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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
Available on: Audio Download ($15.27) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
An unforgettable memoir of growing up black in the 1930s and 1940s in a tiny Arkansas town where Angelou's grandmother's store was the heart of the community and white people seemed as strange as aliens from another planet.
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The Story of Classical Music
by Darren Henley
Available on: Audio Download ($15.98) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by the conductor and musical personality Marin Alsop....
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Dante and His Divine Comedy
by Timothy B. Shutt
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
By near universal agreement, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy stands very high among the greatest literary works ever written. This may come as a surprise, because Dante is best known for the Inferno, the first cantica of the Commedia, which is, by any standard, fairly grim in some respects.
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Bard of the Middle Ages: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
by Michael Drout
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Had Geoffrey Chaucer not written, or not written so well, the last 600 years of English literature would have been decidedly different. His creative style and use of language served as one of the primary foundations on which later writers built.
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Art and Madness
Available on: Audio Download ($8.00)
Images of the tormented artist, poet, painter and composer are familiar. but is there really a link between madness and art?
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Reflections on the Artist's Way
by Julia Cameron
Available on: Audio Download ($13.10) | Audio CD
Everyone is capable of creativity - not just the chosen few. In this inspiring audio Julia Cameron...
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The Literature of C.S. Lewis
by Timothy B. Shutt
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
C. S. Lewis produced a body of work as diverse as it is beloved. He is known the world over for his cherished Chronicles of Narnia, but he is also the author of novels for adults, scholarly work, and the writings that rival his Narnia series in terms of continued popularity: his eloquent defences of Christianity.
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The Life and Works of Beethoven
by Jeremy Siepmann
Available on: Audio Download ($21.58) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
For many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived...
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The Life of Oscar Wilde
by Hesketh Pearson
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
This is the remarkable and tragic story of Oscar Wilde, legendary wit and conversationalist, author of perhaps the most perfect comedy in the English language...
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Mark Twain: A Life
by Ron Powers
Available on: Audio Download ($21.95) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Mark Twain founded the American voice. His works are a living national treasury: taught, quoted, and reprinted more than those of any writer except Shakespeare.
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