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Time's Echo

The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
BookHardcover
EUR29,50

Product description

An account of how the flowering of the European Enlightenment, two World Wars, and the Holocaust can be remembered through the poignant works of music created in their wake. "Eichler shows how four towering composers--Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Benjamin Britten--lived through the era of the Second World War and the Holocaust and later transformed their experiences into deeply moving, transcendent works of music, scores that echo lost time"--Publisher description.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-525-52171-6
Product TypeBook
BindingHardcover
FormatSewn
Publishing date29/08/2023
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 169 mm, Height 236 mm, Thickness 41 mm
Weight748 g
Article no.28195291
CatalogsLibri
Data source no.A46046483
Product groupBU593
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This is not a new book - indeed so un-new is it that it has recently been republished in a handsome "classics" edition. Classic non-fiction is pretty hard to define - taste and timeliness overtake the factual more quickly than the fictional - but Bloomsbury deserve credit for elevating this decade-and-a-bit-old account of an 1860 murder in rural England.

What makes this book so compelling and timeless is its skilful blending of the story of the murder with an account of why detectives (and by extension detective fiction) so captivated Victorian Britain. Before reading it, I had no idea how new detectives were in the 1860s and how much media and literary attention they garnered in their early existence, with people from across society pitching in to praise their omniscience or to criticise their actions as murder solving became a national parlour game. Excellently written and researched this book will help you understand why Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple are as famous as they are.

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Jeremy Eichler

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