 | Schoenberg: Gurrelieder - The Two Chamber Symphonies / Norman, Troyanos, McCracken; Ozawa, Imbal by Arnold Schoenberg
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $8.95 When Tove dies, Waldemar gathers an army to attack God - but Nature is the winner
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 | Puttering about in a Small Land by Philip K. Dick
Buy used from: $18.00 A sensible approach - not what Hollywood gives us when men and women get mixed up
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 | Victory (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Joseph Conrad
Buy new: $16.00 / Used from: $4.38 It may not look like a victory at the end of this novel - but the man and the woman are triumphant
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 | A Crystal Age by W. H. Hudson
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $11.66 affection is not enough
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 | Korngold - Die tote Stadt / Leinsdorf by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Buy new: $23.98 / Used from: $14.99 there is no path of return
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 | Maurice: A Novel by E. M. Forster
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.50 'aliens' who survive - but can some of them change?
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 | Under Western Eyes (Penguin Classics) by Joseph Conrad
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.41 are Russians different - read Turgenev and you may agree with Conrad
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 | Johannes Brahms: A Biography by Jan Swafford
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $11.85 an exemplary biography of an interesting man, and an unusual one
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 | Mary; Maria; Matilda (Penguin Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $2.22 Mary Shelley shows in 'Matilda' that she was much more than 'Frankenstein'
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 | Spring Torrents (Penguin Classics) by Ivan Turgenev
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $3.46 can there be women so self-serving? men so vulnerable?
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 | Virgin Soil (New York Review Books Classics) by Ivan Turgenev
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $3.26 Turgenev's men reject women not because they see the women as inadequate, but because they see themselves as inadequate
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 | The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr (Penguin Classics) by E. T. A. Hoffmann
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $6.90 the fantasy and detective story that surpasses all others
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 | Alma Mahler-Werfel by Alma Mahler-Werfel
Buy used from: $24.42 she was Alma Schindler when she wrote these journals
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 | Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel
Buy new: $20.98 / Used from: $13.32 Spiegel im Spiegel is not silence, but stillness
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 | Against Nature (A Rebours) (Penguin Classics) by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $7.50 art is not enough
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 | Bryars: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $6.93 Persistence and the slowest growth
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 | Selected Short Stories (Penguin Classics) by Rabindranath Tagore
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $6.69 wonderful observations from a slightly aloof observer
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 | Afoot in England (EasyRead Comfort Edition) by W. H. Hudson
Buy new: $18.99 wonderful observations from an observer who was anything but aloof
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 | Philosophy Now
Buy new: $38.00 discussions worth pondering
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 | Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $3.48 the personal exposed
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 | Best of Cordwainer Smith by Cordwainer Smith
Buy used from: $5.95 'A Planet Named Shayol' exposes the alien and justice
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| Selected Writings of Hoffman by ETA Hoffmann
Buy used from: $23.98 'The Mines of Falun' shows beauty where least expected
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 | Brahms: Alto Rhapsody; Nänie; Gesang der Parzen; Schicksalslied
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $3.93 'Alto Rhapsody' shows man alone
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| Schubert: Winterreise by Schubert
Buy used from: $9.99 strength in the face of immense difficulties
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 | Caleb Williams (Penguin Classics) by William Godwin
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $6.95 Justice - from the author of 'Enquiry Concerning Political Justice' - the father of Mary Shelley
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 | Caspar David Friedrich (Prestel Postcard Books) by Prestel
Buy used from: $81.58 'Monk by the Sea' shows man alone - but what a Universe he is embedded in!
'Woman before the Sun' shows woman alone - but is she a vector for the sunshine, or a block to it - perhaps the sunshine come from her
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 | Wolf: Lieder (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Gerald Moore)
Buy new: $23.98 / Used from: $16.26 'Withdrawal' - one of the Morike lieder - shows man alone, but also beauty where least expected
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| Yves Tanguy by James T. Soby
Buy used from: $39.89 the paintings of Yves Tanguy are immensely alien, but wonderfully absorbing - even comforting - as well
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 | The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
Buy used from: $1.25 when we are separated from those around us, but still find legitimising others
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 | Solaris - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $29.99 / Used from: $17.75 based on Stanislav Lem's wonderful novel of the same name, Tarkovsky's film captures the essence of the alien and the cosmos - reflecting meaningfully on who we are
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| ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FACT & FICTION.
Buy used from: $4.83 'The Bliss of Solitude' exposes how powerful a different perspective can be
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 | Dying Inside (Sf Masterworks) by Robert Silverberg
Buy used from: $8.75 man alone, but once again there is beauty where least expected
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 | A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Buy used from: $5.39 the failure of justice is exposed - it should be compulsory reading for all young people
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 | Fiesta by Ernest Hemingway
Buy used from: $18.20 the hidden, the inexpressible, can drive man to be alone
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 | The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.25 was he an alien? did he have magical powers? he was certainly alone
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 | Pollyanna (Vault Disney Collection)
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $11.33 Hayley Mills was good in this film, but it was Mary Pickford who had the most powerful impact on me - entrenching the 'Pollyanna' principle at a very early age.
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