("one newspaper in Sweden called it 'Marian Fever' ... In Austria, the world-famous conductor Arturo Toscanini announced that what he had heard, one was privileged to hear only once in a hundred years"). The book reaches its climax with a wordless, deep brown two-page spread from Selznick, a crowd's-eye view of Anderson singing at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939, an historic concert that drew an integrated audience of over 75,000.
Ryan's simple, metered text (punctuated frequently by lyrics) captures the quiet drama of Anderson's story, and kids will especially identify with the confusion and frustration of young Marian. And as with the pair's previous collaboration, Selznick's rich illustrations ably convey the undeniable strength and courage of a talented, determined woman. (Ages 4 to 8) --Paul Hughes [via]
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Woyzeckby George BuchnerISBN 0413388204 (0-413-38820-4)
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A Young Person's Guide to the Operaby Nicolai Gedda, Helen EricksonISBN 0354044982 (0-354-04498-2)
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