Verdi
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In this third edition of the classic Verdi, renowned authority Julian Budden offers a comprehensive...
Wilfred Owen
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One of Britain's best-known and most loved poets, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was killed at age 25 on...
People Who Eat Darkness: Love, Grief and a Journey into Japan's Shadows
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In the summer of 2000, Jane Steare received the phone call every mother dreads. Her daughter Lucie...
Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet
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The daughter of an aristocratic family, a wife, a devoted mother and a lover of women, Sappho was...
The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints
Jacobus William Granger Ryan and Eamon Duffy
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Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of factual and fictional stories, The Golden Legend...
Florence Nightingale: A Very Brief History
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Part One: The History (What do we know?) This brief historical introduction to Florence Nightingale...
Joan Chittister: Essential Writings
Mary Lou Kownacki and Mary H. Snyder
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Joan Chittister, a Benedictine nun, is one of the most popular and prophetic religious voices in the...
Hiraeth: Stories from Welsh Patagonia
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During the first half of the 19th century, individuals in Wales were inspired by the idea of...
Illustrated Lives of Great Composers: Liszt
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Arguably the greatest of all piano virtuosi, Liszt was one of the few composers of his day who had...
Insurrection: Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell and the Pilgrimage of Grace
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Autumn 1536. Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn are dead. Henry VIII has married Jane Seymour, and...