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22 Literature 74541 VOICE OF


LEONTYNE PRICE: VERDI, PUCCINI CD by Regis Records


Rich, subtle and shining, it was in its prime capable of effortlessly soaring from a smoky mezzo to the pure soprano gold of a


perfectly spun high C, here is the voice of Leontyne Price. Tracks one and two are from Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Alleluja, track three Ave Maria, four tracks by Verdi from Aida and The Requiem, two tracks from Puccini’s Madam Butterfly, four further Puccini tracks from Tosca and Turandot and finishing with Sweet Little Jesus Boy and Summertime. Playing time 77.15 minutes on bargain CD, recording is rather crackly.


ONLY £6


74538 ART OF ROSTROPOVICH: SCHUMANN, BRITTEN, DEBUSSY CD


by Schumann, Britten and Debussy Mstislav Rostropovich on cello is accompanied by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra for Schumann’s Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op.129 on a recording first published in 1961. For Claude Debussy’s Cello Sonata he is accompanied by Benjamin Britten on piano in a recording first released in 1962. This collaboration between these two great names extends to just over 76 minutes playing time on this new CD.


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74544 BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTOS 1 AND 2 CD by Emil Gilels


Gramophone magazine says ‘Gilels plays sprucely, with address but not too much heaviness, on a fairly light toned piano that suits the music nicely.’ Emil Gilels plays with the Paris


Conservatoire Orchestra Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1 in C Major Op.15 on the first three tracks and Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.2 in B Flat Major, Op.19 on the following three. Total playing time 64 minutes 59 seconds on new CD. ONLY £5


74539 STRAUSS AND HINDEMITH HORN


CONCERTOS CD by Dennis Brain An easy, effortless virtuosity, sensitive phrasing, a range of tone, an uncanny and failing assurance, here is Dennis Brain on horn in Concertos Nos 1 and 2 by Richard Strauss, a Concerto by Paul Hindemith and a Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano by Lennox Berkeley. The recordings were made in 1947, 1956 and 1954 respectively. Total playing time 74.50 minutes. ONLY £6


74540 BAROQUE VIOLIN CONCERTOS: BACH,


VIVALDI CD by David Oistrakh Vivaldi’s Concerto Grosso in A minor for two violins, Op. 3 No. 8 and J. S. Bach’s Concerto for two violins BWV1043 and Violin Concertos Nos 1 and 2 in A


Minor BWV1041 and 1042. In style, timbre, flawlessness of intonation, speed of vibrato, inaudibility of bow-change, they are absolutely as one. We recommend without hesitation this CD for all lovers of fine violin playing. 74 minutes playing time.


ONLY £6


74542 ART OF DAVID OISTRAKH: TARTINI, BEETHOVEN VIOLIN SONATAS CD by David Oistrakh


Superlatively rich violin playing, David Oistrakh is accompanied by Vladimir Yampolsky on piano in a recording first published in 1957 Sonata in G Minor ‘The Devil’s Trill’ on tracks one to two. Tracks three to five are Beethoven’s Sonata for Violin and Piano No.9 in A, Op.47 (Kreutzer). First published in 1959. Tracks six to eight are Szymanowski’s Violin Sonata in D Minor, Op.9 recorded on 8th June 1954. Total playing time 68.33 minutes on new CD. ONLY £6


74545 HANS HOTTER SINGS WAGNER AND VERDI CD by Regis Records


Hans Hotter was the unforgettable exponent of the great Wagnerian bass-baritone roles - Wotan, Guremanz and the Flying Dutchman. Tracks one to five were recorded in 1944, track six in 1942 and tracks seven and eight recorded in 1939 on this bargain priced new CD, playing time 76.32 minutes. ONLY £5.50


74546 J. S. BACH THE FLUTE SONATAS BWV 1030-1035 CD


by Jean-Pierre Rampal


The French flautist achieved remarkable popularity and restored the flute to its former prominence as a solo instrument. He produced a silvery tone and radiated enjoyment. Here he plays with harpsichord and cello on Bach’s Sonatas in B Minor, BWV 1030, 1031, 1032, 1033, 1034 and 1035. Total playing time 73 minutes 27 seconds on new CD. ONLY £6


74763 SONGS OF STRUGGLE (AND MORE) CD by Paul Robeson


Ballad of Joe Hill, Kevin Barry, Summertime, Cradle Song, Song of the Plains, How Proud Our Quiet Don, St. Louis Blues, Swing Low Sweet Chariot and The Little Black Boy are among the 25 tracks selected on this new CD playing time 71.15. Paul Robeson once said: ‘The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.’ Several tracks include Lawrence Brown on piano.


