age ~55
from Lorain, OH
After considerable hesitation and soul-searching I have decided to publish the letters Dmitry Dmitriyevich Shostakovich wrote to me. This choice by the composer's close friend Isaak Glikman brought the tormented feelings of the musical genius into public view. Now those feelings resound in the first...
Author
Dmitry Shostakovich, Isaak Glikman
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
416
Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN #
0801439795
EAN Code
9780801439797
ISBN #
20
The third and final volume of Prokofiev's Diaries covers the years 1924 to 1933, when he was living in Paris. Intimate accounts of the successes and disappointments of a great creative artist at the heart of the European arts world between the two world wars jostle with witty and trenchant commentar...
Author
Sergey Prokofiev
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
1160
Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN #
0801452104
EAN Code
9780801452109
ISBN #
19
The second volume of Sergey Prokofiev's recently uncovered "Diaries" covers the years 1915 to 1922. It describes in detail the genesis and the problematic path to performance of major works in his canon, and the life-changing experiences of living in war-torn and revolutionary Russia, and deciding t...
Author
Sergey Prokofiev
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
784
Publisher
Faber & Faber
ISBN #
0571226302
EAN Code
9780571226306
ISBN #
17
Sergey Prokofiev, a compulsive diarist and gifted and idiosyncratic writer, possessed an incorrigibly sardonic curiosity about individuals and events. When he left Russia after the 1917 Revolution, his diaries were recovered from the family flat in Petrograd and later hidden at considerable personal...
Author
Sergey Prokofiev
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
800
Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN #
080144540X
EAN Code
9780801445408
ISBN #
15
Roman thought he'd found the perfect opportunity to rebel. He may have been wrong.He awakens strapped to a set of parallel bars in a richly appointed sitting room, and begins a conversation with a masked man which will change his life. His world has been a facade - one which the mysterious Brahma is...
Author
Victor Pelevin
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
337
Publisher
Gollancz
ISBN #
13
This successful volume of essays by distinguished scholars not only makes a contribution to the study of Old Testament prophets but also summarizes scholarship in a way particularly appropriate to students, giving access to material available otherwise only in other languages or in journals difficul...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
296
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN #
0521318866
EAN Code
9780521318860
ISBN #
10
Dr Phillips's volume, like the others in the series, contains the text in the NEB translation, with introductory material preceding it, and a commentary directly following each section of text. Dr Phillips explains the nature and function of the whole book, its place in Jewish religious history and ...
Author
Anthony Phillips
Binding
Paperback
Pages
252
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN #
052109772X
EAN Code
9780521097727
ISBN #
7
The life story of a Russian master as he told it to others From the teenager in provincial Russia in 1875 to his premature death in Germany in 1904, Chekhov wrote over 4,500 letters to a range of correspondents, including family and friends, his publisher and fellow writers - not to mention actresse...
Author
Anton Chekhov
Binding
Paperback
Pages
224
Publisher
Penguin Classics
ISBN #
0140449221
EAN Code
9780140449228
ISBN #
4