Foreword by David Daiches with an additional essay, ‘Promised Lands’. In this captivating autobiography of his childhood and student years David Daiches recalls a unique period between the two world wars.
In Beatrice Miller's masterful transcription of Tchaikovsky's most-beloved work, the popular themes undergo several transformations that capture the spirit of the symphonic score.
A work by an eminent critic which addresses itself to values in literature, and attempts to answer the simple and elusive question, Why read a work of imaginative literature?
"THE PARADOX OF TRAGEDY by D. D. Raphael Why do we enjoy tragic drama with its themes of death and disaster? This volume proposes some provocative new answers to this perennial puzzle.