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Religion and Art by Richard Wagner
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07"One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion." With these words Richard Wagner began "Religion and Art" (1880), one of his most... -
The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.67A superb new translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems: the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycleThe scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no... -
Beethoven by Richard Wagner 9780371224090
RRP: $18.69Booksplease Price: $18.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371224090Author Richard WagnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint -
Levittown by Richard Wagner 9780738572765
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $22.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738572765Author Richard G. WagnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint -
The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner 9780241422281
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.66A superb new translation of the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycle'Smiling in sorrowI sing of love'The Ring of the Nibelung, Wagner's epic cycle of four musical dramas about primal envy, cosmic... -
Christianity For Dummies Richard Wagner 9780764544828
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.10Get to know the beliefs and practices inspired by Jesus ChristDiscover what it means to be a Christian and follow the gospelCurious about Christianity? This friendly guide helps you understand the... -
Richard Wagner by Ray Furness 9781780231822
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.65With their complex textures, rich harmonies and elaborate use of leitmotifs, the operas of Richard Wagner (1813 - 83) remain some of the most influential - and contentious - in the history of the... -
Opera and Drama by Richard Wagner 9780803297654
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.47With Richard Wagner, opera reached the apex of German Romanticism. Originally published in 1851, when Wagner was in political exile, Opera and Drama outlines a new, revolutionary type of musical... -
Richard Wagner by Frederic Taber Cooper 9780461621402
RRP: $21.37Booksplease Price: $21.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461621402Author Frederic Taber CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 284 -
Judaism in Music and Other Essays by Richard Wagner
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.47Musical genius, polemicist, explosive personality-that was the nineteenth-century German composer Richard Wagner, who paid as much attention to his reputation as to his genius. Often maddening, and... -
Richard Wagner and Buddhism by Urs App 9783906000008
RRP: $19.97Booksplease Price: $19.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906000008Author Urs AppFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint -
Jesus of Nazareth and Other Writings by Richard Wagner
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92Near the end of his life, Richard Wagner supervised the publication of his collected writings, providing an extensive view of his thoughts about art and politics from his youth to his final period of... -
Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung: A Companion by Richard Wagner
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.99This is the first literal, word-for-word translation of Wagner's epic masterwork with the full German text. Stewart Spencer's version is at once reliable and readable, adhering closely to the... -
Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays by Richard Wagner
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98"Saint Beethoven!. . . . He was clad in somewhat untidy houseclothes, with a red woolen scarf wrapped round his waist; long, bushy grey hair hung in disorder from his head, and his gloomy, forbidding... -
Richard Wagner: The Sorcerer of Bayreuth by Barry Millington
RRP: $33.43Booksplease Price: $24.63Published in the run-up to the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth in 2013, and written by one of the most distinguished Wagner scholars in the world, this will be the Wagner book of the... -
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg) by Richard Wagner
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $12.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847495587Author Richard WagnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
Der Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman) by Richard Wagner
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $14.58Der fliegende Hollander is the first of Wagner's operas that the author considered to be representative of his mature style. The Dutchman embodies one of the major themes that recur throughout... -
The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner by Michael Tanner
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Richard Wagner remains, almost 130 years after his death, the most controversial composer in the history of music. Creator of huge and hugely ambitious operas, which have an immense immediate impact,... -
The Faber Pocket Guide to Opera: New Edition by Rupert Christiansen
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37This new edition of leading opera critic Rupert Christiansen's perennially popular Pocket Guide has between extensively revised, and incorporates many more operas from all periods, including recent... -
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The Rhetoric of Cultural Dialogue: Jews and Germans from Moses Mendelssohn to Richard Wagner and Beyond by 9780804736220 [USED COPY]
RRP: $85.76Booksplease Price: $1.68In this groundbreaking work, the author effects the first extended rhetorical-philosophical reading of the historically problematic relationship between Jews and Germans, based on an analysis of... -
My Life with Wagner Christian Thielemann 9781780228372
