Love Poems by Alexander Pushkin
$15.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
One of the many aspects of Alexander Pushkin's immense contribution to Russian language and literature, and perhaps the one he is most popular for, is his mastery of the love poem, a genre which he perfected like few others before or after him. This volume contains a selection of his most famous and end ...Show more
Humorous Tales by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Classic Fiction
First published in 1921, this volume collects some of the most comical stories Kipling published throughout his writing career. These tales derive their humour from absurd situations - a drunken Irish soldier waking up to find himself worshipped as a god in the Indian holy city of Benares, a monkey let ...Show more
Chamber Music and Other Poems by James Joyce
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Category: Classic Fiction
Universally known for his groundbreaking prose - especially for the monumental novel Ulysses and its depictions of Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century - James Joyce started off as a writer of lyrical poetry, a genre which he never abandoned in his lifetime and which informs and enriches the rest ...Show more
Der Fliegende Hollander: The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
An essay in the guide places the opera in the context of emerging German Romanticism and another highlights the musical riches of the score. A further article explores the emerging importance of myth to Wagner and his contemporaries. As well as a detailed description of the work's performance history, W ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream by Benjamin Britten
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides in Association with the English National Opera (ENO)
A Midsummer Night's Dream was Benjamin Britten's seventh major opera and had its premiere in 1960. Britten and his partner Peter Pears adapted Shakespeare's much-loved comedy, using (with the exception of only one line) Shakespeare's own text, as well as cutting and simplifying the play. This newly comm ...Show more
Simon Boccanegra by English National Opera Staff (Contribution by); Giuseppe Verdi; Gary Khan (Volume Editor)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Verdi's Simon Boccanegra exists in two versions: that of the 1857 original and that of the 1881 revision. The texts of the libretto of both versions are included in this guide, with a number of essays which focus on the differences between the two. Rodolfo Celleti provides the story's historical context ...Show more
Parsifal by Wagner Richard
$29.95 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
From its conception in 1857 to its first performances in 1882, Parsifal represented the culmination of the themes that preoccupied Wagner during the latter part of his life. This guide includes a series of articles on Wagner's profound and complex opera, which the composer preferred to call a Bu¨hnenwei ...Show more
La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides in Association with the English National Opera (ENO)
Puccini's masterpiece "La boheme" is one of the most beloved and enduring operas of all time. In this guide, William Ashbrook evaluates the opera's initial reception, the reasons for its wide appeal and Verdi's influence on the composition. Nicholas John discusses the tortuous evolution of the libretto ...Show more
IDOMENEO by MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Mozart wrote Idomeneo when he was twenty-four years old, and the opera was described by Albert Einstein as 'one of those works that even a genius like Mozart could write only once in his life'. It is one of most astonishing achievements of an altogether astonishing career. In this newly commissioned gui ...Show more
TOSCA by PUCCINI GIACOMO
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Here is one of Puccini's greatest hits, in an affordable version for complete orchestra. This story of love, art and death in Rome during the Napoleonic wars is today considered a classic for such arias as "Vissi d'arte" (I lived for art; I lived for love), but at its premiere in 1900 it was denounced a ...Show more
Poems by Antonia Pozzi; Peter Robinson (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction
After her tragic death in December 1938 at the early age of twenty-six, Antonia Pozzi's poems - which she had been secretly writing for years - were brought to light and became the object of great critical attention, going through several editions in Italy and being translated into all the major Europea ...Show more
Canti - The Most Important Book of Modern Italian Poetry by Giacomo Leopardi; J. G. Nichols (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
First published in 1831, and here presented in a dual-language edition with annotations and additional reading material, Leopardi's poetical masterpiece is an unsurpassed anatomy of man's unhappiness on earth. Trapped between an admiration for the classical past and a disappointment in the impoverished ...Show more