Paperback, to your English in North America,
I would like to add one weighty musical composition:

Handel's Messiah.
If you east of the Atlantic only realized
how Handel's Messiah has been raised on a pedestal in North America.

There is a sort of unofficial propaganda,
and I was taught this in grade school,
that God sent Handel to England in order to compose The Messiah.
This presentation, complete with soundtrack
and a coordinated slideshow that went "DING!!" when it was time to change to the next slide,
was not a British product but a USA one, accents and all.

You have to head off to the university level, as a rule,
in order to be introduced to the fact that
England, in Handel's day, was mad for Italian opera,
and that the Saxon composer Handel went to England
because that's where the money was,
competing tooth and claw with the Italian composers ... in London.