Lewis Lockwood Beethoven's Lives will be required reading for anyone interested in understanding how Beethoven biography has evolved through the ages.When Ludwig van Beethoven died in March 1827, the world...

William Melton Engelbert Humperdinck's opera Hänsel und Gretel is one of the best-known in the repertoire, its melodies as familiar as folk-tunes - and yet no full-length biography of Humperdinck...

Barbara W Tuchman The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual...

Julian Barnes A fictional history of the world in which stories echo each other as themes deepen and images recur. The author also wrote "Metroland" for which he won the...

Aldo Busi What happened to Giorgina Washingon? And what drives the critical, multilingual intellectual Angelo Bazarovi to accompany a small, cynical, vulgar, and semi-literate, naughty industrialist like Celestino Lometto around...

Alfred Brendel In this definitive collection of a renowned pianist's writings—some of them never before published in English—Alfred Brendel brings the clarity and originality of expression that characterize his performances to the...

Arthur Miller The definitive memoir of Arthur Miller—the famous playwright of The Crucible, All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge, and other plays—Timebends reveals Miller’s incredible trajectory as a man...

Thomas Pynchon A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their lives in the sixties, still run by the passions of those times—sexual...

William Shakespeare   All 37 Plays. All the 160 Sonnets and Poems. Over 450 Illustrations. 1024 Pages.William Shakespeare1564-1616PLAYSAll's Well That Ends WellAntony and CleopatraAs You Like ItComedy of ErrorsCoriolanusCymbelineHamletHenry IV,...

James McBride From the bestselling author of The Color of Water and Song Yet Sung comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade—and who must pass...

William Golding This is a one-volume edition of the sequence of three novels set in the early 19th century, about a sea voyage from England to Australia. "Rites of Passage"...

Dirk Bogarde Writer William Caldicott's life is complicated enough. He is about to embark on divorce proceedings when he receives a cryptic letter of farewell from his estranged brother James...