5 Best music books like La Traviata (Overture Opera Guides) by Giuseppe Verdi

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La Traviata (Overture Opera Guides)

By: Giuseppe Verdi

4.15

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A complete guide to Giuseppe Verdi's 18th opera, showing him at the height of his middle-period pow…

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1. The Power of the Dog

By: Thomas Savage , Annie Proulx

4.18

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

First published in 1967, Thomas Savage's western novel about two brothers now includes an afterword… read more

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"Fate punishes the proud, and dashes hope"

-Thomas Savage, The Power of the Dog

"He taught me that if you’ve got guts, you can do any damned thing, guts and patience. Impatience is a costly commodity, Pete."

-Thomas Savage, The Power of the Dog

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2. The Pirates of Penzance

By: W.S. Gilbert , Arthur Sullivan

4.04

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

(Vocal Score). The Pirates of Penzance , premiered in 1879, confirmed the comic genius of librettis… read more

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  • music
  • classics
  • theatre
  • plays
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"Oh, dry the glistening tear that dues that marshal cheek Thy loving childern here in them thy comfort seek With sympathetic care their arms around the creep, For oh they can not bear to see their fat…"

-W.S. Gilbert, The Pirates of Penzance

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3. Der Richter und sein Henker

By: Friedrich Dürrenmatt , John J. Neumaier , William Gillis

3.70

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

«Dicevi che è da stupidi compiere un delitto, perché non è possibile muovere gli uomini come figure… read more

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  • german literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • school
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4. The Bacchae

By: Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None

3.92

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently h… read more

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  • plays
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"Cleverness is not wisdom."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"He who believes needs no explanation."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!"

-Euripides, The Bacchae

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5. The Little Mermaid

By: Hans Christian Andersen , Anthea Bell , Lisbeth Zwerger

3.98

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

From Book Synopsis: Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 language… read more

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  • classics
"But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more."

-Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

"...and she put a wreath of white lilies round her hair, but every petal of the flowers was half a pearl;"

-Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

"Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater."

-Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

"At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man."

-Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

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6. Carmen

By: Prosper Mérimée

2.50

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Carmen is a novella by Prosper Merimee, written & 1st published in 1845. It has been adapted into a… read more

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  • music
  • classics
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7. Poesía completa

By: Alejandra Pizarnik , Ana María Becciu

2.74

Format: None pages,

Publicamos la obra poetica completa de una de las escritoras argentinas mas emblematicas de la segu… read more

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  • classics
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8. The Shadow-Line

By: Joseph Conrad , Jeremy Hawthorn

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

Written in 1915, The Shadow-Lineis based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlie… read more

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  • classics
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9. The Fran Lebowitz Reader

By: Fran Lebowitz

3.77

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

Fran Lebowitz in Public Speaking A Martin Scorsese Picture Now an HBO(r) Documentary Film The Fran … read more

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10. The Betrothed

By: Alessandro Manzoni , Bruce Penman

3.85

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

Gyldendal-klassiker. Med utgivelsen av Alessandro Manzonis Dei trulovade i Gyldendals nye klassiker… read more

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  • italy
  • novels
  • classics
  • italian literature
"Costui, [...] un giorno osò rivolgerle il discorso. La sventurata rispose."

-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed

"One the advantages about this life is that you can hate someone without knowing him"

-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed

"He who utters falsehoods to the [lawyer] is a fool who will tell the truth to the judge."

-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed

"Non si può spiegare quanto sia grande l'autorità d'un dotto di professione, allorché vuol dimostrare agli altri le cose di cui sono già persuasi."

-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed

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11. Don Giovanni in Full Score

By: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Opera and Choral Scores

3.81

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

This is the complete orchestral and vocal score of Mozart's Don Giovanni, considered by many to be … read more

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  • music
  • italy
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12. Der Besuch der alten Dame

By: Friedrich Dürrenmatt

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

>>Claire Zachanassian, eine amerikanische Multimillionarin, kehrt in ihr Heimatdorf Gullen zuruck, … read more

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  • german literature
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13. If This Is a Man / The Truce

By: Primo Levi , Stuart J. Woolf , Paul Bailey

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

'With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, d… read more

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14. Pelleas and Melisande

By: Maurice Maeterlinck

4.14

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

"A superior variation on the admirable old melodrama", said Mallarme about Pelleas. The plot does s… read more

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15. Love Is a Dog from Hell

By: Charles Bukowski

3.79

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski's personal experiences reflect people, objects, places,… read more

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16. The Leopard

By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun

4.01

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more

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  • italy
  • novels
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"While there’s death there’s hope"

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

17. Emilia Galotti: Ein Trauerspiel in fünf Aufzügen

By: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Mit dem 1772 erschienenen und uraufgefuhrten Drama Emilia Galotti schuf Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ei… read more

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18. Songs of Innocence and of Experience

By: William Blake

4.09

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an collection of poems by William Blake. Note: For a com… read more

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  • classics
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"Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face;"

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door."

