The original manuscript of these diaries, which present an eye-witness record of historical events in the worlds of art and music at the turn of the century, lay unread in the library of an American university until Antony Beaumont read it in search of the truth about Mahler-Werfel and Zemlinsky. But he found more: an account, in intimate detail, of the four years during which Mahler-Werfel grew from adolescence into womanhood. Opening with her first, heady affair with Klimt, the diaries break off shortly before her marriage to Mahler. They portray the vitality of everyday life, descriptions of significant artistic events, and insights into the behavioural patterns and linguistic conventions of the Vienna of 1900.

Alma Mahler-Werfel: the Diaries 1898-1902

Mahler-Werfel, Alma

Biographies & Memoirs

Cornell Univ+press

The Language Machine

Reference

Harris, Roy

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Beginning in 1981, Richard Hodges supervised the excavation of the Benedictine monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno, one of the great centers of Dark Age Europe, situated in spectacular mountain country in central Italy. The existence of the monastery has long been known from a twelfth-century illuminated manuscript, and the excavations threw vivid light on its epic history. This richly illustrated book tells of the discoveries made by Hodges's team, with the Samnite and Roman origins of the site charted in detail and the magnificence of the monastery's early medieval period fully elaborated. Light in the Dark Ages traces the history of San Vincenzo from the monastery's spectacular rise as a result of Charlemagne's patronage to its cataclysmic sack by Arab marauders in 881, demonstrating the relation between the treasures unearthed and their political context.

Light in the Dark Ages

Richard Hodges

Handbook of Waterfowl Behavior (Handbooks of American Natural History)

Science & Math

Goodwin, Derek

Nature & Ecology

Bright, clean boards, square corners. Clean text, previous owners name on the end page. No other markings in text. Binding is tight. Attractive well-kept volume. No jacket.

God and Other Minds : A Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in God

Politics & Social Sciences

Plantinga, Alvin

Philosophy

A History of American Literature, 1607-1765.

Tyler, Moses

The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution

History

AVRICH, Paul

Russia

The book is in very condition. Top of dust jacket torn.

Perception and identity: Essays presented to A. J. Ayer, with his replies

MacDonald, G.F. Ed.

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The best of Bishop: Light verse from The New Yorker and elsewhere

Literature & Fiction

Bishop, Morris

Poetry

Gatherings of Angels: Migrating Birds and Their Ecology

Gatherings of Angels: Migrating Birds and Their Ecology (Comstock Book)

Able, Kenneth P. (ed.)

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