There remains, however, William H. Gass' Reading Rilke: R...

There remains, however, William H. Gass' Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation; Roger Hahn's painstakingly-researched Pierre Simon Laplace 1749-1827: A Determined Scientist, for some reason apparently only available in hardcover at the embarrassingly low price of $33.60. There remains Schonberg's Lives of the Great Composers, something no self-respecting music-lover should be without; Goffman's Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, something I should apparently have read ...