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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.


- Charles Dickens


75075 MAKE DO AND MEND: Keeping Family and Home Afloat on War Rations


foreword by Jill Norman Save fuel, looking after your woollens, reinforce clothing for extra wear, more on saving pennies with electricity and fuel for cooking, rules for sheet repairs, replacing buttons and repairing trousers, making slippers for the family, altering clothes, deft darns, preventing moth


damage, patching a carpet, washing hints, refurbishing and recycling - all this advice is still relevant today. Never before published in book form, here is a nostalgic collection of original facsimile leaflets issued by the Government, jolly propaganda for the millions of people who had to make do as best they could when clothes, shoes and household goods were rationed. Facsimile reprint, original colours restored. 160pp. £9.99 NOW £4


74460 MRS DOLBY’S MEMORY MAGIC by Karen Dolby


Language, spelling, general knowledge, history, maths, science, sport, geography, astronomy - absolutely anything - Karen shows us a variety of proven techniques so you can discover which one works for you. Here are techniques employed by memory experts, how actors remember their lines, the


actual electro-mechanics of how the brain stores memories. Here are many much cherished mnemonics and rhymes and great many more that were new to us. Illus. 273pp.


£9.99 NOW £3 74510 RESEARCHING THE HISTORY OF A


COUNTRY HOUSE by Richard Goodenough In this invaluable guide to methods and resources, the author uses his own country house, Trimworth in Kent, as a case study. The present Trimworth appears to have started life as a medieval hall-house, and was substantially rebuilt in the 17th century. Written records include place names, Anglo-Saxon charters, the Domesday book, chancery rolls, post-mortem records and parish registers. The author has a table showing the dateline for major sources: for instance, rates were first levied around 1500, fire insurance records started in 1680, and telephone directories were first produced in the 1880s. Maps, plans and surveys, tithe maps, railway maps and sewer records. 164pp, photos, maps. £17.99 NOW £4


LITERATURE


There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.


- P. G. Wodehouse 74986 RICHARD LEDERER’S


CLASSIC LITERARY TRIVIA by Richard Lederer Grouped into three: The Bible, Mythology and Shakespeare. Good words from the good book, holy Moses, test your mythology IQ, mythic headlines, and the world of Shakespeare, living Will, bomb- Bard-ment, a man of many titles and not a passing phrase. In the


words of Oscar Wilde: ‘Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognise the quotations.’ All for one, one for all, to the manor born, more in sorrow than in anger, cudgel thy brains to complete the expressions that first saw the light in the other plays of William Shakespeare. Thankfully with answers, this is a literary lover’s delightful volume full of games, facts, riddles and jokes. 112pp in paperback. Illus.


£4.99 NOW £3


74933 AS I WALKED OUT ONE MIDSUMMER MORNING by Laurie Lee


‘I was 19 years old, still soft at the edges, but with a confident belief in good fortune. I carried a small rolled-up tent, a violin in a blanket, a change of clothes, a tin of treacle biscuits, and some cheese. I was excited, vain-glorious, knowing I had far to go...’ Laurie Lee’s sequel to Cider with Rosie is written with


the excitement and wonder of a 20 year old, but infused with the wisdom of a young adult evoking the ambiance and tension of Europe on the eve of the Second World War. 1936 was the end of innocence and Lee innocently but inexorably becomes entangled in the passionate, violent and bloody struggle that was the Spanish Civil War. We travel with him from London into Spain, to Valladolid, Segovia, Madrid, Toledo, east to Málaga and to Almuñécar and on into war. 200 page paperback reprint of the 1969 original text. Map.


