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	Agatha Christie - Free Online Library
		Christie was an accomplished pianist but her stage fright and shyness prevented her from pursuing a career in music.
		In 1936 she published the first of six psychological romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.
		With over one hundred novels and 103 translations into foreign languages, Christie was by the time of her death the best-selling English novelist of all time.
	christie.thefreelibrary.com (875 words)

	Evaluation and study (from novel) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It has been only in comparatively recent times that the novel has been taken sufficiently seriously by critics for the generation of aesthetic appraisal and the formulation of fictional theories.
		The first critics of the novel developed their craft not in full-length books but in reviews published in periodicals: much of this writing—in the late 18th and early 19th…
		In the essay, Shoyo, an author and literary scholar, attacked the loosely constructed plots and weak characterizations of contemporary Japanese novels and urged writers to concentrate on analyses of personality in realistic...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-51037?tocId=51037 (997 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Novel - George Singleton - Hardcover
		Novel Akers's mother-in-law, Ina Cathcart, perishes along with her common-sense-challenged son Irby, whose lit cigarette encounters her oxygen tube as he's driving Mom home from the hospital.
		Novel hangs with philosophical bartender Jeff the Owner, deflects the wandering attention of surplus storeowner (and, probably, Bekah's hired contract killer) Victor Dees, and half-heartedly romances recently slimmed-down Maura Lee Snipes (whose emporium features her specialty "Jesus Crust"), before being hired as Gruel's town historian.
		There's a novel somewhere inside Novel, but it's buried under the gags, many of which are just about irresistible.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=CX0p5HcBeE&isbn=0151011281&itm=1 (325 words)

	Bold Type: Interview with Vikram Seth
		However, I did realize that if I were to write another novel equally long, it would take up another decade of my life.
		He had been passionately obsessed with a pianist many years ago: a student in Vienna at roughly the same time he was.
		After I decided to bring Julia's deafness into the novel, I found a number of musicians who were quite hard of hearing.
	www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/0599/seth/interview.html (1196 words)

	English 102 On-Line Introduction to Literature Lecture 15
		A novel has all of the elements of the short story: plot, character, setting, tone, point of view, style, symbols, and theme.
		For example, the first line of the novel says, "The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one..." This lets you know to look in the rest of the novel for ways in which history repeats itself.
		Milan Kundera was born April 1, in Brno, Czechoslovakia, to Ludvik, a pianist and musicologist, and Milada.
	www.lahc.cc.ca.us /english/eng102/Lect15.htm (927 words)

	Fantasy and prophecy (from novel) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The term science fiction is a loose one, and it is often made to include fantastic and prophetic books that make no reference to the potentialities of science and technology for changing human life.
		Their artists included the pianist Dave Brubeck (whose Jazz at Oberlin was among the first live jazz albums) and controversial comedian Lenny Bruce.
		In a psychological novel the emotional reactions and internal states of the characters are influenced by and in turn trigger external events in a meaningful symbiosis.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=51011 (908 words)

	Overtones by Unni L. Hoel - a musical drama
		The novel depicts the timeless conflict between a possessive father and his daughter, who struggles for the right to orchestrate her own life.
		The father, a widower, clings to the memory of his deceased wife and to the promise he made her: to make their daughter into a virtuoso pianist.
		Along the way, the daughter is seduced by a voice and a violin, played by a French musician, known to make women swoon and fall for his libertine charms.
	www.unnihoel.com /html/overtones.html (165 words)

	Keith Oatley - Biography
		The novel revolves round three relationships, and is told in three voices.
		It is an interior portrait, set in 1849, of the workings of the mind of a scientist as he strives to solve the problem that is still the most important in medicine: the nature of infectious disease.
		His novels, then, are ways of enabling people to experience psychological issues as they read.
	www.oise.utoronto.ca /depts/hdap/oatley/bio.htm (534 words)

	NOVEL, Orquesta : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		(previously called Orquesta Típica Novel) Swinging flute, strings, rhythm section and voices charanga band formed in NYC '60s, led by Afro-Cuban pianist, arr., composer, vocalist Willie Ellis; noted for rich harmonies and tight arrangements.
		Renamed Orquesta Novel when moving to Fania for albums incl.
		Jimmy Bosch on trombone (see Libre); From New York City '89 was their last Fania outing.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/n/N56.HTM (108 words)

	The Pianist - The Book, The Movie. Wladyslaw Szpilman - Official Homepage
		The "Palme d’Or", three "Oscars" and various European film prizes were among the awards collected by "The Pianist", Roman Polanski’s film based upon Wladyslaw Szpilman’s bestseller book "The Pianist", dealing with his "miraculous survival" (as he called it) in Warsaw during the German occupation and final destruction between 1938 and 1945.
		Szpilman's initial training as a pianist was in the Chopin School of Music in Warsaw under Josef Smidowicz and Aleksander Michalowski, both of them former students of Liszt.
		Before Roman Polanski's The Pianist became possibly the best film ever made about the Holocaust, before it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and garnered seven Oscar nominations, this story of the against-all-odds survival of the Jewish musician in German-occupied Poland was a book with an unusual publishing history.
	www.szpilman.net (3081 words)

