Chambers Books

Dover has done a great job putting all these pieces together in only one edition. The size is portable, light, and the paper does not reflect the light ... only one thing: it does not provide bar numbers, so if you have to work the music detail you have to write them down.

This full score contains the serenades, which was music that he composed for occasions like, garden parties etc. It contains the following, music:

Serenade in D Major k203/189b Notturno in D Major k286/269a Posthorn Serenade k320 Serenade in B- Flat k361/370a Serenade in E flat Major k375 and the Best of them all- Eine Kleine Nachtmusik K525

It has 236 pages of good quality music and the pages are sewn.!

It is a very good edition, with large noteheads and a good and strong folding. There is the best of Mozart here: not only the great string quintets, but also the horn quintet and the astonishing clarinet quintet.

This edition is based on the Breitkopf & Haertel score, which was printed in the 1880s. There aren't notes about the source texts used (unlike Gal's editions of Brahms scores also published by Dover). This is a pity, since the autograph of the clarinet quintet is lost and it would have been useful to know where they took it.

I Wanted to have a Schumann symphony score. I love the theme of the first movement of the 3rd symphony. I like to hear it on a piano my be someday i will make a transcription for the piano.

This 18-chapter book shows us the latest development in computer games. I found lots of useful information in the 640-page book, and its CD also gave me wonderful experience in several new games. The book is real good for persons who need basic & detailed directions on various present-day games. For each major game-category, the author supplies one or two examples with simple directions on the playing strategy, along with playing requirements for platforms, modes and systems. You can also find many directions for home-gaming hardware choice and installation. Among the book's three parts (Part I Hardware Basics, Part II Other Game Worlds, Part III Advanced Gaming Topics), the third one is most useful for me---a game-lover who do not have enough time to go through various game stuffs but really want to know something about at least most of them. By the way, this is a bible for game players, not for game programmers.

Robert W. Chambers wrote in the late 19th and early 20th century. His novels combined adventure and romance. I found my copy of "The Conspirators" from 1900 in an antique store and found myself rushing through the yellowed pages to experience the conclusion that seemed sure to come. As with novels of the period, black and white illustrations sweetly suggest the scenes.

The protagonist is Gilbert Hardy who is sent to Luxembourg. Hardy is a young military officer assigned to the diplomatic corps as William the Sudden of Germany threatens to storm across the borders of Luxembourg. Events are set in motion as Hardy is accosted on the train by a desperate young man who is also 25 and has similar features described in his passport. At gunpoint, he demands that they exchange passports. Hardy accepts, exchanges gunfire, and winds up thrown into prison under an assumed identity. The events come fast and furious in this romance as a mysterious woman comes to visit the prisoner who she assumes to be someone else. Hardy, not knowing who he is assumed to be, kisses the woman and assures her of his love. Eventually, Hardy is released to the American office, assigned to the staff of the Duke of Luxembourg. Four romantic couples find each other. In the case of the Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg, they overcome obstacles in their marriage. A political uprising in the form of a revolt with the armed forces is handled. The army is locked in the cellar with the wine. The good queen of Holland comes to prevent German aggression. This is a sweet story that unfolds with speed. Chambers gives his narrator Gilbert Hardy wit and a touch of sass as he relates the events of the story. Enjoy!

I haven't had a chance to read this book yet (I'm still waiting for my promotional copy to arrive in the mail), but, I understand that it's written by the same "dorky English guy" that provides the voice narration on the CD-ROMs that accompany the Biology textbooks by Cecie Starr. He's quite a Renaissance man, apparently.

Hal Robinson is sixteen, has just finished his school exams and has no idea what he wants to do with his life. Will he stay on at school? If so what will he study? Or will he get a job like his father wants? Hal lives at Southend, the part of London where the Thames River meets the sea. One day he 'borrows' a friend's sail-boat without asking permission. A storm blows up and soon Hal capsizes the boat. Then into his life sails Barry Gorman, eighteen year old, expert sailor, who rescues Hal and who it seems will soon sort Hal's life out. Soon Hal finds himself falling deeply in love with Barry, and it seems his every fantasy is about to be fulfilled. But, as Hal reveals at the very beginning of the book, Barry's life is destined to be cut short.

This book is written in a quirky, interesting, experimental manner. The text consists of Hal's first person account, six "running reports" by Hal's social worker, two newspaper clippings, and a school essay. The personal account features "action replays" in which Hal goes over the scene he has just described filling in the psychological details that could not be included in the flow of action. One important theme to arise is the 'postmodern' question of how much a written account mirrors reality? Hal desperately wants to be honest, but no matter how much he tries his words fail to describe the true 'feeling' of events, or can be interpreted in a way that varies from the 'truth'.

