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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, Borzoi Books, Random House, Inc., New York, 2004
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st American Edition. BRILLIANT: EPIC: VIVID: PROVOCATIVE: STIRRING: REVELATORY: FINE virtually AS-NEW hardcover: Stated First American Edition (November 2004) Printing Unstated (Possible book club extension): NEW unpriced mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & cor…ners, EXCELLENT maroon paper-over-boards cover edges & corners & w/ titles handsomely gold-stamped on lightly-creased spine, VG slightly shelf-dust soiled text-block exterior w/ smooth-cut top & bottom edges & w/ cut-page style (deckle) side-edging, AS-NEW perfect binding w/ tight sheets & tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, IMMACULATE cream-white card-stock end-papers MARRED Only by small library-accession date stamping at top-right inside-front, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Janson on EXCELLENT unblemished opaque paper * Illustrated w/ two 16 pp. inserts of b-w photos on excellent gloss-laminated paper & b-w line-maps throughout * CONTENTS: Introduction (xi), Principal Commanders & Their Forces (xix), Text (1-514), Acknowledgments (515), Sources & References (519), Index (557) * 6.50" x 9.50" x 1.62", 1.12 lbs., xxiii+586 (609) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: Armageddon is the epic story of the last 8 months of WW II in Europe by Max Hastings, one of Britain s most highly regarded military historians, whose accounts of past battles John Keegan has described as "worthy to stand with that of the best journalists & writers" ( NYT Book Review). In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler's army was beaten & expected that the war would be over by Christmas. But the disastrous Allied airborne landing in Holland, American setbacks on the German border & in the Hürtgen Forest, together w/ the bitter Battle of the Bulge, drastically altered that timetable. Hastings tells the story of both the Eastern & Western Fronts, & paints a vivid portrait of the Red Army's onslaught on Hitler's empire. He has searched the archives of the major combatants & interviewed 170 survivors to give us an unprecedented understanding of how the great battles were fought, & of their human impact on American, British, German & Russian soldiers & civilians. Hastings raises provocative questions: Were the Western Allied cause & campaign compromised by a desire to get the Soviets to do most of the fighting? Why were the Russians & Germans more effective soldiers than the Americans & British? Why did the bombing of Germany's cities continue until the last weeks of the war, when it could no longer influence the outcome? Why did the Germans prove more fanatical foes than the Japanese, fighting to the bitter end? This book also contains vivid portraits of Stalin, Churchill, Eisenhower, Montgomery, & the other giants of the struggle. The crucial final months of the 20th century's greatest global conflict come alive in this stirring & revelatory chronicle.* MAX HASTINGS was a foreign correspondent & the editor of Britain's Evening Standard & the Daily Telegraph. He has presented historical documentaries for BBC TV, & is the author of 18 books, including "Bomber Command" which earned the Somerset Maugham Award for nonfiction, "The Korean War" and "Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy, 1944". He lives outside London. * SHIPPING: We custom wrap, label & securely package this fine book with our greatest elegance & care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the United States (or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for an additional charge), or for prompt delivery to international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL MAIL at below-cost rates quoted on requesst. Illustrated w/ two 16 pp. inserts of b-w photos on excellent gloss-laminated paper & b-w line-maps throughout (illustrator).
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, Oxford, Cambridge, New York, Toronto, Melbourne, &c., 1999
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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. FASCINATING: EXTRAORDINARY: ILLUMINATING: INDISPENSABLE: NEW First Edition hardcover (1999) w/ full no. line at "1" showing First Printing, NEW handsomely-illustrated unclipped mylar-protected unpriced jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW distinctive Oxf…ord navy-blue buckram-over-boards cover w/ titles & OUP crest ELEGANTLY gilt-stamped on spine, EXCELLENT unmarked smooth-cut text-block exterior BUT MARRED w/ slightest shelf-dust soiling (top edge) the only fault of this otherwise perfect copy, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, NEW sewn & perfect-glued binding w/ tight signatures, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 5.50 x 8.75" x 1.32", 0.78 kg, xvi+480 (496) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: In the last 10 years new research has modified virtually every previously known fact about Shakespeare. Park Honan draws on this new information to dramatically alter our perceptions of the actor, poet & playwright. Here is virtually all that can be factually known or reasonably speculated about Shakespeare's life. Readers will find a vivid picture of what Shakespeare's childhood might have been like in the small English town of Stratford, which had but a dozen streets in 1560. We meet his father, John Shakespeare, the glove-maker of Henley Street, who rose to the office of High Bailiff & Justice of the Peace before he was beset by financial difficulties. There is a fascinating portrait of London & of the life of an Elizabethan actor (a neophyte Shakespeare may have had to learn as many as 100 small parts per season). Honan casts new light on the young poet's relationships--his early courtship of Anne Hathaway, their marriage, his attitudes to women such as Jennet Davenant, Marie Mountjoy, & his own daughters--illuminating Shakespeare's needs, habits, passions & concerns. The author shows in fresh detail that Shakespeare was well acquainted w/ violent crime & murder in daily life. And he also examines the world of the playing companies--the power of patronage, theatrical conditions & personal rivalries--to reveal the relationship between the man & the writing. Park Honan's Shakespeare casts new light on a complex & FASCINATING life, ILLUMINATING Shakespeare's EXTRAORDINARY development into the greatest dramatist of his or any age. * HIGH PRAISE: "Park Honan's book is written in a lively, engaging, & accessible style. I think this will be regarded as the best available biography of Shakespeare." -Stanley Wells * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Park Honan is Emeritus Professor at the School of English, University of Leeds. He has written biographies of Jane Austen, Matthew Arnold & Robert Browning. He lives in the United Kingdom. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates. 34 choice b-w illustrations handsomely-presented in a 16 pp insert (between pp 240 & 241) on gloss-laminated paper (illustrator).
