Stanley Appelbaum Bücher

Der Übermensch, der Wille zur Macht und die ewige Wiederkehr des Gleichen. Das sind die zentralen Themen des großen Philosophen und Kritikers Nietzsche. Das sind die Lehren, die sein Zarathustra entwickelt, um gegen den lähmenden Nihilismus der Welt einen neuen Sinn zu verleihen. »Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen«, wie es im Untertitel heißt, das in unvergleichlicher Wortmächtigkeit und Poesie seit über 100 Jahren weltweit auf Resonanz stößt.

Over 27 million people visited the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. Countless more experienced the fair through the wondrous images of C. D. Arnold, the era's foremost architectural photographer. Through his luminous pictures, Arnold became the event's leading historian, publicist, and visual philosopher. This gallery of Arnold's photographs, painstakingly retouched to achieve a new radiance, presents a magnificent tribute to the "White City" of shining Beaux-Arts buildings.In addition to its visual tour of the Exposition's extensive buildings and grounds, this lavish book also celebrates a city that treasures its architecture. The classical Greek and Roman design expressed by the Chicago World's Fair defined the course of American monumental building for decades to come, and the text accompanying these historic photographs provides fascinating interpretations of the Exposition's influence on American building styles and tastes. From conception to closing day and beyond, Spectacle in the White City offers glimpses of past splendor that will be treasured by Chicagoans, history buffs, and lovers of fine art and photography.

Encompassing a broad range of subjects, styles and moods, English poetry of the late 18th and early 19th centuries is generally classified under the term "Romantic," suggesting an emphasis on imagination and individual experiance, as well as a preoccupation with such themes as nature, death and the supernatural.This volume contains a rich selection of poems by England's six greatest Romantic poets: William Blake (24 poems, including "The Tyger" and "Auguries of Innocence"), William Wordsworth (27 poems, including "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" and "I wandered lonely as a cloud"), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (10 poems, including "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan"), Lord Byron (16 poems, including "The Prisoner of Chillon" and selections from Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage), Percy Bysshe Shelley (24 poems, including "Ode to the West Wind" and "Adonais") and John Keats (22 poems, including all the great odes, "Isabelle" and "The Eve of St. Agnes"). For this edition, Stanley Appelbaum has provided a concise Introduction to the Romantic period and brief commentaries on the poets represented. The result is a carefully selected anthology that will be welcomed by lovers of poetry, students and teachers alike.

Als F. Scott Fitzgeralds Roman 'The Great Gatsby' 1925 erschien, erntete sein Autor von zahlreichen Schriftstellerkollegen hymnische Kritiken, doch erst die Nachkriegsjahrzehnte bescherten seinem Meisterwerk die weltweite Anerkennung, die es verdient. Ergreifend und mit subtiler Finesse erzählt Fitzgerald die Geschichte des schillernden Emporkömmlings Jay Gatsby, der auf seinem Anwesen rauschende Feste feiert, um seine einst verlorene Liebe zurückzugewinnen - eine Geschichte über die Macht grosser Gefühle und das schmerzhafte Scheitern eines romantischen Traums. Diese Ausgabe präsentiert den grandiosen Klassiker der amerikanischen Literatur in neuer Übersetzung.

Dieser Roman, ein Kleinod im Werk der Colette, wurde nach seinem Erscheinen 1933 in Paris ein großer Erfolg. Die ungewöhnliche Dreiecksgeschichte zwischen einem jungen Paar und einer blaugrauen Kartäuserkatze, einem vollkommenen Geschöpf, ist eine Parabel auf die unzulängliche Natur des Menschen. Mit großer Kennerschaft beschreibt Colette in diesem scharfsinnigen und zauberhaften Roman ein kleines Katzentier, das den Menschen überlegen scheint.

An unusually useful survey of the development of French poetry, this book anthologizes works by France's finest and most influential poets—30 in all—from the mid-15th century to our own time. Included are such luminaries as Charles d'Orléans, François Villon, Joachim du Bellay, Ronsard, La Fontaine, Voltaire, Chénier, Hugo, Musset, Gauthier, Vigny, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Claudel, Valéry, Apollinaire, Perse, Èluard and Bonnefoy. In addition, the work of poets less familiar to the English-speaking world, yet instrumental in the formulation of the French tradtion—Scève, Saint-Amant, Malherbe—is here as well.The French texts come from the best critical editions, or, in the case of the moderns, those authorized by the poets themselves. Teachers of French will appreciate the clear prose translations on facing pages by Stanley Applebaum; the translator does not attempt to be a poet himself, rather to lead the reader to a full appreciation of the poem as it was written. An introuctory essay gives as understandable a short summary of the formal aspects of versification as can be found anywhere—the early orthodoxy of rhyme and meter, the gradual introduction of enjambement and metrical variation, through the word games and innovations of Apollinaire and his circle. A biographical and critical essay on each poet and his work not only depicts the poet as an individual, but gives a fine sense of the progressing and changing tradition of French poetry itself. An illustration, usually a portrait of the poet, accompanies each selection.The clarity and comprehensiveness of this attractive anthology (as well as its low cost) make it an ideal volume for an introductory survey of French poetry. For the student just beginning the study of French, this book is good supplementary material; the format of this book makes it easy to experience French poetry and learn vocabulary and grammar at the same time.(Back Cover)Immerse yourself in great poetic tradition — works by Villon, Ronsard, Voltaire, Lamartine, Hugo, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Saint-John Perse, Eluard and many more. Full texts in French with literal English translation on facing pages. Critical, biographical information on each poet. Introduction. 31 black-and-white illustrations.

"Eine literarische Entdeckung besonderer Art bietet dieses Buch; die Entdeckung eines längst weltberühmten und vielgeliebten Meisterwerks der klassischen Moderne. Die Lektüre läßt den Reiz und den Rang einer Prosadichtung eigener Art erahnen, deren Originaltext - wie Luis Cernuda schrieb - ein Sprachkunstwerk von »einzigartiger Frische und Lebendigkeit des Ausdrucks« ist: «Das andalusische Ambiente hat sich wohl selten mit soviel dichterischer Wahrheit offenbart . . .«"