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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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Andy Warhol
by iMinds Audio
Formats: Audio Download ($1.00)
Learn about Andy Warhol with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.
iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to broaden your mind.
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Art and Madness
Formats: 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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Arthur Conan Doyle
by Hesketh Pearson
Formats: Audio Download ($14.38)
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) will always be remembered for the character of Sherlock Holmes...
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Barrymore
by William Luce
Formats: Audio Download ($9.95) | Audio CD ($17.96)
John Barrymore was the black sheep of America’s most illustrious acting family. Celebrated for his charisma and matinee-idol looks, he was for awhile America’s most popular actor. Famous for his stage roles in Richard IIIand Hamlet, he also made more than fifty films.
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Beckett in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
Formats: Audio Download ($9.95)
Samuel Becketts work evokes passionate responses: readers and playgoers either revere it or consider it pretentious nonsense. But his philosophy of pessimism will always find a new generation of young readers.
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Books: A Memoir
by Larry McMurtry
Formats: MP3 CD ($17.99)
Larry McMurtry is known to be reclusive and extremely private, rarely giving interviews or making public appearances. Audiences are therefore sure to be eager to hear this intimate and surprisingly personal memoir of the brilliant writer's love affair with books.
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Borges in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
Formats: Audio Download ($9.95)
Weaving fiction with fact, fantastic matter with historical figures, Borges work is both timeless and touching, a product of deep suffering and incorrigible innocence. Strathern offers a concise, expert account of his life and ideas.
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Brief Lives
by John Aubrey
Formats: Audio 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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Chaucer
by Peter Ackroyd
Formats: MP3 CD ($17.99)
In the first in a new series of brief biographies, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brilliantly evokes the medieval world of England and provides an incomparable introduction to the great poet’s works.
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Composers' Letters
by Ludwig van Beethoven
Formats: Audio 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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D. H. Lawrence in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
Formats: Audio Download ($9.95)
D. H. Lawrences works were an attempt to revive some vivid, instinctual part of the human spirit that he felt had been lost or damaged. Strathern offers a witty and incisive appraisal of the writer and his work.
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Dali & I
by Stan Lauryssens
Formats: MP3 CD ($17.99)
Art dealer Stan Lauryssens made millions in modern art, but he sold only one name: Salvador Dalí. The surrealist painter's work was a hot commodity for the newly rich, investors, and businessmen looking to launder their black-market cash. Lauryssens didn't mind looking the other way; he just hoped the buyers would look the other way as well.
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Famous People in History
by Nicolas Soames
Formats: Audio 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 Download ($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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The Fugitive (The Sweet Cheat Gone)
by Marcel Proust
Formats: Audio 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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The Guermantes Way, Part 1
by Marcel Proust
Formats: Audio 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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The Guermantes Way, Part 2
by Marcel Proust
Formats: Audio 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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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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Jane Austen
by Elizabeth Jenkins
Formats: Audio CD ($16.18)
This highly enjoyable account of the life of Jane Austen is regarded as the classic...
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The Life and Work of Marcel Proust
by Neville Jason
Formats: Audio 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 Life and Works of William Butler Yeats
by John Kavanagh
Formats: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($15.98)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
William Butler Yeats remains one of the most popular poets of the 20th century.
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A Life of Dante
by Benedict Flynn
Formats: Audio CD ($14.98)
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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A Life of Johnson
by James Boswell
Formats: Audio 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: Audio 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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