Literary Memoir

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    • By: Arthur Golden
    • Narrated by: Noriko Aida
    • Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 229 ratings
    • In Arthur Golden's poised and beautifully written debut novel, Sayuri tells the extraordinary tale of her life, evoking a quarter of a century of Japan's dramatic history....

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    • On Blackness and Being
    • By: Christina Sharpe
    • Narrated by: Melanie Nicholls-King
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 15-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake"....

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    • By: John Irving
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 20-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by John Irving, beginning with three memoirs, including an account of Mr. Irving’s dinner with President Ronald Reagan at the White House.....

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    • By: Larry Brown
    • Narrated by: Ed Sala
    • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Before he won stunning acclaim as one of today's most gifted southern writers, Larry Brown was a firefighter with the Oxford, Mississippi, Fire Department....

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    • A Literary Memoir
    • By: Ramachandra Guha
    • Narrated by: Sam Dastor
    • Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious friendship which developed between the famously outspoken historian Ramachandra Guha and his reticent editor Rukun Advani is the subject of this quite eccentric and thoroughly compelling literary memoir....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Christopher Wixson
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-20
    • Language: English
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    • George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespeare) and one of the inventors of modern celebrity as the most famous public intellectual of his time....

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    • A Literary Memoir
    • By: Mary Jumbelic M.D.
    • Narrated by: Mary Jumbelic M.D.
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Mary Jumbelic has been obsessed with death since the loss of her father when she was 13. The sudden departure of her dad, the mother left behind, and her position as an only child led her to grow up quickly. Yet the why and how of her father's death plagued her.

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    • Feuds and Antagonisms in the World of Books
    • By: Richard Bradford
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Coote
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 16-10-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Novelists, poets and playwrights live double lives, sharing the real world with everyone else while spending a good deal of time in a universe of their own making....

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    • A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    • By: Nicholas A. Basbanes
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 27-07-21
    • Language: English
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    • In Cross of Snow, Nicholas Basbanes reveals the life, the times, the work - the soul - of the man who shaped the literature of a new nation with his countless poems, sonnets, stories, essays, and translations....

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    • A Literary Memoir
    • By: Jon M. Sweeney
    • Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
    • Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • A memoir for the bookish-inclined, using personal stories to demonstrate how books have a magical way to move a person from one stage of life to the next.

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    • By: Mary Karr
    • Narrated by: Mary Karr
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Anchored by excerpts from her favorite memoirs and anecdotes from fellow writers' experience, The Art of Memoir lays bare Karr's own process....

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    • By: Jack Olsen
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 25-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 141 ratings
    • Prize-winning journalist Jack Olsen, armed with unprecedented access to one of the most infamous serial killers in American history, provides a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a murderer in the killer's own words....

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    • By: Margaret Atwood
    • Narrated by: Margaret Atwood
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 18-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High priest of art? Court jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities....

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    • By: Laurence Leamer
    • Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 16-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • The fascinating true story behind one of the original literary scandals - how Truman Capote (author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's ) betrayed his closest friends in service of his next book....

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    • The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann
    • By: Harriet Baker
    • Narrated by: Harriet Baker
    • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Rural Hours tells the story of three very different women, each of whom moved to the country and were forever changed by it....

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    • By: Edna O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Edna O’Brien
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 27-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • Edna O'Brien was born in 1930. Her brilliant debut novel, The Country Girls, was banned in her native Ireland upon its publication in 1960. Since then she has gone on to produce some of the finest writing of the 20th century....

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    • By: Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married foreigner....

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