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  • Music at the Limits

    by Edward Said ...
    Music at the Limits is the first book to bring together three decades of Edward W. Said's essays and articles on music. Addressing the work of a variety of composers, musicians, and performers, Said carefully draws out music's social, political, and cultural contexts and, as a classically trained pianist, provides rich and often surprising assessments of classical music and opera.Music at the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography

    by Edward Said ...
    Edward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal disintegration in his constant re-narration of the past. Using the author's personal letters as a guide to understanding his fiction, Said draws an important parallel between Conrad's view of his own life and the manner and form of his stories. The critic also argues that the author, who set his fiction in exotic locations like East Asia and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Said on Opera

    by Edward Said ...
    One of the late twentieth century’s most celebrated and influential public intellectuals, Edward W. Said was also a critic of astonishing range. This book presents his insightful and elegant analyses of four major operas—originally delivered as the Empson Lectures at Cambridge University in 1997—showcasing the power of Said’s critical acumen to unsettle canonical interpretations.In close readings ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Freud And The Non-European

    by Edward Said, Jacqueline Rose ...
    Series Book 8 - Radical Thinkers
    Banned by the Freud institute in Vienna, this controversial lecture eventually became Edward Said’s final book. Freud and the Non-European builds on Said’s abiding interest in the psychoanalyst’s work to examine Freud’s assumption that Moses was an Egyptian and from there explore the limits of identity. Such an unresolved, nuanced sense of identity, Said argues, might one day form the basis for a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Little Mountain

    by Elias Khoury ...
    Translated by Maia Tabet ...
    Written in the opening phases of the Lebanese Civil War (1975--1990), Little Mountain is told from the perspectives of three characters: a Joint Forces fighter; a distressed civil servant; and an amorphous figure, part fighter, part intellectual. Elias Khoury's language is poetic and piercing as he tells the story of Beirut, civil war, and fractured identity. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • The Ninth

    Beethoven and the World in 1824

    by Harvey Sachs ...
    The premier of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year—and the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential compositions in the history of music. Described in vibrant detail by eminent musicologist Harvey Sachs, this symbol of freedom and joy was so unorthodox that it amazed and confused listeners at its ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Bookseller Of Kabul

    The International Bestseller - 'An intimate portrait of Afghani people quite unlike any other' SUNDAY TIMES

    by Åsne Seierstad ...
    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'An intimate portrait of Afghani people quite unlike any other . . . compelling' CHRISTINA LAMB, SUNDAY TIMESFor more than twenty years Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul, defied the authorities - be they communist or Taliban - to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned by the communists and watched illiterate Taliban soldiers ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • A History of Opera

    The Last Four Hundred Years

    by Carolyn Abbate, Roger Parker ...
    Opera is in many ways the most extraordinary artistic medium of the last four hundred years. Prohibitively expensive and patently unrealistic, it can nevertheless paint the human passions with astonishing power and drama. This book, the first new, full-length, single-volume history of opera for more than a generation provokes in-depth discussions of many works by the greatest opera composers, from ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • My Road from Damascus

    A Memoir

    by Jamal Saeed ...
    Translated by Catherine Cobham ...
    Finalist for the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction“A lyrical, extremely rich narrative of loss, memory, and trauma.” — STARRED review, Kirkus ReviewsAn extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity — and yet, there is a poetic quality to the telling.” — Frances Itani, award-winning author of Deafening and ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oxford History of Western Music

    5-vol. set

    by Richard Taruskin ...
    The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective, this text sets the details of music, the ... Read more

    $686.39 CAD

  • The Red-Haired Woman

    by Orhan Pamuk ...
    From the Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author of Snow, Museum of Innocence and My Name Is Red, a timeless and absorbing fable of fathers and sons.On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well-digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating without luck metre by metre, the two will develop a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Beethoven: The Music and the Life

    The Music and the Life

    by Lewis Lockwood ...
    An authoritative work offering a fresh look at Beethoven’s life, career, and milieu. “Magisterial” —New York Review of Books.This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts. Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent personal, historical, political, and cultural frameworks in which Beethoven worked and examines their effects on ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD