Ernest: 1678 books

KENSINGTON PALACE, built by William and Mary, occupied by Queen Anne as one of her favourite residences, enlarged by George I. and greatly appreciated by George II. and his queen, Caroline, has received a greater renown and more interesting associations from having been the birthplace and early home...

While reading this book, the reader will ultimately find that it is merely a journal, consisting of my inner and most personal feelings. However, unlike the average journal, the reader will find the literature to be creatively unorthodox. They will feel and visually see my emotional diversity by way...

This essay is twenty two pages long. It discusses existential nihilism and acts as a guide towards finding self-fulfillment. It discusses existentialism, nihilism, conformity and Buddhism. It tries to impart to the reader that happiness is a matter of perspective and not material. It is written in easy to understand terms. This is the second edition of this essay.

The foremost authority on Wagner presents in this comprehensive volume all that the opera-goer, radio listener, music-love, and confirmed Wagnerite will wish to know about: The Flying Dutchman Tannhäuser Lohengrin Tristan and Isolde The Mastersingers of Nuremberg The Nibelung’s Ring The...

Thirty Years' Musical Recollections, first published in 1862, is a year-by-year commentary on the European operas, ballets, singers and dancers popular in London from 1830 to 1859. Its author was music critic of The Athaneum for over thirty years and also wrote book reviews, novels, plays and poems....

"Music is a part of life. It is not merely an accomplishment or a hobby, nor yet a means of relaxation from the strenuous business of earning a living. It is not an addendum or an excrescence: it is an actual part of the fabric of life itself. The object of these pages will be to show how closely Music,...

Two or three years ago Richard Strauss was practically unknown in this country. A few people had heard works of his abroad; a few more had bought his complex scores and worried through them as best they could, mostly deriving from them only the impression that Strauss was getting madder and madder...

Excerpt: . . . Composition, it is rather curious that while I was writing on our too great readiness to admire everything a classic does, merely because he is a classic, someone in the Times Literary Supplement should have been regarding much the same fallacy--more particularly in poetry and...

Take Walter Matthau to the next level. This book is your ultimate resource for Walter Matthau. Here you will find the most up-to-date 181 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Walter...

Take Wally Cox one step further. This book is your ultimate resource for Wally Cox. Here you will find the most up-to-date 55 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Wally Cox's Early life,...

Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. III, No. 3) April 2011 Recovering The Self is a quarterly journal which explores the themes of recovery and healing through the lenses of poetry, memoir, opinion, essays, fiction, humor, art, media reviews and psychoeducation. Contributors...

A brand-new Betty Hutton biography. There is contradicting data regarding the date of Hutton's demise. This book is your ultimate resource for Betty Hutton. Here you will find the most up-to-date 125 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and...

Second only to the instruments of Stradivari and del Gesù, the violins of Giovanni Battista Guadagnini have long been favored by professional musicians. This 1949 volume remains the most comprehensive study of the Guadagnini family's life and work and includes a catalogue of their masterpieces. Features a new Introduction by the world's leading authority on musical instruments.