An Eminent Lives Book
A rich biography of Beethoven by musically trained Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Edmund Morris
"This is not just criticism but poetry in itself, with the additional-and inestimable-merit of being true."
-Washington Post Book World
A rich biography of Beethoven by musically trained Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Edmund Morris
"This is not just criticism but poetry in itself, with the additional-and inestimable-merit of being true."
-Washington Post Book World
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- Harper Perennial
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- Eminent Lives (hc) (9780060759742)
- On Sale: 2/9/2010
- BIOGRAPHY/MUSIC
- pb 9780060759759 $13.99 ($17.99)
- 256 pages; 5 5/16 x 8
- Model ISBN: 9780060759742
Beethoven
- Succinct, essayistic, and enlivened by a strong point of view, the Eminent Lives series joins a distinguished literary tradition—great writers on great figures, short biographies perfect for an age short on time.
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“Morris knows how to set a scene, tell a story, reconstruct a world. . . . This is not just criticism but poetry in itself, with the additional—and inestimable—merit of being true.
- Washington Post Book World
"Morris clearly admires his subject not only for the work but also for his constant fight against the odds, and he has written an ideal biography for the general reader."
- Publishers Weekly
“Vivid. . . . Morris deftly sorts his way through Beethoven’s biography.”
- New York Times Book Review
“Brilliant. . . . Morris, biographer of Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, brings to this study not only those Pulitzer Prize-winning skills and his customarily superb, elegant writing, but also his own profound knowledge as a concert-level pianist. . . . This book is a perfect marriage--or should one say, duet--of subject and author, every word as masterly as the notest of the artist it illuminates.”
- Christopher Buckley, Forbes