	Textbooks: 1922 novel the judge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		What judge decreed that conformismIsn't conformism the great meeting placescientist's entry in the great universal cook-off, the scientific method may be used to judgethe success or failurealways much more than the sum of their parts.
		Scottish woman who was the FIRST woman to run a major hotel in Manchester when appointed to the 164-room Holiday Inn Garden Court onpianist born in Cornwall who became the FIRST Western pianist to play in Russia after the Second World War * Muluemebetwoman pilot in Africa when she joined the Ethiopian Airlines.
		But it is one of thenovel circumstances of recent demonstrations that they do not fit into the accepted or traditional patternBill as now amended to give the Minister of Home Affairs powerbeen given (as required by the Bill) and simultaneously to prohibit the holding of any other publicmeeting.
	www.textbookmaps.com /book/novel/1922-novel-the-judge.html (843 words)

	Thomas Bernhard's English bibliography
		This novel appeared after Bernhard's death but is chronologically the first.
		Translated from the German "Verstörung" which means something like "Confusion", this novel was published in 1967.
		Novel from 1970, a remarkable technical and artistic achievement, whatever that means.
	www.morose.fsnet.co.uk /essays/bernhard/bibliography.htm (434 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Charming 'Schubert' a first-rate first novel
		Annoyed by the store pianist's holiday drivel, she waits for him to take a break, then lunges for the piano.
		For several minutes, she brilliantly plays some of the works of Schubert, with all the verve of a concert pianist.
		Everyone is in shock — including Liza, who took some piano lessons as a young girl but was never aware that she had any musical gifts.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595079213,00.html (475 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: The Pianist
		The story of "The Pianist" begins in Warsaw in the year of 1939.
		The son is played by Adrien Brody (sorry, his character's name is very hard to spell), who is a famous pianist who plays his songs over the radio.
		"The Pianist" is more powerful than "Schindler's List" in the way it shows the harshness towards the Jews and the inhumanity of war.
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/thepianist.html (696 words)

	Articles
		Von Ballmoos actually was the fledgling pianist Janice Weber, who chose to present her debut under a pseudonym, cribbed from a Swiss pastry chef and his hat-check girl, out of disgust for the long-standing tradition of inflated, flowery biographies in concert programs.
		She has been a featured pianist with the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Pops, and she also is the author of three highly erotic, extremely funny novels.
		When concert pianist Janice Weber walked into the East Room of the White House recently, she was walking in the footsteps of the leading character in her fifth and latest novel.
	www.janiceweber.com /articles.html (1687 words)

	ZCPortal - The Eternal Nazi: Watching Roman Polanski's The Pianist in Germany
		Last week I had the opportunity in Munich to attend a screening of Roman Polanski's new film The Pianist, a film that will not premiere in the United States for another month.
		This film is based on the true story of the Polish Jewish piano virtuoso Wladyslaw Szpilman, who survived the entire Nazi occupation of Warsaw hiding in the Ghetto and at times being hidden right under the noses of the Nazis in safe houses maintained by the Polish Resistance.
		The Pianist is a great film and an even greater cautionary tale, because history has an unfortunate way of repeating itself.
	www.zcportal.com /2002/1202/pianist.asp (1130 words)

	Trafford Publishing: Love and Betrayal in Texas: A NOVEL ABOUT A TRUSTING WOMAN, HER LOVERS, CHILDREN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An exciting suspense novel about a trusting woman, her loves and her controlling, influential parents who illegally steal and adopt her children.
		This is storytelling at its highest degree with all of the elements that an exciting novel should have: love, hate, trust, suspense, Texas traditions of the '50s, out-of-control dysfunctional families, influential and controlling parents, kidnapping and custody trials, vivid settings in Texas, New York, Europe, the Wild West and California.
		She is a pianist, artist and writer and has won multiple awards for her short stories and articles.
	www.trafford.com /robots/03-1840.html (1839 words)

	the bullet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Freezing cold in a deserted house, the Polish Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman is reconstructing a world in which all human conflicts and passions become one unique feeling of survival and fight for life and spirit.
		Roman Polanski, in his triple Oscar-award-winning movie, "The Pianist," makes the everlasting myth of Orpheus who tamed beasts with music, the central engine of a story in which humans and beasts form only one world, in which there is no absolute good nor absolute bad, but equal quantities of each.
		In 1998 Szpilman`s son, Andrzej, discovered the manuscript, and the book was published as "The Pianist." Szpilman died July 6, 2000, at the age of 88.
	www.cji-bullet.ro /article.html?id=364 (799 words)

	Mundane Sounds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Christopher O'Riley is a classically-trained pianist, and he's also a Radiohead geek.
		As novel of an idea that might be, it's a bit surprising when you realize exactly how well most of these songs survive the translation.
		And while it's true that there is a certain novel aspect in recording an album of classical interpretations of a modern rock band, O'Riley (and Radiohead, to be honest) makes some interesting yet surprisingly faithful choices.
	www.mundanesounds.com /printview.php?id=37 (437 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I began my wartime career as a pianist in the Cafe Nowoczesna, which was in Nowolipki Street in the very heart of the Warsaw ghetto.
		The Pianist is simply a factual account of the mirculous events which lead to Wladyslaw Szpilman surviving first the Warsaw ghetto and later hiding out in Warsaw for years until the war ended.
		The Pianist is a short memoir, a quick read, and very much recommended to anyone who is interested in the Holocaust or World War II.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312311354?v=glance (2292 words)

