An excellent collection of Renoir's works. Very clean and detailed. Great for art study.

Even though I have read many books and short stories by great authors and is dazed, and full of admiration of their work, it happens once in a while, that a book or a story, that one has never heard mentioned goes right in to your heart and won't let go. That is what Mary Wilkins Freeman's stories did to me. I felt as if I had found a friend. There is such a pleasure to be found in her stories, the fluent and smooth style, easily understood by all, as well as a lesson in living your life at your own pace. She is so unaffected and natural in her storytelling, that these stories, which easily could have taken place, are sweet, tender, bitter and then full of resistence. Her character do not always behave. The stories are mostly about New England country women, for whom Freeman has obviouly a great sympathy for and she writes about them with respect and affection

The Naxos recording is an excellent rendition of RIII. The characterization is rich and well done. Full of passion and rage, you don't need to see the actors to "see" the play. The scene with Anne is particularly good.

Dealing with fragments is like walking in a minefield: you can never be too cautious. There is only one methodology: keep your speculations "tame". The more ingenious a speculation may sound, the more aberrant may prove to be. If even the great T.B.L. Webster could not avoid this pitfall (his "Studies in Menander" ended up a major embarrassment), then nobody is immune. This volume brings together a number of major studies on the fragments of Old Comedy. The volume is comprehensive, welledited and well printed, representative of a variety of authors, subjects and approaches. As a rule the essays followed the cautious road, as pinpointed by Kenneth Dover's introductory note. One should not look here for a resurrection effect: what is lost is lost. But this is as close as we can get towards recovering at least the gist of the Old Comedy experience beyond the great master. A worthy investment.

I was in a bookstore in Toronto and stumbled across the different Dover font books and was instantly in love with all of them. Wisely, my significant other gave me a limit of ONE book to buy. "Fine," I said as I began poking through the books. It didn't take me long to realize which one of the books was superior. With stunning creativity and originality, this collection caught my eye and had me digging in my wallet. If only I would have known about Amazon.com then, I might have saved me a loon or two.

Incl. "The Island of Dr. Moreau", "The War of the Worlds", "The Invisible Man", "The Time Machine" and "The Country of the Blind and Other Science-Fiction Stories"

...this collection of Mallory Pearce's excellent illustrations includes a CD-ROM with the book's graphics saved in BMP, EPS, GIF, JPEG, PICT, and TIFF formats. Have fun with the shore birds, crustaceans, mollusks, echinoderms, Porifera, Coelenterata (I looked the last two up), and flora! Great to use on faxes, letters, and envelopes. This may turn out to be my favorite Dover clip art + CD-ROM collection since "Food and Drink Illustrations" ISBN: 0486999440.

This is a boxed set of seven 6x4 25 page notebooks--some ruled, some blank--with heavy stock, glossy graphic arts covers. Several are textile designs -- William Morris, Rose Wreath Quilt. Others are paper designs--Marbelized endpapers, for example. I have given them to several people as gifts and have repeatedly seen them being used by their recipients: the ultimate test of a gift.

A composer friend of mine recommended this book to me as a good introduction to composition. After reading it, I agree. Have you ever wondered why you can write something that obeys all the rules of classical music theory but has no life to it? Toch takes a good look at the practice of composition through the ages and abstracts a set of principles - the shaping forces in music - that give a composition structure and vitality. The things that I found really interesting about these principles were how universally they apply across all periods and styles of music, and how willing the 'classical' composers like Mozart and Beethoven were to break the rules of classical theory in pursuit of a larger goal.

If you have any interest in the principles of music composition, this is a great book. My only comment is that points illustrated by quotations (which is most of them) are not always clear unless you can play or 'hear' the music - easy for Mozart, not so easy for Brahms, Debussy etc. Having a piano handy would help with this. Another solution would be to read this book in a music library and listen to the relevant works as they come up - in fact I hope to do this sometime myself.

Overall highly recommended for students of music - it's a breath of fresh air after all the traditional dogma.

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