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BENJAMIN BRITTEN A BIOGRAPHY

by Humphrey Carpenter

Published by Faber & Faber. 1st. 1992

Very good condition. A comprehensive, authorized account of the renowned British composer’s life, utilizing personal letters, diaries, and manuscripts. Blue boards, white title to spine. 680 pages (including index). B/w photos.

Spine slightly bumped. Name, address and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Textblock is a little dusty/fingered else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with fading to spine and edges and a couple of small tears.

ISBN: 0571143245
Stock no. 1331090

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Contents

  • Preface
  • Map of the Suffolk Coast
  • PART ONE 1913-37 No place like home
  • 1 Once upon a time there was a prep-school boy
  • 2 Utter loneliness
  • 3 What an institution
  • 4 Depressed for English music
  • 5 The most amazing man
  • 6 The deluge and the earthquake
  • PART TWO 1937-42 Tell me the truth about love
  • 1 One's resistance...gradually weakening
  • 2 I daren't mutter the name
  • 3 Stuck here
  • 4 O weep away the stain
  • PART THREE 1942-54 The ceremony of innocence
  • 1 The invisible worm
  • 2 The clue whose meaning we avoid
  • 3 Have a nice peach?
  • 4 A family affair
  • 5 It is I whom the devil awaits
  • 6 The power of love... the power of love
  • 7 A sort of spiritual corruption
  • PART FOUR 1954-76 Happy family
  • 1 The middle of life
  • 2 A kind of reparation
  • 3 Across the river
  • 4 We do not lack enemies
  • 5 The finest hall of its kind
  • 6 I am so tired
  • 7 Under the last
  • 8 Rather a long business
  • 9 The best brought-up little boy you could imagine
  • APPENDICES
  • A Chronological list of Britten's compositions
  • B Bibliography
  • C Notes on sources of quotations
  • D Acknowledgements
  • General Index
  • Index of Britten's Works

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