In a series of dramatic encounters, "each in two voices and each developing a single idea," as Grove's Dictionary of Music defines the form of his title, Richard Howard has exemplified something like the artistic conscience of a generation - from 1882 to 1912. The mission of an Edith Wharton bearing the ashes of her beloved to a cemetery in Versailles, the return of an Ibsen to Capri to find his last play and an early romance - such situations, reflective at times, at times runaway, are charged with the intensity of an old tale, a new piece of gossip. These encounters concern celebrated figures and fictive celebrities, articulated in moments of crucial revelation, as even the casual is found to be a crucial revelation, as even the casual is found to be crucial at certain points of a life, a death.

Two-Part Inventions: Poems

Literature & Fiction

HOWARD, Richard

Poetry

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Millions of Strange Shadows

HECHT, Anthony

This cookery book includes favourite recipes from famous people. It includes recipes and foods from writers John Evelyn, Jane Austen, Alexander Dumas, Emile Zola, painter Claude Monet plus Thomas Jefferson and the Reverend Sidney Smith.

Food with the famous

GRIGSON, Jane

While Puccini wrote only twelve operas during a long life—three of them one-acters designed to be performed together—he has to be ranked today as the worldâ€™s most popular composer of opera. His La BohÃ¨me and Tosca are more frequently performed in the major opera houses than works by other composers, and Madame Butterfly and Manon Lescaut rank not far behind. What is the explanation for Puccini's enormous success? How do his operas work as music and drama? What was he like to contemporaries such as Verdi, Toscanini, and Caruso? Charles Osborne, author of highly successful Complete Operas of Verdi and Complete Operas of Mozart, here analyzes the entire Puccini oeuvre—from Tosca and Turandot to the less-often performed Edgar, La Fanciulla del West, and La Rondine. His fourfold approach—linking biography with musical, textual, and dramatic analysis—is especially valuable for Puccini, who revealed many of his personal contradictions in his music and whose sense of detail can be appreciated by close study of the scores and characters. For the legions of Puccini lovers everywhere, this guide to his life and work can serve as an ideal reference source and opera companion.

The Complete Operas of Puccini: A Critical Guide

Arts & Photography

charles-osborne

Music

Short stories satirize all aspects of American society and popular culture

Happy to Be Here

KEILLOR, Garrison

Humor & Satire

In a little hut by the sea in Wales, Thomas studies to become a wizard but fails dismally until one day the wind stops and a tiny dragon appears

Magic in the Mist

Margaret Mary Kimmel

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Race Riot: Chicago In the Red Summer of 1919 (Blacks in the New World)

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William M. Tuttle, Jr.

Africa

In Search of Theater

Eric Bentley

Performing Arts

Waterloo: Day of Battle

HOWARTH, DAVID

Military

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