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, Toronto, Melbourne, &c., 1986
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. BRILLIANT: ELOQUENT: FASCINATING: INSIGHTFUL: COMPELLING: FINE virtually AS-NEW First Edition hardcover (1986) w full no. line showing First Printing, AS-NEW unclipped mylar-protected jacket showing orig. $24.95 price at top right inside front flyleaf, E…XCELLENT slate-blue library-durable linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles elegantly silver-stamped on front panel & spine, VERY GOOD smooth-cut text-block exterior MARRED w/ only slightest barely-perceptible rust-spotting on top edge, IMPECABLE pale-slate-green card-stock end-papers, NEW perfect binding w/ tight signatures & blue-yellow-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper w/ SUPERB presentation of extensive footnotes * ILLUSTRATIONS: Two 8 pp. illus. inserts of b-w photographs, etchings, line drawings, portraits &c. on gloss-laminated stock, respectively w/ 10 images between pp. 172 & 173 & w/ 10 images between pp. 332 & 333 * 6.36 x 9.50 x 1.54", 0.80 kg, xii+490 (502) pp. * Epilogue: 'Black-Coated Eros' (391), Bibliographic Essay (423), Illustrations & Sources (471), Acknowledgments (473), Index (479) * ABOUT THE BOOK: 'Education of the Senses', the first volume of Peter Gay's 'The Bourgeois Experience', was published in 1984 to enormous critical acclaim (& controversy). Two years later, in 'The Tender Passion', Gay continued his eloquent, psycho-analytically informed exploration of the Victorian era & its middle classes. Whereas 'Education of the Senses' focused on the sexual attitudes & practices of the 19th-century bourgeoisie, 'The Tender Passion' concentrates on their notions of love. No less revisionist than he was in his first volume, Gay argues here that the Victorians were able not only to enjoy their sexuality but to know love in its most exalted sense. The realities of love for the Victorians, he shows, came much closer to their ideals than many have thought. Gay delves into a huge body of material, from philosophical treatises to medical texts, from letters & diaries to works of fiction. The book is replete w/ fascinating insights into the lives & works of individual Victorians (Dickens, Stendhal, Wagner, Oscar Wilde, Beatrice Potter & Sydney Webb, among them) & his discussions range from the "discovery" of homosexuality to the ways love was diverted or disguised in music & religion. Particularly compelling is the opening section in which Gay analyzes in depth the separate love stories of 2 young men, one English and one German, stories which, in Gay's view, "dramatize some of the careers in love open to the middle class in the decades of Victoria and beyond." A work of remarkable learning, analytical sophistication, and stylistic verve, 'The Tender Passion' is an impressive addition to a monumental historical enterprise. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Peter Gay, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, is the author of many acclaimed books. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for our posted below-cost additional fee of $12.00 & to all international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL at our posted rates. Two 8 pp. illus. inserts of b-w photographs, etchings, line drawings, portraits &c. on gloss-laminated stock, respectively w/ 10 images between pp. 172 & 173 & w/ 10 images between pp. 332 & 333 (illustrator).
