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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
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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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Devil in a Blue Dress
- An Easy Rawlins Mystery
- By: Walter Mosley
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant....
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Great story , and a little different...
- By Lynne A on 09-05-21
By: Walter Mosley
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Dickens' Women
- By: Charles Dickens, Miriam Margolyes
- Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
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From Little Nell to Miss Havisham, Dickens’ Women tells the story of Charles Dickens’ life through his beloved characters....
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Simply perfect
- By P. Kirby on 12-10-20
By: Charles Dickens, and others
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A Poetry Handbook
- By: Mary Oliver
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
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With passion and wit, Mary Oliver skillfully imparts expertise from her long, celebrated career as a disguised poet....
By: Mary Oliver
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When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
- By: George Carlin
- Narrated by: George Carlin
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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Following his two New York Times best sellers, Brain Droppings and Napalm & Silly Putty, comes George Carlin's third audiobook....
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The funniest man to ever live.
- By Jason.W on 02-08-17
By: George Carlin
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The Heroine's Journey
- Woman's Quest for Wholeness
- By: Maureen Murdock
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The Heroine’s Journey describes contemporary woman’s search for wholeness in a society where she has been defined according to masculine values....
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An answer to weary women and much more!
- By Anonymous User on 04-02-24
By: Maureen Murdock
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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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Devil in a Blue Dress
- An Easy Rawlins Mystery
- By: Walter Mosley
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant....
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Great story , and a little different...
- By Lynne A on 09-05-21
By: Walter Mosley
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Dickens' Women
- By: Charles Dickens, Miriam Margolyes
- Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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From Little Nell to Miss Havisham, Dickens’ Women tells the story of Charles Dickens’ life through his beloved characters....
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Simply perfect
- By P. Kirby on 12-10-20
By: Charles Dickens, and others
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A Poetry Handbook
- By: Mary Oliver
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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With passion and wit, Mary Oliver skillfully imparts expertise from her long, celebrated career as a disguised poet....
By: Mary Oliver
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When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
- By: George Carlin
- Narrated by: George Carlin
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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Following his two New York Times best sellers, Brain Droppings and Napalm & Silly Putty, comes George Carlin's third audiobook....
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The funniest man to ever live.
- By Jason.W on 02-08-17
By: George Carlin
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The Heroine's Journey
- Woman's Quest for Wholeness
- By: Maureen Murdock
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The Heroine’s Journey describes contemporary woman’s search for wholeness in a society where she has been defined according to masculine values....
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An answer to weary women and much more!
- By Anonymous User on 04-02-24
By: Maureen Murdock
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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
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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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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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Miles Jupp Is Literally Unputdownable
- Ten Lively Literary Investigations
- By: Miles Jupp
- Narrated by: Miles Jupp
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
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Actor and comedian Miles Jupp puts his inquiring mind and talent for comic analysis to work as he turns his quizzical gaze on the world of fiction....
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Strangely smug
- By Liz on 01-01-21
By: Miles Jupp
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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
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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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Conquered
- The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England
- By: Eleanor Parker
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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The Battle of Hastings and its aftermath nearly wiped out the leading families of Anglo-Saxon England – so what happened to the children this conflict left behind....
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Indispensable
- By Bee-nocchio on 13-09-23
By: Eleanor Parker
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A Moveable Feast
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: James Naughton
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
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Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works....
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Amazing narration!
- By Suhair on 06-06-13
By: Ernest Hemingway
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Second Chances
- Shakespeare & Freud
- By: Adam Phillips, Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrated by: Donald Corren, Steven Crossley
- Length: 7 hrs
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In this exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud, Greenblatt and Phillips explore how the second chance has been an essential feature of the literary imagination and a promise so central to our existence that we try to reproduce it again and again.
