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Maurice Guest : A Novel.
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ISBN: 1510700544 1634505077 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York : Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated,

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Maurice Guest comes to Leipzig, the music capital of Europe, to realize his dream of becoming a great pianist. However, in its bohemian and heady atmosphere, he encounters not exaltation and inspiration but coarseness, greed, and ambition. For his muse, he turns to Louise Dufraryer, an exotic and languid pianist. Louise has recently been deserted by her own obsessive love, the resident composer and reigning genius, Schilsky. Now her capricious demands on Maurice's time and energy destroy whatever slight chance he may have had at distinguishing himself. The more he slides in failure, the more striking the contrast between him and the absent Schilsky, who still holds first place in Louise's thoughts and feelings. The degradation of their relationship runs its full course until jealousy and hatred are its only vital forms. Maurice Guest was first published in 1908. Antonia White called it "one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century." As a study of the tragic power of desperate love, it ranks in the great tradition of the European naturalist novel. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction--novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Sytuacja i rola wielkiego miasta w procesie transformacji : studium porównawcze rozwoju ekonomicznego i procesów społecznych na przykładzie Wrocławia i Lipska
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ISBN: 8322915659 Year: 1997 Volume: 1911 23 Publisher: Wrocław Wydawnictwo uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego


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Die Philosophie Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz' und die Leipziger Aufklärung in der ersten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts
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ISSN: 00805297 ISBN: 3777609447 9783777609447 Year: 1999 Volume: 75/4 Publisher: Stuttgart Hirzel

Leipziger Demontagebuch: Demo Montag Tagebuch Demontage
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ISBN: 3378004207 Year: 1992 Publisher: Leipzig Kiepenheuer

Een kleine flat in Leipzig : de ongehoorde waarheid over Oost-Duitsland
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ISBN: 9050181465 Year: 1991 Publisher: Amsterdam Balans


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Leipzig - Stadt, Handel, Messe : die Städtebauliche Entwicklung der Stadt Leipzig als Handels- und Messestadt
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ISBN: 3860820230 Year: 1996 Publisher: Leipzig Institut für Länderkunde


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Bowling for communism : urban ingenuity at the end of East Germany
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ISBN: 9781501751677 1501751670 9781501751684 1501751689 9781501751660 Year: 2020 Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press

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'Bowling for Communism' illuminates how civic life functioned in Leipzig, East Germany's second-largest city, on the eve of the 1989 revolution by exploring acts of 'urban ingenuity' amid catastrophic urban decay. Andrew Demshuk profiles the creative activism of local communist officials who, with the help of scores of volunteers, constructed a palatial bowling alley without Berlin's knowledge or approval.

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