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The Story of Classical Music
by Darren Henley
Price: Audio CD ($15.98) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($15.98)
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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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
by Ross King
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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
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For many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived...
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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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Rembrandt
by Gary Schwartz
Price: Digital 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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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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Art and Madness
Price: 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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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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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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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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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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American Bloomsbury
by Susan Cheever
Price: Audio CD ($26.99) | Digital Download | 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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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 William Butler Yeats
by John Kavanagh
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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
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Hidden within the rituals of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary is a fascinating mystery...
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The Life and Works of Chopin
by Jeremy Siepmann
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Frédéric Chopin is the pianist-composer par excellence.
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The Narnian
by Alan Jacobs
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This audio book attempts to unearth the making of the first Narnian, C. S. Lewis himself.
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Lives of the Musicians
by Kathleen Krull
Price: Audio CD ($22.46) | Audio Cassette ($14.36) | Digital Download
This is no stuffy music appreciation lesson. Author Kathleen Krull makes these great artists come alive...
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Will in the World
by Stephen Greenblatt
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Award-winning author Stephen Greenblatt is one of the most influential literary thinkers in the world....
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A Life of Dante
by Benedict Flynn
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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 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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The Guermantes Way, Part 2
by Marcel Proust
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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
Price: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($18.38)
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 of Mozart
by Edward Holmes
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Edward Holmes, a schoolfellow of Keats, provides the first complete account of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based upon Mozart's own letters and memoirs.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
by Hesketh Pearson
Price: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) will always be remembered for the character of Sherlock Holmes...
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