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The Bad Boy of Athens
- By: Daniel Mendelsohn
- Narrated by: Alister Austin
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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This striking new collection exemplifies the way in which Mendelsohn - a classicist by training - uses the classics as a lens to think about urgent contemporary debates. There is much to surprise here. Mendelsohn invokes the automatons featured in Homer’s epics to help explain the AI films Ex Machina and Her and perceives how Ted Hughes sought redemption by translating a play of Euripides (the ‘bad boy of Athens’) about a wayward husband whose wife returns from the dead.
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The Bad Boy of Athens
- Narrated by: Alister Austin
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 08-11-19
- Language: English
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Time Lived, Without Its Flow
- By: Denise Riley
- Narrated by: Denise Riley, Max Porter
- Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
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Time Lived, Without Its Flow is an astonishing, unflinching essay on the nature of grief from critically acclaimed poet Denise Riley. From the horrific experience of maternal grief Riley wrote her lauded collection Say Something Back, a modern classic of British poetry. This essay is a companion piece to that work, looking at the way time stops when we lose someone suddenly from our lives.
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Time Lived, Without Its Flow
- Narrated by: Denise Riley, Max Porter
- Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 03-10-19
- Language: English
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Secret Societies and Subversive Movements
- By: Nesta Helen Webster
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
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Sound interesting? Listen to Secret Societies and Subversive Movements and learn about the author's views on politics, history, and the occult.
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Secret Societies and Subversive Movements
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 31-08-23
- Language: English
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- By: Angela Carter
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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Angela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time: a novelist of extraordinary power and a searching critic and essayist. This selection of her writing, which she made herself, covers more than a decade of her thought and ranges over a diversity of subjects giving a true measure of the wide focus of her interests: the brothers Grimm; William Burroughs; food writing, Elizabeth David; British writing; American writing....
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- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 01-03-18
- Language: English
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Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie
- Bloodlands collection
- By: Harold Schechter
- Narrated by: Steven Weber
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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At a remote little inn not far from the Kansas homestead of Laura Ingalls Wilder lived the Bender family. These pioneers welcomed unwary visitors with jackrabbit stew and a sledgehammer to the skull. In time, their apple orchard gave up its secrets - a burial ground for their mutilated victims, each stripped of their possessions. The devilish enterprise on “Hell’s Half-Acre” would earn the Bloody Benders an undying place in the annals of American infamy. But it was the mysterious fate of eldest daughter, Kate, that would make them the stuff of mythic campfire prairie tales.
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Excellent addition to my true crime collection
- By Mizzle on 02-06-23
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Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie
- Bloodlands collection
- Narrated by: Steven Weber
- Series: Bloodlands Collection
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 28-06-18
- Language: English
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Walden
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, one of the principal New England Transcendentalists, left the town for the country. Beside the lake of Walden, he built himself a log cabin and returned to nature, to observe and reflect, while surviving on $8 a year. From this experience emerged one of the great classics of American literature, a deeply personal reaction against the commercialism and materialism that he saw as the main impulses of mid-19th century America.
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Walden
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 26-12-04
- Language: English
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Homo Irrealis
- By: André Aciman
- Narrated by: André Aciman, Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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From meditations on subway poetry and the temporal resonances of an empty Italian street, to considerations of the lives and work of Sigmund Freud, Constantine Cavafy, W. G. Sebald, John Sloan, Éric Rohmer, Marcel Proust and Fernando Pessoa, and portraits of cities such as Alexandria and St. Petersburg, Homo Irrealis is a deep reflection of the imagination's power to shape our memories under time's seemingly intractable hold.
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Homo Irrealis
- Narrated by: André Aciman, Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 19-01-21
- Language: English
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Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary
- By: David Hume
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins
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David Hume (1711-1776) remains a major figure in British philosophy, particularly for two or three works, including A Treatise on Human Nature and An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. But he was also a prolific essayist and historian. During his lifetime Essays Moral, Political and Literary went through a number of editions and collections, far outselling his philosophy. Now, the situation is reversed. But listening to the essays today it is difficult to see why.
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Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 21-02-24
- Language: English
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The Inconvenient Indian
- A Curious Account of Native People in North America
- By: Thomas King
- Narrated by: Lorne Cardinal
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history - in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America. Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in the centuries since the two first encountered each other.
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great!
- By D. D. Pianta on 05-11-19
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The Inconvenient Indian
- A Curious Account of Native People in North America
- Narrated by: Lorne Cardinal
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 15-05-18
- Language: English
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Alternating Current
- By: Octavio Paz, Helen Lane - translator
- Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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A key figure in the Latin American literary renaissance, Octavio Paz focuses here on literature and art, drugs, the murder of God, and ethical and political problems.
In the first part of this acclaimed work, Octavio Paz sets forth his credo as an artist and a poet. Part two deals with themes more specific to the late '60s and '70s, such as the drug experience and modern atheism. In part three, Paz concerns himself with politics and ethics. In no way diminished by time, every chapter in this book is an adventure of the mind.
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Alternating Current
- Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 23-02-13
- Language: English
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Where the Stress Falls
- By: Susan Sontag
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
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Thirty-five years after her first collection, the classic Against Interpretation, America's most important essayist chose more than 40 longer and shorter pieces from the previous 20 years. "Reading", the first of three sections, includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag's own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva, and Elizabeth Hardwick.
