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The definitive book on the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven, written by the acclaimed biographer of Brahms and Ives.
Author : Jan Swafford
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 1107 pages
File Size : 11,2 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 061805474X
The definitive book on the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven, written by the acclaimed biographer of Brahms and Ives.
Author : Diane Ackerman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release : 1995-02-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0679761837
The bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses now explores the allure of adultery, the appeal of aphrodisiacs, and the cult of the kiss. Enchantingly written and stunningly informed, this "audaciously brilliant romp through the world of romantic love" (Washington Post Book World) is the next best thing to love itself.
Author : Nellie Fortescue-Harrison
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,71 MB
Release : 1885
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Page : 792 pages
File Size : 13,67 MB
Release : 1898
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Author : Edward Livermore Burlingame
Publisher :
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 1901
Category : American periodicals
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Author : Harvey Grace
Publisher : London : K. Paul, Trench, Trubner
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Composers
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Author : François Martin Mai
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 2007-02-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 077357879X
Mai's experience as a physician and psychiatrist serves as a basis for his analysis. Working from the symptoms described in the medical evidence, Beethoven's letters and those of his friends, and the reports of his physicians, Mai compares how Beethoven's health complaints would have been understood and treated within the medical, political, and social climate of both his time and ours. He discusses Beethoven's terminal illness and the resulting autopsy report to consider the roles of alcohol, lead poisoning (based on the toxic levels in his hair), and syphilis in causing his death.
Author : Phil Cousineau
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 39,91 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 193674077X
In Burning the Midnight Oil, word-wrangler extraordinaire Phil Cousineau has gathered an eclectic and electric collection of soulful poems and prose from great thinkers throughout the ages. Whether beguiling readers with glorious poetry or consoling them with prayers from fellow restless souls, Cousineau can relieve any insomniac's unease. From St. John of the Cross to Annie Dillard, Beethoven to The Song of Songs, this refreshingly insightful anthology soothes and inspires all who struggle through the dark of the night. These "night thoughts" vividly illustrate Alfred North Whitehead's liberating description of "what we do without solitude" and also evoke Henry David Thoreau's reverie, "Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake." The night writers in Cousineau's vesperal collection range from saints, poets, and shamans to astronomers and naturalists, and tells of ancient tales and shining passages from the most brilliant (albeit insomniac) writers of today. These poetic ponderances sing of the falling darkness, revel in dream-time, convey the ache of melancholy, conspire against sleeplessness, vanquish loneliness, contemplate the night sky, rhapsodize on love, and languorously greet the first rays of dawn. Notable night owls include Rabandranath Tagore, Mary Oliver, Manley Hopkins, Jorge Borges and William Blake.
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Page : 374 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 1871
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Rita
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 2024-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385448751
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.