While being an account of a death the book is often surprisingly funny. I found myself laughing out loud in several parts. Grief, however, inevitably takes the main stage at the end of the story, and is represented in some considerable depth. This is not really a tear-jerker though, as throughout the book we have always known that Barry will die.

Of course the book is also a description of first adult love, in all its depth and pain. As the story progresses Hal moves from confused teenager to wounded but wiser adult. While this could be described as a 'gay' story the book can be also enjoyed by 'straight' adolescent readers: love, death and truth are in fact universal themes no matter in what details we dress them. The story includes some sex but it is only very discretely referred to.

This is an English novel and some colloquialisms and cultural references are included which US audiences may find difficult to understand. There is not enough of this though to make the book inaccessible: in fact most of the text should be crystal clear.

Hal Robinson is sixteen, has just finished his school exams and has no idea what he wants to do with his life. Will he stay on at school? If so what will he study? Or will he get a job like his father wants? Hal lives at Southend, the part of London where the Thames River meets the sea. One day he 'borrows' a friend's sail-boat without asking permission. A storm blows up and soon Hal capsizes the boat. Then into his life sails Barry Gorman, eighteen year old, expert sailor, who rescues Hal and who it seems will soon sort Hal's life out. Soon Hal finds himself falling deeply in love with Barry, and it seems his every fantasy is about to be fulfilled. But, as Hal reveals at the very beginning of the book, Barry's life is destined to be cut short.

This book is written in a quirky, interesting, experimental manner. The text consists of Hal's first person account, six "running reports" by Hal's social worker, two newspaper clippings, and a school essay. The personal account features "action replays" in which Hal goes over the scene he has just described filling in the psychological details that could not be included in the flow of action. One important theme to arise is the 'postmodern' question of how much a written account mirrors reality? Hal desperately wants to be honest, but no matter how much he tries his words fail to describe the true 'feeling' of events, or can be interpreted in a way that varies from the 'truth'.

While being an account of a death the book is often surprisingly funny. I found myself laughing out loud in several parts. Grief, however, inevitably takes the main stage at the end of the story, and is represented in some considerable depth. This is not really a tear-jerker though, as throughout the book we have always known that Barry will die.

Of course the book is also a description of first adult love, in all its depth and pain. As the story progresses Hal moves from confused teenager to wounded but wiser adult. While this could be described as a 'gay' story the book can be also enjoyed by 'straight' adolescent readers: love, death and truth are in fact universal themes no matter in what details we dress them. The story includes some sex but it is only very discretely referred to.

This is an English novel and some colloquialisms and cultural references are included which US audiences may find difficult to understand. There is not enough of this though to make the book inaccessible: in fact most of the text should be crystal clear.

Hal Robinson is sixteen, has just finished his school exams and has no idea what he wants to do with his life. Will he stay on at school? If so what will he study? Or will he get a job like his father wants? Hal lives at Southend, the part of London where the Thames River meets the sea. One day he 'borrows' a friend's sail-boat without asking permission. A storm blows up and soon Hal capsizes the boat. Then into his life sails Barry Gorman, eighteen year old, expert sailor, who rescues Hal and who it seems will soon sort Hal's life out. Soon Hal finds himself falling deeply in love with Barry, and it seems his every fantasy is about to be fulfilled. But, as Hal reveals at the very beginning of the book, Barry's life is destined to be cut short.

This book is written in a quirky, interesting, experimental manner. The text consists of Hal's first person account, six "running reports" by Hal's social worker, two newspaper clippings, and a school essay. The personal account features "action replays" in which Hal goes over the scene he has just described filling in the psychological details that could not be included in the flow of action. One important theme to arise is the 'postmodern' question of how much a written account mirrors reality? Hal desperately wants to be honest, but no matter how much he tries his words fail to describe the true 'feeling' of events, or can be interpreted in a way that varies from the 'truth'.

While being an account of a death the book is often surprisingly funny. I found myself laughing out loud in several parts. Grief, however, inevitably takes the main stage at the end of the story, and is represented in some considerable depth. This is not really a tear-jerker though, as throughout the book we have always known that Barry will die.

Of course the book is also a description of first adult love, in all its depth and pain. As the story progresses Hal moves from confused teenager to wounded but wiser adult. While this could be described as a 'gay' story the book can be also enjoyed by 'straight' adolescent readers: love, death and truth are in fact universal themes no matter in what details we dress them. The story includes some sex but it is only very discretely referred to.

This is an English novel and some colloquialisms and cultural references are included which US audiences may find difficult to understand. There is not enough of this though to make the book inaccessible: in fact most of the text should be crystal clear.