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“william ashton”

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  • My Life

    Autobiography

    by Richard Wagner ...
    Translated by William Ashton Ellis ...
    My Life by Richard Wagner is an extensive autobiographical work that provides an intimate and detailed portrait of one of the most influential composers of the nineteenth century. Written between 1865 and 1880, at the request of his patron King Ludwig II of Bavaria, this autobiography offers invaluable insights into Wagner's personal experiences, artistic struggles, and philosophical evolution. ... Read more

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  • My Life (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Exile, upheaval, and the birth of the Ring: an opera composer's memoir of Paris failures, Dresden uprising, leitmotifs, patronage, and Gesamtkunstwerk.

    by Richard Wagner, Phelan Reed, Phelan Reed ...
    Translated by William Ashton Ellis ...
    My Life is Wagner's expansive autobiography, tracing precarious youth, Parisian failures, the 1849 upheaval and exile, and the genesis of Rienzi, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde, and the Ring. Dictated in a theatrical cadence, it blends confession and apologia with deliberate myth‑making: debts, flights, and sudden patronage are staged like scenes. He notes working methods, leitmotivic ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Shinto

    The Ancient Religion of Japan

    by William Ashton ...
    Origins.-The Japanese are in the main a continental race. Their language and physical characteristics show conclusively that they come from Northern Asia, and geographical considerations indicate that Korea must have been their point of embarkation. Indeed a desultory emigration from Korea to Japan continued into historical times. When we say Northern Asia we exclude China. The racial affinity of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Methodology of Political Economy

    Studying the Global Rural–Urban Matrix

    by J.I. Bakker, William Ashton, Kenneth Bessant, Alessandro Bonanno, Douglas H. Constance, Gervan Fearon, Anthony M. Fuller, Archibald Orben Haller, William J. Haller, Robert Kleiner0, William Alex McIntosh1, Sonya Salamon2, Andreas Peder Sørensen3, Tom Sørensen4, Alexander I. Stingl5, Carol A. Jenkins6 ...
    The importance of the global rural-urban matrix is often overlooked due to urban-normativity. But sometimes agrarian populism and a pastoral rural imaginary result in the equally fallacy of a rural-normativity, as in Jeffersonian nostalgia for a lost way of life that never existed. The nature of rurality in North America is important to study, but as Alessandro Bonanno makes clear, we cannot limit ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • When the Nightingale Sings

    by John Ashton Williams ...
    Rudy, a boy disabled by polio, is condemned to be kitchen help in Adolf Hitler's Berlin bunker during the last eleven days of World War II. With Karoline, a servant girl, he struggles to survive the insanity of the Nazis and the collapse of the Third Reich. When the Nightingale Sings will Rudy find the courage to never give up? ... Read more

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  • Beethoven

    by Richard Wagner ...
    Translated by William Ashton Ellis ...
    Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) is one of the most famous and influential classical musicians of all time. He was particularly instrumental in the transition from the Classic to the Romantic. He was born in Germany but lived from his early twenties in Vienna. There he studied under Haydn and became recognized for his prodigious talents. Though Beethoven declined into deafness from his twenties, ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • I Am Loved

    by Aurndrea Evans ...
    Illustrated by Latasha N. Louis ...
    AJ was super excited for his first day of school in Mr. Smith’s first grade class. Well, that was until Mr. Smith gave directions for a family project. AJ quickly realized that his family was different from the rest of his peers. After discussing his feelings with his parents, AJ regained his confidence. AJ learned a valuable lesson about family. It did not matter to him that his parents lived in ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • The world of yesterday

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    The World of Yesterday, Zweig's memoir, was completed shortly before his suicide. It charts the history of Europe from nineteenth-century splendour, decadence and complacency, through the devastation of the First World War, to the resultant brutality and depravity of the Nazi regime. ... Read more

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  • Beethoven

    The Universal Composer

    by Edmund Morris ...
    Series series Eminent Lives
    From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author, "an ideal starting point toward ultimate Beethoven appreciation" ( Entertainment Weekly).Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) was a genius so universal that his popularity, extraordinary even during his lifetime, has never ceased to grow. It now encircles the globe: Beethoven's most famous works are as beloved in Beijing as they are in ... Read more

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  • Mozart

    A Life

    by Paul Johnson ...
    Eminent historian Paul Johnson dazzles with a rich, succinct portrait of Mozart and his musicAs he’s done in Napoleon, Churchill, Jesus, and Darwin, acclaimed historian and author Paul Johnson here offers a concise, illuminating biography of Mozart. Johnson’s focus is on the music—Mozart’s wondrous output of composition and his uncanny gift for instrumentation.Liszt once said that Mozart composed ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Beethoven

    The Man Revealed

    by John Suchet ...
    "An ideal 'first book' on Beethoven" from one of the world's most eminent classical music aficionados ( Booklist).Beethoven scholar and classical radio host John Suchet has had a lifelong, ardent interest in the man and his music. Here, in his first full-length biography, Suchet illuminates the composer's difficult childhood, his struggle to maintain friendships and romances, his ungovernable ... Read more

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  • Letters to a Young Poet

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    These ten letters, written by one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, offer deep and sincere advice to the young poet. They touch on all aspects of life and are valuable to anyone wishing to be a poet and to those who are not. Written with power, style, and conviction these letters will guide and inspire anyone who reads them. ... Read more

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