Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

VW 's first two published novels, The Voyage Out and Night and Day, both work in the mode of social comedy to explore the experiences of a young woman coming to grips with her...

The title poem alludes through its name to Mozart 's Magic Flute. Its protagonist, Catherine, nearly eighteen, is gently mocked for her literary aspirations: Her Poems good, if not surprising, / On Friendship, Death...

Other books in the series included Stephen Leacock on Mark Twain and Sacheverell Sitwell on Mozart .

STW published her fifth and least-known novel, After the Death of Don Juan, a story related to but differing widely from Mozart 's opera Don Giovanni.

Most famous and beloved of all the contents of these books is undoubtedly Jane's The Star, better known as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, sometimes classed as a nursery rhyme, which first appeared in...

Apple Bough, 1962 (illustrated by Margery Gill , published as Traveling Shoes in the USA), is remarkable from a feminist point of view for the name of the youngest child in the central family...

After the death of a beloved grand-daughter, GS travelled with Manceau through Italy where she collected material for the novels Flavie, Constance Verrier, and a historical novel, Les beaux messieurs de Bois-Doré...

AR published an English translation of Mozart 's opera Cosi fan tutte.

AR 's earliest translations were from Italian, of Dante and Eugenio Montale . She first thought of translating a libretto for performance when she was asked to do so by Jane Glover , who later...

She lists her interests as language, history, northern landscapes . . . snooker, mortality, cyberspace, and especially people. In another place this list appears reshuffled, stretched to include beautiful men and music from Mozart to...

Peter Hall , its first director, likened the play to Mozart 's music for its precision, lyricism, and sudden descents into pain which are quickly over because of a healthy sense of the ridiculous.Samuel Beckett

O'Brien , however, was overall dissatisfied with Jazz. She felt something was lacking, and missed the emotional nexus, the moment shorn of all artifice that brings us headlong into the deepest recesses of feeling...

All the characters are fond of aphorisms (from Anne we get Bitterness is wanton, like showing the hangman the gauge of your neck . . . . It also comes easily to lazy sentimentalists

Violet also had several German and Swiss governesses. Marie Krebs Schülpbach , who taught her at Thun in Switzerland when Violet stayed there in 1866-9, was especially influential: they read theGrimms , Goethe ...

The author chose as her narrator and central subject a Roman coin stamped with the image of the emperor Hadrian , which is possessed by a series of characters including a gladiator, Renaissance artist Guido Reni