$15.95 NOW £6


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75055 THE HUNDRED DAYS by Joseph Roth


By the author of ‘The Antichrist’ and ‘The Radetzky March’ this is Roth’s story of Bonaparte’s last snatch at glory. It is framed both through the eyes of Bonaparte himself and those of his long-infatuated Corsican laundress, Angelina, with rather more said by her about the Emperor’s dirty handkerchiefs than the Duke of Wellington. The novel


provides an arch and moving look at Napoleon’s seemingly triumphant return to Paris from exile in March 1815. Before one hundred days have elapsed however, fate and war have squashed his ambitions and shattered the life of his laundress. Out of print in English for 70 years, this is a unique and unforgettable period piece in which Napoleon comes crashing down to earth. 219pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £6


74726 SO LONG AS MEN CAN BREATHE: The Untold Story of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Clinton Heylin


Fans of Shakespeare or book lore or Elizabethan gossip will find this book a vivid history that is also grippingly entertaining. Written by a noted pop culture historian and biographer, it depicts the monopolising grip that the Stationers’ Company had on English publishing, and the ‘unholy


alliance’ of Thomas Thorpe - publisher, George Eld - ‘booklegger’ extraordinaire and William Aspley - mysterious bookseller. The author also nominates the likely source of the stolen copy they used. The result is not only a fascinating look into the world of Elizabethan publishing but also the revelation that Shakespeare neither authorized nor knew about the first publication of the Sonnets. But that is not all. Also on this entertaining menu are an adversarial debate on the autobiographical nature of the poems and a chart of their many editions. 280 pages with author’s note, list of abbreviations, end notes and all of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets.


$24 NOW £7


74973 MARK TWAIN’S MEDIEVAL ROMANCE


edited by Otto Penzler Another fabulous collection of stories selected by the proprietor of the Mysterious Bookshop, New York, this premier anthology includes tales from Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Aldous Huxley, Frank Stockton, O. Henry and more. Here is Frank Stockton’s famous and unforgettable ‘The Lady, or the Tiger?’ and which


of the two brothers in Stanley Ellin’s ‘Unreasonable Doubt’ shoots a bullet square in the middle of their rich uncle’s forehead? Read the chilling tale that seals an escape artist inside an airless stone cell with a heavy wooden door. These devious, classic stories leave you, the reader, to determine how they each end. 301pp.


£18.99 NOW £6


74671 MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO


by Ann Radcliffe A classic early Gothic novel considered a landmark in the realm of psychological fiction. Set in 1584, the tale unfolds amid the secret chambers of a chateau in southern France and a castle in the remote Apennines populated by pirates, brigands, ghosts and spectres. Emily St. Aubert, imprisoned by her rapacious


guardian Count Montoni and his sadistic wife, struggles to reconcile her father’s teachings of reserve and moderation with her own reckless passions. Her condition offers a haunting and hypnotic pre-Freudian exploration of psyche. A bestseller on publication in 1794 and was satirised in Northanger Abbey. Unabridged facsimile reprint, 620pp in paperback.


£9.99 NOW £4


74692 ROMANTIC POETS AND THEIR CIRCLE:


National Portrait Gallery Insights


by Richard Holmes In an assessment of an extraordinary generation of poets and the impact of their work on contemporary culture and society, Richard Holmes’ engaging text explores the portraits and the lives of 28 writers and artists of the


stature of Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats and the circle that formed around Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William and Dorothy Wordsworth in the early 19th century. As a bonus, there are also sections on The Unknown Romantics, which reveals writers who were later to become famous, and The Forgotten Romantics, who include such obscure names as Mary Blachford and Elizabeth Inchbald, all of whom produced major works. The popular ideal of the ‘inspired’ artist - beautiful, brooding and damned - owes its origin to the writers and artists of this Romantic Period. They revolutionised English art and literature, transforming the public’s understanding of creativity and the individual imagination. It was a society of, on the one hand self- confidence and elegance, on the other violence and dissolution. Portraiture flourished, and the celebrity of both male and female artists grew, while literary reputations rose and fell with dizzy speed. A subtle analysis of Romantic genius. 112 pages full of illustrations in colour and b/w, with biographies. 21 x 15cm, first edition 2005. ONLY £8


