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The Tempest (The Pelican Shakespeare) 39 reviews
William Shakespeare
Penguin Classics, 1999
Excellent activity based edition
+ helpful
+ Excellent edition for students.
+ The storms that lead us to "ourselves."
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Modern Library MM) 1 review
Victor Hugo
Modern Library, 2004
Romanticism at its best
Victor Hugo, the French poet and writer, who wished to change how novels were written and read, wrote The Hunchback of Notra-Dame in the beginning of his career. In contrast to Les Miserables, which is his more celebrated work, and was written several decades after the Notra-dame novel, the present ...
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Beethoven: The Late String Quartets1 review
Ludwig van Beethoven, Emerson String Quartet
Deutsche Grammophon, 2003
Supreme recordings of Beethovens late string quartets
The Emerson String Quartet combine a strength of performance at the same time giving the listener subtle shades of color producing one of the supreme recordings of Beethovens late string quartets ever. They've almost done the unattainable, by producing a new approach to this old musical literature, ...
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Lolita 449 reviews
Vladimir Nabokov
Vintage, 1989
A road movie of the mind
+ Beautiful writing confronts crude subject matter--A masterpiece
+ Upends your preconceptions and prejudices
+ Which book did you read?
+ The Most Beautiful Novel Ever Written
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Don Giovanni12 reviews
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Rene Jacobs, ...
Harmonia Mundi (France), 2007
Mozart... not as we are used to it... better!!!
+ Great performances in all areas
+ Don Giovanni
Over recent years there have been several releases of Don Giovanni on CD... Keenlyside with Abbado, Gilfry with Gardiner, Terfel with Solti, the list goes on... but none compared with the greatest of all... the classic Guilini set with Sutherland, Schwarzkopf and Wachter. This recording had life, ...
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Les Miserables (Everyman's Library)13 reviews
Victor Hugo
Everyman's Library, 1998
An Inspiring Masterpiece
+ Better than War and Peace
+ Excellent classic translation, but other good ones also exist
+ An absolute must...
+ Incredible
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Pelican Shakespeare)
William Shakespeare
Penguin Classics, 2000
"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who ...
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Pale Fire (Everyman's Library (Cloth))86 reviews
Vladimir Nabokov
Everyman's Library, 1992
brilliant
+ everyman's decisions
+ Enjoyable at Multiple Levels
+ Mind bending!
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King Lear (The Pelican Shakespeare)
William Shakespeare
Penguin Classics, 2000
With new editors who have incorporated the most up-to-date scholarship, this revised Pelican Shakespeare series will be the premiere choice for students, professors, and general readers well into the twenty-first century. Each volume features: Authoritative, reliable texts High quality introductions and notes New, more readable trade trim size An essay on the theatrical world of ...
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Speak, Memory (Everyman's Library (Cloth))45 reviews
Vladimir Nabokov, Brian Boyd
Everyman's Library, 1999
A Display Case of Butterflies
+ perfect harmony of intellect, senses and emotion
+ The Place of Consciousness
+ Superlative autobiography
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Later Short Stories, 1888-1903 (Modern Library)6 reviews
Anton Chekhov
Modern Library, 1999
Finally
+ The master of realistic short fiction
+ Chekhov: The Great Humanist
+ Bloodied but unbowed
+ Not entirely the best selection of the uncannily modern C.
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Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)14 reviews
Marcel Proust
Penguin Classics, 2004
Immerse yourself in a rich, dense world of descriptive thought
+ new translation of "Swan's Way"
+ Best Read I've Had In A While
+ Lush inside and out
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Mozart: Die Zauberflote29 reviews
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Otto Klemperer, ...
EMI Classics, 2000
A glorious achievement, brimming with magic and wonder
+ At the top of the pile
+ It comes with libretto
+ Impressive cast, but...
+ Recommendable only for the female voices
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Beethoven: Die Späten Klaviersonaten24 reviews
Ludwig van Beethoven, Maurizio Pollini
Deutsche Grammophon, 1997
The best Late Sonatas
+ Late Beethoven doesn't get any better than this
+ Fidelity as the pathway to transcendence
+ Intentional, not Willful
+ JUST ANOTHER INTERESTING VERSION(s)
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Hamlet (The Pelican Shakespeare)4 reviews
William Shakespeare
Penguin Classics, 2001
Pelican Ed. good for experienced readers of Shakespeare
+ Its Hamlet
+ it's settled.
+ You will be absorbed into the story
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Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic9 reviews
Henry David Thoreau, Scot Miller
Houghton Mifflin, 2004
Revisiting Walden
+ Walden: 150 Anniversary Illustrated Edition
+ Lovely
+ SUMPTUOUS SIGHTS & TIMELESS TRANSCENDENTAL TEXT
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Longer Stories from the Last Decade (Modern Library)3 reviews
Anton Chekhov
Modern Library, 2000
Everything's here
+ The world's shortest great novels.
+ .
Since the previous volumes of the Modern Library Chekhov were titled Early and Late (with the Late ending with his death), I had thought that they were the complete series. My review on the Later Stories actually had a small complaint that precisely these longer stories were missing. Well, this is ...
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Mozart - Le nozze di Figaro / Gens · Ciofi · Kirchschlager · Regazzo · Keenlyside · McLaughlin · van Rensburg ...19 reviews
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Véronique Gens, ...
Harmonia Mundi Fr., 2004
Strong ensemble work, some excellent singer, generally strong and even cast.
+ Supremely enjoyable to listen
+ A masterpiece heard anew
+ Good Recording But Not The Best There Is!
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Beethoven: Symphonies 6, 8 & 9; Carlo Maria Giulini; London Symphony Orchestra8 reviews
Shelia Armstrong, Robert Tear, ...
EMI Classics, 2004
The BEST and ULTIMATE interpretation of Symphony No. 9 "Choral"
+ Superb Value
+ Beethoven's Ninth
+ Two Of My Three Favorite Beethoven Symphonies
+ A steal
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 6, 17 & 21 / Géza Anda7 reviews
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Géza Anda
Deutsche Grammophon, 1996
Concerto recordings that would have pleased Mozart himself
+ What leaves a lasting impression
+ Extraordinary
+ Great Performance
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