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Oxford University Press, Oxford, London, New York, Toronto, &c., 1983
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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 4th Edition. AS-NEW hardcover w/ AS-NEW mylar-protected jacket, EXCELLENT navy-blue library-durable linen-over-boards cover w/ AS-NEW edges & corners w/ titles & Oxford crest handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE wh…ite card-stock end-papers, AS-NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures, PRISTINE interior printed handsomely in 2-column format on excellent paper * ILLUSTRATED in b-w in six sections of c. sixteen plates ea. for a total of 96 plates on excellent gloss-laminated stock * 6.25" x 9.36" x 2.16", 1.60 kg, x+934 (944) pp. * Since the appearance in 1967 of the 3rd edition of "The Oxford Companion to the Theater", world theater had undergone a series of changes more swift & far-reaching than at any other time in its history. Encompassing those developments, this edition offers a wealth of information about contemporary writers, directors, actors, companies & theaters, both metropolitan & regional. At the same time, it continues to provide an authoritative survey of the theater's evolution, from its beginnings in primitive ritual to present-day trends in all countries that have an ongoing theatrical tradition. * An extensive cross-referencing system has been incorporated into this edition to guide the reader to related information. A generous bibliography is also included. Technical entires emphasize the historical perspective, throwing new light on the remarkable feats of earlier practitioners of theatrical illusion; they are illustrated where necessary w/ diagrams. Over 200 other illustrations are placed in thematically arranged groups; functioning independently of the text, they show the changes in vision affecting theatrical production over more than 2,000 years. * Whether one's interests lie in Greek tragedy or in commedia dell'arte, in Moliere or in Tom Stoppard, this, the 4th edition of one of the most successful Oxford Companions, is an indispensable work of reference for all theater-lovers. * "Irresistible . . . Every possible aspect of the theater is examined . . . a mass of brilliantly presented information." - Sir John Gielgud, The Spectator (London) * "Immensely valuable w/ ts vast accumulation of facts about buildings, techniques of performance, scenery, lighting, & make-up, as well as about authors & actors of all periods & places." - Ivor Brown, The Observer (London). ILLUSTRATED in b-w in six sections of c. sixteen plates ea. for a total of 96 plates on excellent gloss-laminated stock (illustrator).
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Penguin Press, New York, Toronto, London, Melbourne, &c., 2012
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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. RIVETING: DEFINITIVE: NEW First Edition (Orig. April 29, 2003) First Printing: NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners BUT neatly price-clipped, NEW cover w/ black paper wrapping spine & extending 1.36" onto front & back paper covered in l…ight-gray paper & initials "DN" gilt-engraved at top-center front panel & titles gilt-engraved on spine & sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, NEW perfect binding, PRISTINE interior printed on unblemished archival paper * 6.32" x 9.50" x 1.86", 1.24 kg, xxiv+868 (892) pp * 2013 Pulitzer Prize Finalist, NYT 10 Best Books of 2012 * "Riveting.The Patriarch is a book hard to put down." -Christopher Buckley, NYTBR * ABOUT THE BOOK: In his magisterial work 'The Patriarch' celebrated historian David Nasaw tells the full story of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the 20th century's most famous political dynasty. Nasaw (the only biographer granted unrestricted access to the Joseph P. Kennedy papers in the JFK Presidential Library) tracks Kennedy's astonishing passage from East Boston outsider to supreme Washington insider. Kennedy's seemingly limitless ambition drove his career to the pinnacles of success as a banker, World War I shipyard manager, Hollywood studio head, broker, Wall Street operator, New Deal presidential adviser, & founding chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission. His astounding fall from grace into ignominy did not come until the years leading up to & following America's entry into World War II, when the antiwar position he took as the first Irish American ambassador to London made him the subject of White House ire & popular distaste. 'The Patriarch' is a story not only of one of the 20th century's wealthiest & most powerful Americans, but also of the family he raised & the children who completed the journey he had begun. Of the many roles Kennedy held, that of father was most dear to him. The tragedies that befell his family marked his final years w/ unspeakable suffering. The Patriarch looks beyond the popularly held portrait of Kennedy to answer the many questions about his life, times, & legacy that have continued to haunt the historical record. Was Joseph P. Kennedy an appeaser & isolationist, an anti-Semite & a Nazi sympathizer, a stock swindler, a bootlegger, & a colleague of mobsters? What was the nature of his relationship w/ his wife, Rose? Why did he have his daughter Rosemary lobotomized? Why did he oppose the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the Korean War, & American assistance to the French in Vietnam? What was his relationship to J. Edgar Hoover & the FBI? Did he push his 2nd son into politics & then buy his elections for him? In this pioneering biography, Nasaw draws on never-before-published materials from archives on 3 continents & interviews w/ Kennedy family members & friends to tell the life story of a man who participated in the major events of his times: the booms & busts, the Depression & the New Deal, 2 world wars & a cold war, & the birth of the New Frontier. In studying Kennedy's life, we relive w/ him the history of the American Century. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: DAVID NASAW is the author of 'Andrew Carnegie', which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, awarded the New-York Historical Society Prize in American History, & named a NYT Notable Book of the Year, & 'The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst', winner of the Bancroft Prize for history & the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize & a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography. He is the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates. 33 Superbly-Selected B-W Photographs Beautifully-Reproduced in a 16 pp. Insert on excellent gloss-laminated paper (after p. 392) (illustrator).
