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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; Wendy Lesser (Introduction by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Brought to you by Penguin. A terrifying vision of scientific progress without moral limits, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein leads the reader on an unsettling journey from the sublime beauty of the Swiss alps to the desolate waste of the arctic circle. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduc ...Show more
Jerome Robbins - A Life in Dance by Wendy Lesser
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A lively and inspired biography celebrating the centennial of this master choreographer, dancer, and stage director Jerome Robbins (1918-1998) was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz and grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, where his Russian-Jewish immigrant parents owned the Comfort Corset Company. Robbins, who ...Show more
Music for Silenced Voices by LESSER WENDY
Category: Biography
Most previous books about Dmitri Shostakovich have focused on either his symphonies and operas, or his relationship to the regime under which he lived, or both, since these large-scale works were the ones that attracted the interest and sometimes the condemnation of the Soviet authorities. "Music for Si ...Show more
Music for Silenced Voices - Shostakovich and his Fifteen Quartets by Wendy Lesser
Category: Fiction
Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery by Lesser Wendy, Wendy Lesser
Category: Languages and Reference
For nearly four decades, Wendy Lesser’s primary source of information about three Scandinavian countries—Sweden, Norway, and Denmark—was mystery and crime novels, and the murders committed and solved in their pages. Having never visited the region, Lesser constructed a fictional Scandinavia, something b ...Show more
Why I Read by Wendy Lesser
Category: Short Stories
Wendy Lesser's extraordinary alertness, intelligence, and curiosity have made her one of America's most significant cultural critics, writes Stephen Greenblatt. In Whyl Read, Lesser draws on a lifetime of pleasure reading and decades of editing to describe a life lived in and through literature. As Less ...Show more
You Say to Brick by Wendy Lesser
Category: Biography Memoir
Born to a Jewish family in Estonia in 1901 and brought to America in 1906, the architect Louis Kahn grew up in poverty in Philadelphia; by the time of his death in 1974, he was widely recognized as one of the greatest architects of his era. Yet this enormous reputation was based on only a handful of mas ...Show more
You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn by Wendy Lesser
Category: Home and Garden
FINALIST FOR THE 2018 PEN/BOGRAD WELD PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY AND THE 2017 MARFIELD PRIZEOne of the Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2017, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017, and one of Kirkus's Best Nonfiction Books of 2017"Wendy Lesser's You Say to Brick is easily the most complete n ...Show more
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