Who I AmHe is one of the greatest musical talents Britain has ever produced. But even as the principle songwriter and lead guitarist for The Who, it would be unjust to define Pete Townshen...9999903238997Pete Townshed
Editors Varis
sábado, 30 de noviembre de 2024
"Born into the heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Béla Bartók (1881-1945) became a fervent nationalist, setting off with his friend Zoltán Kodály to record their native folk mus...9999903238614Kenneth Chalmers
Phaidon Press
sábado, 30 de noviembre de 2024
Haydn was born in humble circumstances in 1732. In this fascinating biography, the author traces the rise of the composer from his early years to his death in Vienna in 1809. The m...9999903238591Neil Butterworth
Omnibus Press
sábado, 30 de noviembre de 2024
A LifeThe novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited. Claire To...9999903238430Claire Tomalin
Penguin Books Ltd
sábado, 30 de noviembre de 2024
This still unrivaled biography portrays with precision and insight the tragically brief life ??from the Brooklyn tenements to Broadway, Hollywood, and Carnegie Hall ??of George Ger...9999903238270Edward Jablonski
Da Capo Press
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
A Life and a WorldA landmark account of the great English artist's tumultuous life and timesWilliam Hogarth (1697-1764) was perhaps London's greatest and best-known chronicler. The exuberant expansi...9999903238249Jennifer S. Uglow
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
The Life and Death of Johnny Rosselli: Gentleman Gangster, Hollywood Producer, CIA AssassinGolden-age Hollywood, modern Las Vegas, JFK-era scandal and international intrigue from Lee Server, the New York Times bestselling author of Ava Gardner: Love is Nothing... A singu...9999903238201Lee Server
Picador
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host to a coterie of artists, intellectuals and madmen, who find themselves in limbo while Europe gazes into an abyss of fascism a...9999903238140Volker Weidermann
Pushkin Press
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
The Slow Death of the Roman SuperpowerThe Fall of the Roman Empire has been a best-selling subject since the 18th century. Since then over 200 discrete reasons have been advanced for the collapse of the western half of...9999903238065Adrian Keith Goldsworthy
PHOENIX
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
The Life and Music of Bernard HerrmannNo composer contributed more to film than Bernard Herrmann, who in over 40 scores enriched the work of such directors as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, François Truffaut, and Mart...9999903238041Steven C. Smith
University of California Press
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
Vico, Hamann, HerderIsaiah Berlin was deeply admired during his life, but his full contribution was perhaps underestimated because of his preference for the long essay form. The efforts of Henry Hardy...9999903238027Isaiah Berlin Sir Isaiah ...
Princeton University Press
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of Mrs Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret. A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's country ...9999903237648Wilde, Oscar
Penguin Classics
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
Beautiful, aristocratic, an adored wife and young mother, Lady Windermere is 'a fascinating puritan' whose severe moral code leads her to the brink of social suicide. The only one ...9999903237631Oscar Wilde
London : Penguin, 1995.
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
This new biography of Maurice Ravel (1875 ??1937), by one of the leading scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French music, is based on a wealth of written and oral eviden...9999903237587Roger Nichols
Yale University Press
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
Gabriel Fauré (1845 ??1924) is one of the best French composers of his era. His artistic independence served to inspire many of the next generation of French composers seeking to c...9999903237570Jessica Duchen
Phaidon Press
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
This colourful biography explores the life and music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), whose varied compositions ranged from operas (written at a very young age) and orchestr...9999903237563Jessica Duchen
Phaidon Press
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
All That's Left to Know about Hollywood's Golden Age of Dames, Detectives, and Danger(FAQ). Film Noir FAQ celebrates and reappraises some 200 noir thrillers representing 20 years of Hollywood's Golden Age. Noir pulls us close to brutal cops and scheming dames, desp...9999903237389David J. Hogan
Applause Books
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
With landmark films such as Fargo, O Brother Where art Thou?, Blood Simple, and Raising Arizona, the Coen brothers have achieved both critical and commercial success. Proving the e...9999903237372R. Barton Palmer
University of Illinois Press
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
Peter Ackroyd turns his gimlet eye to one of the twentieth century's most revered directors. Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his ...9999903237365Peter Ackroyd
Chatto & Windus
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940 SThis dazzling story of Hollywood during the decade of its greatest success is a social and cultural history of the movie capital's golden age. Its cast includes actors, writers, mu...9999903237358Otto Friedrich
University of California Press
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
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