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Dale Peck
Dale Peck (born 1967)

literary critic, journalist

  • Drew University
What we lost
Visions and revisions
Sprout
Martin and John
The Lost Cities
The law of enclosures
Hatchet Jobs
Now it's time to say goodbye
Vital signs
Drift House
Body surfing
Between Men
Over the Rainbow
Drift House (Drift House Chronicles)
The Soho Press book of 80s short fiction
Shift
Now It's Time to Say Goodbye
Drift House
The Garden of Lost and Found
Es Hora De Decir Adios/Now It's Time to Say Goodbye
Martin and John
Das Gesetz der Nähe
Night soil
Law of Enclosures
The garden of lost & found
Fucking Martin
Schwarz und weiß
Drift House
What Burns
Lost cities
Drift House: The First Voyage (Drift House Chronicles)
Greenville
Easter
La casa alla deriva
Candidates for the Slaughterhouse
Now It Time to Say Goodbye
Sprout
Bruno Barilli
Bruno Barilli (1880-1952)

composer, music critic, journalist, critic

Srpski ratovi
Il paese del melodramma
Le guerre serbe
Lo stivale
Capricci di vegliardo e taccuini inediti (1901-1952)
Il viaggiatore volante
Lo spettatore stralunato
Ricordi londinesi
La camera n. 13
Il sorcio nel violino
Il dente di Barilli
Il sole in trappola
Il sole in trappola, diario del periplo dell'Africa (1931)
James Jackson Jarves
James Jackson Jarves (1818-1888)

journalist, diplomat, art collector, newspaper editor, critic, art historian

Pepero, the boy-artist
Art-hints
The art-idea
Scenes and scenery in the Sandwich Islands, and a trip through Central America
A glimpse at the art of Japan
Art studies: the old masters of Italy
Art Studies
Art thoughts
Parisian sights and French principles, seen through American spectacles
Italian sights and papal principles
Parisian sights and French principles
History of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands
Pepero, the boy-artist
A glimpse at the art of Japan
History of the Hawaiian islands
Parisian sights and French principles, seen through American spectacles
Why and what am I ?
Why And What Am I? The Confessions Of An Inquirer V1
Kiana
The Art-Idea (The John Harvard Library)
The art-idea
Scenes and scenery in the Sandwich Islands, and a trip through Central America: being observations from my note-book during the years 1837-1842
Handbook for visitors to the collections of old art of the Boston Foreign Art Exhibition
History of the Hawaiian Islands
The art-idea
Parisian sights and French principles, seen through American spectacles
Italian sights and papal principles
Kiana
Kiana
A Brief memoir of James Jackson Jarves, Jr
Why and what am I? The confessions of an inquirer
History of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands
Why and what am I? The confessions of an inquirer : in three parts : Part I. Heart-experience; or, The education of the emotions
Italian rambles
Descriptive catalogue of "old masters,"
Paolo Ruffilli
Paolo Ruffilli (born 1948)

poet, literary critic

Ippolito Nievo
Vita, amori e meraviglie del signor Carlo Goldoni
Joy and Mourning =
GIOIA E IL LUTTO = JOY AND MOURNING; TRANS. BY PADRAIG J. DALY
Natura morta
La gioia e il lutto
Like it or not
Un'altra vita
Affari di cuore
Le stanze del cielo
Lentamente muore chi non viaggia
Le cose del mondo
L'isola e il sogno
Camera oscura
Dark room
Piccola colazione
Affari di cuore
Preparativi per la partenza
Notizie dalle Esperidi
Variazioni sul tema
Dark room
La quercia delle gazze
Poesia e tempo
Michel Braudeau
Michel Braudeau (born 1946)

editor-in-chief, literary critic

L' usage des saints
Six excentriques
The Flight of the Monarch
Naissance d'une passion
Loin des foreĢ‚ts
L' interpreĢtation des singes
Fantôme d'une puce
L' objet perdu de l'amour
Mon ami Pierrot
Pérou
La non-personne
L'Amazone
Sarabande
Esprit de Mai
Le livre de John
Le roman français contemporain
Retour à Miranda
Faussaires eminents
Vaulascar
Passage de la main d'or
Le rêve amazonien
Etoile de Malaval  / Michel Braudeau. Suivi de Attention à la peinture / Robert Malaval
Fred K. Prieberg
Fred K. Prieberg (1928-2010)

historian of Modern Age, music critic, music historian, essayist, translator, musicologist

Kraftprobe
Dass ich nicht vertreten bin...: der Komponist Hans Schaeuble; ein biographischer Essay
Musik im NS-Staat
Handbuch Deutsche Musiker 1933-1945 (includes Archiv-Inventar Deutsche Musik 1933-1945)
Musik und Macht
Musica ex machina
Lexikon der neuen Musik
Musik und Musikpolitik in Schweden
Musik in der Sowjetunion
Musik des technischen Zeitalters
Musik im anderen Deutschland
Musik unterm Strich
EM
Johannes Urzidil
Johannes Urzidil (1896-1970)

poet, journalist, diplomat, art critic

Goethe in BoĢˆhmen
Život s českými malíři
HinterNational
Goethe v Čechách
The living contribution of Jewish Prague to modern German literature
Prag - Glanz und Mystik einer Stadt
Bekenntnisse eines Pedanten
Das Glück der Gegenwart
Da geht Kafka
Prag als geistiger Ausgangspunkt
There goes Kafka
Über das Handwerk
Der Trauermantel
Das Grosse Halleluja
Bist du es, Ronald? Erzählungen
Prager Triptychon
DIE VERLORENE GELIEBTE
Entführung und sieben andere Ereignisse
Prag - Glanz und Mystik einer Stadt
Väterliches aus Prag und Handwerkliches aus New York
Die letzte Tombola
Morgen fahr' ich heim
Die verlorene Geliebte
Goethe in Böhmen
Väterliches aus Prag und Handwerkliches aus New York
Sturz der verdammten
Die erbeuteten Frauen
Introduzione a Kafka
Ramon Fernandez
Ramon Fernandez (1894-1944)

journalist, literary critic, essayist

MolieĢ€re, the man seen through the plays
Vie de Molière
Proust
Messages
Messages, premieĢ€re seĢrie
?Es humano el hombre?
André Gide
Balzac, ou l'envers de la cre ation romanesque
Molière ou l'essence du génie comique
Gide, ou, Le courage de s'engager
Messages, premiıere série
Messages, première sér
La vie de MolieĢ€re
Les violents
Le pari, roman
De la personnalité
Proust ou La ge ne alogie du roman moderne
BarreĢ€s
Molie  re; ou, L'essence du ge nie comique
Balzac
Itinéraire français
Moliere
L' homme est-il humain?
AĢ€ la gloire de Proust
Philippe Sauveur
Molière
La vie de Molière
Le pari
Messages