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York & London, 2014
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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. UNFORGETTABLE: VIVID: SCINTILLATING: UNSURPASSABLE: BRILLIANT: ELOQUENT: SPELLBINDING: SPLENDID: MAGNIFICENT: CLASSIC: DEFINITIVE * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and Finalist for the National Book AwardWinner of the 2015, Sher…idan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography, American Academy of Arts & Letters' Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award, Chicago Tribune Best Books of 2014, USA Today 10 Books We Loved Reading, Washington Post 10 Best Books of 2014 * NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2014) w/ full no. line showing First Printing, NEW unclipped mylar-protected color-illustrated dust-jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $39.95 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW cover w/ gray library-durable linen wrapping spine & extending 1.96" onto front & back panels handsomely covered in sea-green paper w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles ELEGANTLY gold-stamped on spine, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, NEW binding w/ tight signatures & green-yellow-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * Richly illustrated throughout w/ a choice selection of 80 b-w photographs & reproductions, many of which are superbly reproduced on gloss-laminated paper * Preface (xiii), Acknowledgments (603), Chronology (605), Notes (617), Sources (725), Credits (731), Index (741) * 6.26" x 9.50" x 1.88", 1.29 kg, xvi+765 (781) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker * John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. "Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh" gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater & the nation's sense of itself. This astute, deeply researched biography sheds a light on Tennessee Williams' warring family, his guilt, his creative triumphs & failures, his sexuality & numerous affairs, his misreported death, even the shenanigans surrounding his estate. With vivid cameos of the formative influences in Williams' life (his fierce, belittling father Cornelius; his puritanical, domineering mother Edwina; his demented sister Rose, who was lobotomized at the age of thirty-three; his beloved grandfather, the Reverend Walter Dakin) "Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh" is as much a biography of the man who created "A Streetcar Named Desire", "The Glass Menagerie" & "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" as it is a trenchant exploration of Williams' plays & the tortured process of bringing them to stage & screen. The portrait of Williams himself is unforgettable: a virgin until he was 26, he had serial homosexual affairs thereafter as well as long-time, bruising relationships with Pancho Gonzalez & Frank Merlo. With compassion & verve, Lahr explores how Williams' relationships informed his work & how the resulting success brought turmoil to his personal life. Lahr captures not just Williams' tempestuous public persona but also his backstage life, where his agent Audrey Wood & the director Elia Kazan play major roles, & Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Bette Davis, Maureen Stapleton, Diana Barrymore, & Tallulah Bankhead have scintillating walk-on parts. This is a biography of the highest order: a book about the major American playwright of his time written by the major American drama critic of his time. HIGHEST PRAISE: "Unsurpassable . . . An eloquent, spellbinding narrative that emerges as an instant classic." -Ron Chernow * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: National Book Award finalist JOHN LAHR is the author of "Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh" among other books. He was the senior drama critic of The New Yorker for over two decades. He has twice won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism & is the first critic ever to win a Tony Award (coauthor, "Elaine Stritch at Liberty"). Richly illustrated throughout w/ a choice selection of 80 b-w photographs & reproductions, many of which are superbly reproduced on gloss-laminated paper (illustrator).
