Following his death (which according to persistent but unfounded legend was caused by a falling bookcase) Alkan's music became neglected, supported by only a few musicians including Ferruccio Busoni, Egon Petri and Kaikhosru Sorabji.
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9. Pigrim's Progress by John Bunyan It was always there in the bookcase beside Churchill's world war two tomes and Burn's poems and I would read and reread it for its journey of perseverence and loved poring over the detailed engravings.
Selfies have birthed many spin-offs: the shelfie (a picture of one's bookcase), the belfie (a self-portrait of one's bum), and the nomakeup selfie which earlier this year raised millions for charity.
I looked for a copy for decades and won't soon forget the excitement I felt when I saw its familiar blue cover across the room in a bookcase of children's literature in G. Heywood Hill's legendary rare-book store in London just a few years ago.
As he opens the comic, the monster is terrified to hear ray-gun noises, and out of Bernard's bookcase (spot the patchwork elephant, a reference to McKee's Elmer) there appears a cardboard robot.
In the yellow room on West 57th Street, Pariser's bookcase is heavy with fiction that tends toward large, bleak visions: Orwell's "1984," DeLillo's "Underworld," David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest".
— The dark blue captain's hat, with its golden oak-leaf clusters, sits atop a bookcase in Bryan Lawlor's home, out of reach of the children.
She has, however, availed herself of the building's library, a bookcase in the basement's pleasant laundry room.
ABOVE a large oak bookcase in John Kenneth Galbraith's elegant sitting room in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a framed sampler was displayed.
