Mozart and the Enlightenment: Truth, Virtue, and Beauty in Mozart's Operas
- Livres de poche2018, ISBN: 9780393313956
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Hamish Hamilton Ltd , 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Bright red top page edges. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, minor marks and edge worn. Tightly boun… Plus…
Hamish Hamilton Ltd , 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Bright red top page edges. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, minor marks and edge worn. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The text within the book is clear. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services., Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1972, 3, NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, Real Simple, Bustle, and The Wall Street JournalLong Listed for The Center for Fiction's 2018 First Novel PrizeAn Indie Next Pick for July"So expertly does first-time novelist Lillian Li conjure the Beijing Duck House, a gaudy, tatterdemalion restaurant in Rockville, Md., that readers of Number One Chinese Restaurant can almost taste its signature dish and feel the heat of its woks. . . . By turns darkly funny and heartbreaking."The Wall Street Journal"A deliciously comic debut novel about secrets, scandal, and the patriotism at the heart of the hustle."O, The Oprah Magazine"Evocative. . . . Li's novel revolves around the tangled inner workings of the family-owned Beijing Duck House . . . Chinese-born family members and workers [for whom] the Beijing Duck House has displaced Beijing itself as 'the heart-center of the universe.' . . . [Li's writing] engrosses."New York Times Book Review"Li shines in portraying lives shaped by work in this service industry . . . [rewarding] readers with a compelling family story about love, work, and what it means to serve."USA Today"Fantastic. . . . Reminiscent of a prime time drama that you can't stop watching."Bon Appétit"[A] crackling debut. . . . Li's talent for human tragicomedy grows more evident by the page."Entertainment Weekly"[Li] never loses control of this tight, well-paced story, delivering tragedy, dark humor, and even a few surprises by the end."Shondaland"[Li] writes with a confidence that suggests decades of experience. . . . Imaginative and evocative . . . [Number One Chinese Restaurant] is an insightful and elegant novel, beautifully written and with an impressively large and diverse cast of characters."The Guardian"A wonderfully honest portrait of what it takes to make it in America."The Village Voice"Blends delicious writing with intricate family dynamics, the perfect recipe for a page-turner to devour in the summer sun."amNew York"A darkly comic novel about complicated familiesthose created by blood and those forged through circumstance. With wit and heart, Li explores a Chinese-American community torn between ambition and loyalty as each character strives for a world bigger than the restaurant that has bound them together. An exciting debut."Brit Bennett, New York Times bestselling author of The Mothers"Li takes us into the world of restaurants that many Americans frequent, but don't understand. The Beijing Duck House . . . is a neighborhood staple, but the labor of the owner, staff, and cooks is invisible. Li brings that world to life, giving readers a glimpse into what it takes to keep establishments running and serving soul-stirring food."Bitch Media"[Number One Chinese Restaurant] is a lot of things . . . a multigenerational immigration story, an insider look at the often grueling life of the career server or line cook, a romance, a coming-of-age (at any age). Most significantly, it is a joy to readI couldn't get enough."Buzzfeed"A smart combination of Chinese-American life, service industry travails, and the ups and downs of belonging to a family, Number One Chinese Restaurant will make great discussion fare for book clubs."Shelf Awareness (starred review)"A freshly written, punchily flavored, and richly realized tale of intergenerational family strife."Sunday Times"Funny, tender, and tragic, Number One Chinese Restaurant is a perfectly seasoned debut."Financial Times"Darkly hilarious. . . . Number One Chinese Restaurant is anything but typical, as Li combines broiling anger and slow-simmering love in delicious proportions."BookPage"Lillian Li is a brilliant young writer and someone to watch. Her work understands human secrets generally as well as secret places both in the world and in the mind; her narratives are complex, mysterious, moving, and surprising."Lorrie Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Bark and Birds of America"I adored the vitality of this deviously charming and smart debut. Full of impassioned and ever-yearning characters, the novel practically thumps with heartache and sharp humor. The prose sparkles, too, with the rhythm and sting of exquisitely close observation and hard-earned wisdom, announcing Lillian Li as a striking new literary talent."Chang-rae Lee, New York Times bestselling author of On Such a Full Sea and Native Speaker"Li vividly depicts the lives of her characters and gives the narrative a few satisfying turns, resulting in a memorable debut."Publishers Weekly"A vibrant multi-generational debut. . . . This engrossing novel reads like a highly entertaining soap opera."Book Riot"Evoking every detail of [this restaurant] with riveting verisimilitude . . . Li's sense of the human comedy and of the aspirations burning in each human heart puts a philosophical spin on the losses of her characters. . . . A writer to watch."Kirkus"Li expertly crafts a deeply felt and beautifully evoked multigenerational novel. . . . Heartful, tender, necessary, and wise."The Book Report"If a Chinese restaurant can be seen as a kind of cultural performance, Lillian Li takes us behind the scenes to offer a richly engrossing story of overlapping intriguescommercial, generational, and romantic. She conjures the 'eco-system' of this workplace with insider acuity and renders her bustling, hustling clan of waiters, hostesses, cooks, and managers with brilliant feeling. Number One Chinese Restaurant is a vibrant, memorable debut."Peter Ho Davies, author of The Fortunes"Li has crafted complex and nuanced characters . . . bringing depth and shape to the lives of those often found behind the scenes."Asian Review of Books"A heady read of parents and children, youth and aging, and above all what it means to be family and how far we are willing to go to give it all up."The Hungry Reader"Li taps into the universal tensions of generational conflict with a light, humane touch. . . . [A] deeply affecting, intricately detailed work."The National Book Review--This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition., 3, Harper Collins. New York, 1996. First edition. Condition: Near fine in very good plus jacket. Dust jacket has one tear along middle of spine, else fine. More pictures available upon request. shop-books.caFrom the publisher: After the gravity of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Immortality, Sowness comes as a surprise: it is certainly Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, with, as the author himself says, not a single serious word in it ; then, too, it is the first of his novels to have been written in French (in the eyes of the French public, turning him definitively into a French writer). Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer s night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than two hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic. In the eighteenth-century narrative, the marvelous Madame de T. summons a young nobleman to her château one evening and gives him an unforgettable lesson in the art of seduction and the pleasures of love. In the same château at the end of the twentieth century, a hapless young intellectual experiences a rather less successful night. Distracted by his desire to be the center of public attention at a convention of entomologists, Vincent loses the beautiful Julie ready and willing though she is to share an evening of intimacy and sexual pleasure with him and suffers the ridicule of his peers.A morning-after encounter between the two young men from different centuries brings the novel to a poignant close: Vincent has already obliterated the memory of his humiliation as he prepares to speed back to Paris on his motorcycle, while the young nobleman will lie back on the cushions of his carriage and relive the night before in the lingering pleasure of memory.Underlying this libertine fantasy is a profound meditation on contemporary life: about the secret bond between slowness and memory, about the connection between our era s desire to forget and the way we have given ourselves over to the demon of speed. And about dancers possessed by the passion to be seen, for whom life is merely a perpetual show emptied of every intimacy and every joy. (I tried in this novel, Kundera has said, to discover the existential phenomenon of dancers. To stage not a bitter satire but a good- humored comedy of dancers)., Harper Collins, 1996, 3.5, US: Fine Communications,US, 2003. Paperback. Good. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics serie s, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and th e general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages o f carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Bar nes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintin gs, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences-biographical, historical, and literary-to enrich each reader 's understanding of these enduring works. Upton Sinclair's muckraking masterpiece The Jungle centers on Jurgis Rudkus , a Lithuanian immigrant working in Chicago's infamous Packingtown. Instead of finding the American Dream, Rudkus and his family inhabit a brutal, sou l-crushing urban jungle dominated by greedy bosses, pitiless con-men, and c orrupt politicians. While Sinclair's main target was the industry's appalling labor conditions, the reading public was most outraged by the disgusting filth and contamination in American food that his nove., Fine Communications,US, 2003, 2.5, Penguin Classics, 1987. Nice copy with just minor wear. Pages are clean, bright and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. ***Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes, not envelopes.***. Trade Paperback. Very Good., Penguin Classics, 1987, 3, W. W. Norton & Company. Used - Acceptable. paperback The item is fairly worn but still readable. Signs of wear include aesthetic issues such as scratches, worn covers, damaged binding. The item may have identifying markings on it or show other signs of previous use. May have page creases, creased spine, bent cover or markings inside. Packed with care, shipped promptly., W. W. Norton & Company, 2.5<