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, Oxford, Cambridge, New York, Toronto, Melbourne, &c., 1999
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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. FASCINATING: EXTRAORDINARY: ILLUMINATING: INDISPENSABLE: NEW First Edition hardcover (1999) w/ full no. line at "1" showing First Printing, NEW handsomely-illustrated unclipped mylar-protected unpriced jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW distinctive Oxf…ord navy-blue buckram-over-boards cover w/ titles & OUP crest ELEGANTLY gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, NEW sewn & perfect-glued binding w/ tight signatures, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 5.50 x 8.75" x 1.32", 0.78 kg, xvi+480 (496) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: In the last 10 years new research has modified virtually every previously known fact about Shakespeare. Park Honan draws on this new information to dramatically alter our perceptions of the actor, poet & playwright. Here is virtually all that can be factually known or reasonably speculated about Shakespeare's life. Readers will find a vivid picture of what Shakespeare's childhood might have been like in the small English town of Stratford, which had but a dozen streets in 1560. We meet his father, John Shakespeare, the glove-maker of Henley Street, who rose to the office of High Bailiff & Justice of the Peace before he was beset by financial difficulties. There is a fascinating portrait of London & of the life of an Elizabethan actor (a neophyte Shakespeare may have had to learn as many as 100 small parts per season). Honan casts new light on the young poet's relationships--his early courtship of Anne Hathaway, their marriage, his attitudes to women such as Jennet Davenant, Marie Mountjoy, & his own daughters--illuminating Shakespeare's needs, habits, passions & concerns. The author shows in fresh detail that Shakespeare was well acquainted w/ violent crime & murder in daily life. And he also examines the world of the playing companies--the power of patronage, theatrical conditions & personal rivalries--to reveal the relationship between the man & the writing. Park Honan's Shakespeare casts new light on a complex & FASCINATING life, ILLUMINATING Shakespeare's EXTRAORDINARY development into the greatest dramatist of his or any age. * HIGH PRAISE: "Park Honan's book is written in a lively, engaging, & accessible style. I think this will be regarded as the best available biography of Shakespeare." -Stanley Wells * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Park Honan is Emeritus Professor at the School of English, University of Leeds. He has written biographies of Jane Austen, Matthew Arnold & Robert Browning. He lives in the United Kingdom. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates. 34 choice b-w illustrations handsomely-presented in a 16 pp insert (between pp 240 & 241) on gloss-laminated paper (illustrator).
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, Toronto, Melbourne, &c., 1998
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Soft cover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Trade Paperback Edition. MASTERPIECE: Winner JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 1997: BRILLIANT: NEW First Trade Paperback Edition (Orig. 1998) w/ full no. line at "1" showing First Printing: NEW handsomely-illus. laminated cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-…cut text-block exterior, NEW uncreased perfect binding w/ tight sheets, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * ILLUS * 6.06" x 9.24" x 1.56", 1.18 kg, xxxii+640 (672) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: William Butler Yeats has cast his long shadow over the history of both modern poetry & modern Ireland for so long that his preeminence is taken for granted. Now, in the first authorized biography of Yeats to appear in over 50 years, leading Irish historian R.F. Foster travels beyond Yeats's towering image as arguably the century's greatest poet to restore a real sense of Yeats's extraordinary life as Yeats himself experienced it--what he saw, what he did, the passions & the petty squabbles that consumed him, & his alchemical ability to transmute the events of his crowded & contradictory life into enduring art. In the first volume of this long-awaited biography, Foster covers the poet's first 50 years, bringing new light to bear on Yeats's heroic & often ruthless efforts to invent himself as a poet & public figure. Drawn from a fascinating archive of personal & contemporary documents w/ the cooperation of surviving members of the Yeats family, it dramatically alters long-held assumptions about the poet's background, his relationship w/ Maud Gonne & other women, & his roles in the great cultural & political upheavals that transformed Ireland in his lifetime. A rich & entertaining account of Yeats's boyhood days amidst the talented but troubled members of the Yeats and Pollexfen clans provides important insight into the poet's deep & lifelong connection to the Irish landscape, his early, impassioned embrace of the nationalist cause, & his later retreat to the traditions of the once grand Protestant aristocracy. In his own day Yeats attracted enemies & admirers w/ equal passion, & Foster vividly recreates the friendships, love affairs, & simmering rivalries that swirled about the poet's circles in London, Dublin, & Coole Park. Complementing his meticulous scholarship w/ a shrewd wit & a novelist's eye for detail, he chronicles the romantic disappointments, financial difficulties, experimentation w/ hashish & mescal, & the growing preoccupation w/ the occult that prefaced Yeats's attempt to unite Irish politics w/ high culture & his creation of an Irish national theater. Here are the poet's memorable encounters w/ many of the most interesting people of his time, including Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Lady Gregory, J.M. Synge, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, & the wildly diverse leaders of the Irish independence movement. And here at last is a full accounting of the complex bond between Yeats & the incomparable Maud Gonne, revealed as an influence eternally recreated 'like the phoenix,' affecting almost everything he did. Poet, playwright, mystic & revolutionary, lover, confidant, & friend: This brilliant account of the public & private lives of William Butler Yeats illuminates not only the wellspring of his artistic vision, but the modern Irish identity he helped to create. It is essential reading for anyone intrigued by one of the most original & influential voices of the 20th century. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted rates. Brilliantly illustrated in two 16-pp. gloss-laminated inserts (after pp. 160 & 352) displaying more than 60 choice photos & b-w reproductions (illustrator).
