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Brahms by Paul Holmes
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
A series of biographies of great composers which present the subjects against a social background of their times. Each book draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings - and - where they exist - photographs, to build up a complete picture of the composer's life
Britten by Christopher Headington
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
Britten was a major pioneer of English Chamber Opera and was the creator of some of the most famous British operas including "Peter Grimes", "Billy Budd" and the Chamber opera "The Turn of the Screw". He is also remembered for his "War Requiem". This book tells the story of his life, including his lifel ...Show more
Buddha by Karen Armstrong
Category: Biography | Series: Lives S.
A superb introduction to the life and thought of a revolutionary spiritual thinker, by a bestselling author.
Bugsy Siegel - The Dark Side of the American Dream by Michael Shnayerson
Category: History | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip "A highly readable, fast-moving contribution to the annals of 20th-century organized crime."--Kirkus Reviews In a brief life that led to a violent end, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (1906-19 ...Show more
Bunny the Bus Driver by Anna Gkoutzouri (Illustrator)
Category: Board Books | Series: Who Lives Here? Ser.
Byron by David Ellis
Category: General Biography | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
A fresh, concise account of the Romantic poet Lord Byron's flamboyant life and work. In this book, David Ellis traces Lord Byron's life from rented lodgings in Aberdeen and the crumbling splendors of Newstead Abbey to his final grand tour of Asia. Describing his exile from England as well as his subseq ...Show more
Caravaggio and the Creation of Modernity by Troy Thomas
Category: Art | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
Now in paperback, an accessible and beautifully illustrated account of Caravaggio as a catalyst for modernity. Undeniably one of the greatest artists of all time, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio would develop a radically new kind of psychologically expressive, realistic art and, in the sixteenth and ...Show more
Catherine The Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
Category: History | Series: Great Lives Ser.
The extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most powerful women in history. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination. For thirty-four years, the government, foreign policy, cultural development and welfar ...Show more
Charles Darwin by J. David Archibald
Category: Science | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
A fresh account of Charles Darwin's rich personal and professional lives, well beyond On the Origin of Species. In 1859 Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. With this bedrock of biology books, Darwin carved a new origin-story for all life: evolution rather than creation. But this singl ...Show more
Charles Dickens (Great Lives) by Jane Smiley
Category: Biography | Series: Lives Ser.
Superb, highly accessible biography of one of the giants of English literature by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A THOUSAND ACRES'Engaging and stimulating' Simon Callow'Jane Smiley, in her admirable contribution to Weidenfeld's series of short biographies, deals briskly with Dickens's career and w ...Show more
Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World by Simon Callow
Category: Biography | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
An entertaining biography of Charles Dickens by one of our finest actors Acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles Dickens in a sparkling biography that explores the central importance of the theatre to the life of the greatest storyteller in the English language. From his ...Show more
Chaucer ( Brief Lives - Volume 1 ) by Peter Ackroyd
Category: Biography | Series: Brief Lives S.
Geoffrey Chaucer has some claim to being the greatest poet in the English language. Yet he has also been considered to be an invisible poet, self-depreciating and ironic, leaving only the breath of his comedy behind. In truth a great deal is known of him. He was a royal servant, who was indicted for rap ...Show more