Stanley Appelbaum Books

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.

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.

Als F. Scott Fitzgeralds famoser Roman „The Great Gatsby“ 1925 erschien, erntete sein Autor von zahlreichen Schriftstellerkollegen hymnische Kritiken, doch erst die Nachkriegsjahrzehnte bescherten seinem Meisterwerk die weltweite Anerkennung, die es verdient. Ergreifend und mit subtiler Finesse erzählt Fitzgerald die Geschichte des schillernden Emporkömmlings Jay Gatsby, der auf seinem Anwesen rauschende Feste feiert, um seine einst verlorene Liebe zurückzugewinnen - eine Geschichte über die Macht großer Gefühle und das schmerzhafte Scheitern eines romantischen Traums. Diese Ausgabe präsentiert den grandiosen Klassiker der amerikanischen Literatur in einer zweisprachigen Ausgabe Englisch und Deutsch.

"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.

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.

The ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor. Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not religious.

“An exquisite book, rich, shimmering, and truly incomparable.” —The New Yorker This lyric portrait of a boy’s companionship with his little donkey, Platero, is the masterpiece of Juan Ramón Jiménez, the Spanish poet awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature. Poetic, elegiac, it reveals the simple pleasures of life in a in a remote Andalusian village and is a classic work of literature, beloved by adults and children alike.