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York & London, 1988
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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. Stated First Edition. MAGISTERIAL: BRILLIANT: REVEALING: LUCID; INDISPENSABLE: AS-NEW virtually NEW Stated First Edition hardcover (March 1988): NEW strikingly handsome mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, SUP…ERB NEW carmine-red silk-finish linen-over boards cover w/ "Griffin & Sage" design gilt-stamped inside elegant double-rule gilt borders at top-center front panel w/ ELEGANTLY presented titles in fresh gilt-stamp on spine, IMMACULATE pale-lime card-stock end-papers, AS-NEW stiched perfect binding w/ tight signatures & w/ white-red-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Avanta / Walbaum on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * ILLUSTRATIONS: Four 8-pp. illus. inserts on gloss-laminated paper (after pp.106, 234, 394, 618) presenting a splendid array of b-w photos & images * CONTENTS: Preface (xv), Abbreviations (653), Notes (655), Bibliographical Essay (741), Acknowledgments (781), Index (787) * 6.24" x 9.50" x 1.86", 1.26 kg, xxii+810 (832) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: To read this book is to enter the world of Sigmund Freud as never before: his family, his city, his professional struggles, his long, extraordinarily fruitful & embattled life. We see him at work in times of declining liberalism, devastating war, uneasy peace, the rise of Hitler & the fall of Austria. We watch him devising & revising his epoch-making theories. We are there as he struggles toward his discoveries, haunted by the problems he poses for himself, brooding over his publications, quarreling w/ his disciples. And we encounter Freud, always energetic, often troubled & sometimes vindictive, as his ideas spread from a small inner circle in Vienna through Europe, across the ocean to the United States & throughout the world. Drawing on a vast store of revealing unpublished documents, including 100s of hitherto unknown or inaccessible letters, Peter Gay probes Freud's mind, uncovers his passions & follows his astonishing career. He analyzes Freud the psychoanalyst as politician, seeking support for his controversial findings. He discloses for the first time the dimensions of Freud's love for his daughter Anna, & his unorthodox analysis of her. He offers a thoughtful, detailed, fascinating account of Freud's relations w/ such problematic followers as Jung & Ferenczi. He deals frankly w/ the controversies that have long swirled around Freud's impassioned friendships, his love life, & his theoretical innovations, which, as Freud himself put it, agitated the sleep of mankind. Perhaps most important & rewarding of all, no previous biographer has so securely integrated into Freud's life his case histories, technical papers, speculative aesthetics, & excursions into prehistory & cultural criticism. The sections scattered across this book in which Peter Gay lucidly expounds & explains Freud's theories of dreams & sexuality, development & neurosis, love & hate amount to a comprehensive (& comprehensible) liberal education in psychoanalytic thought, which is far more discussed than it is understood. Fitting as they do into Freud's most intimate concerns & cultural loyalties, these ideas gain a vivid life of their own. The reader will long remember the Freud that Peter Gay reveals here: student, physician, psychologist, lover, husband, father, friend, founder, controversialist, Jew, victim, & victor. This book, brilliantly argued & brilliantly written, evokes an age, & the life & ideas of a man who, in W H. Auden's phrase, is "no more a person now but a whole climate of opinion." * HIGHEST PRAISE: "A MAGISTERIAL contribution to the history of ideas. A FRESH & ILLUMINATING perspective on one of the pivotal figures of our time." - J. Anthony Lukas * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for our posted below-cost additional fee of $14.00 & internationally via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL. Four eight-pp. illus. inserts on gloss-laminated paper (after pp.106, 234, 394, 618) presenting a splendid array of b-w photos & images (illustrator).
