The Book of Sand
The Book of Sand

Author: Jorge Luis Borges

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9780140180251

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Includes the stories The Congress, Undr, The Mirror and the Mask, August 25, 1983, Blue Tigers, The Rose of Paracelsus and Shakespeare's Memory.

Ernest Bloch Studies
Ernest Bloch Studies

Author: Alexander Knapp

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-01-05

Total Pages: 499

ISBN-13: 1316683990

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Ernest Bloch left his native Switzerland to settle in the United States in 1916. One of the great twentieth-century composers, he was influenced by a range of genres and styles - Jewish, American and Swiss - and his works reflect his lifelong struggle with his identity. Drawing on firsthand recollections of relatives and others who knew and worked with the composer, this collection is the most comprehensive study to date of Bloch's life, musical achievement and reception. Contributors present the latest research on Bloch's works and compositional practice, including studies of his Avodath Hakodesh (Sacred Service), violin pieces such as Nigun, the symphonic Schelomo, and the opera Macbeth. Setting the quality and significance of Bloch's output in its historical and cultural contexts, this book provides scholarly analyses as well as a full chronology, list of online resources, catalogue of published and unpublished works, and selected further reading.

Ribbentrop
Ribbentrop

Author: Michael Bloch

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2011-12-15

Total Pages: 777

ISBN-13: 1405513608

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Hailed in turns as 'excellent', 'intelligent', 'scrupulously fair', 'remarkable', 'impressive', and 'definitive', this superb book, by one of the pre-eminent writers of his generation, focuses on the life of Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler's Foreign Minister from 1938 until the end of the Third Reich. At the heart of German power during the war, this strange, sinister and intriguing character was violently anti-British, and encouraged Hitler in a policy that led to war with Great Britain. His grandiose attempts at alliance-building produced a disastrous military coalition with Italy and Japan, and the infamous Pact with the Soviet Union. It was a career that would end on the gallows at Nuremberg, where he headed the death procession. Written with verve, pace and the subtle intelligence of a world-class biographer, Michael Bloch's universally praised book vividly portrays this bizarre and historically neglected figure.

The Big Adventure of a Little Line
The Big Adventure of a Little Line

Author: Serge Bloch

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2016-03-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0500650586

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A whimsical new book from the renowned illustrator Serge Bloch A small boy taking a walk picks up a little line he finds lying on the sidewalk. Putting it in his pocket, he forgets about it entirely. But the little line has other ideas . . . Enter the magical, creative world of the renowned French artist, Serge Bloch, where anything can happen, and the discovery of an ordinary little line can result in the most marvelous adventure. Coming to life, the little line becomes majestic mountains, wings to fly with, a circus full of animals, flowers, a perilous tightrope, and that’s only the beginning! With this classic story about an artist’s becoming, children will be inspired to create their own drawings, taking simple lines and transforming them into endless possibilities.

Once Around the Bloch
Once Around the Bloch

Author: Robert Bloch

Publisher: Tor Books

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780312859756

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The author of "Psycho" presents a glimpse of his writing career, from his correspondence with H.P. Lovecraft to his screenwriting triumphs, offering anecdotes about such talents as Ray Bradbury and Boris Karloff