Books written by Lucy Beckett

  • Richard Wagner: Parsifal
    Richard Wagner: Parsifal

    ... by Patricia Howard Igor Stravinsky : The Rake's Progress by Paul Griffiths Leoš Janáček : Kát'a Kabanová by John Tyrrell Giuseppe Verdi : Falstaff by James A. Hepokoski Benjamin Britten : Peter Grimes by Philip Brett Giacomo Puccini ...

  • A Postcard from the Volcano: A Novel of Pre-War Germany
    A Postcard from the Volcano: A Novel of Pre-War Germany

    “But Dr Fischer—” “Listen to me, Max. The Catholic Church requires its members to think certain things. It does not allow them to think for themselves, to make up their own minds. It took hundreds of years to free people from the ...

  • In the Light of Christ: Writings in the Western Tradition
    In the Light of Christ: Writings in the Western Tradition

    Extracts from First and Last Notebooks, translated by Richard Rees (Oxford University Press, 1970), translation © 1970 by the Estate of Richard Rees, used by permission of PF D on behalf of the Estate of Richard Rees.

  • The Time Before You Die: 2nd Edition
    The Time Before You Die: 2nd Edition

    The birth had been an easy one, so the baker's wife had told him, and Alice had achieved it with a courage that astonished him, sitting up to sew, with quick fingers, between the pains, until the baker's wife had sent him out to get ...

  • Wallace Stevens
    Wallace Stevens

    Lucy Beckett presents Stevens as a contemplative poet, engaged on a long enquiry into the nature of the relationship between the creative imagination and the world it illuminates and recreates.

  • The Leaves Are Falling: A Novel
    The Leaves Are Falling: A Novel

    Why had she cho- sen not to? Could he ask her all this? With his head so full of questions and thankfulness and anxiety and love and sadness that he couldn't think clearly, couldn't think at all, he took offhis new shoes, ...