By: Adam Phillips, and others
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The Luckiest Guy Alive
- By: John Cooper Clarke
- Narrated by: John Cooper Clarke
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Punk. Poet. Pioneer. The Bard of Salford’s hugely anticipated new collection of poetry is his first in over 30 years. These are poems as scabrous, wry and vivid as only John Cooper Clarke could deliver....
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Utter brilliance
- By edward on 08-01-19
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Dumbledore
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- By: Irvin Khaytman
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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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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In the Dust of This Planet
- Horror of Philosophy, Volume 1
- By: Eugene Thacker
- Narrated by: Robert Slade
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. In this book, Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world....
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Insightful
- By Giddy Gilbert on 21-05-23
By: Eugene Thacker
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The Tempest
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Sir Ian McKellen, Emilia Fox, Scott Handy, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
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Sir Ian McKellen, fresh from his performance as Gandalf in Lord of the Rings, is Prospero, and heads a strong cast in Shakespeare’s last great play....
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Tempestuous Performance
- By Mr on 24-07-15
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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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Agatha Christie’s Poirot
- The Greatest Detective in the World
- By: Mark Aldridge
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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From the very first book publication in October 1920 to the upcoming film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the world’s favourite fictional detective....
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A perfect piece for the centenary
- By Nephrite on 12-11-21
By: Mark Aldridge
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Mythology
- By: Edith Hamilton
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Mythology succeeds like no other audiobook in bringing to life for the modern listener the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths and legends that are the keystone of Western culture....
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Poor delivery
- By Matthew Girling on 30-04-15
By: Edith Hamilton
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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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A Book for Her
- By: Bridget Christie
- Narrated by: Bridget Christie
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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When Bridget Christie walked into her local bookshop, she thought she'd come out with a book....
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Says what needs saying and all funny like....
- By TamTam on 11-07-15
By: Bridget Christie
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Ostend
- By: Volker Weidermann
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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It's the summer of 1936, and writer Stefan Zweig is in crisis. His German publisher no longer wants him, his marriage is collapsing, and his home in Austria has been seized....
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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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In Our Time: 25 Classic Novels
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Length: 18 hrs and 40 mins
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Melvyn Bragg and guests tell the story of the novel over 400 years, via key literary works and movements....
By: Melvyn Bragg
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Car Fever
- The Car Bore's Essential Companion
- By: James May
- Narrated by: James May
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Abridged
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As well as writing about his first love, cars, James has a go at political correctness, the rules and regulations of daily life, the internal combustion engine, and traffic wardens....
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Enjoyed
- By Mel Hodgson on 03-07-19
By: James May
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Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
- By: Brian Evenson
- Narrated by: Brian Evenson
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
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A haunting meditation on love, loss, companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark, Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is one of the most important and influential short story collections in contemporary literature....
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Disappointment
- By Frank Case on 20-07-24
By: Brian Evenson
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
- By: James Boswell
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 51 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The book is full of humorous anecdote and rich characterization, and paints a vivid picture of 18th-century London, peopled by prominent personalities of the time....
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A peerless biography
- By Peter on 10-12-18
By: James Boswell
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Oedipus the King
- By: Sophocles
- Narrated by: Michael Sheen, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In the hands of Sophocles, the master dramatist, the anguished tale of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother retains its power to shock and move beyond any Freudian reference....
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Good representation
- By Anonymous User on 30-09-19
By: Sophocles
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Livin' the Dreem
- By: Harry Hill
- Narrated by: Harry Hill
- Length: 5 hrs
- Unabridged
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This frank and sometimes controversial diary details one hectic year in the eye of the showbiz storm....
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Looking for Harrys autobiography? This isnt it.
- By John on 18-03-14
By: Harry Hill
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Punching Up
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- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
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There is far more to being an author than having your name on a book cover, making a few bucks, or preserving knowledge. Authors are fortunate to connect, to touch people’s lives all around the world through their work. This book is your roadmap for getting published and cementing your legacy. While these materials are tailored for martial artists, any writer can implement the advice. A sad fact is that while 81% of people believe they have a book in them, only 1.8% of aspiring authors get published. And, a mere 5.7% of those published authors manage to earn a living from their writing.
By: Lawrence Kane, and others
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The Ways to Wit
- An Invitation to the Tradition of Humorous Wit
- By: Joshua Smith
- Narrated by: James Fowler
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
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By analyzing the elements of wit employed by such eminent humorists as Evelyn Waugh, Mark Twain, and P.G. Wodehouse, The Ways to Wit nourishes one’s comedic sense, deepens one’s sense of irony, and ultimately teaches one what it takes to write excellent, humorous wit.
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In an illuminating new preface, Strossen lays out the multiple current assaults on sexual expression, which continue to come from across the ideological spectrum. She shows that freedom for such expression remains an essential prerequisite for the equality, safety, and dignity of women and sexual/gender minorities.
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An Angel Walks Through the Stage and Other Essays
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Jon Fosse said farewell to theory early in his career, choosing poetry, fiction, and drama as his mediums of choice. Here, however, in a selection from his two books of essays, we see just how incisive a critic and memoirist he can be. Not only including a generous portion of Fosse's writing on literature and theater—including the irresistible "Thomas Bernhard and His Grandfather"—this collection also includes such personal essays such as "My Dear New Norwegian," "Old Houses," and "He Who Didn't Want to Become a Teacher."
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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
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An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion, and psychoanalysis. In its scope and interest it can be compared with Freud's Totem and Taboo, the subtext Girard refutes with polemic daring, vast erudition, and a persuasiveness that leaves the listener compelled to respond, one way or another. This is the single fullest summation of Girard's ideas to date, the book by which they will stand or fall.
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Letters to a Young Poet
- By: Rainer Maria Rilke
- Narrated by: Tomás Larisch Frazer
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
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Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898, and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908, Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young, would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Those letters, still a fresh source of inspiration and insight, are accompanied here by a chronicle of Rilke's life.
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There is far more to being an author than having your name on a book cover, making a few bucks, or preserving knowledge. Authors are fortunate to connect, to touch people’s lives all around the world through their work. This book is your roadmap for getting published and cementing your legacy. While these materials are tailored for martial artists, any writer can implement the advice. A sad fact is that while 81% of people believe they have a book in them, only 1.8% of aspiring authors get published. And, a mere 5.7% of those published authors manage to earn a living from their writing.
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The Ways to Wit
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- By: Joshua Smith
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By: Joshua Smith
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By: Nadine Strossen
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An Angel Walks Through the Stage and Other Essays
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Jon Fosse said farewell to theory early in his career, choosing poetry, fiction, and drama as his mediums of choice. Here, however, in a selection from his two books of essays, we see just how incisive a critic and memoirist he can be. Not only including a generous portion of Fosse's writing on literature and theater—including the irresistible "Thomas Bernhard and His Grandfather"—this collection also includes such personal essays such as "My Dear New Norwegian," "Old Houses," and "He Who Didn't Want to Become a Teacher."
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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
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An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion, and psychoanalysis. In its scope and interest it can be compared with Freud's Totem and Taboo, the subtext Girard refutes with polemic daring, vast erudition, and a persuasiveness that leaves the listener compelled to respond, one way or another. This is the single fullest summation of Girard's ideas to date, the book by which they will stand or fall.
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Letters to a Young Poet
- By: Rainer Maria Rilke
- Narrated by: Tomás Larisch Frazer
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Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898, and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908, Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young, would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Those letters, still a fresh source of inspiration and insight, are accompanied here by a chronicle of Rilke's life.
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Homer's The Odyssey
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This guide opens up Homer’s The Odyssey and highlights the universal themes of endurance and longing for rest as displayed in this epic tale of a man trying to find his way home.
By: Leland Ryken
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Loving Sylvia Plath
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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.
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Algren
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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.
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Notes from a Feminist Killjoy
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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.
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Mimetic Theory & Middle-Earth
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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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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