Wagner's Ring is a great masterpiece. But because of the work's rich complexity it is difficult to think sensibly about its text and music. Deryck Cooke, author of The Language of Music and completer of Mahler's Tenth Symphony, displays his masterly common sense in this study of how and why The Ring took the shape it did. It is only a portion of the enormous book he had planned...(展开全部)

The most successful journalist on the planet ... Malcolm has a talent Telegraph Mr Gladwell's writing style [is] iconic ... its clarity and easy grace remain difficult to emulate Wall Street Journal Gladwell is a virtuoso writer Independent He is the best kind of writer - the kind who makes you feel like you're a genius, rather than that he's a genius Times Malcolm Gladwell is ...(展开全部)

The most successful journalist on the planet ... Malcolm has a talent Telegraph Mr Gladwell's writing style [is] iconic ... its clarity and easy grace remain difficult to emulate Wall Street Journal Gladwell is a virtuoso writer Independent He is the best kind of writer - the kind who makes you feel like you're a genius, rather than that he's a genius Times Malcolm Gladwell is ...(展开全部)

After more than a quarter of a century and three million copies in print, Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, "The" "Killer Angels," remains as vivid and powerful as the day it was originally published. This handsome new hardcover edition introduces a whole new generation to Shaara's masterpiece-and offers readers everywhere a literary keepsake for years ...(展开全部)

After more than a quarter of a century and three million copies in print, Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, "The" "Killer Angels," remains as vivid and powerful as the day it was originally published. This handsome new hardcover edition introduces a whole new generation to Shaara's masterpiece-and offers readers everywhere a literary keepsake for years ...(展开全部)

The diary of a young Victorian boy born with clairvoyance.

An electrifying novel about beauty, envy, and carelessness from Deborah Levy, author of the Booker Prize finalists Hot Milk and Swimming Home. It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research; in exchange, he must publish a favorable essay about the German Democratic Republic. As a gift for his translator's sist...(展开全部)

An electrifying novel about beauty, envy, and carelessness from Deborah Levy, author of the Booker Prize finalists Hot Milk and Swimming Home. It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research; in exchange, he must publish a favorable essay about the German Democratic Republic. As a gift for his translator's sist...(展开全部)

The diary of a young Victorian boy born with clairvoyance.