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Dante and His Divine Comedy
by Timothy B. Shutt
Credits: Audio Download
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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The Story of Classical Music
by Darren Henley
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
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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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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Art and Madness
Credits: Audio 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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The Lives of the Great Artists
by Giorgio Vasari
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
Five hundred years after they were written, Vasari’s Lives of the Artists remains the principal source book on the remarkable flowering of Italian painting in the fifteenth century.
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Literature of C.S. Lewis
by Timothy B. Shutt
Credits: Audio Download
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
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
For many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived...
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A Life of Johnson
by James Boswell
Credits: Audio 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: Audio Download
In this lecture series, art historian Gary Schwartz surveys the life, time and work of Rembrandt van Rijn.
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Composers' Letters
by Ludwig van Beethoven
Credits: Audio 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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Reflections on the Artist's Way
by Julia Cameron
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
Everyone is capable of creativity - not just the chosen few. In this inspiring audio Julia Cameron...
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Mark Twain: A Life
by Ron Powers
Credits: Audio Download | 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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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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Bard of the Middle Ages: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
by Michael Drout
Credits: Audio Download
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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The Life and Work of Marcel Proust
by Neville Jason
Credits: Audio 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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Famous People in History
by Nicolas Soames
Credits: Audio 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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Famous People in History II
by Nicolas Soames
Credits: Audio Download
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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Realms of Gold
by John Keats
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
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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The Life of Oscar Wilde
by Hesketh Pearson
Credits: Audio 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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The Guermantes Way, Part 1
by Marcel Proust
Credits: Audio Download
In The Geurmantes Way, Volume 1 Marcel penetrates the inner sanctum of Paris high society and falls in love with the fascinating Duchesse de Guermantes...
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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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Brief Lives
by John Aubrey
Credits: Audio 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 Works of Chopin
by Jeremy Siepmann
Credits: Audio CD
Frédéric Chopin is the pianist-composer par excellence.
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Tales Of Hollywood
by Stephen Schochet
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
"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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More Famous Composers
by Darren Henley
Credits: Audio Download | 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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