Includes the contents of the celebrated series of Conversations, dating from the last fifteen years of Stravinsky's life, that were taken down by Robert Craft in informal talks with the composer.
A collection of ghost stories in which an academic is haunted by his dead colleague's certainty, a tutor is confronted with an eight year old's mortal secret and Aunt Selena's dancing bear appears from beyond the grave.
Part of the series of "Stravinsky's Conversations with Robert Craft", this title includes the composition of "Oedipus Rex" (with letters to Cocteau), remarks on "Music and the Statistical Age", a review of recordings of "The Rite of Spring", and the sketches of Evelyn Waugh, Christopher Isherwood, Aldous Huxley, and other friends.
Before World War II, Bransk was a shtetl whose population was equally divided between Poles and Jews. Today there are no Jews. This title reconstructs the lost world of East European Jewry.
The 1966 staging in Paris of Jean Genet's The Screens by the Jean-Louis Barrault-Madeleine Renaud Company was highly controversial. This volume contains two essays by Genet, originally published in the French periodical Un Tel, giving his striking and highly personal views on life and art.
Italy had first tried to meld an Africa Orientale Italina in 1895. It failed with the humiliating defeat at the battle of Adowa in 1896. Mussolini was keen on revenge and creating a new Roman Empire abroad. This title offers an account of the last great episode of armed colonial conquest in Africa, the Italo-Ethiopian war of 1935-36.
Tells the story of polyglot army (it included, at various times, contingents from seven countries) from the first landing at Salonika in 1915 to the peace in 1918.
Two Naked Nuns Available Philadelphia' is the strangest cable ever to come to Flaxborough. Inspector Purbright, who has coped with a few odd things in his time, finds it opens a rich lode of skullduggery, deceit and sudden death.
Anton Chekhov's life was short, he was only forty-four when he died, and dogged with ill-health but his plays and short stories assure him of his place in the literary pantheon. Drawing on an array of material, this biography captures a likeness of the notoriously elusive Chekhov.
For three years, from early 1987, David Selbourne travelled the countries of Eastern Europe as the momentum of reform gathered pace and ended in uprising and revolution. This title presents a record of those sensational events, the most profound since the end of the Second World War.
Does the habit of taking drugs make authors write better, or worse, or differently? This work examines the work of five writers - Crabbe, Coleridge, De Quincey, Wilkie Collins and Francis Thompson - who were opium addicts for many years, and of other writers who are known to have taken opium at times.
It is the eve of Saint Walpurga and the housewives of Flaxborough are dancing naked around fires. It is brought to Inspector Purbright's attention that there are darker forces at work. This includes reports of Satanism, cult sacrifice and black magic. Is there a practitioner of dark arts in Flaxborough or is that just a smokescreen for a murder?
Explores the social attitudes that are reflected in the detective story and the thriller. From Conan Doyle and Edgar Wallace to Agatha Christie and Ian Fleming, this book takes the reader on an investigation into the world of crime fiction.
Detective Inspector 'Coincidence' Charles Jenks has been investigating a hunch that Dr Larne of 223 Harley Street has been committing crimes. What these crimes are, however, he isn't sure, but Dr Larne's name has occurred too frequently in reference accounts of suspicious circumstances for 'Coincidence' Charles to think that he is innocent.
It was as a small girl in Lincolnshire that Emily Sellwood first saw the boy Alfred Tennyson. Nearly thirty years later, in the year he became Poet Laureate, they married. This biography discusses the poet's relationship with his wife.