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83'Idiosyncratic, humorous, enlightening and written by one of the finest conductors alive ... This is the book to buy if you are going to see Wagner or listen to him at home' LITERARY REVIEWOver a... -
Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives by Albert Einstein 9780691160238
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.78Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in this illuminating selection of personal papers from the Albert Einstein Archives. The illustrious physicist wrote as thoughtfully... -
Story of the Century: Wagner and the creation of The Ring Michael Downes 9780571372003
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A PRESTO BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024'Gripping.' FINANCIAL TIMES'Breathtaking.' SIMON CALLOW'Vivid.' BBC MUSIC MAGAZINEA colourful and concise telling of the fascinating story behind Richard Wagner's... -
Understanding the Leitmotif: From Wagner to Hollywood Film Music by Matthew Bribitzer-Stull 9781107485464
Booksplease Price: $59.34The musical leitmotif, having reached a point of particular forcefulness in the music of Richard Wagner, has remained a popular compositional device up to the present day. In this book, Matthew... -
Selected Writings on Art and Literature by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Before publishing the sensuous and scandalous poems of Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) had already earned respect as a forthright and witty critic of art and literature. This... -
The Nibelungenlied by A. Hatto
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Written by an unknown author in the twelfth century, this powerful tale of murder and revenge reaches back to the earliest epochs of German antiquity, transforming centuries-old legend into a... -
Human, All Too Human & Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $5.21Human, All Too Human (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a moment of crisis in his life (no longer a friend of Richard Wagner, forced... -
Tristan with the 'Tristran' of Thomas by Gottfried Von Strassburg
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37One of the great romances of the Middle Ages, Tristan, written in the early thirteenth century, is based on a medieval love story of grand passion and deceit. By slaying a dragon, the young prince... -
The Metropolitan Opera Murders by Helen Traubel
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $15.70When the prompter falls dead during the second act of Richard Wagner's Die Walkure during a matinee performance at the Metropolitan Opera, as one can imagine, it causes quite a stir, especially when... -
The Complete Operas Of Puccini by Charles Osborne
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.76While Puccini wrote only twelve operas during a long life,three of them one-acters designed to be performed together,he has to be ranked today as the world's most popular composer of opera. His La... -
Norse Myths: Viking Legends of Heroes and Gods by Martin J. Dougherty
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.45The stories of Thor, Odin and Loki are familiar to most of us. Many people know that the Norse gods fought against giants and were ultimately betrayed by Loki the trickster. The end of the world and... -
Ecce Homo: How To Become What You Are by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45'I am not a man, I am dynamite.' Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to... -
The Book of Revelation For Dummies Larry R. Helyer 9781394370825
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $20.92An approachable guide to the Apocalypse of John The Book of Revelation For Dummies, 2nd Edition walks you through one of the Bible's most fascinating, complex, and extraordinary books. Revelation,... -
The Waste Land by Martin Rowson 9780857420411
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $16.54In Martin Rowson's "The Waste Land", private detective Chris Marlowe is tasked with getting to the bottom of the most impenetrable of all modernist mysteries: namely T. S. Eliot's "The Wasteland"... -
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.84'An absolutely masterly work' Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground... -
Tomorrow's Eve by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Booksplease Price: $26.96Take one inventive genius indebted to the friend who saved his life; add an English aristocrat hopelessly consumed with a selfish and spiritually bankrupt woman; stir together with a Faustian pact to... -
Unfashionable Observations: Volume 2 by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $28.33This new translation is the first to be published in a twenty-volume English-language edition of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, the first complete, critical, and annotated translation of... -
In Conversation with Klaus Dermutz by Anselm Kiefer 9781803090382
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48In the ten conversations with the writer and theologian Klaus Dermutz collected here, Kiefer returns to the essential elements of his art, his aesthetics, and his creative processes. The only visual... -
Like a Bat Out of Hell: The Larger than Life Story of Meat Loaf Mick Wall 9781409173557
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'A passionate, pacey tome you should do anything for a copy of' - Kerrang! "I never wanted to be a big star. I just wanted to be the biggest at what I do! Powerful, unstoppable, heavy - when that... -
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Like a Bat Out of Hell: The Larger than Life Story of Meat Loaf by Mick Wall 9781409173557 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.22'A passionate, pacey tome you should do anything for a copy of' - Kerrang! "I never wanted to be a big star. I just wanted to be the biggest at what I do! Powerful, unstoppable, heavy - when that...