Stanley Appelbaum Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

"De grote Gatsby" (1925) voert de lezer rechtstreeks naar het New York van de Roaring Twenties. Jazzmuziek, wolkenkrabbers, ongehoord rijkdom, financiële lichtzinnigheid, intriges en grenzeloze liefde - niets ontbreekt in dit meesterlijke portret van de samenleving. Tegen de achtergrond van de luidruchtige, wilde Amerikaanse moderniteit ontvouwt de roman het aangrijpende verhaal van een onverbeterlijke romanticus. Vroeg beseft de arme James Gatz dat succes een kwestie is van zelfpresentatie. Hij besluit dat de "arme Gatz" de stralende Jay Gatsby moet worden en speelt de succesvolle man, nog voordat hij daadwerkelijk rijkdom verwerft. Maar niet alles verloopt volgens plan. Terwijl hij als officier in de Eerste Wereldoorlog dient, verliest hij Daisy Fay, een dochter uit een rijke familie, aan een rivaal. Toch geeft hij niet op. Dichtbij haar huis op Long Island bouwt hij een droomvilla, waar hij uitbundige feesten organiseert in de hoop Daisy terug te winnen. Een verhaal vol intriges, bedrog en jaloezie begint. Subtiel en symbolisch vertelt Fitzgerald hier over de grote Amerikaanse droom - en het falen ervan.

"One of the first and best feminist novels ever written." — Erica Jong. This vivid portrait of Parisian music hall life was drawn from the personal experiences of the author of Gigi. Colette's 1910 novel reflects her adventures as an itinerant dancer as well as her struggles balancing respectability and artistic freedom.

Over 27 million people visited the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. Countless more experienced the fair through the wondrous images of C. D. Arnold, the era's foremost architectural photographer. Through his luminous pictures, Arnold became the event's leading historian, publicist, and visual philosopher. This gallery of Arnold's photographs, painstakingly retouched to achieve a new radiance, presents a magnificent tribute to the "White City" of shining Beaux-Arts buildings.In addition to its visual tour of the Exposition's extensive buildings and grounds, this lavish book also celebrates a city that treasures its architecture. The classical Greek and Roman design expressed by the Chicago World's Fair defined the course of American monumental building for decades to come, and the text accompanying these historic photographs provides fascinating interpretations of the Exposition's influence on American building styles and tastes. From conception to closing day and beyond, Spectacle in the White City offers glimpses of past splendor that will be treasured by Chicagoans, history buffs, and lovers of fine art and photography.

This lyric portrait of life - and the little donkey, Platero - in a remote Andalusian village is the masterpiece of Juan Ramón Jiménez, the Spanish poet awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Zarathoestra is een filosofisch werk dat de spreker, Zarathoestra, volgt terwijl hij zijn inzichten en leringen deelt met de mensheid. Het boek verkent thema's als de transformatie van de mens, de waarde van de lichamelijkheid, de strijd tussen goed en kwaad, en de zoektocht naar waarheid en zelfoverwinning. Zarathoestra spreekt over de drie transformaties van de geest, de rol van de kunstenaar en de betekenis van vriendschap en liefde. Hij daagt de conventionele opvattingen uit en pleit voor een leven dat de creativiteit en de individuele wil omarmt. Door middel van poëtische en krachtige taal verkent Nietzsche de diepten van de menselijke ervaring, de natuur van de mens en de noodzaak van zelfreflectie. Het werk is een oproep tot zelfontplooiing en het omarmen van de uitdagingen van het leven, en biedt een diepgaande reflectie op de menselijke conditie en de zoektocht naar betekenis.

Encompassing a broad range of subjects, styles and moods, English poetry of the late 18th and early 19th centuries is generally classified under the term "Romantic," suggesting an emphasis on imagination and individual experiance, as well as a preoccupation with such themes as nature, death and the supernatural.This volume contains a rich selection of poems by England's six greatest Romantic poets: William Blake (24 poems, including "The Tyger" and "Auguries of Innocence"), William Wordsworth (27 poems, including "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" and "I wandered lonely as a cloud"), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (10 poems, including "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan"), Lord Byron (16 poems, including "The Prisoner of Chillon" and selections from Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage), Percy Bysshe Shelley (24 poems, including "Ode to the West Wind" and "Adonais") and John Keats (22 poems, including all the great odes, "Isabelle" and "The Eve of St. Agnes"). For this edition, Stanley Appelbaum has provided a concise Introduction to the Romantic period and brief commentaries on the poets represented. The result is a carefully selected anthology that will be welcomed by lovers of poetry, students and teachers alike.

Lyric poetry blossomed in 19th-century Germany under the fertilizing influence of Romanticism with its focus on the primacy of the imagination, worship of nature and childhood, dreaminess and nostalgia and preoccupation with thoughts of night and death. Although strictly defined as flourishing from 1798 to 1835, Romanticism is not timebound and German Romantic poetry was written both before and after these dates. Indeed, the 131 poems in this volume range in date from 1770 to 1903.Collected here are great romantic poems by 23 Goethe, Schiller, Hiilderlin, Novalis, Tieck, Brentano, Ruckert, Heine, Miirike, Storm, Nietzsche, and 12 more. Stanley Appelbaum has provided excellent new literal English translations of the poems on facing pages, along with an informative introduction and concise evaluations of each poet. This is a wonderful opportunity for any student of German or lover of poetry to enjoy a rich sampling from one of the world’s great poetic traditions.

This book offers a comprehensive survey of French poetry, featuring works by 30 of the country's most significant poets from the mid-15th century to the present. Notable figures include Charles d'Orléans, François Villon, Ronsard, Voltaire, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud, alongside lesser-known yet influential poets like Scève and Malherbe. The anthology presents French texts from reputable critical editions, with clear prose translations by Stanley Applebaum on facing pages, allowing readers to appreciate the original poems without the translator imposing a poetic style. An introductory essay succinctly summarizes the formal aspects of versification, detailing the evolution of rhyme, meter, enjambement, and innovations introduced by Apollinaire and his contemporaries. Each poet is accompanied by a biographical and critical essay that highlights their individual contributions and the broader progression of French poetry. Illustrations, typically portraits of the poets, enhance the selections. This anthology's clarity, comprehensiveness, and affordability make it an excellent resource for those new to French poetry, providing an engaging way to learn vocabulary and grammar while exploring the rich poetic tradition.