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City of Light by Rupert Christiansen
29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century rebuilding of Paris as the most beautiful city in the world, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. 'This really is an impressive book'Sebastian Faulks. 'Brisk, vivid and unexpectedly stirring ... No one writes as evocatively and entertainingly a ...Show more
City of Light The Reinvention of Paris by Rupert Christiansen
35.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
In 1853 the French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious programme of public works, directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann's renovation of Paris would transform the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a 'City of Light' ...Show more
Diaghilev's Empire: How the Ballets Russes Conquered the World by Rupert Christiansen
49.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
A freshly researched and challenging reassessment of a unique phenomenon, exploring passionate conflicts and outsize personalities in a story embracing triumph and disaster. Serge Diaghilev was the Russian impresario who is often said to have invented the modern art form of ballet. Commissioning such l ...Show more
The Faber Pocket Guide to Opera by Rupert Christiansen
19.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
This new edition of leading opera critic Rupert Christiansen's perennially popular Pocket Guide has between extensively revised, and incorporates many more operas from all periods, including recent works by Philip Glass, Mark Anthony Turnage, Thomas Ades and George Benjamin. Whether you are a first-time ...Show more
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