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21 books by M. Owen Lee

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1. Opera 2. Wagner 3. Music, Questing and Film 4. Latin Poetry 5. Personal Memoirs, Poetry and Basilians

(1) his 4 books on Opera and Operas

FIRST INTERMISSIONS
Second edition :
“Revised and Enlarged”

Limelight Editions: 2002, 2004
A SEASON OF OPERA :
from Orpheus to Ariadne


University of Toronto Press: 1998, 2000
THE OPERAGOER’S GUIDE :
One Hundred Stories

and Commentaries

Amadeus Press, Portland, Oregon: 2001
FATHER LEE’S
OPERA QUIZ BOOK

University of Toronto Press: 2000

(2) his 4 books on Richard Wagner

WAGNER’S RING :
TURNING THE SKY ROUND
An Introduction to
The Ring of Nibelung

Limelight Editions: 2004
WAGNER : THE TERRIBLE MAN
AND HIS TRUTHFUL ART

University of Toronto Press: 1999
WAGNER AND
THE WONDER OF ART
An Introduction to
Die Meistersinger

University of Toronto Press: 2007
ATHENA SINGS :
WAGNER AND THE GREEKS

University of Toronto Press: 2003

(3) his 4 books on Music, Questing and Film

THE GREAT
INSTRUMENTAL WORKS

Amadeus Press: 2005
THE OLIVE TREE BED
AND OTHER QUESTS

University of Toronto Press: 1997
TOP TEN :
A PERSONAL APPROACH
TO THE MOVIES

Vantage Press: 1973
THE BEST FILMS
OF OUR YEARS

Author House: 2007

(4) his 4 books on Latin lyric and epic poetry

WORD, SOUND AND IMAGE
IN THE ODES OF HORACE

Clark, Irwin and Company: 1969
FATHERS AND SONS
IN VIRGIL’S AENEID

State University of New York,
Albany 1979
DEATH AND REBIRTH
IN VIRGIL’S ARCADIA :
A STUDY OF THE ECLOGUES

State University of New York Press, Albany 1989
VIRGIL AS ORPHEUS :
A STUDY OF THE GEORGICS

State University of New York Press, Albany 1996

(5) his insightful Personal Memoir, his deeply moving Short Poems, and his Eulogies for some of his brother Basilian priests

A BOOK OF HOURS:
Music, Literature and Life

The Continuum International Publishing Group : 2004
TRAVELING LIGHT

Privately published by
the Basilian Press : 2008
SOME BASILIANS

Privately published by
the Basilian Press : 2012