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1) Shakespeare
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A biography of the most famous playwright of all time, with numerous pictures bringing his period to life.
2) Hemingway
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Discusses the life and works of the acclaimed American writer who masked a troubled spirit with a veneer of tough masculinity.
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For many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived. In this portrait-in-sound, actors' readings combine with his music to reveal a titanic personality, both vulnerable and belligerent, comic and tragic, and above all heroic, as he comes to grips with perhaps the greatest disability a musician can suffer. No man's music is more universal, few men's lives are more inspiring. In every sense but one – his modest height – he was a giant....
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Although now beloved and revered by millions as the greatest composer who ever lived, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) was best known in his lifetime as an organist, and was eclipsed in fame as a composer by two of his twenty children. For the last twenty-seven years of his life he was a schoolteacher and choir director whose duties extended to meal supervision and dormitory inspection. Yet throughout his career he composed a vast body of music...
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Tchaikovsky's music is widely known. He, too, "was widely loved, but his inner life was fraught with sufferings, confusions, and a deep vein of self-doubt. The drama of his emotional life is vividly reflected in his music, letters, and diaries, all of which play a major part in this intimate portrait-in-sound"--Container.
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