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Biography & Memoires

Thomas Bernhard The Making of an Austrian

Honegger Gitta

ISBN: PB: 9780300194609, Yale University Press, January 2013
394 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989), a literary figure of international acclaim and arguably Austria's greatest post-World War II writer, became the first of his generation to expose unrelentingly his country's pathological denial of complicity in the Holoca...

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Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew Modern Pots, Colonialism, and Counterculture

Harrod Tanya

ISBN: HB: 9780300100167, Yale University Press, September 2012
380 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 30 colour images, 90 black&white illus.

The British studio potter Michael Cardew (1901-1983) was a man of paradox, a modernist who disliked modernity, a colonial servant who despised Empire, a husband and father who was also homosexual, and an intellectual who worked with his hands. Gradua...

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Literary Criticism

Curious World of Dickens

Hurst Clive, Moller Violet

ISBN: HB: 9781851243846, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2012
112 pp., 19x19 cm, 95 colour illus.

Published to mark the 200th anniversary of Dickens's birth, this book celebrates the greatest of English novelists by illustrating some of his abiding preoccupations. Prompted by quotations from the novels and other writings, each themed chapter expl...

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Invisible Harry Gold The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb

Hornblum Allen M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300177572, ISBN: HB: 9780300156768, Yale University Press, October 2011
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 38 black&white illus.

In the history of Soviet espionage in America, few people figure more crucially than Harry Gold. A Russian Jewish immigrant who spied for the Soviets from 1935 until 1950, Gold was an accomplished industrial and military espionage agent. He was assig...

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Richard Strauss A Musical Life

Holden Raymond

ISBN: HB: 9780300126426, Yale University Press, April 2011
288 pp., 23.8x16 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Renowned today as the gifted composer of a string of masterworks, Richard Strauss (1864-1949) is less often remembered for his achievement as a major conductor. Yet he held important conducting posts in Munich, Berlin, and Vienna and influenced gener...

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Music

Cosima Wagner The Lady of Bayreuth

Hilmes Oliver

ISBN: PB: 9780300170900, Yale University Press, March 2011
354 pp., 19.8x13 cm, 30 black&white illus.

In this meticulously researched book, Oliver Hilmes paints a fascinating and revealing picture of the extraordinary Cosima Wagner – illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt, wife of the conductor Hans von Bulow, then mistress and subsequently wife of Ric...

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Shelley's Ghost Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family

Hebron Stephen, Denlinger Elizabeth C.

ISBN: PB: 9781851243396, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2010
176 pp., 25x18.4 cm, 83 colour illus.

Few families enjoy such a remarkable reputation for their contribution to the literature and intellectual life of Britain as the Godwins and the Shelleys. Yet this reputation was shaped in a subtle way by the selective release of literary manuscripts...

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Boyle Between God and Science

Hunter Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300169317, Yale University Press, August 2010
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Robert Boyle ranks with Newton and Einstein as one of the world's most important scientists. Aristocrat and natural philosopher, he was a remarkably wide-ranging and penetrating thinker – pioneering the modern experimental method, championing a novel...

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America

Alain L. Locke The Biography of a Philosopher

Harris Leonard, Molesworth Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226317779, ISBN: HB: 9780226317762, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 21 halftones

Alain L. Locke (1886-1954), in his famous 1925 anthology "The New Negro", declared that "the pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem". Often called the father of the Harlem Renaissance, Locke had his finger directly on that pulse, promot...

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Literary Criticism

Mark Twain God's Fool

Hill Hamlin

ISBN: PB: 9780226336473, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
336 pp., 21.5x14 cm

After laughing their way through his classic and beloved depictions of nineteenth-century American life, few readers would suspect that Mark Twain's last years were anything but happy and joyful. They would be wrong. Contrary to the myth perpetrated...

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