Author: Richard Freebor
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Keywords: times, life, dostoevsky
Number of Pages: 183
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1904341276
ISBN-13: 9781904341277

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81), author of Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov, is rivaled only by Leo Tolstoy in terms of achievement and influence. This study is a guide to his life as a writer and his literary legacy. Dostoevsky’s greatness lies in his searing insight into the human psyche in all its forms, from the most saintly to the most pathological. He combines the greatest sense of evil with the most sublime belief in a Christian God.

Author: Hans A. Neunzig
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Keywords: times, life, brahms
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2003-10-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1904341179
ISBN-13: 9781904341178

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) was one of the seminal musical figures of the 19th century. He shot to fame as a dashing young performer and composer, "the one who had to come" according to Robert Schumann. He consciously "switched" this image, refashioning himself as elder statesman of German music, the heir to Bach and Beethoven. The internal competition between romantic lion and eminence grise enlivened his music, which has influenced nearly every composer that followed him. Adopted by the anti-Wagnerian faction as the leader of traditional principles against ‘modern’ iconoclasm, his fame as

Author: Scott Luca
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Keywords: times, life, series, orwell
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1904341330
ISBN-13: 9781904341338

George Orwell (1903-1950) is Britain’s most famous political writer. He aspired to be a novelist, but it was with his reportage on the conditions of the poor and on the Spanish Civil War, and his journalism on popular culture and politics, that he became a leading observer of his times. With his last books, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, he became a global icon, leaving ideas and terms that continue to shape political and cultural debate. In this controversial new biography, Scott Lucas argues that we now need to be rescued from Orwell. Orwell was never really a socialist, Lucas argues

Author: Ian Pindar
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Keywords: times, life, joyce, james
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1904341586
ISBN-13: 9781904341581

James Joyce (1882-1941) was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. As a young man, he rejected his country and its religion, but went on to carefully recreate the Dublin of his youth in his fiction. Ulysses was banned in Britain and the United States, but has since been recognized as a masterpiece that revolutionized the modern novel. Despite his failing eyesight and domestic worries, Joyce’s last book, Finnegans Wake, is a celebration of the great human comedy in which each of us has a part.

Author: Martin Geck
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Keywords: times, amp, life, bach
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1904341160
ISBN-13: 9781904341161

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was the father of modern music, a supreme craftsman able to bridge the gap between the music of the Renaissance and the glories of Mozart, Hayden, and Beethoven. Bach expert Martin Geck shows us Bach in his time, offering a portrait of the personal, political and social circumstances that shaped some of the greatest music ever written. It analyses Bach’s musical achievement and considers why music such as the "Brandenburg Concertos" and the "St. Matthew Passion" continues to hold its appeal centuries later.

Authors:Sebastian Haffner, Peter Hennessy, John Brownjohn,
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Keywords: times, amp, life, churchill
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2003-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1904341071
ISBN-13: 9781904341079

Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British Prime Minister and leader of the wartime alliance against Nazi Germany, is a towering figure. When he died in 1965, Sebastian Haffner wrote, "one might have thought that it was not a man who was being borne to his grave, but British history itself -- a resplendent, fortunate history whose last illustrious chapter Churchill himself had written almost a quarter of a century before." Haffner -- an "enemy alien" whose own writing influenced Churchill’s policy towards Germany and the Nazis, places Churchill the warrior, the poet, and the adventurer alongside

Author: David Matthews
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Keywords: times, amp, life, britten
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1904341217
ISBN-13: 9781904341215

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) was the most prolific and celebrated English composer of the mid-20th century. Britten shot to international fame with his operas, which are considered the finest English operas since those of Henry Purcell in the 17th century. He was also an outstanding pianist and conductor.