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Where the Stress Falls
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 12-06-18
- Language: English
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Tu mundo y el mío [The Anthropocene Reviewed]
- Postales del Antropoceno [Anthropocene Postcards]
- By: John Green, Noemí Sobregués Arias - translator
- Narrated by: Raúl Arrieta
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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Con su especial sensibilidad para lo extraño, lo importante y lo sorprendente, John Green reúne en esta extraordinaria colección de textos distintas facetas de nuestro presente y las puntúa en una particular escala del uno al cinco. Deteniendo su mirada en temas tan variados como el teclado QWERTY, internet, Super Mario Kart, los susurros, los ositos de peluche o las puestas de sol, sus originales y muy personales hallazgos abren los horizontes de la imaginación mientras nos hablan de las maravillas de lo cotidiano.
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Tu mundo y el mío [The Anthropocene Reviewed]
- Postales del Antropoceno [Anthropocene Postcards]
- Narrated by: Raúl Arrieta
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 11-11-21
- Language: Spanish
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Create Dangerously
- The Immigrant Artist at Work
- By: Edwidge Danticat
- Narrated by: Kristin Kalbli
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
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In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who create despite (or because of) the horrors that drove them from their homelands. Combining memoir and essay, these moving and eloquent pieces examine what it means to be an artist from a country in crisis.
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Create Dangerously
- The Immigrant Artist at Work
- Narrated by: Kristin Kalbli
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 19-09-12
- Language: English
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Climbing Everest
- The Writings of George Mallory
- By: George Mallory
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
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Unabridged selections from George Mallory's collected writings on his mountaineering - and his motivations. Famously impelled to climb Mount Everest simply because it was there, Mallory made three attempts to be the first to reach its summit, and perished on the third. His writing reveals the emotional life of the mountaineer. With eloquence, Mallory captures the struggles and the rewards involved, the climber's sense of triumph, and experiences of staggering beauty.
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A beautiful insight
- By Paul M. on 20-04-19
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Climbing Everest
- The Writings of George Mallory
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 21-10-11
- Language: English
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Orthodoxy
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Fred Williams
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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G. K. Chesterton was a journalist, playwright, poet, biographer, novelist, essayist, literary commentator, editor, orator, artist, and theologian. Orthodoxy is his great apologia for the Christian faith, which was prompted by a serious attack in 1903 against Christianity by well-known newspaper editor Robert Blatchford.
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difficult to follow
- By Clearout NI on 08-05-24
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Orthodoxy
- Narrated by: Fred Williams
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 14-12-06
- Language: English
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Love
- By: Martin Luther King Jr.
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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A remarkable compilation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s reflections on love and its transformative power—a stellar addition to Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Love
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 22-10-24
- Language: English
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After Henry
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Hess
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles, from a TV producer's gargantuan "manor" to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts. At each stop she uncovers the mythic narratives that elude other observers: Didion tells us about the fantasies the media construct around crime victims and presidential candidates; she gives us new interpretations of the stories of Nancy Reagan and Patty Hearst; she charts America's rollercoaster ride through evanescent booms and hard times that won't go away.
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After Henry
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Hess
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 09-03-13
- Language: English
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Safe
- On Black British Men Reclaiming Space
- By: Derek Owusu
- Narrated by: Alex Holmes, Alex Wheatle, Aniefiok ‘Neef’ Ekpoudom, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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What is the experience of black men in Britain? With continued conversation around British identity, racism and diversity, there is no better time to explore this question and give black British men a platform to answer it. Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space is that platform. Including essays from top poets, writers, musicians, actors and journalists, this timely and accessible book brings together a selection of powerful reflections exploring the black British male experience and what it really means to reclaim and hold space in the landscape of our society.
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So so so nourishing
- By serena on 12-07-23
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Safe
- On Black British Men Reclaiming Space
- Narrated by: Alex Holmes, Alex Wheatle, Aniefiok ‘Neef’ Ekpoudom, Courttia Newland, Derek Owusu, Gbontwi Anyetei, Jesse Bernard, JJ Bola, Joseph Harker, Jude Yawson, Kenechukwu Obienu, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Nels Abbey, Okechukwu Nzelu, full cast
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 07-03-19
- Language: English
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Genius and Ink
- Virginia Woolf on How to Read
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster among them. But one of the paper’s defining voices was Virginia Woolf, who produced a string of superb essays between the two World Wars. The weirdness of Elizabethan plays, the pleasure of revisiting favourite novels, the supreme examples of Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Henry James, Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad.
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Genius and Ink
- Virginia Woolf on How to Read
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 28-11-19
- Language: English
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Amateur
- By: Thomas Page McBee
- Narrated by: Thomas Page McBee
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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Through his experience of boxing - learning to get hit and to hit back; wrestling with the camaraderie of the gym; confronting the betrayals and strength of his own body - McBee examines the weight of male violence, the pervasiveness of gender stereotypes and the limitations of conventional masculinity. A wide-ranging exploration of gender in our society, Amateur is ultimately a story of hope, as McBee traces a way forward: a new masculinity, inside the ring and out of it.
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An extremely interesting insight
- By MS on 30-03-23
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Amateur
- Narrated by: Thomas Page McBee
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 02-08-18
- Language: English
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