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Invitation to a Beheading
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude." an imaginary crime that defies definition....
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Haunting and wonderfully sinister
- By S. Moorcroft on 22-03-22
By: Vladimir Nabokov
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Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners
- Listen for Pleasure at Your Level, Expand Your Vocabulary and Learn Spanish the Fun Way!
- By: Olly Richards
- Narrated by: Javier Marzan
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and, most importantly, enjoyment....
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fourth out of six books tried
- By Mr Chops on 28-06-20
By: Olly Richards
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Tristram Shandy
- By: Laurence Sterne
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Laurence Sterne’s most famous novel is a biting satire of literary conventions and contemporary 18th-century values....
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Wonderful listening!
- By Stuart C. Clarke on 03-04-13
By: Laurence Sterne
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Short Stories in German for Beginners
- By: Olly Richards, Alex Rawlings
- Narrated by: Gido Schimanski
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Short Stories in German for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and, most importantly, enjoyment....
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No Transcript in PDF
- By Brynjar Bett on 17-01-19
By: Olly Richards, and others
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The Poetic Edda
- Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
- By: Jackson Crawford
- Narrated by: Jackson Crawford
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!). These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance....
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as good as it gets
- By Kindle Customer on 25-01-19
By: Jackson Crawford
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A Is for Arsenic
- The Poisons of Agatha Christie
- By: Kathryn Harkup
- Narrated by: Nicky Diss
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Fourteen novels. Fourteen poisons. Just because it's fiction doesn’t mean it's all made-up....
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Loved this journey through an alphabet of poisons
- By Lee on 16-09-22
By: Kathryn Harkup
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Invitation to a Beheading
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude." an imaginary crime that defies definition....
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Haunting and wonderfully sinister
- By S. Moorcroft on 22-03-22
By: Vladimir Nabokov
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Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners
- Listen for Pleasure at Your Level, Expand Your Vocabulary and Learn Spanish the Fun Way!
- By: Olly Richards
- Narrated by: Javier Marzan
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and, most importantly, enjoyment....
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fourth out of six books tried
- By Mr Chops on 28-06-20
By: Olly Richards
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Tristram Shandy
- By: Laurence Sterne
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Laurence Sterne’s most famous novel is a biting satire of literary conventions and contemporary 18th-century values....
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Wonderful listening!
- By Stuart C. Clarke on 03-04-13
By: Laurence Sterne
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Short Stories in German for Beginners
- By: Olly Richards, Alex Rawlings
- Narrated by: Gido Schimanski
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Short Stories in German for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and, most importantly, enjoyment....
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No Transcript in PDF
- By Brynjar Bett on 17-01-19
By: Olly Richards, and others
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The Poetic Edda
- Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
- By: Jackson Crawford
- Narrated by: Jackson Crawford
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!). These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance....
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as good as it gets
- By Kindle Customer on 25-01-19
By: Jackson Crawford
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A Is for Arsenic
- The Poisons of Agatha Christie
- By: Kathryn Harkup
- Narrated by: Nicky Diss
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Fourteen novels. Fourteen poisons. Just because it's fiction doesn’t mean it's all made-up....
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Loved this journey through an alphabet of poisons
- By Lee on 16-09-22
By: Kathryn Harkup
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Ernest Hemingway on Writing
- By: Larry W. Phillips - editor
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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An assemblage of reflections on the nature of writing and the writer from one the greatest American writers of the 20th century....
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The. Key to the fabled mystery is unlocked
- By Andy T on 01-01-20
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The Weird and the Eerie
- By: Mark Fisher
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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What exactly are the weird and the eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes....
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A fantastic view into what makes up the uncanny aspects of our media landscape
- By Amazon Customer on 14-12-21
By: Mark Fisher
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Short Stories in French for Beginners
- By: Olly Richards, Richard Simcott
- Narrated by: Louis Bernard
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Short Stories in French for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and most importantly - enjoyment....
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Well designed and read stories
- By oliverdog on 13-03-23
By: Olly Richards, and others
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Speak Memory
- An Autobiography Revisited
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time....
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Great!
- By Hussain on 13-04-13
By: Vladimir Nabokov
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Supergods
- What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
- By: Grant Morrison
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of the most acclaimed and profound writers in the world of comics comes a thrilling and provocative exploration of humankind's great modern myth: the superhero....
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Part biography, part comic book history.
