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The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats
by John Kavanagh
Formats: Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($14.38)
Average Rating:  (5.0 Stars)
William Butler Yeats remains one of the most popular poets of the 20th century.
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The Professor and the Madman
by Simon Winchester
Formats: Audio CD ($11.96)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Hidden within the rituals of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary is a fascinating mystery...
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The Story of Classical Music
by Darren Henley
Formats: Audio CD ($15.98) | Digital Download ($15.98)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
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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Tales Of Hollywood
by Stephen Schochet
Formats: Audio CD ($14.95) | Audio Cassette ($11.95) | Digital Download ($9.95)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
"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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Lives of the Musicians
by Kathleen Krull
Formats: Audio Cassette ($14.36)
Average Rating:  (4.0 Stars)
This is no stuffy music appreciation lesson. Author Kathleen Krull makes these great artists come alive...
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The Guermantes Way, Part 1
by Marcel Proust
Formats: Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating:  (3.5 Stars)
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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A Life of Dante
by Benedict Flynn
Formats: Audio CD ($13.48)
Average Rating: (3.5 Stars)
Dante's vision, The Divine Comedy, has profoundly affected every generation since it first appeared in the early 14th century. Here is a brief account of his life, compiled from various sources (including his first biographer, Boccaccio) by Benedict Flynn, whose new translation of the Comedy has been widely acclaimed.
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The Guermantes Way, Part 2
by Marcel Proust
Formats: Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
The Guermantes Way, Part 2, the third volume of Marcel Proust's monumental, seven volume Remembrance of Things Past, continues the story of Marcel's entry into the highest circles of French aristocracy. Having renewed his acquaintance with t
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The Life and Work of Marcel Proust
by Neville Jason
Formats: Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
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
Formats: Audio CD ($17.98) | Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating: (2.0 Stars)
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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American Bloomsbury
by Susan Cheever
Formats: MP3 CD ($17.99)
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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Art and Madness
Formats: Digital 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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Arthur Conan Doyle
by Hesketh Pearson
Formats: Digital Download ($14.38)
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) will always be remembered for the character of Sherlock Holmes...
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Brief Lives
by John Aubrey
Formats: Digital Download ($14.38)
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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Composers' Letters
by Ludwig van Beethoven
Formats: Digital Download ($14.38)
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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Famous People in History
by Nicolas Soames
Formats: Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($14.38)
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
Formats: Audio CD ($14.38)
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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How Proust Can Change Your Life
by Alain de Botton
Formats: Audio Cassette ($17.95)
Drawing from Proust's letters, essays, and fiction, de Botton transforms Proust's life and work into a no-nonsense guide to life.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
Formats: Audio CD ($18.36)
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
Formats: Digital Download ($14.38)
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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The Life of Oscar Wilde
by Hesketh Pearson
Formats: Digital Download ($18.38)
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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More Famous Composers
by Darren Henley
Formats: Audio CD ($14.38)
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
Formats: Digital Download ($12.57)
In the world of opera today, there is no one more famous or better loved than Luciano Pavarotti...
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Realms of Gold
by John Keats
Formats: Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($14.38)
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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Reflections on the Artist's Way
by Julia Cameron
Formats: Audio CD ($19.96) | Digital Download ($17.47)
Everyone is capable of creativity - not just the chosen few. In this inspiring audio Julia Cameron...
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