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires."

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"Can I see anothers woe, And not be in sorrow too. Can I see anothers grief, And not seek for kind relief. - On Anothers Sorrow "

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

19. The Medium is the Massage

By: Marshall McLuhan , Quentin Fiore , Jerome Agel

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Medium is the Massageis Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presenta… read more

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20. The Castle of Crossed Destinies

By: Italo Calvino

5.00

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are … read more

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21. Eveline

By: James Joyce

3.74

Format: 168 pages,

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22. The Glass Menagerie

By: Tennessee Williams

4.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

The story of a mother, her son and daughter, and her daughter's suitor that brings to life human be… read more

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23. Goodbye to Berlin

By: Christopher Isherwood

3.95

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Chrisopther Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not… read more

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24. La Dame aux Camélias

By: Alexandre Dumas fils , David Coward

4.04

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

One of the greatest love stories of all time, this novel has fascinated generations of readers. Dum… read more

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  • novels
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"Had she stabbed me with a knife, she could not have hurt me more."

-Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias

"Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire."

-Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias

"We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down."

-Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias

"La vida es maravillosa, querido. Depende del color del cristal con que se mira"

-Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias

25. Novecento. Un monologo

By: Alessandro Baricco

3.37

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Il Virginianera un piroscafo. Negli anni tra le due guerre faceva la spola tra Europa e America, co… read more

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26. Greek Lessons

By: Han Kang

3.47

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more

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"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

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27. Why We're Polarized

By: Ezra Klein

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means f… read more

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"Unfortunately, the term “identity politics"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

"The key idea here is “negative partisanship"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

"So here, then, is the last fifty years of American politics summarized: we became more consistent in the party we vote for not because we came to like our party more—indeed, we’ve come to like the pa…"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

"The political media is biased, but not toward the Left or Right so much as toward loud, outrageous, colorful, inspirational, confrontational. It is biased toward the political stories and figures who…"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

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28. La Traviata (Overture Opera Guides)

By: Giuseppe Verdi

4.15

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A complete guide to Giuseppe Verdi's 18th opera, showing him at the height of his middle-period pow… read more

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  • theatre
  • italian literature
  • novels
  • plays
  • drama
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29. Turandot: Full Score (Ricordi Opera Full Scores)

By: Giacomo Puccini

4.42

Format: 461 pages, Paperback

(Opera). Ricordi is proud to present the first titles in their new series of orchestral scores feat… read more

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  • music
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"Love is in vain if Luck isn’t there! / Vano è l’amorese non c’è fortuna!"

-Giacomo Puccini, Turandot: Full Score (Ricordi Opera Full Scores)

"آن چیست که همچون آتش جرقه می زند و گرما می بخشد اما آتش نیست؟ **جاکومو پوچینی اپرای توراندخت"

-Giacomo Puccini, Turandot: Full Score (Ricordi Opera Full Scores)

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30. Mozart's DON GIOVANNI: Libretto (Opea Journeys Libretto Series)

By: Burton D. Fisher

3.76

Format: 215 pages, Kindle Edition

A newly translated libretto of Mozart's DON GIOVANNI. read more

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31. The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation [Paperback] [1998] (Author) Homer, Robert Fitzgerald, D. S. Carne-Ross

By: Homer

4.34

Format: None pages, Paperback

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6 must-read novels books like La Traviata (Overture Opera Guides) by Giuseppe Verdi

Transform Your Habits

Der Richter und sein Henker

Friedrich Dürrenmatt , John J. Neumaier , William Gillis

3.70

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The Betrothed

Alessandro Manzoni , Bruce Penman

3.85

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The Leopard

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun

4.01

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La Dame aux Camélias

Alexandre Dumas fils , David Coward

4.04

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Han Kang

3.47

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Cho Nam-Joo

3.72

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Paul Auster

3.78

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Michael Bible

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