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75119 THE RASCAL by Cecil Aldin


First published in 1905 as ‘A Gay Dog’ and in New York as ‘A Conceited Puppy’, the sub-title of our British perennial bestselling edition is ‘Episodes in the Life of A Bulldog Pup’. The puppy enters the social whirl of Edwardian London. Beautiful and charming, he becomes the darling


of an actress, enjoys the races at Ascot, goes punting at the Henley Regatta and holidays in Ostend. Disaster leads to discovery of new pleasures of country living, strolling across a field to greet a curious horned horse - spotty and clumsy - and a Comedian Bird. Classic old-style Punch comedy pictured by the greatest of all dog illustrators, Cecil Aldin. Full page colour illus.


£8.99 NOW £4 50173 PUPPY DOG’S


TALES by Cecil Aldin Scamp the Mongrel, Poppy, so- called because of her red colouring and Snowball, the white terrier, were loveable rascals always looking for adventure and a stolen snack. Then there was Bill, the bob-tailed pup, who tugged at the heartstrings as he sought friendship but was scorned


because of his truncated rear-end. They were among the early stars of a series of eagerly-awaited books issued each year in time for Christmas in the decade before the 1914-18 war. Now in a special edition of selections by Roy Heron, they join the other re-issued Cecil Aldin classics, A Dog Day code 50171 and The Rascal. 96pp, full page colour illus. Perennial bestseller.


£8.99 NOW £4 50171 A DOG DAY


by Walter Emanuel Illustrated by Cecil Aldin, this little classic is indeed the best loved dog book of all time. Who could resist a dog who managed to wind a whole household round his paw while committing sins that deserve the harshest punishment? Greedy, always looking out for the main chance,


not above taking revenge on the one person in the house who does not like him, he remains utterly appealing. Cecil Aldin’s pictures bring him vibrantly alive, captivating generations of children and adults alike. First published in 1902, the loveable scamp is reprinted in this beautiful facsimile edition. Colour. £8.99 NOW £4


75336 CECIL ALDIN: Set of Three by Cecil Aldin


Buy all three hardbacks and save even more. £26.97 NOW £8


74965 HOPKINS: The Mystic Poet preface by the Rev Thomas Ryan


Gerard Manley Hopkins, Christian mystical poet, is beloved for his use of fresh language and startling metaphors to describe the world around him. Beneath the surface of this lovely verse lies a searching soul, wrestling and yearning for God. Hopkins writes from a


Christian background and yet his themes speak to people of all faiths. This beautiful sampling of his poetry presents mystical images of Christ in the natural world, startlingly beautiful poetry about death, family, hope, the heart, with titles like Pied Beauty and I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark. With index of first lines and satin bookmark.


£14.99 NOW £4.50


75001 DALKEY ARCHIVE by Flann O’Brien


In the words of James Joyce, ‘A real writer, with true comic spirit.’ James Joyce turns up alive and well, serving drinks in an Irish pub and claiming that Ulysses was only a practical joke. St. Augustine is interrogated in an underwater cave where he announces: ‘I was a man that was very easily sunburnt.’ Though a mad scientist named De Selby is bent on destroying the


human race, Mick and Hackett, the only men who can save us, are too preoccupied with the lovely Mary to concentrate on foiling him. Deriding and skewering everyone - scientists, philosophers, writers, drunkards, and priests to name only a few - who think they have the answers, and proving once again that ‘a measure of bewilderment is part of the job of literature’, Flann O’Brien’s last novel is both sublime and ridiculous. A story of metaphysical chaos that has been hailed as ‘the best comic fantasy since Tristram Shandy.’ 204pp in facsimile reprinted paperback of the 1964 original. $12.95 NOW £4.50


73580 WHATEVER IT IS, I DON’T LIKE IT by Howard Jacobson


From the unusual disposal of his father-in-law’s ashes and the cultural wasteland of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, to the melancholy sensuality of Leonard Cohen and the desolation of Wagner’s tragedies, Howard Jacobson writes with all the thunder and joy of a man possessed. Absurdity piles upon absurdity, and glorious sentences accrete to create a uniquely human collection. Chapter


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