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Buy this book on-line SUCHET, JOHN: : THE LAST MASTER: Passion and Glory - Volume Three of a Fictional Biography of LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN.[Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.LITTLE,BROWN & COMPANY,1998. ISBN 0316648221.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dhmSIGNED,1st reprint.[Originaly and first published 1998,this is the first reprint,in the same year.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but author's neat,handwritten blue ink dedication, inscrptn and signature: 'For Louise Best wishes John Suchet' towards foot of title page,but a price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,subject's monochrome portrait photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with pink ink,pink fluorescent gilt and white lettering to front panel,rear panel with author's monochrome portrait photograph and pink fluorescent and pink ink lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.A small,shallow closed nick with reciprocal crease to top rear edge of dw/dj,both head+foot of spine/backstrip of both boards+dw/dj minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing to all.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped fluorescent red gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate b/w contemporary (1827) map of Vienna illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st reprint,xii-xivpp+4-401pp [paginated] includes cast of characters,Books 1-10 comprising 6,6,8,4, 6,5,4,7,7 and 5 chapters respectively,a chronology and postscript; plus [unpaginated] half-title,SIGNED title page,a dedication,contents list/table,and Beethoven family tree chart.
The concluding volume of John Suchet's fascinating fictional biography of Ludwig van Beethoven,the reader witnesses the great dramas of the composer's last years, as his growing deafness becomes the source for unrelenting personal suffering - and ever more sublime music.
Through a vivid narrative culminating in the remarkable moment of his death on 26 March 1827,'the raging at the fates' epiphany,John Suchet invests Beethoven with a tragic grandeur missing from conventional biographies.The deaf composer; the tortured immortal; the childless bachelor who created some of mankind's most emotional music - 'Passion and Glory' brings to stunning life the extraordinary story of the Last Master's personal anguish and artistic triumph.
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