unconstrained ambition, sex, and power. Translated from the French by Ernest Boyd...... more

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos produced Les Liaisons Dangereuses in an effort to write a work which d... more

Honore de Balzac is considered the founder of social realism. Balzac was the first writer to write a... more

Scenes From Military Life from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine). By the French author, who, alo... more

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test... more

Emile Zola’s His Masterpiece is the author’s most autobiographical novel, based in part on his boyho... more

company laws has been so fully demonstrated, that the absolute urgency of reform can no longer be denied. (Ernest Alfred...... more

One of Zola’s own favorites, Paris is a truly brilliant tale -- it shows us the city’s underbelly, b... more

his leading critics. --- (Ernest Alfred Vizetelly)...... more

In this moving depiction of a pilgrimage to Lourdes, the master French realist has created a novel o... more

The book is designed as an introduction to the basic questions of musical semantics and represents t... more

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test... more

Where Brahms and Bruckner really antipodes, as believed in the late 19th century or had their contem... more

For Alban Berg, personal experience was the indispensable condition of the creative process. His ins... more

Contains poems by Manuel Acuna, Manuel Carpio, and Fernando Calderon, as well as numerous South Amer... more

Translated by Ellen von Nardroff and Ernest H. von Nardroff The reflections on art and literature that Goethe produced...... more

Johann Gottfried Herder was one of the central figures in eighteenth-century European intellectual h... more

The present autobiography sets out from the contrast between "establishment" and "outsiders" in scie... more

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky remains to this day one of the most-performed Russian composers. Based on r... more

Following general reflections about the art of listening, the volume in hand presents exemplary work... more

Manuscript sources contain significant hints that Gustav Mahler’s symphonies are not absolute music ... more

While unappreciated and controversial during most of his life, Anton Bruckner is today regarded as t... more

The first part of the book centers on questions of biography, art and music theory, the psychology o... more

The book presents conclusive answers to questions that had occupied critics for more than a century.... more

With the terms visionary and despot, the author seeks to circumscribe the multilayered personality o... more

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremel... more

A fantastic little book about Bach and the musical climate before and during his life, with a look a... more

In this classic text, Karl Barth outlines and discusses the Christian tradition of baptism and its b... more

Richard de Bury s Philobiblon, completed in 1345, is the great medieval treatise on the love of book... more

This volume on Deuteronomy represents the last volume of the Pentateuch in the Pseudo-Jonathan serie... more

Monsieur Lecoq of the French S ret is called to investigate a Bank Robbery in one of the world s fir... more

Although it was never completed, The Canterbury Tales has succeeded in cementing a place as one of t... more

One of the most important, though controversial, French novelists of the late nineteenth century, an... more

Her smile lit her red mouth and shined in her eyes of clearest blue . . . a delicate sense of enjoym... more

fascinating and exciting novels--a book of culinary treats. Translated by Zola s original English publisher, Ernest Alfred...... more

In a quiet rural village in late 19th-century France, an eleven-year-old boy is found dead in his ro... more

Johannes Brahms was until now widely regarded as the archetype of the absolute musician . Based on n... more

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain ... more

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain ... more

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain ... more

Music is no mere play of sound, no mere tonal texture, but has a significant psychic, spiritual/inte... more

Antonio Labriola (1843-1904) was an Italian Marxist theoretician. Although an academic philosopher a... more

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was condu... more