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The Story of Classical Music
by Darren Henley
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
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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The Life of Oscar Wilde
by Hesketh Pearson
Credits: Digital Download
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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Art and Madness
Credits: Digital Download
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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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
Credits: Audio CD
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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A Life of Johnson
by James Boswell
Credits: Digital Download
Boswell's biography of his friend and hero Samuel Johnson is an acknowledged classic, full of humorous anecdote and rich characterization. Johnson's complex humanity...
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Rembrandt
by Gary Schwartz
Credits: Digital Download
In this lecture series, art historian Gary Schwartz surveys the life, time and work of Rembrandt van Rijn.
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Lives of the Artists
by Kathleen Krull
Credits: Audio CD
Whether visiting museums and galleries or taking Art History courses, we often marvel at the brilliant...
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
by Ross King
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo...
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The Life and Works of Beethoven
by Jeremy Siepmann
Credits: Audio CD
For many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived...
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Realms of Gold
by John Keats
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
John Keats' letters paint an unforgettably vivid and moving picture of the richly productive but also tragic final years of the poet's life. As he ponders on the nature of the writer's craft...
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Mark Twain: A Life
by Ron Powers
Credits: Audio CD
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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Tales Of Hollywood
by Stephen Schochet
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download
"A delight for people who like to know the 'inside' tales of some of the old stars".
The Knoxville News-Sentinel
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Chronicles
by Bob Dylan
Credits: Audio CD
Bob Dylan's Chronicles: Volume One explores the critical junctions in his life and career.
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Famous People in History II
by Nicolas Soames
Credits: Audio CD
Here are the life stories of nine famous people who have left their mark upon the world. There are men of action such as Alexander the Great and...
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American Bloomsbury
by Susan Cheever
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
A brilliant, controversial, and fascinating biography of those who were, in the mid-nineteenth century, the center of American thought and literature.
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Composers' Letters
by Ludwig van Beethoven
Credits: Digital Download
In Composers' Letters, the voices of the great figures of classical music come alive through their correspondence. Set against the music we know and love...
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The Life and Works of Chopin
by Jeremy Siepmann
Credits: Audio CD
Frédéric Chopin is the pianist-composer par excellence.
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Brief Lives
by John Aubrey
Credits: Digital Download
William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Hobbes - three of the greatest Englishmen who ever lived. They, and many others, are here remembered by another great Englishman, John Aubrey...
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The Life and Work of Marcel Proust
by Neville Jason
Credits: Digital Download
This, the first audio-biography of Marcel Proust, tells the story of one of the world's most original and admired literary geniuses....
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The Fugitive (The Sweet Cheat Gone)
by Marcel Proust
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
In The Fugitive the sixth volume of Marcel Proust's monumental, seven volume Remembrance of Things Past, Albertine has finally made her escape...
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Lives of the Musicians
by Kathleen Krull
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
This is no stuffy music appreciation lesson. Author Kathleen Krull makes these great artists come alive...
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Famous People in History
by Nicolas Soames
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
Here are the stories of nine people whose energy, imagination, courage, and determination changed the world. From Christopher Columbus who set off into unknown seas...
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More Famous Composers
by Darren Henley
Credits: Audio CD
The first volume of Famous Composers written by Darren Henley and read by Marin Alsop, the American conductor, won a prestigious Audie in the US.
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Pavarotti: My World
by Luciano Pavarotti
Credits: Digital Download
In the world of opera today, there is no one more famous or better loved than Luciano Pavarotti...
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Mozart: The Golden Touch
by Lister Sinclair
Credits: Audio CD
First broadcast on CBC in 1991, this elegant five-part radio dramatization onthe life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart includes musical performances of his mostfamous compositions.
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