Obituary: Peter Owen, OBE, publisher

Edit Scotsman 07 Jun 2016
Born. 25 February 1927, Nuremberg, Germany. Died. 31 May 2016, Archway, London, aged 89 ... All this was achieved while other publishers were falling by the wayside, due to costs, or pandering to the bulk publishing of the latest Sebastian Faulks or another mutation of Katie Price's autobiography ... Later he almost lost Hesse for daring to ask his widow if the title of his 1930 classic, ‘Narcissus and Goldmund', might be changed ... ....

Peter Owen obituary

Edit The Guardian 01 Jun 2016
Publisher whose list of writers included 10 Nobel prizewinners. Peter Owen’s survival as a publisher across 60 years was against all commercial odds ... His list of authors was impressive, if eclectic and not necessarily with their best books ... A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality) ... Owen and Ono did not get on ... Later he almost lost Hesse for daring to ask his widow if the title of his 1930 classic, Narcissus and Goldmund, might be changed ... ....

Various Artists 'Journeys Vol.2' review

Edit Skiddle 17 Feb 2016
Joe Dexter tucks into soothing, mesmerising tracks from the likes of Nils Frahm, Christian Loffler, Goldmund and Luke Howard. Last updated. 17th Feb 2016. Image. Nils Frahm. London-based imprint Needwant have always been ahead of the game in regards to compilation albums, and their second instalment of Journeys invites you to get lost in your headphones in exactly what the title suggests - a quest to unwind and enjoy ... Sleep. Relax ... ....

How to design the perfect home and office interior

Edit GQ Magazine 22 Dec 2015
All by Jonathan Adler via Jonathan AdlerBooks by Assouline, from £55 via AssoulineSpeakers by Goldmund, £55,000 a pair via Sonata Hi FiArmchair by Baxter, £6,840 via Anna CasaFloor lamp by Kevin Reilly, £2,292 via Gotham Notting HillWall sculpture by Cox London, £9,120 via Cox LondonFire pedestal by Cocoon Fires, £2,290 via ChaplinsRug by Top ......

Guardian readers' comfort library

Edit The Guardian 19 Nov 2015
Jane Austen rubs shoulders with Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beckett sits next to Harry Potter in the great self-help archive assembled by our contributors. A breakfast-room adjoined the drawing-room, I slipped in there. It contained a bookcase. I soon possessed myself of a volume, taking care that it should be one stored with pictures. I mounted into the window-seat ... it was an object of terror ... katcalls. ... Narziss and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse....

Music For Healing

Edit National Public Radio 17 Nov 2015
2.00 PM ET. Robin Hilton. Twitter. Bob Boilen. Twitter Instagram. Hear The Songs And Discussion. 54.03 ... Hear The Songs. Clockwise from upper left ... itoggle caption Courtesy of the artists ... Robin Hilton's choice of a song by pianist Goldmund gave him some space for moments of solace as the news unfolded this weekend ... Janna. Artist ... Goldmund From ... Goldmund is the performance name for pianist Keith Kenniff ... Explore Goldmund's full NPR Archive. Goldmund....

The Emergency Book Club Reads 'To Kill A Mockingbird' For The First Time

Edit Huffington Post 14 Jul 2015
Claire. Welcome to our first meeting of Emergency Book Club, the book club for literary critics who rarely plan more than three days in advance for seminal publishing events. Here we all are. Three 20-something culture writers who have never read To Kill a Mockingbird. Whew, that was hard to say. Thank heavens we have each other to confide in ... That’s child’s play ... Maddie ... Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse springs to mind....

A half-told love story emerges from the pages of an old book

Edit The Guardian 08 Jul 2015
The first note Raphael found in a second hand copy of Herman Hesse’s Narziss and Goldmund in Cairo. Photograph. Raphael Solarsh. Raphael Solarsh ... I once found an old edition of Herman Hesse’s Narziss and Goldmund with a curious inscription on the title page, a quote from the prog-rock band, the Alan Parsons Project, and an inscription, “Christmas 1981 in Germany. I’m with you ... Karin.” ... the annotated title page of Narzizz and Goldmund ... ....
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Writer and director Stefan Ruzowitzky

Ruzowitzky to direct Hesse adaptation 'Narcissus and Goldmund'

Edit IMDb 14 May 2015
Oscar-winning Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters) is to direct Hermann Hesse’s 1930 international bestseller and cult novel Narcissus and Goldmund ... Narcissus and Goldmund is one of the first ......

10 questions with historical fiction author: Robert Stephen Perry

Edit The Examiner 16 Mar 2015
Robert Stephen Perry, author of "The Arrow Chest", "Wildish", "Virgin and the Crab", "Elizabeth. The Virgin Queen and the Men Who Loved Her", and "The Hours Before" answers 10 questions about his favorite time period in history, his favorite figures from history, and the age old question of coffee or tea. 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... But we all dream ... 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... 8 ... 9 ... Tolstoy’s "War and Peace", Dickens’s "David Copperfield", and Hesse’s "Narcissus and Goldmund"....

Eric Cantona: 11 steps to becoming a football icon

Edit BBC News 25 Jan 2015
By Ben Smith BBC Sport. 25 January 1995 saw one of most infamous incidents in football when Manchester United's Eric Cantona launched himself kung-fu style into a Crystal Palace supporter. 20 years on BBC Sport looks at the steps which made Cantona an icon. 1 ... His three favourite books are 'The Picture Of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde, a collection by Antonin Artaud and 'Narcissus & Goldmund' by Hermann Hesse ... ....

New York-Based Singer Natalie Mering to Headline Show at the UFO Factory in Detroit as ...

Edit Huffington Post 15 Jan 2015
That's what I had to do in listening to the music of Natalie Mering, who records under the moniker Weyes Blood ... It's eerie, yet beautiful, and its music coming from a vulnerable place ... My favorite Hermann Hesse book Narcissus and Goldmund has this paragraph about how life is like this mystery where you are yearning for this unknown desire for meaningfulness or a desire for things to be connected or a desire for things to make sense....

Our Top 10 Stories that Killed it on Social Media in 2014

Edit About.com 23 Dec 2014
At About.com, we share ideas, answers and inspiration about the things that you love. But as we close 2014, we wanted to share with you the things you shared on social media. So, without further ado, we present the top 10 social media hits from About.com. WLADIMIR BULGAR/Science Photo Library/Getty Images. 10.  Hydration Calculator ... More ». Peathegee Inc/Blend Images/Getty Images ... More » ... Goldmund Lukic/E+/Getty Images ... ....
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