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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists: A Novel (Vintage)

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists: A Novel (Vintage)

by Gideon Defoe

London, 1840: Wagner's latest opera plays to packed houses while disgruntled workers gather in crowded pubs to eat ice cream and plan the downfall of the bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, the Pirate Captain finds himself incarcerated at Scotland Yard, in a case of mistaken identity. Discovering that his doppelgänger is none other than Karl Marx, the Captain and his crew are unwittingly caught up in a sinister plot that... (more)

Ring Resoundingjohn culshaw

Ring Resounding

by john culshaw

Richard Wagner: the Man, His Mind and His MusicRobert W. Gutman

Richard Wagner: the Man, His Mind and His Music

by Robert W. Gutman

Wagner OperasErnest Newman

Wagner Operas

by Ernest Newman

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue MissionHampton Sides

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

by Hampton Sides

The arms of Krupp, 1587-1968

by William Manchester

A masterwork of history-restored to print and made available for the first time in trade paperback. In this massive, compellingly readable book, America's preeminent biographer/historian brings to life Europe's richest, most powerful family, a 400-year dynasty that developed the world's most technologically advanced weapons (from cannons to submarines to anti-aircraft guns); provided arms to generations of German... (more)

Literary works. (English.)

by Richard Wagner

The essays collected in this volume were written between 1870 and 1873, years that brought a transformation in Germany. After Prussia’s spectacular defeat of France, the coalescing of German states into a unified Germany, and Bismarck’s declaration of the German Empire, Richard Wagner suddenly felt like a prophet whose predictions had come true before his eyes. At last the German culture he longed to enliven had a... (more)

The Devil in the White City

Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

by Erik Larson

True Crime, Chicago World's Fair

Roma Sub Rosa: Book 7

A Murder on the Appian Way

by Steven Saylor

Torchlight flickers on elegant marble walls. The sound of a mob echoes in the street. The year is 52 B.C. and the naked body of Publius Clodius is about to be carried through the teeming streets of Rome. Clodius, a rich man turned rabble-rouser, was slain on the most splendid road in the world, the Appian Way. Now Clodius's rival, Milo, is being targeted for revenge, and the city teeters on the verge of chaos. ... (more)

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

by James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler's The Long Emergency was an underground hit, going into nine printings of the hardcover edition. His shocking vision for our post-oil future caught the attention of environmentalists and business leaders and was the subject of much debate, stimulating discussion about our dependence on fossil fuels. Now in paperback, with a new afterword, The Long Emergency is set to reach an even larger... (more)

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Aspects of Wagner (Oxford Paperbacks)

by Bryan Magee

Many music lovers find Wagner's operas inexpressibly beautiful and richly satisfying, while others find them revolting, dangerous, self-indulgent, and immoral. The man who W.H. Auden once called "perhaps the greatest genius that ever lived" has inspired both greater adulation and greater loathing than any other composer. Bryan Magee presents a penetrating analysis of Wagner's work, concentrating on how his... (more)

Ring of the Nibelung Volume 1: The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie (Ring of the Nibelung)

Ring of the Nibelung Volume 1: The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie (Ring of the Nibelung)

by P. Craig Russell

The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie comprises Volume One of Russell’s adaptation of the Ring cycle by German composer Richard Wagner. Woton has exhausted himself and his godly resources to have a mighty fortress built with the labor of the giants, Fasolt and Fafnir. But in his bargaining with them, he has promised the fair Freia, keeper of the golden apple tree whose fruit gives power and immortality to the gods. ... (more)

The Ring of the Nibelung Book 2: Siegfried & Gotterdammerung: The Twilight of the Gods

The Ring of the Nibelung Book 2: Siegfried & Gotterdammerung: The Twilight of the Gods

by P. Craig Russell

The ultimate adaptation of Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle concludes with these elaborate and faithful renditions of Siegfried and Gotterdammerung: The Twilight of the Gods . Siegfried is separated from his love, the Valkyrie Brunhilde, and even the All-Father himself cannot make things right. In the stunning conclusion, all of creation hangs in the balance because of gods meddling in the affairs of man — all... (more)

Terminal City: Aerial Graffiti #2

by Dean Motter

The Beasts of Valhalla

by George C. Chesbro

The novel that radically altered the nature of the Mongo series, this book blends a classic detective style with elements of science fiction and fantasy. Chesboro takes readers on a wild roller-coaster ride, using the structure and elements of Wagner's Ring Cycle and Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings."

Ring of Power: The Abandoned Child, the Authoritarian Father, and the Disempowered Feminine : A Jungian Understanding of Wagner's Ring CycleJean Shinoda Bolen

Ring of Power: The Abandoned Child, the Authoritarian Father, and the Disempowered Feminine : A Jungian Understanding of Wagner's Ring Cycle

by Jean Shinoda Bolen

Acclaimed author and Jungian analyst Bolen reveals the archetypal truths and liberating insights in Wagner's ever-popular Ring Cycle operas. Bolen's interpretations evoke the reader's associations, memories, and emotions to prompt insight and healing for both the psyche and society caught in the "Ring Cycle" of destruction and dysfunction.

The Perfect Wagnerite

by George Bernard Shaw

Brilliant criticism of the Ring Cycle, with provocative interpretation of politics and economic theories behind the Ring.

Parallels and Paradoxes

by Daniel Barenboim, Edward W. Said

This fascinating exchange between two of the most prominent figures in contemporary culture, Daniel Barenboim, Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, and Edward W. Said, the eminent literary critic and scholar and a leading expert on the Middle East, grew out of the acclaimed Carnegie Hall Talks. A unique and impassioned discussion about politics and culture, it... (more)

The Ring

by Daniel Keyes Moran, William Stewart

This novelization of a forthcoming film is Moran's third, longest and least interesting novelafter Armageddon Blues and Emerald Eyes all of which have appeared in the last six months. Recalling the miniseries V , the epic subject here is a revolution that turns into a war on many fronts. A millennium after a nuclear holocaust, the protagonist Cain is born into a peaceful if depopulated Earth whose Rulers enjoy... (more)

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by Gideon Defoe

by john culshaw

by Robert W. Gutman

by Ernest Newman

by Hampton Sides

by William Manchester

by Richard Wagner

Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

by Erik Larson

by Steven Saylor

by James Howard Kunstler

by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

by Bryan Magee

by P. Craig Russell

by P. Craig Russell

by Dean Motter

by George C. Chesbro

by Jean Shinoda Bolen

by George Bernard Shaw

by Daniel Barenboim, Edward W. Said

by Daniel Keyes Moran, William Stewart