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Fighting Temeraire (Restrike Etching) framed art print by Joseph Mallord William Turner
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Customer Review: Okay for a tv movie
Reflections of Murder freely admitted it was a remake of Diabolique. It’s nowhere near the classic but for a tv movie it stands up pretty good. Tuesday Weld, the main highlight in this movie, gives a good performance as Vicky (the one Simone Signorest played in the original). But the Mia Farrow hairdo wasn’t doing her any favors. Now the only thing that really annoyed me about this movie was Sam Waterson who has never been a good actor. The movie is quite unkind to its viewer as well as it shows hideous antisexy images of him with his shirt off. More like 2.5.
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Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Restrike Etching) framed art print by Joseph Mallord William Turner
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1820 edition by John Murray, London.
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Frederick Turner has once again penned his sharp-witted observations on the unusual and often intriguing dichotomy of the real and the legendary in the American West.
*Now in its third edition, Of Chilies, Cacti, and Fighting Cocks remains a touchstone of popular Western literature
*Expanded edition includes two new essays
*Anyone interested in history, environmental issues, the American West, and particularly Native American history will give a resounding cheer for Turner’s contribution to the endlessly fascinating American West
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Customer Review: Five stars just for spelling “chiles” right
This is about the REAL Southwest, neither the Tex-Mexified version east of the Rockies, nor the touristy version of Santa Fe, nor the mythical version of the OK Corral. Most of this book deals with the largest U.S. desert — the Great Basin desert. A land of rugged climatic extremes and even more rugged geography, it has largely bent men to its will rather than the other way around. Beginning with his own childhood reading and first trips to this area, Turner paints a portrait of the Southwest’s natural and social history while also describing how he, too, has been shaped by this land.
Customer Review: Reprint is well-done!
A wonderful new edition of this lovely book has recently been done by Fulcrum Publishing. The ISBN is 1-55591-486-1. It includes new essays, including one on Gerogia O’Keefe that looks at the west from an artist’s perspective that I thought was particularly special.
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
Customer Review: Magnificent
In August 1831, in a remote region of south-eastern Virginia, took place the only effective and sustained revolt in the history of American Negro slavery. That year, a black man, Nat Turner, awaits death in a prison cell. He is a slave, a preacher and the leader of the revolt. Mr Styron based his novel on the single significant contemporary document concerning this insurrection, namely a brief pamphlet of twenty pages called “The Confessions of Nat Turner“, published in Richmond in 1831. The confession Turner made to his jailers under the duress of his God is a narrative describing a good man’s transformation into an avenging angel even as it encompasses all the betrayals, cruelties and humiliations that made up slavery - and that is still present in the collective psyches of both races.
This magnificent book brilliantly depicts the American past in a dazzling narrative.
Customer Review: A passionate and serious novel
This book did something that few books do - it made me cry. I think my tears were the result of an immersion in the scene and characters of the novel (both of which are deeply and intensely drawn) and a general sense of frustration about the world that it should have such painful things in its history.
The hero of the novel, and the narrator of the story, is the leader of a slave revolt in Virginia in 1831, Nat Turner. It is based on real historical events and Styron claimed to be trying to re-create ‘a man and his era’ . The novel accompanies Turner through each painful, ill-fated move leading up to his capture and a sad end.
I think this book is remarkable for its thick, richly drawn character development. It’s passionate, grand, awful, very serious, all these words seem to fit. It’s definitely not a light read, but I have gone on to read other William Styron books, and this still seems the strongest and my favourite.
Many people will take a familiar moral message about the iniquities of slavery away from the reading of this book, but Styron also called it a ‘meditation on history’. The true story of Nat Turner from his own point of view is not one we will ever hear. We do have a short pamphlet entitled ‘The Confessions of Nat Turner‘, claiming to be his words (a piece of propaganda probably created by the court which tried him) and we have Styron’s masterly novel. Two stories, and the truth probably in neither.
If you wanted to find out more about the ‘real life’ stories of slaves in the pre-Civil War US, I would also heartily recommend The Narrative of Frederick Douglas or Harriet Jacob’s Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl. I found these quite fascinating and powerful in a different way.
Cash and character: A lecture on high life
William Turner: A New Herball, Vol. 2
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A Copland Celebration Vol. 3 
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Customer Review: Wonderful
I must confess I am unfamiliar with Copland’s “The Tender Land” except for this reissue, which I find to be absolutely magnificent. I realize this is a truncated performance, eliminating what I assume to be a fair amount of spoken dialogue. But I don’t care. What is presented here is simply one of the finest American compositions - forget American - one of the finest compositions of the 20th century. Period.
Customer Review: Pure joy
The recording of Copland’s The Tender Land is alone worth getting this disc. The rest of the vocal works are just a bonus, a very good bonus! Copland directs a definitive account of his opera, and in this compressed version leaves out all the spoken parts of the full length opera, no doubt depriving us of a lot of good music but on the other hand giving listeners a very concise version that is even stronger musically (although dramatically a little lacking in logic because of the missing parts - for example without knowing of the confrontation during the party scene you would find the boys’ departure the next morning puzzling, and the CD notes does not elaborate on the plot, which is about the only negative thing you can say about this set). Listening to the opera in this abridged version gives you the feeling of one hit after another, there is not a single weak point in the score and Copland has a gift for word-setting that can turn clumsy texts such as “girls come and go, some are good, some are not so good” into goosebumps stuff (a lovely dedication to Laurie sung by Grandpa). Other high points include the stunning transformation of the traditional Walls of Zion into the quartet piece The Promise Of Living and a rollicking Party Scene, which contains the best in Copland’s clever orchestration and rythmic vitality - it seems all of the composers best traits have all come together in this work. Martin’s Act 2 Song ‘Laurie…You Know, Laurie’ is a rare gem or an aria and beautifully sung. Other hidden gems include the comical ‘We’ve Been North’. The cast is impeccable and the entire performance is flawless. Add to that one of those scores that simply win you over from start to finish, and you can’t but fall in love with this music. I once thought that nothing could better Appalachian Spring but that was before I discovered this neglected work.
