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The Story of Classical Music
by Darren Henley
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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
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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
Price: 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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The Lives of the Great Artists
by Giorgio Vasari
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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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Dante and His Divine Comedy
by Timothy B. Shutt
Price: 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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Literature of C.S. Lewis
by Timothy B. Shutt
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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
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For many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived...
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A Life of Johnson
by James Boswell
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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
Price: Audio Download ($33.50)
In this lecture series, art historian Gary Schwartz surveys the life, time and work of Rembrandt van Rijn.
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Mark Twain: A Life
by Ron Powers
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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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Composers' Letters
by Ludwig van Beethoven
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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
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Everyone is capable of creativity - not just the chosen few. In this inspiring audio Julia Cameron...
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Lives of the Artists
by Kathleen Krull
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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
Price: 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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The Life and Work of Marcel Proust
by Neville Jason
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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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Realms of Gold
by John Keats
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($24.28) | Audio Cassette
Frédéric Chopin is the pianist-composer par excellence.
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More Famous Composers
by Darren Henley
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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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Chronicles
by Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan's Chronicles: Volume One explores the critical junctions in his life and career.
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The Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
by Perry Keenlyside
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Hear the story behind today's most often performed classical composer's accomplishments, during his short life of just 35 years.
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The Fugitive (The Sweet Cheat Gone)
by Marcel Proust
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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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