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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good, Ex-lib. A fascinating window into the mind of one of opera's greatest composers, Letters of...

Gathers the author's interviews with Johannes Brahms, Giacomo Puccini, Richard Strauss, Engelbert Humperdinck, Max Bruch, and Edvard Grieg.

Edition: First editionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerThis authoritative volume chronicles the vibrant evolution of Italian opera during its most celebrated era, spanning from the...

Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, swashbuckler, poet, self-made gentleman, bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the most notorious lover of the Western world, but a supreme story teller. He lived...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage, faded colours, wear to corners and edges. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Name penned on fep. Opera...

Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective - these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio's Decameron in a brilliant, playful new translation This hugely enjoyable volume collects the best stories...

Author: James TuckerBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus and Robertson, 1952, First Complete EditionCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsNote: Original edition of 1000 copies. 10 full page of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOpera has always been an art form of breathtaking extremes — of soaring passion, devastating tragedy, and the...

Penguin Classics relaunch. The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows, became the theatrical sensation of the eighteenth century....

' A beautiful and highly original voice' Observer ' A deeply satisfying read' Irish Times ' Pure captivation from one of Ireland's rising talents' Irish Examiner From Catfish Rolling's Clara...

The book titled Giacometti: A Biography by the author James Lord. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

It is the summer of 1960 and fifteen-year-old Lila s life is about to change forever. Set free from the confines of school, her prison is the small unremarkable town...

Author: Donald GarstangBinding: HardbackPublished: A. Zwemmer Ltd, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly volume chronicles the artistic legacy of Giacomo Serpotta and the influential stuccatori of Palermo,...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: vol iv missing. vol ii - moderate annotations in grey lead. Few lives in the annals of European history have matched...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: first 6 volumes bound in 3. Few memoirs in the history of Western literature match the audacity, intimacy, and sweeping grandeur of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in Western literature cast as long a shadow as Giovanni Boccaccio, the fourteenth-century Florentine master whose wit, sensuality, and storytelling genius forever...

THE TIMES AND WATERSTONES BEST ART BOOK OF 2023 'Intimate and insightful . . . reads like a novel by Samuel Beckett' Paul Theroux A portrait of one of the...

Author: Mario Puzo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: The year is 1950. Michael Corleone is nearing the end of his exile in Sicily. The Godfather has commanded Michael to bring...

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A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch "Fully succeeds in communicating that 'vivid presentness,' that 'joyful eagerness' for life, which is what keeps...

Author: Gaia ServadioBinding: HardbackPublished: Franklin Watts., 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Yellowed DJ with bumps, tanning and foxing to pages.This biography chronicles the extraordinary...

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels...

In this ambitious and wide-ranging book, Anthony Arblaster shows that attempts by many music critics to disregard or disparage opera's politics are at best delusory, at worst a political ploy....

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Author: John BoccaccioBinding: HardbackPublished: The Heritage Press, 1940Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe Decameron is a collection of novellas by Giovanni Boccaccio, written in the 14th century....

If opera had existed in Elizabethan London, the world's Top Bard, as W.H. Auden called him, might have become the world's Top Librettist. As Gary Schmidgall shows in this illuminating...