Beethoven: Die Späten Klaviersonaten24 reviews Ludwig van Beethoven, Maurizio Pollini Deutsche Grammophon, 1997 The best Late Sonatas + Late Beethoven doesn't get any better than this + Fidelity as the pathway to transcendence + Intentional, not Willful + JUST ANOTHER INTERESTING VERSION(s)             My Life as a Dog - Criterion Collection44 reviews Anton Glanzelius, Tomas von Brömssen Criterion, 2003 One Part Humor, One Part Poignant, One Part Disturbing + An film about a snippet of life. + Essential cinema: Hallström's 'Mitt liv som hund.' + My Life as a Dog + My favorite movie             Beethoven: Symphonies 6, 8 & 9; Carlo Maria Giulini; London Symphony Orchestra8 reviews Shelia Armstrong, Robert Tear, ... EMI Classics, 2004 The BEST and ULTIMATE interpretation of Symphony No. 9 "Choral" + Superb Value + Beethoven's Ninth + Two Of My Three Favorite Beethoven Symphonies + A steal             Les Miserables (Everyman's Library)13 reviews Victor Hugo Everyman's Library, 1998 An Inspiring Masterpiece + Better than War and Peace + Excellent classic translation, but other good ones also exist + An absolute must... + Incredible             Beethoven: The Late String Quartets1 review Ludwig van Beethoven, Emerson String Quartet Deutsche Grammophon, 2003 Supreme recordings of Beethovens late string quartets The Emerson String Quartet combine a strength of performance at the same time giving the listener subtle shades of color producing one of the supreme recordings of Beethovens late string quartets ever. They've almost done the unattainable, by producing a new approach to this old musical literature, ...             Longer Stories from the Last Decade (Modern Library)3 reviews Anton Chekhov Modern Library, 2000 Everything's here + The world's shortest great novels. + . Since the previous volumes of the Modern Library Chekhov were titled Early and Late (with the Late ending with his death), I had thought that they were the complete series. My review on the Later Stories actually had a small complaint that precisely these longer stories were missing. Well, this is ...             Don Giovanni12 reviews Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Rene Jacobs, ... Harmonia Mundi (France), 2007 Mozart... not as we are used to it... better!!! + Great performances in all areas + Don Giovanni Over recent years there have been several releases of Don Giovanni on CD... Keenlyside with Abbado, Gilfry with Gardiner, Terfel with Solti, the list goes on... but none compared with the greatest of all... the classic Guilini set with Sutherland, Schwarzkopf and Wachter. This recording had life, ...             King Lear (The Pelican Shakespeare) William Shakespeare Penguin Classics, 2000 With new editors who have incorporated the most up-to-date scholarship, this revised Pelican Shakespeare series will be the premiere choice for students, professors, and general readers well into the twenty-first century. Each volume features: Authoritative, reliable texts High quality introductions and notes New, more readable trade trim size An essay on the theatrical world of ...             The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Modern Library MM)1 review Victor Hugo Modern Library, 2004 Romanticism at its best Victor Hugo, the French poet and writer, who wished to change how novels were written and read, wrote The Hunchback of Notra-Dame in the beginning of his career. In contrast to Les Miserables, which is his more celebrated work, and was written several decades after the Notra-dame novel, the present ...             Pale Fire (Everyman's Library (Cloth))86 reviews Vladimir Nabokov Everyman's Library, 1992 brilliant + everyman's decisions + Enjoyable at Multiple Levels + Mind bending!             Beethoven: The Late String Quartets17 reviews Ludwig van Beethoven, Takacs Quartet Decca, 2005 Takacs...what amazing musicians + Fantastic but with a regrettable blemish + One of the most beautiful sets of Beethoven's Late Quartets + Sublime Playing + MORE APPRECIATION             Speak, Memory (Everyman's Library (Cloth))45 reviews Vladimir Nabokov, Brian Boyd Everyman's Library, 1999 A Display Case of Butterflies + perfect harmony of intellect, senses and emotion + The Place of Consciousness + Superlative autobiography             Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic9 reviews Henry David Thoreau, Scot Miller Houghton Mifflin, 2004 Revisiting Walden + Walden: 150 Anniversary Illustrated Edition + Lovely + SUMPTUOUS SIGHTS & TIMELESS TRANSCENDENTAL TEXT             Mozart: Die Zauberflote29 reviews Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Otto Klemperer, ... EMI Classics, 2000 A glorious achievement, brimming with magic and wonder + At the top of the pile + It comes with libretto + Impressive cast, but... + Recommendable only for the female voices             Hamlet (The Pelican Shakespeare)4 reviews William Shakespeare Penguin Classics, 2001 Pelican Ed. good for experienced readers of Shakespeare + Its Hamlet + it's settled. + You will be absorbed into the story             Mozart - Le nozze di Figaro / Gens · Ciofi · Kirchschlager · Regazzo · Keenlyside · McLaughlin · van Rensburg ...19 reviews Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Véronique Gens, ... Harmonia Mundi Fr., 2004 Strong ensemble work, some excellent singer, generally strong and even cast. + Supremely enjoyable to listen + A masterpiece heard anew + Good Recording But Not The Best There Is!             Lolita449 reviews Vladimir Nabokov Vintage, 1989 A road movie of the mind + Beautiful writing confronts crude subject matter--A masterpiece + Upends your preconceptions and prejudices + Which book did you read? + The Most Beautiful Novel Ever Written             Later Short Stories, 1888-1903 (Modern Library)6 reviews Anton Chekhov Modern Library, 1999 Finally + The master of realistic short fiction + Chekhov: The Great Humanist + Bloodied but unbowed + Not entirely the best selection of the uncannily modern C.             A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Pelican Shakespeare) William Shakespeare Penguin Classics, 2000 "I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who ...             Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)14 reviews Marcel Proust Penguin Classics, 2004 Immerse yourself in a rich, dense world of descriptive thought + new translation of "Swan's Way" + Best Read I've Had In A While + Lush inside and out