- By Graham on 30-08-12
By: Grant Morrison
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Orwell: The Essays
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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A wide-ranging selection of George Orwell's essays, written in the clear-eyed, passionate and uncompromising style that has earned him a reputation as one of Britain's greatest writers....
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This is writing
- By tony on 03-11-22
By: George Orwell
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Ramayana
- India's Immortal Tale of Adventure, Love and Wisdom
- By: Krishna Dharma, Valmiki Ramayana
- Narrated by: Krishna Dharma
- Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Ramayana must rank as one of the most loved and revered books of all time. A part of India's ancient Vedas, it is a beautiful story of romance and adventure....
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recommended
- By Florian on 13-10-17
By: Krishna Dharma, and others
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Kahlil Gibran's Little Book of Wisdom
- By: Neil Douglas-Klotz - editor, Khalil Gibrán
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the most popular and profound inspirational writers of all time shares simple wisdom for living a happy and fulfilling life. This is the essential Gibran, with 88 selections organized into 5 sections that elucidate answers to the questions that each of us face....
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Touches the soul
- By Nat on 06-02-24
By: Neil Douglas-Klotz - editor, and others
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The Parenting Guide for Boys with Dyslexia
- Empower Yourself and Your Dyslexic Son by Strengthening Bonds and Quickly Overcoming Challenges Together
- By: Ray Kingley
- Narrated by: Benjamin Powell
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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With this book, you’re bound to make those into a reality, where inside you will discover an easy guide to understanding dyslexia—cut through the jargon and get to know what dyslexia really is and how it uniquely impacts boys....
By: Ray Kingley
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Don't Panic
- Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- By: Neil Gaiman
- Narrated by: Simon Jones, Neil Gaiman
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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First published in 1986 and updated several times since, Don’t Panic is in an in-depth exploration of Douglas Adams’s cultural phenomenon The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy....
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Facts for fun but far from from fun
- By LENGTHIAN on 18-05-21
By: Neil Gaiman
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According to Jennings
- By: Anthony Buckeridge
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The boys at Linbury Court Preparatory School are eager to speed up the progress of space travel, and none more so than Jennings, whose first task is to find a suitable helmet....
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Funny and enjoyable
- By John Boy on 02-10-20
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The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
- By: Paula Byrne
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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This brilliant biography, brimming with Pym’s private diaries and intimate letters, offers a first full insight into Barbara Pym’s life and how it informed her writing....
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Excellent Woman
- By Dan Smith on 03-05-21
By: Paula Byrne
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The Crucible
- By: Arthur Miller
- Narrated by: Stacy Keach, Richard Dreyfuss, Ed Begley Jr., and others
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
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In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town....
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Too fast
- By Hazel Farrelly on 29-04-11
By: Arthur Miller
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Death in Venice
- By: Thomas Mann
- Narrated by: Peter Batchelor
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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A stunningly beautiful youth and the city of Venice set the stage for Thomas Mann’s introspective examination of erotic love and philosophical wisdom....
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Solitude gives birth to the original in us
- By Wras on 20-09-15
By: Thomas Mann
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Doctor Who at the BBC: The Collection
- The First Nine Volumes
- By: BBC
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Sladen, Louise Jameson, Russell Tovey, and others
- Length: 19 hrs and 24 mins
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A galaxy of fascinating features from the BBC radio & TV archive, from the 1960s to the 2010s....
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A great collection
- By Anonymous User on 28-02-24
By: BBC
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The Layman’s Havamal
- A Modern Interpretation of Viking Age Wisdom
- By: Paul Begadon
- Narrated by: Paul Begadon
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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This book is an exploration of the wisdom in the Viking Age poem "Havamal", specifically as it relates to the average person who isn't a scholar of Old Norse, or even an enthusiast of Viking culture....
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Great book
- By boyd Saunders on 30-03-23
By: Paul Begadon
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- By: Henry Fielding
- Narrated by: Kenneth Danzinger
- Length: 35 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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A foundling of mysterious parentage, Tom Jones is brought up by the benevolent and wealthy Squire Allworthy as his own son....
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if school ruined it for you..
- By Stewart on 28-10-13
By: Henry Fielding
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The Master and Margarita
- By: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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The Master and Margarita is one of the most famous and best-selling Russian novels of the 20th century, despite its surreal environment....
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What was that?
- By allan 1 on 28-02-21
By: Mikhail Bulgakov
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Emerson
- The Mind on Fire
- By: Robert D. Richardson
- Narrated by: Michael McConnohie
- Length: 26 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature....
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A life wasted reading books!
- By Cliff Moyce on 26-12-19
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Dumbledore
- The Life and Lies of Hogwarts's Renowned Headmaster: An Unofficial Exploration
- By: Irvin Khaytman
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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A brilliant investigation into the motivations and methods, Dumbledore dives between the lines of the Harry Potter books to create a portrait of the controversial Headmaster....
By: Irvin Khaytman
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As I Lay Dying
- By: William Faulkner
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman, Robertson Dean, Lina Patel, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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One of William Faulkner’s finest novels, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage, as Addie Bundren’s family sets out to fulfill her last wish....
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A stream of voices in the dry wilderness?.
- By Welsh Mafia on 13-09-08
By: William Faulkner
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Comedy of Errors (Unabridged)
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Alec McCowen, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
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The Comedy of Errors is likely the very first play Shakespeare ever wrote, and for that reason alone it deserves a special place in literary history....
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a good reading
- By Philip on 25-01-11
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Dancing at the Edge of the World
- Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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From modern literature to menopause, from utopian thought to rodeos - in this classic collection of essays, Ursula K. Le Guin roves with her customary audacity over the intersecting arenas of literature, feminism, and social responsibility, exploding any received notions she comes across....
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Pronunciation please!
- By Custard on 17-11-21
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The Common Reader Volume 1
- 26 Essays on Jane Austen, George Eliot, Conrad, Montaigne and Others
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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This is Virginia Woolf’s first collection of essays, published in 1925. In them, she attempts to see literature from the point of view of the ‘common reader’ - someone whom she, with Dr Johnson, distinguished from the critic and the scholar....
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Let this not be your first Virginia !
- By Fothergill on 30-04-20
By: Virginia Woolf
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Loving Sylvia Plath
- A Reclamation
- By: Emily Van Duyne
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination―the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary sad girl. Emily Van Duyne―a superfan and scholar―radically reimagines the last years of Plath’s life, confronts her suicide and the construction of her legacy.
By: Emily Van Duyne
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Notes from a Feminist Killjoy
- Essays on Everyday Life (Essais Series, Book 2)
- By: Erin Wunker
- Narrated by: Kristen Ridley
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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Following in the tradition of Sara Ahmed (the originator of the concept "feminist killjoy"), Wunker brings memoir, theory, literary criticism, pop culture, and feminist thinking together in this collection of essays that take up Ahmed's project as a multi-faceted lens through which to read the world from a feminist point of view.
By: Erin Wunker
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Algren
- A Life
- By: Mary Wisniewski
- Narrated by: Gary Houston
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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A tireless champion of the downtrodden, Nelson Algren, one of the most celebrated writers of the 20th century, lived an outsider's life himself. He spent a month in prison as a young man for the theft of a typewriter; his involvement in Marxist groups earned him a lengthy FBI dossier; and he spent much of his life palling around with the sorts of drug addicts, prostitutes, and poor laborers who inspired and populated his novels and short stories. Most today know Algren as the radical writer of The Man with the Golden Arm, but award-winning reporter Mary Wisniewski offers a deeper portrait.
By: Mary Wisniewski
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Mimetic Theory & Middle-Earth
- Untangling Desire in Tolkien's Legendarium
- By: Matthew J. Distefano
- Narrated by: Scott Fleming
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
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The Follow-up to the Award-Winning The Wisdom of Hobbits, Mimetic Theory & Middle-earth: Untangling Desire in Tolkien's Legendarium, by long-time author Matthew J. Distefano, delves deeply into J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, using René Girard's mimetic theory as the primary lens through which to view the good professor’s legendary texts.
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Big Fiction
- How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
- By: Dan Sinykin
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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In the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with Ralph Ellison or chat with Andy Warhol while pouring drinks. By the 1970s, editors were poring over profit-and-loss statements. The electronics company RCA bought Random House in 1965, and then other large corporations purchased other formerly independent publishers. As multinational conglomerates consolidated the industry, the business of literature—and literature itself—transformed. Dan Sinykin explores how changes in the publishing industry have affected fiction, literary form, and what it means to be an author.