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, Toronto, Melbourne, &c., 1997
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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. MASTERPIECE: Winner JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 1997: BRILLIANT: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1997) w/ full no. line at "1" showing First Printing: NEW handsomely-illus. mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $35.00 pub. price a…t bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, SUPERB NEW Oxford blue buckram cloth over boards cover w/ titles & Oxford crest ELEGANTLY gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE color-illus. card-stock end-papers, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & uncreased spine & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * ILLUS * 6.24" x 9.50" x 1.92", 0.84 kg, xxxii+640 (672) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: William Butler Yeats has cast his long shadow over the history of both modern poetry & modern Ireland for so long that his preeminence is taken for granted. Now, in the first authorized biography of Yeats to appear in over 50 years, leading Irish historian R.F. Foster travels beyond Yeats's towering image as arguably the century's greatest poet to restore a real sense of Yeats's extraordinary life as Yeats himself experienced it--what he saw, what he did, the passions & the petty squabbles that consumed him, & his alchemical ability to transmute the events of his crowded & contradictory life into enduring art. In the first volume of this long-awaited biography, Foster covers the poet's first 50 years, bringing new light to bear on Yeats's heroic & often ruthless efforts to invent himself as a poet & public figure. Drawn from a fascinating archive of personal & contemporary documents w/ the cooperation of surviving members of the Yeats family, it dramatically alters long-held assumptions about the poet's background, his relationship w/ Maud Gonne & other women, & his roles in the great cultural & political upheavals that transformed Ireland in his lifetime. A rich & entertaining account of Yeats's boyhood days amidst the talented but troubled members of the Yeats and Pollexfen clans provides important insight into the poet's deep & lifelong connection to the Irish landscape, his early, impassioned embrace of the nationalist cause, & his later retreat to the traditions of the once grand Protestant aristocracy. In his own day Yeats attracted enemies & admirers w/ equal passion, & Foster vividly recreates the friendships, love affairs, & simmering rivalries that swirled about the poet's circles in London, Dublin, & Coole Park. Complementing his meticulous scholarship w/ a shrewd wit & a novelist's eye for detail, he chronicles the romantic disappointments, financial difficulties, experimentation w/ hashish & mescal, & the growing preoccupation w/ the occult that prefaced Yeats's attempt to unite Irish politics w/ high culture & his creation of an Irish national theater. Here are the poet's memorable encounters w/ many of the most interesting people of his time, including Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Lady Gregory, J.M. Synge, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, & the wildly diverse leaders of the Irish independence movement. And here at last is a full accounting of the complex bond between Yeats & the incomparable Maud Gonne, revealed as an influence eternally recreated 'like the phoenix,' affecting almost everything he did. Poet, playwright, mystic & revolutionary, lover, confidant, & friend: This brilliant account of the public & private lives of William Butler Yeats illuminates not only the wellspring of his artistic vision, but the modern Irish identity he helped to create. It is essential reading for anyone intrigued by one of the most original & influential voices of the 20th century. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted rates. Brilliantly illustrated in two 16-pp. gloss-laminated inserts (after pp. 160 & 352) displaying more than 60 choice photos & b-w reproductions (illustrator).
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Oxford University Press, Oxford, London, New York, Toronto, Melbourne, &c., 1995
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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. LANDMARK: MONUMENTAL: PROFOUND: INSIGHTFUL: DEFINITIVE: SCRUPULOUS: BRILLIANT: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1995) w/ full no. line showing First Printing; NEW mylar-protected unclipped handsomely color-illustrated jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, I…MPECCABLE smooth-cut text block exterior, NEW perfect-bound sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, IMMACULATE pure-white card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior printed w/ HANDSOME clarity on SUPERB unblemished silk-finish archival paper w/ EXCELLENT presentation of footnotes & scholarly apparatus * ILLUSTRATION: Two 16-pp inserts on gloss-laminated paper presenting 83 splendidly selected b-w images bring an era to life * 6.36" x 9.50" x 2.12", 1.48 kg, xx+892 (912) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: In an age of artistic accomplishment, Gustav Mahler stood out as one of the supremely gifted musicians of his generation. As a composer he won acclaim for his startling originality. As a conductor his relentless pursuit of perfection was sometimes seen as tyrannical by the singers & musicians who came under his baton, & always, even with his greatest triumphs, he provoked controversy among the critics. Henry-Louis de La Grange, Mahler's celebrated biographer, here offers profound insight into Mahler's life & work w/ his detailed examination of the career of this musical genius. In "Mahler in Vienna", La Grange follows the great musician to the intellectual & artistic capital of turn-of-the-century Europe. From Mahler's spectacular debut as director of the Vienna Court Opera to his triumphant tour of the continent, we see him at the height of his powers. La Grange vividly portrays the marvelous spectacle, including the extraordinary range of artists who worked w/ Mahler (the composers Dvorak, Gustave Charpentier, Richard Strauss, Zemlinsky, & Schoenberg); the painters, architects, & decorators of the Secession (led by Klimt); & the writers Hauptmann, Dehmel, Hofmannsthal, & Schnitzler. In Vienna, the conductor worked a revolution in standards of performance & (along w/ Secession painter Alfred Roller) scenic illustration. It was also during this period that he wrote some of his best-loved symphonies (including his 4th & 5th (& his 3 orchestral song-cycles & collections, the Wunderhorn-, Ruckert-, Kindertotenlieder). For each of these works La Grange provides full notes & analytic descriptions. And the author does not neglect Mahler's temptestuous personal life, for during these years he met Alma Schindler ("the most beautiful woman in Vienna"). La Grange deftly captures the story of their engagement & marriage in 1902. Mahler remains one of the greatest figures in the history of music, a man whose work provokes strong reactions today as in his own time. This account is just one part of the definitive four-volume biography Gustav Mahler, the result of a 30-year research project; the author has personally translated it from his original French into English. Scrupulously researched & insightfully written, this volume is a brilliant account of a critical epoch in Mahler's life. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates. Two 16-pp inserts on gloss-laminated paper presenting 83 splendidly selected b-w images bring an era to life (illustrator).
