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Richard Wagner: The Man, His Mind and His Music Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult (2000) Thea's worst nightmare is revisitedWagner's musical genius bestrode the late nineteenth century and obsessed the early twentieth. Robert Gutman discusses Wagner's achievement against the background of his life and ideas. His behaviour was, by any standards, appalling, his ideas often monstrous; nevertheless his operas, or 'music dramas', were and are magnificent. His story makes fascinating reading, whether one is a devoted Wagnerite or not. Published 1971, Pelican Book. Binding of