Mozart is perhaps the greatest composer who ever lived. His music, like Shakespeare’s prose, expresses every facet of the human condition, and transcends time and place.This new title in the blockbuster Treasures series pays tribute to Mozart’s musical brilliance, covering his entire life and major works in a series of lavish spreads. Follow Mozart as he takes his first steps as a composer, tours Europe as a child genius, struggles to reconcile his artistic vision with his patrons’ demands, and achieves fame but not fortune—tragically dying at only 35 years of age in abject poverty. Learn, also, about his encounter with Haydn, connection with the Masons, and marvelous operas: The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte, and The Magic Flute.Boxed sidebars and facsimile documents complete the exquisite slipcased package, which comes complete with a CD of Mozart’s most enchanting pieces. FACSIMILE DOCUMENTS INCLUDE:- Original scores- Letters to friends and family, including those from Mozart telling his father and sister of his mother’s death- Concert posters- Concert programs- Reviews and criticisms 

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Product Description: I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany...read more

Product Description: “It was the best teaching-writing job I ever had.” —John IrvingWe Wanted to be Writers is a rollicking and insightful blend of original interviews, commentary, advice, gossip, anecdotes, analyses, history, and asides with nearly thirty graduates and teachers at the now legendary Iowa Writers' Workshop between 1974 and 1978...read more

Product Description: The handy and practical Slow Food Dictionary of Regional Italian Cooking by the editors at Slow Food International tells you everything you ever wanted to know about Italian regional cooking as prepared in homes, osterias, and restaurants...read more

The Fourth Hand asks an interesting question: “How can anyone identify a dream of the future?” The answer: “Destiny is not imaginable, except in dreams or to those in love."While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation’s first hand transplant; meanwhile, in the distracting aftermath of an acrimonious divorce, the surgeon is seduced by his housekeeper. A married woman in Wisconsin wants to give the one-handed reporter her husband’s left hand– that is, after her husband dies. But the husband is alive, relatively young, and healthy.This is how John Irving’s tenth novel begins; it seems, at first, to be a comedy, perhaps a satire, almost certainly a sexual farce. Yet, in the end, The Fourth Hand is as realistic and emotionally moving as any of Mr. Irving’s previous novels – including The World According to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and A Widow for One Year – or his Oscar-winning screenplay of The Cider House Rules.The Fourth Hand is characteristic of John Irving’s seamless storytelling and further explores some of the author’s recurring themes – loss, grief, love as redemption. But this novel also breaks new ground; it offers a penetrating look at the power of second chances and the will to change.

Product Description: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County—to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto—pursued by the implacable constable...read more

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

From the author of A Widow for One Year, A Prayer for Owen Meany and other acclaimed novels, comes a story of a father and a son - fugitives in 20th-century North America.In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River - John Irving's twelfth novel - depicts the recent half-century in the United States as a world "where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course." From the novel's taut opening sentence - "The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long." - to its elegiac final chapter, what distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author's unmistakable voice, the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller.

Product Description: 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITIONwith a new Afterword from the authorThe New York Times bestsellerThis is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields--a feminist leader ahead of her times.  This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes--even of sexual assassinations...read more

Product Description: En 1969, con sólo cuatro años, Jack Burns acompaña a su madre, una tatuadora de Toronto, en un viaje por los puertos del mar del Norte y del Báltico en busca del padre de Jack, un joven organista de Edimburgo adicto a los tatuajes que abandonó a Alice tras dejarla embarazada...read more

Product Description: En 1942, tras un episodio escandaloso, Jenny Fields, una joven bostoniana de buena familia, abandona la seguridad del hogar para ser enfermera y vivir su vida. En circunstancias peculiares, concibe a un niño al que llama Garp, a secas...read more

Twenty years after he had been the examining physician of two victims of a transsexual serial killer, Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla leaves Toronto to return to his native Bombay and comes face to face with his own past and the murderer.

Product Description: This book describes 1,600 Food Communities in 150 countries: from the hatahata fishermen of Kitaura in Japan to the raisin producers of Herat in Afghanistan; from Ethiopian forest coffee pickers to Mexican vanilla growers. Farmers, shepherds, fishermen, pork butchers, vine-dressers...read more

Product Description: Mozart's piano sonatas form a richly diverse and significant part of his instrumental output and span much of his mature composing career, thereby representing a microcosm of the composer's changing style. Part I examines the contexts in which the sonatas were composed and performed, and reviews likely sources of influence...read more

John Irving's eleventh novel, epic in scope and his most ambitious and moving work to date, 'Until I Find You' is the story of the actor Jack Burns, his mother Alice who is a Toronto tattoo artist, and his father William - an Edinburgh organist who is addicted to being tattooed. When Jack is four, he travels with Alice to several North Sea ports in search of his father, who is missing. But Alice is a mystery, and William can't be found. Even Jack's memories are subject to doubt.

When Tom is awakened by the sound of a 'monster,' he tells his father what he thinks he heard.

When Tom is awakened by the sound of a 'monster,' he tells his father what he thinks he heard. By the author of The Cider House Rules.

Product Description: En 1942, tras un episodio escandaloso, Jenny Fields, una joven bostoniana de buena familia, abandona la seguridad del hogar para ser enfermera y vivir su vida. En circunstancias peculiares, concibe a un niño al que llama Garp, a secas...read more