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  • Lina & Serge

    The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev

    by Simon Morrison ...
    This account of the renowned composer's neglected wife—including her years in a Soviet prison—is "a story both riveting and wrenching" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Serge Prokofiev was one of the twentieth century's most brilliant composers yet is an enigma to historians and his fans. Why did he leave the West and move to the Soviet Union despite Stalin's crimes? Why did his astonishing ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Kingdom and a Village

    A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow

    by Simon Morrison ...
    **An erudite and entertaining history of Moscow, a city defined by its survival and reinvention, and whose rich history offers crucial insight into contemporary global politics"A magisterial account of Moscow that reveals the city’s history and something of its soul through countless interwoven stories and colorful characters. . . . A gripping and enlightening journey.”—Ben Rhodes, New York Times ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Stories of Hope and Wonder, in Support of UK Healthcare Workers

    by Ian Whates, Adrian Tchaikovsky, M.R. Carey, Tade Thompson, Peter F. Hamilton, Ian McDonald, Adam Roberts, Jaine Fenn, Tim Pears, Frances Hardinge, Lesley Glaister, Stephen Baxter, Christopher Priest, Lauren Beukes, Lavie Tidhar, Jane Rogers, Emmi Itäranta, Ian Watson, Ramsey Campbell, Lisa Tuttle, Priya Sharma, Eric Brown, Simon Clark, Robert Shearman, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Mark Lawrence, Tim Lebbon, RJ Barker, Blake Morrison ...
    An anthology released to raise funds for the NHS and UK Healtcare workers. Fifty-three stories, 253,000 words of fiction, including several pieces that are original to this volume. A treasury of stories from some of the finest writers of science fiction, literary fiction, fantasy, horror, and more.Introduction by Ian WhatesLast Contact – Stephen BaxterSlink-Thinking – Frances HardingeGossamer – ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Bolshoi Confidential

    Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today

    by Simon Morrison ...
    In this enthralling, definitive new history of the Bolshoi Ballet, sensational performances onstage compete with political machinations backstage.On January 17, 2013, a hooded assailant hurled acid into the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, making international headlines. A lead soloist, enraged by institutional power struggles, later confessed to masterminding the crime. The ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mirror in the Sky

    The Life and Music of Stevie Nicks

    by Simon Morrison ...
    A stunning musical biography of Stevie Nicks that paints a portrait of an artist, not a caricature of a superstar.Reflective and expansive, Mirror in the Sky situates Stevie Nicks as one of the finest songwriters of the twentieth century.This biography from distinguished music historian Simon Morrison examines Nicks as a singer and songwriter before and beyond her career with Fleetwood Mac, from ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Transatlantic Drift

    The Ebb and Flow of Dance Music

    by Katie Milestone, Simon A. Morrison ...
    Series series Reverb
    Transatlantic Drift explores the emergence and evolution of nightclubs and electronic dance music from the 1950s onwards. It traces the rhythmic journey of dance music, following the pulse as it bounced between Europe, North America and the Caribbean. Music, dance styles and nightclub spaces are not created in isolation; they are shaped by collective influences and shared experiences. This book ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Dostoevsky’s The Gambler

    The Allure of the Wheel

    by Svetlana Evdokimova, Richard J. Rosenthal, Joachim I. Krueger, David J. Grüning, Robert L. Jackson, Vladimir Golstein, Evgenia Cherkasova, Jeff Love, Octavian Gabor, Andrea Oppo0, Carol Apollonio1, Simon Morrison2 ...
    Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Gambler is one of the most profound literary works to treat the phenomenon of gambling with a remarkable depth of psychological analysis and a wide-ranging cultural and philosophical exploration of obsessive behavior, from addictive gambling to erotic passion. This novel delves into the cultural, psychological, and philosophical issues surrounding games of chance such ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

  • Three Loves for Three Oranges

    Gozzi, Meyerhold, Prokofiev

    by Caryl Emerson, Alberto Beniscelli, Giulietta Bazoli, Domenico Pietropaolo, Ted Emery, Natalya Baldyga, Raissa Raskina, Vadim Shcherbakov, Laurence Senelick, Julia Galanina, Inna Naroditskaya, Natalia Savkina, Simon A. Morrison, John E. Bowlt ...
    Series series East European Music Studies
    In 1921, Sergei Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges**—one of the earliest, most famous examples of modernist opera—premiered in Chicago. Prokofiev's source was a 1913 theatrical divertissement by Vsevolod Meyerhold, who, in turn, took inspiration from Carlo Gozzi's 1761 commedia dell'arte*****–***infused theatrical fairy tale. Only by examining these whimsical, provocative works together can we ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

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    Tchaikovsky's Empire

    A New Life of Russia's Greatest Composer

    by Simon Morrison ...
    Narrated by Daniel Henning ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 49 min

    A thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky—composer of some of the world's most popular orchestral and theatrical musicTchaikovsky is famous for all the wrong reasons. Portrayed as a hopeless romantic, a suffering melancholic, or a morbid obsessive, the Tchaikovsky we think we know is a shadow of the fascinating reality. It is all too easy to forget that he composed an empire's worth of ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Roxy Music's Avalon

    by Simon A. Morrison ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    Having designed Roxy Music as an haute couture suit hand-stitched of punk and progressive music, Bryan Ferry redesigned it. He made Roxy Music ever dreamier and mellower-reaching back to sadly beautiful chivalric romances. Dadaist (punk) noise exited; a kind of ambient soft soul entered. Ferry parted ways with Eno, electric violinist Eddie Jobson, and drummer Paul Thompson, foreswearing the broken ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement, Second Edition

    by Simon Morrison ...
    Acclaimed for treading new ground in operatic studies of the period, Simon Morrison’s influential and now-classic text explores music and the occult during the Russian Symbolist movement. Including previously unavailable archival materials about Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky, this wholly revised edition is both up to date and revelatory. Topics range from decadence to pantheism, musical devilry to ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Dancefloor-Driven Literature

    The Rave Scene in Fiction

    by Simon A. Morrison ...
    Almost as soon as 'club culture' took hold - during the UK's Second Summer of Love in 1988 - its sociopolitical impact became clear, with journalists, filmmakers and authors all keen to use this cultural context as source material for their texts. This book uses that electronic music subculture as a route into an analysis of these principally literary representations of a music culture: why such ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD