Kenneth McLeish Libri

The Oxford First Companion to Music is the first comprehensive music book for children under thirteen. Some of its special features are: * Content arranged by topic so that is can be read for interest as well as used for reference * "More about" boxes, referring to pages on related topics, to help with looking up facts * Numerous photographs and line drawings in full color, especially chosen to be informative rather than merely decorative * Over 50 short music examples, many easy enough to be picked out on a recorder or piano * Covers all kinds of music including music of the Far East and Africa as well as pop and jazz * Suggestions for music to listen to, a reminder that music is not just facts but an aural experience This is a book for all children who want to find out more about the music they enjoy through records, radio, television, or playing instruments.

More than 350 major authors, from Margaret Atwood to Mile Zola, through Bruce Chatwin, Aldous Huxley, and Nevil Shute, are arranged in alphabetical order, each with a short article on style, influences, settings, theme, along with a list of their salient works. At the end of each entry, a Read On" section directs readers to similar works by other authors."

Casa di bambola, scritta nel 1879, non è soltanto l'opera forse più conosciuta e rappresentata di Ibsen, ma costituisce anche uno dei più intensi, significativi esempi di quella drammaturgia borghese che i lavori di Cechov e Pirandello contribuirono a rendere grande. Affondando nel profondo della psiche individuale, Ibsen individua le tracce di una insanabiile frattura tra gli autentici vaolri della vita e le norme comportamentali imposte dalla società: la mediocrità, l'ipocrisia, l'egoismo del marito di Nora non sono altro che il simbolo manifesto delle oggettive carenze di un istituto matrimoniale inserito in un contesto sociale dominato dal lavoro, dall'ansia di affermazione, poco attento rapporti interpersonali e che finisce sovente con l'inghiottire l'universo interiore degli uomini, paralizzando desideri, ambizioni, sentimenti, e impedendo la realizzazione del sé, di quella spiritualità che è il senso ultimo di ognuno.

Recreates the theater of Dionysos in Athens in the fifth century, B.C., the production and performance of Aristophanes' plays, and the conventions of acting at that time

This comprehensive guide to the mean streets of crime fiction takes you from Joan Aiken to P.B. Yuill, and suggests thousands of good reads in between. Includes locked-room mysteries; police procedurals; the art of crime; caper novels; great detectives; private eyes; the Mafia; courtroom stories and many more...

Going to see 'Shakespeare' and want a quick run-down on the plot?Studying Shakespeare and want to know who's who?Teaching the 'Henrys' and need a handy guide to histories?A Pocket Guide to Shakespeare's Plays gives all this and --an introduction to Shakespeare and his times--a note on the sources--cast lists--a synopsis for each play--main character descriptions--an essay on 38 plays.An essential, concise, and readable guide to all thirty-eight of Shakespeare's plays.A Pocket Guide to Shakespeare's Plays is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in the greatest of all English-language playwrights. Equally useful for actors, directors, and students-as well as for anyone planning to see a Shakespearean play-this book offers a great deal of information about Shakespeare in an accessible, succinct format. It looks at Shakespeare and his works from virtually every possible angle, including a section on Shakespeare and his time; a note on his sources; a synopsis of each play; descriptions of the main characters, which take note of the differences between the characters on the page and how they have been portrayed on the stage; and a brief, insightful essay on each work, which helps put the play in the context of Shakespeare's time as well as our own.