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David Vernon (born 1965 in Canberra, Australia) is an Australian writer and publisher. He has published several books relating to scepticism and childbirth.
David Vernon has 69 books on Goodreads with 869 ratings. David Vernon’s most popular book is Beauty and Sadness: Mahler's 11 Symphonies.
David Vernon is a full time writer and editor. While he is known for his non-fiction books about birth: Men at Birth, Having a Great Birth in Australia, Birth Stories and With Women, he has turned his hand to writing science articles for newspapers and magazines as well as scribbling the odd short story or two.
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May 19, 2022 · In his dazzling new book, David Vernon — author of Disturbing the Wagner's Musikdrama — celebrates these vast but often very private works of art. In stimulating prose, he investigates their theatricality and grandeur, as well as their poetry and intimacy, examining the personal, philosophical and musical influences which shaped their creation.
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Sep 11, 2021 · In Disturbing the Universe, David Vernon probes – in his incisive, provocative style – each of Wagner's mature works individually, from Der fliegende Holländer to Parsifal. He unpacks and interrogates the exquisite networks Wagner created through the radical development of opera into musikdrama.
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Vernon, David is a literary academic and music writer. He graduated from the University of Oxford, before teaching English language and literature in China and Japan. He wrote his doctoral thesis at FU Berlin on Shakespeare, exploring the hidden, ambiguous and often playful role of religion in three tragicomedies.
Dr David Vernon. See all. writer | books on nabokov • beethoven • wagner • mahler • sibelius (2024) • mishima (2025). Click to read Dr David Vernon, a Substack publication.