	An Audience Of One - A teenage girl has aspirations of becoming a concert pianist - Beth Staas, Denlinger's Publishers ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Beginning her studies at age nine, an already advanced age for serious musical training, she aspires to be a concert pianist.
		This novel traces her search for encouragement, recognition, and opportunity as she grows from a talented but undisciplined fifteen-year old to the time of her high school graduation, an aspiring professional on the way to the Juilliard School of Music.
		This is her second novel, an excerpt of which won the Creative Writing Award from the Associated Authors of Children's Literature, Houston.
	www.thebookden.com /audience1.html (3938 words)

	Joan Tower - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This special event showcased numerous artists who regularly perform her music, including the Tokyo String Quartet, pianists Melvin Chen and Ursula Oppens, violist Paul Neubauer, oboist Richard Woodhams, and the New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble.
		Joan Tower's bold and energetic music, with its striking imagery and novel structural forms, has won large, enthusiastic audiences.
		From 1969 to 1984, she was pianist and founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning Da Capo Chamber Players, which commissioned and premiered many of her most popular works.
	www.schirmer.com /composers/tower_bio.html (884 words)

	When We Were Orphans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In The Unconsoled, Ishiguro’s next novel, a pianist finds himself lost in a nameless, dreamlike city to which he’s evidently come to give a performance.
		People all over the world still, at this late date, suffer and yearn and experience, now and then, bliss, which is why novels with purely epistemological agendas probably strike most grown-up readers as masturbatory.
		Daniel Akst is the author of St. Burl’s Obituary, a novel.
	www.akst.com /when_we_were_orphans.htm (915 words)

	Mad Papers, Term papers, Vol.102, Pg.2, 051018
		It looks at how in the novel, the character Sophie and her two children are taken to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau during the Nazi purge of the Jews and how in order to be spared, Sophie must choose the life of one of her children over the other.
		This paper examines Wladyslaw Szpilman's novel "The Pianist," in which the author details his account of his survival in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and how he managed to make it through the horrors and atrocities that were committed there during the seven years he writes about.
		Using Elie Wiesel's classic novel on the holocaust, "Night", the paper describes how the autobiographical protagonist is forced to become a number among millions of other victims.
	www.madpapers.snrinfo.net /lib/essay/102_2.html (4154 words)

	R Sports Links - RealSportsNetwork.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties.
		Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
		-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
	www.realsportsnetwork.com /Hockey_Ice_Hockey_Leagues_National_Hockey_League_Players_R.html (1875 words)

	JC-CD3047
		Veteran pianist Pat Hawes is pivotal to the success of the project and rises to occasion with aplumb, dispensing tasteful relaxed stride in the appropriate idiom, without specifically replicating Fats note for note.
		That's good to hear, particularly from the pianist Hawes who ran the risk of imitating Waller but he certainly doesn't.
		The repertoire is a fine mixture of Waller's hits and some obscurities, and Fats himself can be heard at the end of several songs making comments that were taken and isolated from his Victor recordings.
	www.jazzcrusade.com /JCCD/JC3047.html (2104 words)

	Pianist DVD at Video Universe
		As the girls grow up thier realationships with the pianist become more complicated, and emotionally charged and erotically explosive.
		When the girls meet, years later, as grownups they look back over their teenage years and their relationships with each other and with the pianist.
		Fraught with sexual tension and jealousy, THE PIANIST is a fascinating female coming-of-age story.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/movie/pid/1709777/a/Pianist.htm (277 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Eclipse: A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Stylish and sexy, this French novel could be termed an existential detective thriller.
		Pieces of the jigsaw include a wealthy Bolivian couple, a Spanish ophthalmologist who has mysteriously vanished, a nubile hitchhiker and a reclusive German pianist with one finger missing, whose memoirs Michel is compiling.
		Although the narration is heavy with existential baggage, Belletto's Gallic wit and deft literary style keep the reader turning the pages to the shocking, unforeseeable, tragic denoument.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0916515648 (212 words)

	Polanski in the dock from Guardian Unlimited: Culture Vulture
		Roman Polanski won an Oscar for his adaptation of Wladyslaw Szpilman's Holocaust novel The Pianist and recently finished work on an overhaul of Oliver Twist.
		It also calls to mind the apocryphal tale of the Democrat candidate who was lambasted by his Republican rival as a corrupt, murdering liberal rapist and objected to being called a liberal.
		But as with Camus's novel, one can't shake the suspicion that this is a trial-within-a-trial, and that Polanski's whole worth as a human being has been put on the scales.
	blogs.guardian.co.uk /culturevulture/archives/2005/07/21/polanski_in_the_dock.html (1147 words)

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