By: Dan Sinykin
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Ghostwriter
- Shakespeare, Literary Landmines, and an Eccentric Patron's Royal Obsession
- By: Lawrence Wells
- Narrated by: Lawrence Wells
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Part literary mystery, part an examination of what constitutes fiction versus reality, "Ghostwriter" is based on the true story of author Lawrence Wells, then 45, hired by the University of Mississippi in 1987 to ghostwrite a novel for a wealthy, eccentric donor (“Mrs. F,” then 75), who was convinced that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was William Shakespeare.
By: Lawrence Wells
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Loving Sylvia Plath
- A Reclamation
- By: Emily Van Duyne
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination―the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary sad girl. Emily Van Duyne―a superfan and scholar―radically reimagines the last years of Plath’s life, confronts her suicide and the construction of her legacy.
By: Emily Van Duyne
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Notes from a Feminist Killjoy
- Essays on Everyday Life (Essais Series, Book 2)
- By: Erin Wunker
- Narrated by: Kristen Ridley
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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Following in the tradition of Sara Ahmed (the originator of the concept "feminist killjoy"), Wunker brings memoir, theory, literary criticism, pop culture, and feminist thinking together in this collection of essays that take up Ahmed's project as a multi-faceted lens through which to read the world from a feminist point of view.
By: Erin Wunker
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Algren
- A Life
- By: Mary Wisniewski
- Narrated by: Gary Houston
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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A tireless champion of the downtrodden, Nelson Algren, one of the most celebrated writers of the 20th century, lived an outsider's life himself. He spent a month in prison as a young man for the theft of a typewriter; his involvement in Marxist groups earned him a lengthy FBI dossier; and he spent much of his life palling around with the sorts of drug addicts, prostitutes, and poor laborers who inspired and populated his novels and short stories. Most today know Algren as the radical writer of The Man with the Golden Arm, but award-winning reporter Mary Wisniewski offers a deeper portrait.
By: Mary Wisniewski
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Mimetic Theory & Middle-Earth
- Untangling Desire in Tolkien's Legendarium
- By: Matthew J. Distefano
- Narrated by: Scott Fleming
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The Follow-up to the Award-Winning The Wisdom of Hobbits, Mimetic Theory & Middle-earth: Untangling Desire in Tolkien's Legendarium, by long-time author Matthew J. Distefano, delves deeply into J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, using René Girard's mimetic theory as the primary lens through which to view the good professor’s legendary texts.
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Big Fiction
- How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
- By: Dan Sinykin
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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In the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with Ralph Ellison or chat with Andy Warhol while pouring drinks. By the 1970s, editors were poring over profit-and-loss statements. The electronics company RCA bought Random House in 1965, and then other large corporations purchased other formerly independent publishers. As multinational conglomerates consolidated the industry, the business of literature—and literature itself—transformed. Dan Sinykin explores how changes in the publishing industry have affected fiction, literary form, and what it means to be an author.
By: Dan Sinykin
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Ghostwriter
- Shakespeare, Literary Landmines, and an Eccentric Patron's Royal Obsession
- By: Lawrence Wells
- Narrated by: Lawrence Wells
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Part literary mystery, part an examination of what constitutes fiction versus reality, "Ghostwriter" is based on the true story of author Lawrence Wells, then 45, hired by the University of Mississippi in 1987 to ghostwrite a novel for a wealthy, eccentric donor (“Mrs. F,” then 75), who was convinced that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was William Shakespeare.
By: Lawrence Wells
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The Garden Against Time
- In Search of a Common Paradise
- By: Olivia Laing
- Narrated by: Olivia Laing
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there's still time? Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton's Paradise Lost to John Clare's enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth.
By: Olivia Laing
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Sweetness and Light
- By: Matthew Arnold
- Narrated by: Tom North
- Length: 53 mins
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Pursuit of knowledge, beauty, and human perception through harmonious balance between intellectual development (light) and moral refinement (sweetness)
By: Matthew Arnold
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The Function of Criticism
- By: Matthew Arnold
- Narrated by: Tom North
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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Matthew Arnold was a famous insightful literary critic and philosopher.
By: Matthew Arnold
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The Grounds of the Novel
- By: Daniel Wright
- Narrated by: Ian Putnam
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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What grounds the fictional world of a novel? Or is such a world peculiarly groundless? In a powerful engagement with the latest debates in novel theory, Daniel Wright investigates how novelists reckon with the ontological status of their works. Philosophers who debate whether fictional worlds exist take the novel as an ontological problem to be solved; instead, Wright reveals the novel as a genre of immanent ontological critique.
By: Daniel Wright
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Bigger
- A Literary Life
- By: Trudier Harris
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
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Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright’s novel Native Son (1940), eludes easy categorization. A violent and troubled character who rejects the rules of society, Bigger is both victim and perpetrator, damaged by racism and segregation on the South Side of Chicago, seemingly raping and killing without regrets. His story has electrified readers for more than eight decades, and it continues to galvanize debates around representation, respectability, social justice, and racism in American life.
By: Trudier Harris
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Parenting Toddlers
- A Comprehensive Guide for Positive Discipline, Effective Communication, and Managing Tantrums
- By: K. Connors
- Narrated by: Anthony Ziello
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Parenting Toddlers: A Comprehensive Guide for Positive Discipline, Effective Communication, and Managing Tantrums is the ultimate resource for navigating the wild ride of toddlerhood. Packed with expert advice and a dash of humor, this parenting book for toddlers is your ticket to raising happy, healthy, and well-adjusted kids. Master positive discipline techniques, set effective boundaries, and manage those epic meltdowns like a pro. Unlock the secrets of toddler communication and discover the transformative power of play.
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Engaging Narration, Practical Tips
- By Michael Jackson on 27-06-24
By: K. Connors
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Understanding Superhero Comic Books
- A History of Key Elements, Creators, Events and Controversies
- By: Alex Grand
- Narrated by: Alex Grand
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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This work dissects the origin and growth of superhero comic books, their major influences, and the creators behind them. It demonstrates how Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain America and many more stand as time capsules of their eras, rising and falling with societal changes, and reflecting an amalgam of influences. The book covers in detail the iconic superhero comic book creators and their unique contributions in their quest for realism, including Julius Schwartz and the science-fiction origins of superheroes.
By: Alex Grand
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Straight Acting
- The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
- By: Will Tosh
- Narrated by: Will Tosh
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Straight Acting is a surprising portrait of Shakespeare's queer lives - his own and those in his plays and poems. It is a journey back in time and through Shakespeare's England, revealing a culture that both endorsed and supressed same-sex desire. It is a call to stop making Shakespeare act straight and to recognise how queerness powerfully shaped the life and career of the world's most famous playwright.
By: Will Tosh
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Shakespeare Is Hard, but so Is Life
- By: Fintan O'Toole
- Narrated by: Fintan O'Toole
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In this witty, iconoclastic book, the bestselling author Fintan O’Toole examines four of Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedies: Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and King Lear. He shows how their tragic heroes have been over-simplified and moulded to fit restrictive, conservative values, and restores the true heart and spirit of the classics.
By: Fintan O'Toole
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The Playbook
- A Story of Theatre, Democracy and the Making of a Culture War
- By: James Shapiro
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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As part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's progressive New Deal, the Work Progress Administration is created to support unemployed workers, including writers, artists, musicians and actors. The Federal Theatre Project, a major part of that programme, begins to stage critically acclaimed, subsidised and groundbreaking productions across America. From one of the world's great storytellers, The Playbook is an invigorating re-enactment of a terrifyingly prescient moment in twentieth-century American cultural history.
By: James Shapiro
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Jane Eyre: A Christian Readers' Guide
- By: Rachel Kovaciny
- Narrated by: Helen Langford
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Explore the story of Jane Eyre in a brand new light. With prompts for discussions, thought provoking questions, and a breakdown and analysis of each chapter, Rachel Kovaciny brings to the forefront the major and minor themes and valuable lessons to be learned from this classic novel. An excellent companion for the novel, this guide demonstrates a love and appreciation for the classics and elevates understanding through the author’s clear grasp of the historical context as well as Charlotte Brontë’s background.
By: Rachel Kovaciny
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Deep Reading
- Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic Age
- By: Rachel B. Griffis, Julie Ooms, Rachel M. De Smith Roberts
- Narrated by: Connie Shabshab
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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This book helps listeners develop practices that will result in deep, formative, and faithful reading so they can contribute to the flourishing of their communities and cultivate their own spiritual and intellectual depth. The authors present reading as a remedy for three prevalent cultural vices—distraction, hostility, and consumerism—that impact the possibility of formative reading. Deep Reading provides resources for engaging in formative and culturally subversive reading practices that teach listeners how to resist vices, love virtue, and desire the good.
By: Rachel B. Griffis, and others