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  • Mozart's Journey to Prague

    by Eduard Mörike ...
    Series series
    Mozart is creative, brilliant and charming. But is he also a thief?Making his way to Prague for the opening of Don Giovanni, the great composer playfully tries to steal an orange from a Bohemian family's garden. But no sooner has he taken the fruit than he is caught by a furious gardener. Desperate to escape, Mozart frantically scrawls an apologetic note to the owners of the tree.Soon, he finds ... Read more

    $6.19 USD

  • Mozart's Journey to Prague and Selected Poems

    by Eduard Mörike ...
    Translated by David Luke ...
    The novella 'Mozart's Journey to Prague' (1855) is an imaginary recreation of the journey Mozart made from Vienna in 1787 to conduct the first performance of Don Giovanni. Set in the rococo world of the Bohemian nobility, it is a charming and playful evocation of Mozart's inner life and creative processes. Morike is one of Germany's greatest lyric poets after Goethe. His poetry combines classicism ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Mozart's Journey to Prague

    by Eduard Morike ...
    Translated by Leopold von Loewenstein-Wertheim ...
    While on a journey to Prague with his wife for the opening night of Don Giovanni, Mozart is caught picking an orange on the grounds of a stately home. But when the resident family finds out who they are dealing with, they are delighted to be in the presence of the celebrated composer and invite him to their daughter's wedding. This vivid and imaginative depiction captures both the humorous and the ... Read more

    $7.29 USD

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    Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be accidentally mixed and spliced with a book about the composer Johannes Kreisler. As the two versions break off and alternate at dramatic moments, two wildly different characters emerge from the confusion - Murr, the confident scholar, lover, carouser and brawler, and ... Read more

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  • Mozart: The Man and the Artist

    by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ...
    The German composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was not only a musical genius, but was also one of the pre-eminent geniuses of the Western world. He defined in his music a system of musical thought and an entire state of mind that were unlike any previously experienced. A true child prodigy, he began composing at age 5 and rapidly developed his unmistakable style; by 18 he was composing ... Read more

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  • The Haunted Chamber (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

    by Ann Ward Radcliffe ...
    A young baronet hosts guests at an ancestral castle where a fateful chamber hides tragic secrets, spectral unrest, and tests of love and loyalty.A chilling and subtle ghost story, and an excellent example of Radcliffe's genre-defining style. Ann Radcliffe was an early pioneer of the Gothic novel, and a celebrated master of supernatural fiction.Radcliffe crafts a tale of suspense and psychological ... Read more

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  • Like Death

    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    A devastating novel about the treachery of love by Maupassant, now in a new translation by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning poet and translator Richard HowardOlivier Bertin is at the height of his career as a painter. After making his name as a young man with his Cleopatra, he has gone on to establish himself as “the chosen painter of Parisiennes, the most adroit and ingenious artist ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing

    by Joseph von Eichendorff ...
    Translated by Ronald Taylor ...
    Eichendorff's prose masterpiece - a picaresque account of the wanderings of a young man who leaves home after a row with his father, and who eventually finds love with the girl of his dreams - is one of the best-known classics of German literature. Deeply imbued with the style and sentiment of German Romanticism, and philosophical and poetic in its approach to nature and existence, "Memoirs of a ... Read more

    $7.29 USD

  • The Dedalus Book of Decadence

    Moral Ruins

    by Brian Stableford ...
    The Dedalus Book of Decadence looks south to sample the essence of fine French decadent writing. It succeeds in delivering a range of writers either searching vigorously for the thrill of a healthy crime or lamenting their impuissance from a sickly stupor. Andrew St George in The Independent "An invaluable sampler of spleen, everything from Baudelaire and Rimbaud to Dowson and Flecker. Let's hear ... Read more

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  • Last Tales

    by Isak Dinesen ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Last Tales is a collection of twelve of the last tales that Isak Dinesen wrote before her death in 1962. They include seven tales from Albondocani, a projected novel that was never completed; "The Caryatids," an unfinished Gothic tale of a couple bedeviled by an old letter and a gypsy's spell; and three tales of winter, including "Converse at Night in Copenhagen," a drunken, all-night conversation ... Read more

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  • Symphony of Seduction

    The Great Love Stories of Classical Composers

    by Christopher Lawrence ...
    ‘Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.’ —Romantic composer Hector BerliozBerlioz should know. He didn’t just hear the symphony when he fell in love with an Irish actress back in 1827, he wrote it.What was love like for the people who could really feel that song coming on? Symphony of Seduction tells of the romantic misadventures, tragedies and occasional ... Read more

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  • Mozart, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words

    by Friedrich Kerst ...
    Translated by Henry Edward Krehbiel ...
    Biography, first published in1905. According to Wikipedia: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers. Mozart showed ... Read more

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