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| Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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Robert K. Massie.
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| Publisher: Random House. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780345408778. Daedalus Item Code: 29372 |
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| (Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction) The Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and the Romanov family here relates the ... (Read More)
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| Charles Ives Remembered: An Oral History
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Vivian Perlis. J. Peter Burkholder, foreword.
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| Publisher: Illinois. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780252070785. Daedalus Item Code: 12528 |
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| Charles Ives (1874–1954) was publicly an insurance executive but privately a composer whose eccentric works and paradoxical life would intrigue, perplex, and inspire generations to come after him. ... (Read More)
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| The Contemplated Spouse: The Letters of Wallace Stevens to Elsie
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J. Donald Blount, ed.
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| Publisher: South Carolina. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781570032486. Daedalus Item Code: 23709 |
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| Here in a single volume are the 272 extant letters written by Wallace Stevens to the woman with whom he shared his life, Elsie Viola Kachel. Written over 25 years, the correspondence reflects Elsie's ... (Read More)
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| Dali: Life & Times Series
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Linde Salber. Anne Wyburd, trans.
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| Publisher: Haus Publishing. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781904341758. Daedalus Item Code: 24023 |
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| In this translation of Linde Salber's 2004 psychological profile of Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), the artist emerges as the central figure of the surrealist movement and one of the most eccentric ... (Read More)
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| Dante's Invention
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James Burge.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780752455860. Daedalus Item Code: 30436 |
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| A self-absorbed young poet who composed rarefied verse about the nature of love, Dante Alighieri seemed entirely uninterested in anything other than Beatrice, the girl he had loved since they were ... (Read More)
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| Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
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Bob Spitz.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780307473417. Daedalus Item Code: 38566 |
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| (A Washington Post, NPR, and Time Magazine Best Book of 2012) A genuine rebel who took the pretensions that embellished French cuisine and fricasseed them to a fare-thee-well, ... (Read More)
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| Dvorak: Life & Times Series
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Kurt Honolka. Anne Wyburd, trans.
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| Publisher: Haus Publishing. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781904341529. Daedalus Item Code: 24024 |
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| Originally published in Germany in 1974, Kurt Honolka's biography of Antonín Dvorák (1841–1904) weaves the story of his life and his founding of a Czech national musical form into the tapestry of ... (Read More)
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| Dylan Thomas in America
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John Malcolm Brinnin.
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| Publisher: Prion. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781853753787. Daedalus Item Code: 03940 |
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| When the celebrated Welsh poet Dylan Thomas arrived in New York on his first visit, in 1950, for a tour of poetry readings around the country, America didn't know what had hit it. Angelic, devilish, ... (Read More)
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| Even to the Edge of Doom: A Love That Survived the Holocaust
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William and Rosalie Schiff & Craig Hanley.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780752460390. Daedalus Item Code: 30467 |
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| In 1943, William and Rosalie Schiff were married in the Kraków ghetto at the height of World War II, but were soon separated by the Nazis and sent on individual journeys through war-torn Poland. ... (Read More)
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| Exiles
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Michael J. Arlen.
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| Publisher: FSG. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780374532604. Daedalus Item Code: 21691 |
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| (National Book Award nominee) The story of two glamorous people—Countess Atalanta Mercati, a beautiful aristocrat, and Michael Arlen, an Armenian immigrant and one of the most popular authors ... (Read More)
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| Fine and Dandy: The Life and Work of Kay Swift
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Vicki Ohl.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300102611. Daedalus Item Code: 11734 |
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| Kay Swift (1897–1993) was one of the few women composers active on Broadway in the first half of the 20th century. Best known as George Gershwin's assistant, musical adviser, and intimate friend, ... (Read More)
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