Stanley Appelbaum Libri

Over 27 million people visited the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. Countless more experienced the fair through the wondrous images of C. D. Arnold, the era's foremost architectural photographer. Through his luminous pictures, Arnold became the event's leading historian, publicist, and visual philosopher. This gallery of Arnold's photographs, painstakingly retouched to achieve a new radiance, presents a magnificent tribute to the "White City" of shining Beaux-Arts buildings.In addition to its visual tour of the Exposition's extensive buildings and grounds, this lavish book also celebrates a city that treasures its architecture. The classical Greek and Roman design expressed by the Chicago World's Fair defined the course of American monumental building for decades to come, and the text accompanying these historic photographs provides fascinating interpretations of the Exposition's influence on American building styles and tastes. From conception to closing day and beyond, Spectacle in the White City offers glimpses of past splendor that will be treasured by Chicagoans, history buffs, and lovers of fine art and photography.

Un antico profeta persiano, che aveva visto nella lotta tra il Bene e il Male l'asse attorno a cui ruotano le umane vicende, torna in un mondo moralmente lacerato per porre riparo al suo fatale errore. Zarathustra diventa così profeta della saggezza dionisiaca, che è gioiosa accettazione della vita in ogni suo aspetto, e affronta una difficile esperienza tra gli uomini, deciso a redimerli e soprattutto a liberarli dalla morale cristiana. In un crescendo di prediche dissacratorie e parabole alla rovescia, di eccessi e furori, l'azione tragica giunge al suo culmine nell' incontro tra il protagonista e gli uomini superiori, patetiche figure di sofferenti che simboleggiano un'umanità inadeguata a comprendere la dottrina di Zarathustra e i suoi dirompenti contenuti, dalla morte di dio, al superuomo, all'eterno ritorno di tutte le cose. E nell'attesa fiduciosa di un'umanità migliore si chiude l'opera in cui Nietzsche ha più profondamente fuso saggezza filosofica e illuminazione poetica.

Encompassing a broad range of subjects, styles and moods, English poetry of the late 18th and early 19th centuries is generally classified under the term "Romantic," suggesting an emphasis on imagination and individual experiance, as well as a preoccupation with such themes as nature, death and the supernatural.This volume contains a rich selection of poems by England's six greatest Romantic poets: William Blake (24 poems, including "The Tyger" and "Auguries of Innocence"), William Wordsworth (27 poems, including "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" and "I wandered lonely as a cloud"), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (10 poems, including "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan"), Lord Byron (16 poems, including "The Prisoner of Chillon" and selections from Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage), Percy Bysshe Shelley (24 poems, including "Ode to the West Wind" and "Adonais") and John Keats (22 poems, including all the great odes, "Isabelle" and "The Eve of St. Agnes"). For this edition, Stanley Appelbaum has provided a concise Introduction to the Romantic period and brief commentaries on the poets represented. The result is a carefully selected anthology that will be welcomed by lovers of poetry, students and teachers alike.

L’essenzialità, la finezza descrittiva, i personaggi indimenticabili hanno fatto di questo romanzo un “classico moderno”. Il misterioso, affascinante e inquieto Gatsby, con le sue feste stravaganti, il lusso e la mondanità di cui si circonda, non mira in verità che a ritrovare l’amore di Daisy. Ma è possibile ricatturare il passato? Nello scenario dei frenetici anni Venti, di cui Fitzgerald e la moglie Zelda furono protagonisti, il desiderio di Gatsby diventa emblema di un sogno di assolutezza, che la realtà frantuma e disperde. Molti grandi attori hanno prestato il loro volto a Gatsby e Daisy, tra i quali Robert Redford e Mia Farrow nel 1974, Leonardo DiCaprio e Carey Mulligan nel 2013.

"One of the first and best feminist novels ever written." — Erica Jong. This vivid portrait of Parisian music hall life was drawn from the personal experiences of the author of Gigi. Colette's 1910 novel reflects her adventures as an itinerant dancer as well as her struggles balancing respectability and artistic freedom.

“An exquisite book, rich, shimmering, and truly incomparable.” —The New Yorker This lyric portrait of a boy’s companionship with his little donkey, Platero, is the masterpiece of Juan Ramón Jiménez, the Spanish poet awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature. Poetic, elegiac, it reveals the simple pleasures of life in a in a remote Andalusian village and is a classic work of literature, beloved by adults and children alike.