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Oxford University Press, Oxford, London, New York, Toronto, Melbourne &c., 2000
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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. DEFINITVE: INDISPENSABLE: The ILLUMINATING PRODUCT of FOUR DECADES of DEVOTED RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2000) First Printing: NEW handsomely-designed gloss-laminated mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners (Orig.…pub. price not shown), SUPERB NEW black buckram over boards cover w/ titles & lines handsomely gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE unblemished text-block exterior, NEW perfect binding w/ tightly gathered sheets, IMPECCABLE pure-white card-sock end-papers, PRISTINE interior densely presented w/ impressive CLARITY & ELEGANCE on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper w/ SUPERB presented of extensive footnotes throughout * List of Abbreviations, pp xii-xv * ILLUSTRATED w/ 65 SUPERBLY chosen & reproduced b-w line-drawings & photographs presented in two inserts on EXCELLENT gloss-laminated paper: the first (29 photographs & 1 portrait pencil-sketch, #s 1-30, between pp 336 & 337), the second (photographs & line-drawings, #s 31-65, between pp 688 & 689) * 6.26" x 9.50" x 2.36", 1.62 kg, xvi+1000 (1016) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: When the 2nd volume of de La Grange's monumental study of Mahler appeared, it was hailed in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, & many other publications as an indispensable portrait of the great composer. Here is the 3rd volume of this magisterial work: Ranging from 1904 to 1907, it explores Mahler's final years as administrator, producer & conductor of the Vienna Opera. It was a time of intense inner struggle, w/ Mahler's energy & creative powers drained by the competing demands of running the Hofoper & struggling for recognition as a composer. And they were tragic years as well, especially 1907, Mahler's last year in Vienna, when the death of his daughter & the diagnosis of heart disease forced him to leave the Opera. Throughout the book, de La Grange offers true-to-life portraits of Mahler the human being, the family man, & the composer, & he weaves in innumerable testimonies & anecdotes that throw ILLUMINATING new light on the great composer's complex personality. The product of 40 years of research, this is the DEFINITIVE study of a musical giant. It is, as The Wall Street Journal said of volume two, "a work of the first importance, one that nobody seriously interested in Mahler can possibly afford to skip." * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Henry-Louis de La Grange is President of the Gustav Mahler Musical Library, Paris. He is also a chevalier of the Order of the Legion d'honneur, & an officer of the Ordre du Merite. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for our posted below-cost additional fee of $12.00 & to all international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL at our posted rates. ILLUSTRATED w/ 65 SUPERBLY chosen & reproduced b-w line-drawings & photographs presented in two inserts on EXCELLENT gloss-laminated paper (illustrator).
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1977
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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New Full-Leather Binding. 1st Edition. NEW Collector's Edition (Orig. 1977) Unstated First Printing: SUPERB NEW full leather-over-boards cover w/ striking wave-pattern & whale-medallion gilt-stamped w/ titles on front panel & w/ wave motifs & designs & titles gilt stamped on…spine w/ four raised "hubs" & full page gilt-stamped wave patterns inside gilt-stamped double-rule-borders on back panel, NEW smooth-cut text-block exterior gilded in 22-karat gold, SPLENDID aquamarine moire-silk end-papers. NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & green-gold-checked silk bands at spine-caps & blue satin page-making ribbon bound-in from top, PRISTINE interior EXQUISITELY type-set for clarity on SUPERB archival paper specifically milled for this edition.* 1.46 kg, xxii+615 (637) pp * Illustrated throughout w/ powerful evocative b-w drawings & full-page color plates on gloss-laminated paper by Boardman Robinson * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & to international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL at our quoted below cost rates. llustrated throughout w/ powerful evocative b-w drawings & full-page color plates on gloss-laminated paper by Boardman Robinson (illustrator).
